Writing Analytically with Readings
ISBN: 9781413013498 | 141301349X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/3/2007
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WRITING ANALYTICALLY WITH READINGS is two books in one, a guide to writing with a reader, that teaches you how to have ideas and develop them in an academic setting and beyond. The writing guide offers a book-length treatment of analysis, a form of thinking and writing required in virtually all college courses. The writing guide is accompanied by a thematically-arranged collection of readings and images?material for students like you to write about and to use as models and lenses in doing your own writing about the world.
| Preface | |
| Writing Analytically | |
| Seeing Better: The Analytical Habit of Mind | |
| Seeing the Details | |
| Opening Things Up: Negative Capability, Paraphrase x 3, Freewriting, and Counterproductive Habits of Mind | |
| The Basic Analytical Strategies: From Observations to Ideas | |
| How to Mark Up a Draft | |
| What Is Analysis and How Does It Work? Five Analytical Moves | ... MORE |
| Some Common Charges Against Analysis | |
| Rhetorical Analysis | |
| Putting Analysis to Work: Three Extended Examples | |
| Extended Example 1: Moving from Description to Interpretation | |
| Extended Example 2: Looking for Patterns and Making Interpretive Leaps | |
| Extended Example 3: Analyzing an Argument by Reformulating Binaries and Uncovering Assumptions | |
| Reading: How to Do It and What to Do with It | |
| How to Read: Words Matter | |
| What to Do with the Reading: Avoiding the Matching Exercise | |
| Linking Evidence and Claims: 10 on 1 versus 1 on 10 | |
| Linking Evidence and Claims | |
| Developing a Thesis is More Than Repeating an Idea ("1 on 10") | |
| Building a Paper by Analyzing Evidence in Depth: "10 on 1." | |
| Making a Thesis Evolve | |
| What''s Wrong with a Static Thesis? Evolving a Thesis | |
| Using the Evolving Thesis to Organize the Final Draft | |
| Evolving a Thesis in an Exploratory Draft: Las Meninas | |
| The Evolving Thesis in a Final Draft | |
| Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements | |
| Five Kinds of Weak Theses and how to Fix Them | |
| How to Rephrase Thesis Statements: Specify and Subordinate | |
| Working with Categorical Thinking | |
| Common Logical Errors in Constructing a Thesis | |
| Introductions and Conclusions | |
| The Function of Introductions | |
| How Much to Introduce Up Front | |
| Opening Gambits: Five Good Ways to Begin | |
| The Function of Conclusions | |
| Solving Typical Problems in Conclusions | |
| Scientific Format: Introductions and Conclusions | |
| Organization: Forms and Formats | |
| The Two Functions of Formats: Product and Process | |
| The Psychology of Form | |
| Style: Choosing Words | |
| Not Just Icing on the Cake | |
| Tone | |
| The Person Question | |
| Shades of Meaning: Choosing the Best Word | |
| Style: Shaping Sentences (and Cutting the Fat) | |
| How to Recognize the Four Basic Sentence Shapes | |
| Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis | |
| Periodic and Cumulative Sentences: Adding Shapes to the Main Clause | |
| Cutting the Fat | |
| Writing the Researched Paper | |
| What to do with Secondary Sources | |
| Six Strategies for Analyzing Sources | |
| Making the Research Paper More Analytical: A Sample Essay | |
| Strategies for Writing and Revising Research Papers | |
| Finding and Citing Sources | |
| Getting Started | |
| Electronic Research: Finding Quality on the Web | |
| Plagiarism and the Logic of Citation | |
| How to Prepare and Abstract | |
| Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them | |
| Why Correctness Matters | |
| The Concept of Basic Writing Errors (BWEs) | |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms | |
| Appendix: Answer Key (with Discussion) | |
| Readings | |
| Manners, Communication and Technology | |
| "Our Cell Phones, Our Selves," | |
| "Disconnected Urbanism," | |
| "The Naked Crowd," | |
| "Blogging in the Global Lunchroom," | |
| The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolutions, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners: "Ritual," "Fingers," and "Knives and Forks," | |
| "Imperial Bedroom," | |
| "PowerPoint Is Evil," | |
| Places and Spaces: Cities and Suburbs | |
| "The Public Realm and the Common Good," | |
| "Demolition Zones: Contemporary Photography by Edward Burtynsky and Camilo Jose Vergara," | |
| "Times Regained: How the Old Times Square Was Made New," | |
| "The Uses of Sidewalk: Safety," | |
| "Fortress Los Angeles," | |
| Seeing | |
| "Looking at Photographs: Stagers and Recorders? | |
| An Interview with Joseph Elliott," | |
| "In Plato''s Cave," | |
| "Learning to See," | |
| "Images of Women in European Art" from Ways of Seeing | |
| Race, Et | |
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