Writers Response : A Reading-Based Approach to Writing
ISBN: 9781413029307 | 1413029302
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/25/2007
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THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing—unity, coherence, and support—but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for students preparing for higher-level work. Through a variety of exercises and extensive readings, the text teaches students to read carefully and summarize accurately, to recognize and respond to specific points in the material they have read, to synthesize ideas from several reading selections, and to evaluate and argue about the ideas they have found in ... MORE
| The Reading-Writing Conversation | |
| Writing with a Central Idea | |
| Reading for the Central Idea | |
| Supporting the Central Idea | |
| Unity and Coherence Unity | |
| Writing About Reading | |
| Summarizing and Responding to Reading | |
| Evaluating Reading Selections | |
| Synthesizing Ideas from Reading Selections | |
| Arguing from Several Rea... MORE | |
| Editing Skills | |
| Some Basic Editing Terms | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Fused Sentences and Comma Splices | |
| Consistency in Verb Tense and Verb Voice | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
| Pronoun Case | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
| Comma Usage | |
| Semicolons and Colons | |
| The Apostrophe | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Titles, Capitalization, and Numbers | |
| Clear and Concise Sentences | |
| Additional Readings for Writing | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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