The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Brief

by Reid, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780136017141
• ISBN10: 0136017142
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For undergraduate Composition I and II courses. From the first edition,The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writershas focused on writing for a variety of purposes in a rhetorical situation. Although audience, context, and writing situation are important, a writerrs"s purpose should be and has always been the focal point of the sequence of assignments. The Prentice Hall Guidebegins with purposes that are important for the writer personally - observing and remembering - and then turns to more reader-based, academic purposes, including critical reading, expository writing, and argumentative writing. Each chapter in this sequence is self-contained, with introductions, guidelines, professional and student models, writing process advice, research tips, revising guidelines, peer review questions, and postscript reflections on the assignment. This compact, efficient guide touches on all the critical aspects of college writing - both personal and academic - within rich, self-contained chapters - no more flipping back and forth between sections to find appropriate guidelines, models, and writing process information.

Table of Contents

Preface

Credits

Writing Myths and Rituals

Writing Fitness: Rituals and Practice Place, Time, and Tools

Energy and Attitude Keeping a Journal

Warming Up: Journal Exercises On Keeping a Journal

Situations, Purposes, and Processes for Writing

Rhetorical Situations Writer, Occasion, Purpose, Audience, Genre, Context

Purposes for Writing Writer-Based

Purposes Subject- and Audience-Based

Purposes Combinations of Purposes Subject, Purpose, and Thesis Purpose and Audience

Audience Analysis Purpose, Audience, and Genre

The Rhetorical Situation Purpose, Audience, and Context in Two Essays

The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl

I m OK, but You re Not

Dimensions of the Writing Process Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising

The Whole Process Writing with a Computer Warming Up: Journal Exercises

A Writing Process at Work: Collecting and Shaping Athletes and Education

On Writing Athletes and Education

A Writing Process at Work: Drafting and Revising From The Declaration of Independence

Observing Techniques for Writing About Observations

Observing People Observing Places From Sierra

Observing Objects Warming Up: Journal Exercises Take This Fish and Look at It

Observing Wolves

Observing: The Writing Process

Choosing a Subject Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising Peer Response Postscript on the Writing

Process Permanent Tracings

Empty Windows

Remembering Techniques for Writing About Memories Remembering

People Remembering

Places Remembering

Events Warming Up: Journal Exercises Lives on the Boundary

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self

C sar Ch vez Saved My Life

Remembering: The Writing Process Choosing a Subject Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising

Peer Response Postscript on the Writing

Process The Wind Catcher

The Red Chevy

Reading Techniques for Writing about Reading

Critical Reading

Strategies Guidelines for Class Discussion

Summarizing and Responding to an Essay

Teach Diversity with a Smile

Summarizing Responding Warming Up: Journal Exercises Letter to America

Atwood Vows

Responses to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Reading and Writing Processes Choosing a Subject

Teaching Tolerance in America

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising Avoiding Plagiarism Peer

Response Postscript on the Writing Process Letter to Margaret Atwood

Two Responses to Deborah Tannen

Analyzing & Designing Visuals

Techniques for Analyzing Visuals

Analyzing Visuals with Text

Analyzing Visuals in Context Progress or Not

Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945

Who s a Looter?

Analyzing the Genre of the Visual Rhetorical

Appeals to the Audience Designing Visuals

Techniques for Designing Visuals

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