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Check with the seller before completing your purchase. A practical, step-by-step approach with writer's purpose at the core With new forms of delivery and expression changing the expectations of writers and audiences, the definition of "writing" continues to evolve -- and so must today's writers.
It provides students with additional exercises and freewriting activities, as well as opportunities to consider and respond to opposing viewpoints.
Each chapter in this sequence is self-contained, with introductions, guidelines, professional and student models, writing process advice, research tips, revising guidelines, peer review questions, and postscript reflections on the assignment.
Organized by writers' purposes to explain, to evaluate, to argue, etc. And in each project chapter, techniques and rhetorical modes particularly useful in accomplishing the writer's purpose are suggested. This consistent and detailed guidance supports students throughout each of their major course projects and provides all instruction in one place so that they never need to flip between chapters.
Its rhetorical emphasis, practical step-by-step approach, and usable structure make this guide highly teachable and a favorite of large writing programs for over 25 years. New content for accelerated composition courses built on principles of mainstreaming and backward design offers scaffolded reading and writing support as well as just-in-time grammar remediation. These changes, then, align with current best practices in the teaching of writing which privilege inquiry and critical thinking over rote recall and rule-following.
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Out of print. Stephen P. If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Description For courses in first-year Composition and R hetoric. Offers thorough writing instruction Techniques for writing for a specific purpose open every assignment chapter, laying out for students a concrete game plan and helping them understand what elements they need to consider as they plan and draft their paper.
Self-contained and comprehensive purpose-based chapters walk students through the multiple stages of the writing process and suggest rhetorical patterns and other strategies most useful for each purpose. The logical progression of purpose-based chapters moves from remembering and observing to critical reading, rhetorical analysis, visual analysis, and investigation, before culminating in exposition and argumentation explaining, evaluating, problem solving, and arguing.
The chapter on Analyzing and Composing Multimedia Texts has been revised and greatly expanded, providing students with the tools they need to negotiate the various media now available to them. It has two main goals: 1 to help students better understand how to integrate visual, video, and audio enhancements into appropriate writing situations; and 2 to give students the analytical tools to make sound rhetorical choices in the use of those enhancements.
In many cases, students already have more experience than their teachers in those technologies, but this chapter can help students use them more thoughtfully and effectively.
Shaping and Drafting sections connect the processes of planning and drafting, reinforcing the recursive nature of writing processes.
These revised sections also help students consider where they might embed multimedia elements. A revision to the chapter on Responding to Literature will help students connect the skills of literary analysis to other techniques of critical, rhetorical reading.
Focusing upon storytelling in both fiction and creative non-fiction, this chapter helps students forge connections between aesthetic and rhetorical skills, and see that all writing has creative elements. Write-to-learn and low-stakes writing prompts help writers improve their critical-reading skills, prepare for each assignment, and practice strategies for understanding their purpose, audience, genre, and social context.
Peer Response guidelines in each chapter help student writers give and receive constructive feedback, whether via an in-class workshop, a take-home review, or an electronic exchange of drafts. It demonstrates moments from early brainstorming to final editing where students can learn collaboratively. These learning objectives have also been embedded more thoroughly in the specific parts of each chapter to reinforce the learning goals of each section.
Applying What You Have Learned sections now end each chapter. These three possible capstone writing assignments — varying across academic, public, and personal writing situations — are easily adapted to the course goals. This encourages students to practice these skills in a wider array of situations, reinforcing the learning outcomes of the course. Includes readings to use as models and as springboards for writing NEW!
Ten student essays, six of which are new to this edition, with accompanying annotations introduce current topics such as alternative methods of education not dependent upon standardized testing, national security, and animal testing.
In addition, some of these student essays include multimedia enhancements such as charts, graphs, excerpts from a graphic novel, and a brochure produced by students. New to This Edition.
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