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Cengage Advantage Books: The Composition of Everyday Life, Concise Edition, 2009 MLA Update Edition
by Mauk, John; Metz, JohnEdition:
3rd
ISBN13:
9780495802020
ISBN10:
0495802026
Format:
Spiral Bound
Pub. Date:
6/10/2009
Publisher(s):
Cengage Learning
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Summary
Showing students that the act of writing is connected to everyday living, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE: A GUIDE TO WRITING, Concise Edition, Third Edition, emphasizes invention while helping student writers rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around them.
Table of Contents
| Inventing Ideas | |
| Asking Questions | |
| Re-Inventing Education | |
| Considering the Essay | |
| Reading and Relating to Essays | |
| Getting Beyond the Weasel: Reading for Rhetoric | |
| Applying Rhetoric to Your Own Writing | |
| How to Use the Composition of Everyday Life | |
| Remembering who you were | |
| Readings | |
| "Black Men, Public Spaces." | |
| "How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant." | |
| "The Thrill of Victory... The Agony of Parents." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Explaining Relationships | |
| Readings | |
| "Americans and the Land." | |
| "Mugged." | |
| "Political Adaptation." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Observing | |
| Readings | |
| "Living Like Weasels." | |
| "The Front Porch." | |
| "Corpse Colloquy." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Analyzing Concepts | |
| Readings | |
| "What It Means to Be Creative." | |
| "'Have It Your Way': Consumerism Invades Education." | |
| "What Is Education?" | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Analyzing Images | |
| Readings | |
| "Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream." | |
| "The Mighty Image." | |
| "An Imperfect Reality." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Making Arguments | |
| Readings | |
| "Why a Great Book's Education Is the Most Practical!" | |
| "Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters." | |
| "Floppy Disk Fallacies." | |
| "Whales R Us." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Responding to Arguments | |
| Readings | |
| "What Orwell Didn't Know." | |
| "Entitlement Education." | |
| "Reality Check." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Evaluating | |
| Readings | |
| "Goodbye Cruel Word." | |
| "The Andy Griffith Show: Return to Normal." | |
| "Star Trek." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Searching for Causes | |
| Readings | |
| "Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?" | |
| "Throwing Up Childhood." | |
| "American Consumerism." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Proposing Solutions | |
| Readings | |
| "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words." | |
| "Attending to the Word." | |
| "Reverence for Food." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Thinking Radically (Re-Seeing the World) | |
| Readings | |
| "Why Doesn't GM Sell Crack?" | |
| "An Apology to Future Generations." | |
| "Unemployed, and Working Hard." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Research and Writing (Gathering and using Information from Sources) | |
| Basic Concepts | |
| Primary Research | |
| Observation | |
| Interviews | |
| Surveys | |
| Secondary Research | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Evaluating Sources | |
| Processing Ideas from Sources | |
| Integrating Ideas from Sources | |
| Organizing Sources | |
| Documenting Sources | |
| MLA Style | |
| APA Style | |
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