Writing : A Guide for College and Beyond
ISBN: 9780205648702 | 0205648703
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/20/2009
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Writing: A Guide for College and Beyonduses written instruction and visual tools to teach how to read, write, and research effectively for different purposes. Writing Guidelines, Critical Reading, Research. General Interest, Writing
| Preface | |
| The Writer as Explorer | |
| Making Discoveries | |
| Look with new eyes | |
| Explore the world | |
| Find a territory | |
| Use guides | |
| Readingto Explore | |
| Become a critical reader | |
| Look with a critical eye | |
| Read actively | |
| Recognize fallacies | |
| Respon... MORE | |
| Planning a Journey | |
| Determine your direction | |
| Write a thesis | |
| Plan your route | |
| Returning and Revising | |
| Evaluate your draft | |
| Respond to others | |
| Pay attention to details last | |
| Thinking Visually | |
| Communicate with visuals and words | |
| Understand visual and verbal concepts | |
| Know when to use images and graphics | |
| Take pictures that arenrsquo;t boring | |
| Compose images | |
| Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
| Designing Documents | |
| Start with your readers | |
| Use headings and subheadings effectively | |
| Design pages | |
| Understand typography | |
| Delivering Presentations | |
| Plan a presentation | |
| Design effective visuals | |
| Give a memorable presentation | |
| Working as a Team | |
| Organize a team | |
| Understand the team process | |
| Work as a team | |
| The Writer as Guide | |
| Writing Effectively in College | |
| Understand the demands of writing in college | |
| Think about your aim | |
| Think about your genre | |
| Think about your audience | |
| Think about your credibility | |
| Think about building on the work of others | |
| Become an effective writer | |
| Student visual analysis | |
| Got Roddick? | |
| Write to Reflect | |
| Reflections | |
| Writing reflections | |
| An effective reflection | |
| Some Lines for a Younger Brother . . . | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read reflections | |
| Let it Snow | |
| My Dropout Boyfriend Kept Dropping In | |
| Just Another Soldier | |
| Mother Tongue | |
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Lester Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing at Texas in 1993, and he served as the 1996 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over twenty books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.
