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9780312201050

The Practice of Writing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312201050

  • ISBN10:

    0312201052

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-22
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Creative, engaging, and fun, The Practice of Writing is unlike any other composition text, offering a greater variety of readings and assignments, asking students to imitate, analyze, argue with, and transform the readings in their own writing.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Practicing Writing 1(33)
Writing as a Human Act: Situations and Strategies
3(13)
Writing as a Process: Experimenting, Planning and Drafting, Revising, Editing
16(17)
PART TWO: Writing the Self 33(50)
Presenting the Self: Expression
37(14)
Representing the Self: Reflection
51(32)
Writing the Self: Two Projects
76(7)
PART THREE: Writing and Knowledge 83(132)
Telling What Happened or Happens: Narration
87(35)
Reading the Seen: Description
122(18)
Connecting Ideas and Things: Classification
140(21)
Taking Things Apart: Analysis
161(54)
Writing and Knowledge: Two Projects
205(10)
PART FOUR: Writing and Power 215(104)
Guiding and Moving Readers: Direction and Persuasion
217(25)
Reasoning with Readers: Argumentation
242(77)
Writing and Power: Two Projects
305(14)
PART FIVE: Writing with Personality, Knowledge, and Power 319(2)
Putting It Together: Synthesis
321

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