Donald Pharr, Santi V. Buscemi

Writing Today: Contexts and Options for the Real World

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing Today begins with a chapter helping students learn the skills they will need to thrive throughout college and continues to promote reading and writing as practical tools both in college and in the work world. Full chapters on Group Projects and Oral Presentations teach students how to not only be successful in the classroom, but in the world of work as well. Now with a full-color design, students are sure to be engaged as they focus on the both the academic and professional contexts of writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 835
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 185mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1293g
• ISBN-13: 9780073533223
• ISBN-10: 007353322X
• Artikelnr.: 23548940

Autorenporträt

Santi V. Buscemi teaches reading, composition, and literature at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he was chair of the Department of English for twenty-eight years. He is the author of A Reader for College Writers, 75 Readings, and 75 Readings Plus. He has lectured on freshman composition and developmental education at regional and national conferences in the United States and South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface IntroductionACHIEVING STUDENT SUCCESS The Successful Student A
Serious Approach to College Life Information Access Preparation and
Organization Classroom Decorum Study Habits Time Management Part 1:
ApproachesChapter 1THE ESSAY: DETERMINING PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, AND APPROACH
00Characteristics of the Essay Rhetorical Context Rhetorical Structures
Reading with a Writer's Eye Consider the Writer's Rhetorical Context and
Rhetorical Structures Consider Your Purposes as a Reader Suzanne Britt,
Neat People vs. Sloppy People Essay Analysis Writing with a Reader's Eye
STUDENT ESSAY: A Very Secret Santa The Writing Process Chapter 2SHAPING
YOUR ESSAY: PREWRITING, FOCUSING, ORGANIZING, AND DRAFTING Choosing Your
Topic Establishing Your Rhetorical Context Prewriting Strategies
Considering Your Purpose and Audience Considering Your Learning Style
Focusing Strategies Establishing Your Working Thesis Focusing Your Thesis
Organizational Strategies Structuring Your Prewriting Drafting Strategies
Drafting In-Class Essays Drafting Out-of-Class Essays Drafting with a
Computer Establishing Your Voice STUDENT ESSAY: Verlinda's First Draft of A
Very Secret Santa 47Chapter 3DEVELOPING STRONG PARAGRAPHS: EXPLORING YOUR
OPTIONS 51Paragraphs in Context Introductory Paragraphs Body Paragraphs
Concluding Paragraphs Writing Effective Topic Sentences Topic Sentence at
the Paragraph's Beginning Ending with the Topic Sentence Topic Sentence
Within the Paragraph Topic Sentence Used for Two Paragraphs The Implied
Topic Sentence Achieving Unity Achieving Coherence Using Effective
Transitions to Improve Coherence Achieving Coherence Through Careful Choice
of Nouns andPronouns Using Parallelism to Improve Coherence Achieving
Specificity Through the Use of Concrete Details Chapter 4RESHAPING YOUR
ESSAY: GLOBAL REVISION, EDITING, AND PROOFREADING Global Revision Peer
Response and Review BOX: Peer Review Checklist Responding to Suggestions
for Revision 82STUDENT ESSAY: Peer-Reviewed Draft of A Very Secret Santa
Using a Word Processor to Revise 85Revising Essays Checking for Unity
Improving Coherence Using the Appropriate Language Level Making Your
Language More Concrete and Specific Finding the Right Tone Checking Your
Introductory Paragraphs and Thesis Checking Your Topic Sentences and Body
Paragraphs Checking Your Conclusion Writing an Effective Title BOX:
Completing Your Essay on a Computer Editing and Proofreading Combining
Sentences Merging and Submerging Related Ideas Coordinating and
Subordinating Related Ideas Using Hybrid Sentence Patterns Using Periodic
and Climactic Sentence Structure to Create Emphasis Choosing Words
Carefully Striving for Parallelism Including All Necessary Words Avoiding
Awkward Repetition Avoiding Faulty Comparisons Using Only Words That Matter
Avoiding Redundancy Avoiding Euphemisms Using Figurative Language
Appropriately Avoiding Clichés Learning to Use Denotation and Connotation
Using Idiomatic English Using Active, Specific Language Part 2:
StructuresChapter 5DESCRIPTION How Does Description Work? Reading the
Descriptive Essay with a Writer's Eye Thomas McGuane, Roanie Maxine Hong
Kingston, Photographs of My Parents Hildegard Knef, from The Gift Horse
