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More than ever, the third edition of the McGraw-Hill Guide emphasizes the fact that successful writers adapt to the circumstances they are writing for their audience, purpose, and the conventions of the genre they are composing. The McGraw-Hill Guide helps students adapt to these circumstances by helping them set specific writing goals, achieve those goals, and then assess the effectiveness of their work. The McGraw-Hill Guide allows students to study in whichever manner they prefer: in print or online. The CONNECT COMPOSITION PLUS 2.0 eBook provides The McGraw-Hill Guide content in a digital format that is accessible from within Connect with single sign on access to Blackboard or other learning management systems through McGraw-Hill CAMPUS.Students can link directly to activities and assignments within CONNECT from the eBook. No longer forced to carry a print text, students can have all the resources from The McGraw-Hill Guide right on their computer's desktop!With digital tools developed by composition experts, CONNECT COMPOSITION PLUS 2.0 enables you to create a state of the art teaching and learning environment that engages your students with their course assignments, including: group assignments discussion board assignments blog assignments writing assignments The flexible content and powerful tools found in CONNECT COMPOSITION PLUS2.0 with The McGraw-Hill Guide work well in traditional course settings as well as online or inhybrid courses.If your goal is to teach your students how to adapt to any writing situation using a goal-centered approach, then The McGraw-Hill Guide is the perfect match for your composition course. With its optional Handbook, easily customizable Table of Contents, and comprehensive Online Edition, The McGraw-Hill Guide adapts to the changing needs of your writing program.
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]