The Writer’s Response A Reading-Based Approach To Writing

by McDonald, Stephen; Salomone, William

• ISBN13: 9781413029307
• ISBN10: 1413029302
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-25
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing-unity, coherence, and support-but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for students preparing for higher-level work. Through a variety of exercises and extensive readings, the text teaches students to read carefully and summarize accurately, to recognize and respond to specific points in the material they have read, to synthesize ideas from several reading selections, and to evaluate and argue about the ideas they have found in their reading material. Although the authors' focus is on writing about reading, they also encourage students to use their personal experiences to develop and support their ideas. This combination results in a text that not only imparts the fundamentals of college-level writing, but also helps each student find his or her own voice-and discover that they do, indeed, have something to say.

Table of Contents

The Reading-Writing Conversation

Writing with a Central Idea

Reading for the Central Idea

Supporting the Central Idea

Unity and Coherence Unity

Writing About Reading

Summarizing and Responding to Reading

Evaluating Reading Selections

Synthesizing Ideas from Reading Selections

Arguing from Several Reading Selections

Editing Skills

Some Basic Editing Terms

Sentence Fragments

Fused Sentences and Comma Splices

Consistency in Verb Tense and Verb Voice

Subject-Verb Agreement

Pronoun Agreement and Reference

Pronoun Case

Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Comma Usage

Semicolons and Colons

The Apostrophe

Quotation Marks

Titles, Capitalization, and Numbers

Clear and Concise Sentences

Additional Readings for Writing

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