Writing the Descriptive Essay with a Reader's Eye Issues to Keep in Mind
Choosing a Topic Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising Your Draft STUDENT
ESSAY: Jennifer Janisz, Help! Anyone! BOX: Questions for Reviewing a
Descriptive Essay Description and Visual RepresentationsChapter 6NARRATION
How Does Narration Work? 174Reading the Narrative Essay with a Writer's Eye
176Lynda Barry, The Sanctuary of School 176Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter
179Annie Dillard, The Chase 182Writing the Personal Narrative with a
Reader's Eye 190Issues to Keep in Mind Choosing a Topic Prewriting
Organizing DraftingRevising Your Draft BOX: Questions for Reviewing a
Narrative Essay STUDENT ESSAY: Claire Reid, After the Fray Narration and
Visual RepresentationsChapter 7EXEMPLIFICATION How Does Exemplification
Work? Reading the Exemplification Essay with a Writer's Eye Brent Staples,
Just Walk on By Lars Eighner, On Dumpster DivingHarry F. Waters, Life
According to TV Writing the Exemplification Essay with a Reader's Eye
Issues to Keep in Mind Choosing a Topic Prewriting Organizing Drafting
Revising Your Draft BOX: Questions for Reviewing an Exemplification Essay
STUDENT ESSAY: Jennifer Janisz, Three Families Exemplification and Visual
RepresentationsChapter 8PROCESS ANALYSIS How Does Process Analysis Work?
Reading the Process Analysis Essay with a Writer's Eye Jerry Jesness, Why
Johnny Can't Fail Malcolm X, My First Conk Umberto Eco, How Not to Use the
Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone Writing the Process Analysis Essay with
a Reader's Eye Issues to Keep in Mind Choosing a Topic Prewriting
Organizing Drafting Revising Your Draft BOX: Questions for Reviewing a
Process Analysis Essay STUDENT ESSAY: Manny Meregildo, Get the Right Job
Process Analysis and Visual RepresentationsChapter 9CAUSAL ANALYSIS How
Does Causal Analysis Work? Reading the Causal Analysis Essay with a
Writer's Eye Barbara Ehrenreich, The Cult of Busyness Gore Vidal, Drugs
Richard Rhodes, Hollow Claims About Fantasy Violence Writing the Causal
Analysis Essay with a Reader's Eye Issues to Keep in Mind Choosing a Topic
Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising Your Draft BOX: Questions for
Reviewing a Causal Analysis Essay STUDENT ESSAY: Noelani Jones, Worlds
Apart Causal Analysis and Visual RepresentationsChapter 10DEFINITION How
Does Definition Work? Reading the Definition Essay with a Writer's Eye Judy
Brady, Why I Want a Wife William Raspberry, The Handicap of Definition
Annie Dillard, So This Was Adolescence Writing the Definition Essay with a
Reader's Eye Issues to Keep in Mind Choosing a Topic Prewriting Organizing
Drafting Revising Your Draft STUDENT ESSAY: Curtis Ray Mosley, My "Moment
of Truth" BOX: Questions for Reviewing an Extended Definition Definition
and Visual RepresentationsChapter 11CLASSIFICATION How Does Classification
Work? Reading the Classification Essay with a Writer's Eye Fran Lebowitz,
The Sound of Music: Enough Already Martin Luther King, Jr., Three Types of
Resistance to Oppression Paul Fussell, Notes on Class Writing the
Classification Essay with a Reader's Eye Issues to Keep in Mind Choosing a
Topic Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising Your Draft BOX: Questions for
Reviewing a Classification Essay STUDENT ESSAY: Sam Leininger, Fraud Alert
Classification and Visual RepresentationsChapter 12COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
How Does Comparison/Contrast Work? Reading the Comparison/Contrast Essay
with a Writer's Eye Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America David
Sedaris, Family Engineering Barbara Mellix, From Outside, In Writing the
Comparison/Contrast Essay with a Reader's Eye Issues to Keep in Mind
Choosing a Topic Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising Your Draft BOX:
Questions for Reviewing a Comparison/Contrast Essay STUDENT ESSAY: Sam
Leininger, The Two Sides of the Aisle Comparison/Contrast and Visual
RepresentationsChapter 13ARGUMENT How Does Argument Work? Reading the
Argument Essay with a Writer's Eye Walter S. Minot, Students Who Push
Burgers Caryl Rivers, What Should Be Done About Rock Lyrics? Michael Levin,
The Case for Torture Writing the Argument Essay with a Reader's Eye Issues
to Keep in Mind Choosing a Topic Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising
Your Draft BOX: Questions for Reviewing an Argument Essay STUDENT ESSAY:
Sam Leininger, My Simple and Modest Plan Argument and Visual
RepresentationsChapter 14THE BLENDED ESSAY How Does the Blended Essay Work?
