Get Writing Sentences and Paragraphs

by Connelly, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781413033502
• ISBN10: 1413033504
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

GET WRITING: SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS is a flexible textbook that meets the needs of a variety of developmental writers including recent high school graduates, working adults, and those for whom English is a second language. GET WRITING gives students the opportunity to acquire skills and develop confidence through their own writing. It encourages students to write about their own goals, families, jobs, college-life, personal interests, and the world around them. Throughout the book students have the opportunity to express themselves on a range of issues, then examine and improve their words, sentences, and paragraphs. Above all, GET WRITING asks students to think critically and sharpen their editing skills by asking them two basic questions: "What are you trying to say?" and "What have you written?"

Table of Contents

Getting Started

Why Write?

Responding to Images

Writing Activity

Goals of This Book

Using Get Writing

Working Together

What is Good Writing?

The Writing Context

Strategies for Succeeding in Writing Courses

Critical Thinking

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

The Writing Process

Responding to Images

The Writing Process

Step One: Prewrite

Strategies for Increasing Critical Thinking

Prewriting Techniques

Step Two: Plan

Moving from Topic to Thesis

Working Together

Organizing Support

Creating an Outline

Writing Activity

Step Three: Write

Writing Activity

Step Four: Cool

Step Five: Revise

Using Peer Review

Peer Review Guidelines

Revising Activity

Step Six: Edit

Editing Activity

Avoiding Plagiarism

Critical Thinking

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Developing Paragraphs

Developing Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas

Responding to Images

What is a Paragraph?

What Do You Know?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas

Reading Topic Sentences

Writing Topic Sentences

Paragraphs Without Topic Sentences

Revising Paragraphs

Working Together

Using Paragraph Breaks in Dialogue

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

What Have You Learned?

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Supporting Topic Sentences with Details

Responding to Images

What Are Supporting Details?

What Do You Know?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Steps to Building Effective Paragraphs

Types of Support.

Observations and Personal Experience

Examples

Facts

Statistics

Testimony (Quotations).Blending Support

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

Responding to Images

What Have You Learned?

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Developing Paragraphs Using Description

Responding to Images

What is Description?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Using Objective and Subjective Description

Creating Dominant Impressions

Exam Skills

Improving Dominant Impressions and Supporting Detail

Student Paragraphs

Putting Paragraphs Together

Readings:"American Muslims," Critical Thinking and Discussion

Paul M. Barrett

"My Ecumenical Father," Jose Antonio Burciaga

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Writing at Work

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Steps to Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

Selecting Topics

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Developing Paragraphs Using Narration

Responding to Images

What is Narration?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Writing Narration: Making a Point

Exam Skills

Writing Narrative: Using Transitions

Writing Narrative: Using Dialogue

Student Paragraphs

Putting Paragraphs Together

Readings:"What's in a Name," Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Critical Thinking and Discussion

"The Fender Bender," Ramon "Tianguis" Perez

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Writing at Work

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Steps to Writing a Narrative Paragraph

Selecting Topics

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Developing Paragraphs Using Example

Responding to Images

What Is an Example?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Writing Example Paragraphs

Types of Examples

Using Hypothetical

Examples

Writing Examples: Using Transitions

Key Transition Words

Exam Skills

Student Paragraphs

Putting Paragraphs Together

Readings: "The Company Man," Ellen Goodman

Critical Thinking and Discussion

"Mexicans Deserve More Than La Mordida," Joe Rodriguez

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Writing at Work

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Steps to Writing an Example Paragraph

Selecting Topics

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Developing Paragraphs Using Comparison and ContraSt. Responding to Images

What Are Comparison and Contrast?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

The Purposes of Comparison and ContraSt. Writing to Explain

Writing to Convince

Organizing Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs

Subject-by-Subject

Point-by-Point

Exam Skills

Student Paragraphs

Putting Paragraphs Together

Readings: "Chinese Space, American Space," Yi-Fu Tuan

Critical Thinking and Discussion

"Of My Friend Hector and My Achilles Heel," Michael T. Kaufman

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Writing at Work

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Steps to Writing a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph

Selecting Topics

Working Together

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Developing Paragraphs Using Cause and Effect

Responding to Images

What Is Cause and Effect?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Cause and Effect: Critical Thinking

Exam Skills

Student Paragraphs

Putting Paragraphs Together

Readings: "Why Boys Don't Play With Dolls," Katha Pollitt

Critical Thinking and Discussion

"I Refuse to Live in Fear," Diana Bletter

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Writing at Work

Focus Consulting

Critical Thinking and Discussion

Steps to Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph

Selecting Topics

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Toward the Essay

Responding to Images

What Is an Essay?

The Introduction

The Body

The Conclusion

Developing Topic Sentences in Outlines

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Written?

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Writing at Work

Responding to Images

E-mail

Strategies for Writing E-mail

Reports

Strategies for Writing Reports

R?sum?s

Strategies for Writing R?sum?s

Cover Letters

Strategies for Writing Cover Letters

Working Together

Critical Thinking

Responding to Images

Writing on the Web

Points to Remember

Writing Sentences

Recognizing the Power of Words

Responding to Images

The Power of Words

What Do You Know?

What Are You Trying to Say?

What Have You Written?

Use Correct Words

Use Effective Words

Use Concrete Nouns

Use Strong Verbs

Avoid Clich?s

Use Appropriate Words

Use Appropriate Level of Diction

Use Appropriate Idioms

Be Aware of Connotations

Working Together

Critical Thinking

What Have You Learned?

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