Keys to Successful Writing (with Readings)

by Anderson, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780205519415
• ISBN10: 0205519415
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Keys to Successful Writing prepares student writers for college, career, and everyday writing success by illustrating the writing process requiring reading, thinking,andwriting. An essay-level rhetoric/reader/handbook presenting straightforward, consistently applicable tools and techniques,Keys's organization flows from simple to more complex essays. Featuring a student-friendly, highly accessible writing style, the text presents clear, specific strategies for writing. These methods are combined with student and professional models that are engaging, provocative, and contemporary.

Table of Contents

Exploring the Realm of College Reading and Writing

Reading, Thinking, and Writing for College

The Reading/Writing Connection Why We Read Characteristics of Successful

College Writers and Readers ldquo;LETrsquo;S

Tell The Story Of All Americarsquo;s Cultures,rdquo;Ji-Yeon Mary Yufill

Guidelines for Being an Active Reading Audience Strategies for Active

Reading

bull; Preview the Reading

bull; Use Dictionary Definitions and Contextual Definitions

bull; Annotate

bull; Summarize

bull; Respond in a Journal

bull; Think Critically Guidelines for Note-taking in the Classroom Guidelines for Connecting

Reading and Writing Purpose

bull; Focus

bull; Material

bull; Structure

bull; Style Model with Key Questions

Ldquo;A Letter Of Complaint,rdquo;

Matt Cirillo and Cindy Sharp Journal Writing

The Reading Log Box

Using the Computer for College Reading and Writing Options for Writing Responding to Writing

Using Active Reading Strategies Box

Critical Thinking in Connecting Texts

Defining the Essay and the Composing Process Characteristics of the Essay

ldquo;A Black Athlete Looks at Education,rdquo;

Arthur Ashe Model with Key Questions

ldquo;Matilda,rdquo;

DouglasW

Cwiak Guidelines for Writing the Essay Purpose

bull; Focus

bull; Material

bull; Structure

bull; Style An Overview of the Composing Process Discovering

bull; Drafting

bull; Revising

bull; Polishing

bull; Writer/Audience Response

Box: Strategies for Writers Journal Writing

Examining Your Composing Process Box

Using the Computer: Opening a Planning

File Options for Writing Responding to Writing

Annotation

ldquo;What I Have Lived For,rdquo;

Bertrand Russell Box

Critical Thinking in Connecting Texts One Essayrsquo;s

Trip through the Composing Process

ldquo;American Musicians and Amendment Rights,rdquo;

Cyrus Doherty

Discovering Through Prewriting Characteristics of Prewriting

Model with Key Questions

ldquo;Public Parking and Road War,rdquo;

Olasumbo Davis Guidelines for Prewriting Consider Your Audience

bull; Allow Prewriting Free Rein

bull; Mapping an Essay Box: Strategies for Prewriting Journal Writing

Discovery Entry

ldquo;To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet,rdquo;

Joyce Carol Oates Box: Using the Computer

Organizing Prewriting Options for Writing Responding to Writing

Discovering Keys for Prewriting Box

Critical Thinking in Connecting Texts

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