Reading the Blended Essay with a Writer's Eye Scott Russell Sanders, The
Men We Carry in Our Minds Anthony Bourdain, Don't Eat Before Reading This
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On the Fear of Death Writing the Blended Essay with
a Reader's Eye Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising Your Draft BOX:
Questions for Reviewing a Blended Essay STUDENT ESSAY: Kevin Hunkovic,
Three Years Without Liberty Blended Approaches and Visual
RepresentationsPart 3: ApplicationsChapter 15WRITING PROPOSALS From Problem
to Solution Purpose: Understand the Problem and Propose a Solution Scope:
Decide How Far to Go and Consider Alternatives Audience: See the Problem
from the Reader's Perspective Preparing to Write: Issues to Keep in Mind
Choosing a Topic: Determining Purpose and Scope Writing and Research
Organizing Other Aspects to Consider When Writing Proposals Sample Internal
Proposal Revising Your Draft Chapter 16WRITING CRITIQUES Reviewing,
Evaluating, and Persuading What Is the Purpose of a Critique? What a
Critique Is Not Deciding on Criteria for Evaluation Planning the Critique
Focus on a Topic Decide on a Preliminary List of Criteria Gather
Information and Formulate a Thesis Develop Your Critique by Using
Appropriate Methods BOX: A Guide to Critiquing Written Texts Reading
Critiques Manohla Dargis, A Ghastly Conflagration, A Tormented Aftermath
Brooks Atkinson, First Night at the Theater: A Review of Tennessee
Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Is Fox News "Fair and Balanced"? Two
Critiques of the Popular News Network Brian C. Anderson, Fox News: Enraging
Liberals for 10 Years Steve Rendall and Julie Hollar, Still Failing the
"Fair & Balanced" Test Chapter 17BUSINESS FORMATS E-mail, Memos, and
Business Letters E-mail Memos Business Letters Résumés and Letters of
Application Elements of a Résumé Submit Your Résumé Online Elements of an
Application Letter Chapter 18GROUP PROJECTS AND ORAL PRESENTATIONS Working
in Groups Define Your Group's Purpose Assign Roles Work Toward Greater
Accountability Developing Effective Oral Presentations Creating a Script
Developing the Final ScriptUsing Visual Aids The Group Oral Presentation
Chapter 19ESSAY EXAMINATIONS Study for the Exam Read the Directions Short
Answers Paragraphs Essays Allocate Your Time Interpret Key Words Prewriting
Essay Responses Drafting Essay Responses Sample Essay Exam ResponseChapter
20THE RESEARCH PROCESS Narrowing Your Topic and Framing a Research Question
Beginning with Tools from the Reference Room Using Primary and Secondary
Sources Creating a Working Bibliography Locating Books and Articles on Your
Topic Computerized Book Catalogues The Traditional Card Catalogue
Periodical Indexes Electronic Databases Searching the Internet Internet
Search Tools: URLs, Directories, and Search Engines Evaluating Sources Tips
on Evaluating Sources for Your Research Paper Tips on Evaluating Electronic
Sources for Your Research Paper Taking Notes Avoiding Plagiarism Quoting
Text Incorporating Direct Quotations: MLA Guidelines Incorporating Direct
Quotations: APA Guidelines Chapter 21THE RESEARCH PAPER General Strategies
for the Research Paper The MLA-Style Research Paper Parenthetical (In-Text)
Citations The Works-Cited List MLA Research Paper Format SAMPLE RESEARCH
PAPER IN MLA FORMAT: Valerie Richfield, Child Care and the Working Poor The
APA-Style Research Paper In-Text Citations The Reference List APA Research
Paper Format Chapter 22WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Writing About Fiction
Useful Terms for Writing About Fiction Naguib Mahfouz, The Answer Is No
STUDENT RESPONSE: An Ongoing Equilibrium Writing About Poetry Useful Terms
for Writing About Poetry William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster
Bridge, September 3, 1802 STUDENT RESPONSE: Beauty in a Strange Context
Part 4: Grammar and MechanicsChapter 23PARTS OF SPEECH 23a Nouns 23b
