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Summary
Powered by Connect Composition, The McGraw-Hill Guide helps students set writing goals, use effective composing strategies to achieve those goals and assess the effectiveness of their results. Connect Composition gives students access to the McGraw-Hill Guide eBook content for four years so that they can utilize this critical resource for all their college level writing.
Table of Contents
*New to this edition
Part One: Getting Started
1. Writing Goals and Objectives for College and for Life
Writing in the four areas of your life
Writing as a College Student
Writing as a Professional
Writing as a Citizen
Writing as a Family Member or Friend
Writing in the Four Areas of this Course
Learning Goals in this Course
Rhetorical Knowledge
Rhetorical Analysis
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Writing Process
Knowledge of Convention
Composition in Electronic Environments
Becoming a Self-Reflective Writer
*Strategies for Success
2. Reading Critically for College and for Life
Why Read Critically? Integrating Sources into Your Own Writing
Using Prereading Strategies
Reading Actively
Annotating Effectively
Reading Visuals
Reading Web Sites
Using Postreading Strategies
Starting Your Writer’s/Research Journal
Writing Effective Summaries
Synthesizing Information in Readings
Using Your Reading in Your Writing
Constructing a Rhetorical Analysis
3. Writing to Understand and Synthesize Texts [New Chapter]
Setting Your Goals
Rhetorical Knowledge
Writing to Understand and Synthesize Texts
Writing Assignment Options
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Qualities of Effective Writing to Understand and Synthesize Texts
Reading to Learn about Understanding and Synthesizing Texts
*Danny Goldberg, Kill the Internet—and Other Anti-SOPA Myths (Editorial)
*Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh, We Are the Media, and So Are You (Editorial)
*Margaret Munson, Critical Response to “We Are the Media, and So Are You” (Student Essay)
Writing Processes
Invention: Getting Started
Organizing Your Ideas and Details
Constructing a Complete Draft
Revising
Knowledge of Conventions
Editing
Genres, Documentation, and Format
A Writer Achieves Her Goal: Margaret Munson’s Synthesis
*Margaret Munson, Protecting Creativity in a Wired World: Two Perspectives (Student Essay)
Self-Assessment: Reflecting on Your Goals
4. Writing to Discover and to Learn
Using Invention Strategies to Discover Ideas
Listing
Freewriting
Questioning
Answering the Questions Who? What? When? Why? and How?
Brainstorming
Clustering
Keeping Notebooks and Journals
Double-entry Notebook
Field Notebook
Rewriting Your Class Notes
Minute Paper
Muddiest Point
Preconception Check
Paraphrasing
Organizing and Synthesizing Information
Invented Interview/Unsent Letter
Using Charts and Visuals to Discover and to Learn
Clustering and Concept Mapping
Process Flowchart
Studying for Exams
Test Questions
Mnemonic Play
5. Writing to Share Experiences
Setting Your Goals
Rhetorical Knowledge
Writing to Share Experiences
Scenarios for Writing: Assignment Options
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Qualities of Effective Writing about Experiences
Reading to Learn about Writing That Shares Experiences
Tanya Barrientos, Se Habla Español (Memoir)
*Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me (Literacy Narrative) [print book only]