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9781413033724

Frames of Mind: A Rhetorical Reader With Occasions for Writing

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    9781413033724

  • ISBN10:

    1413033725

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-01-03
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Now you can strengthen your critical-thinking skills as well as your writing abilities as you analyze an assortment of texts and visuals using the unique FRAMES OF MIND: A RHETORICAL READER WITH OCCASIONS FOR WRITING, Second Edition. The book's effective blend of visual analysis and writing activities from well-recognized leaders in the field examines traditional rhetorical patterns not only as methods for effective writing, but also as strategies for critical thinking. Unique "Occasions for Writing" activities lead you through a step-by-step inductive journey of self-discovery that encourages you to write in a rhetorical mode without simply mimicking a piece of writing. Annotated examples at the beginning of each chapter with a distinctive full-color design help clarify concepts. New examples of student essays join this edition's strengthened blend of classic and contemporary readings to provide a variety of engaging examples for your reference and analysis. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.

Table of Contents

The Practice of Writing
Why Am I Writing Essays? An Occasion for Writing
Using Your Voice and Finding Your Character
Moving from Evidence to Idea to Essay
Evidence
Idea
Essay
How to Reveal the Discoveries
Analysis
Interpretation
Reflection and Meaning
Making Evidence and Discovery Work Together
An Occasion for Writing: a Student''s Process Preparing to Write
Integrating a Visual Text
Moving toward Essay
Creating a Scene
Integrating a Written Text
Writing Thoughtfully
Reflecting (Analysis and Conception)
Rhetorical Considerations for Essays
An Introduction to Visual Understanding
Keeping Your Eyes Open and Learning to See
A Strategy for Visual Understanding
Looking and Responding
Analyzing Images: Categorizing to Make Sense of What You See
Focal Point and Emphasis
Figure-Ground Contrast
Grouping: Proximity & Similarity
Color
Continuation
Line
Closure
Narration or Story
Context
The Whole Composition
Two Annotated Visuals
Chrysler, Drive=Love [Advertisement]
Monumental Posing [Photograph]
Communicating What You See
For Further Reading
A Sample Student Paper
Ryan Pollack, Visible Feelings
Analysis Defining Analysis
How Analysis Functions
Recognizing Analysis
Using Analysis in Writing
Annotated Paragraph
Analysis and the Other Patterns of Inquiry
Annotated Reading: The New York Times, Neighborly Vultures
Perspectives on Fear
Forms of Mind: an Occasion for Analysis
The Importance of Marvels [painting]
The Treachery of Images [painting]
The Birth of Venus [painting]
Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels
The Nature of Consciousness: An Occasion for Analysis
Young Interracial Couple [photograph]
Central Park with Boys in Trees [photograph]
Central Park [photograph]
Youth Holding Kitten [photograph]
The Bird of Paradise: The Hunter and The Poet
Poetic Moments: An Occasion for Analysis
Tree of Life [photograph]
And Eve [poem]
Thunderstorm [photograph]
Life Cycle of a Thunderstorm [illustration]
Toys
Giving Up The Gu
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
The Tell-Tale Heart
Description
Defining Description
How Description Functions
Selecting Details Organizing Details
Recognizing Description
Metaphor
Simile
Using Description in Writing
Annotated Paragraph: Virginia Woolf, from Moments of Being
Description and the Other Patterns of Inquiry
Annotated Reading: Cynthia Ozick, The Seam of the Snail
Love Sick
The Truth of Mind: an Occasion for Description
Parasympathetic and Sympathetic System Diagram [illustration]
Heart in Voh [photograph]
From One Writer''s Beginning [essay excerpt]
On Not Looking at Pictures
Ways of Seeing (and not): An Occasion for Description
Las Meninas [painting]
Titian, Entombment [painting]
The Myth of The Latin Woman
Facing Races: An Occasion for Description
The Face of Tomorrow [poster]
Georgia O''Keeffe
Death of a Moth
Islands
The Storm
Narration
Defining Narration
How Narration Functions
Sequence, Causality, and Effect
Choosing Events
Selecting and Ordering Details
Recognizing Narration
First-Person Plural (We)
Second-Person Singular and Plural (You)
Third-Person Singular and Plural (He/She, They)
Other Voices
Using Narration in Writing Annotated Paragraph
Narration and the Other Patterns of Inquiry
Annotated Reading: Roy Reed, Wolf Hunt
Once More To The Lake
Time Passes: An Occasion for Narration
Pond''s Extract bottles [photograph]
Horse and Buggy [photo
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