Pronouns 23c Adjectives 23d Articles 23e Prepositions 23f Conjunctions 23g
Verbs23h Verb Tense 23i Verb Mood 23j Verb Voice 23k Verbals 23l Adverbs
23m Placement of Adverbs 23n Interjections Chapter 24SENTENCE PARTS AND
SENTENCE TYPES Sentence Parts 24a Subjects 24b Predicates24c Objects 24d
Complements 24e Phrases 24f Clauses Sentence Types 24g Creating Emphasis
and Variety: Compound Sentences 24h Creating Emphasis and Variety Through
Subordination Chapter 25MAJOR SENTENCE ERRORS Sentence Fragments 25a
Phrases as Fragments 25b Dependent Clauses as Fragments 25c Intentional
Fragments Avoiding "Run-ons": Fused Sentences and Comma Splices 25d Use a
"Full Stop" (Period, Semicolon, or Colon) Between the Independent Clauses
25e Use a Comma and Coordinating Conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so,
yet) to Connect the Two Independent Clauses 25f Change One of the Two
Independent Clauses to a Dependent Clause or to a Phrase Other
Sentence-Level Problems 25g Problems with Parallelism 25h Avoiding Faulty
Comparisons 25i Avoiding Mixed Constructions Chapter 26PROBLEMS WITH VERBS
Subject-Verb Agreement 26a Subjects Connected by and 26b Compound Subjects
Treated as Singular Constructions 26c Subjects Connected by or, nor, either
. . . or, neither . . . nor, and not only . . . but also 26d Subjects That
Are Indefinite Pronouns 26e Subjects That Are Collective Nouns 26f Other
Collective Nouns That Cause Agreement Problems Special Situations 26g
Subjects Separated from Their Verbs 26h Subjects and Linking Verbs 26i
Subjects That Follow Verbs: Inverted Sentence Structures Verb Shifts 26j
Tense Shifts 26k Voice Shifts 26l Mood Shifts Chapter 27PROBLEMS WITH
PRONOUNS Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Determining Whether the Antecedent Is
Singular or Plural 27a Antecedents That Use and and Other Connectors 27b
Antecedents Joined by or, nor, either . . . or, neither . . . nor, and not
only . . . but also 27c Antecedents That Are Indefinite Pronouns 27d
Antecedents That Are Collective Nouns 27e Other Collective Nouns That Cause
Agreement Problems Pronoun Reference 27f Pronouns Without Appropriate
Antecedents 27g Pronouns with Unclear Antecedents 27h Avoiding Shifts of
Person Pronoun Case 27i The Subjective Case, the Objective Case, and the
Possessive Case 27j Pronouns That Are Subject Complements 27k Pronouns in
Comparisons 27l Pronouns That Are Subjects of Clauses 27m Reflexive
Pronouns and Intensive Pronouns Chapter 28PROBLEMS WITH MODIFIERS 28a
Misplaced and Ambiguous (Squinting) Modifiers 28b Dangling Modifiers 28c
Incorrect Substitution of Adjectives and Adverbs 28d Problems with
Comparatives and Superlatives 28e Problems with Adjective Order 28f
Problems with Split Infinitives 28g Problems with Articles Chapter
29PUNCTUATING SENTENCES WITH COMMAS 29a Commas with Independent Clauses 29b
Commas with Introductory Clauses, Phrases, and Words 29c Commas and
Nonessential Elements 29d Commas and Items in a Series 29e Commas with
Coordinate Adjectives 29f Commas with Other Expressions 29g Commas and
Conventional Uses 29h Unnecessary Commas Chapter 30PUNCTUATING SENTENCES
WITH OTHER PUNCTUATION MARKS 30a Periods 30b Semicolons 30c Question Marks
and Exclamation Marks 30d Colons 30e Dashes 30f Parentheses 30g Brackets
30h Double Quotation Marks 30i Single Quotation Marks 30j Quotation Marks
with Other Punctuation 30k Apostrophes 30l Slashes Chapter 31MECHANICS 31a
Capitalization 31b Italics and Underlining 31c Numbers and Numerals 31d
Hyphens Chapter 32DICTION, USAGE, AND SPELLING 32a Using the Right Word 32b
Denotation and Connotation 32c General Versus Specific Nouns and Verbs 32d
Writing Lean Sentences 32e Avoiding Sexist Language 32f Using Figurative
Language and Avoiding Clichés 32g Avoiding Fillers, Euphemisms, and Jargon
32h Using the Appropriate Language Level 32i Using a Consistent Language
Level 32j Using the Correct Idiom 32k Improving Your Spelling A GLOSSARY OF
USAGE APPENDIX: DESIGNING DOCUMENTSCredits Index