The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing

by Ramage, John D.; Bean, John C.; Johnson, June

• ISBN13: 9780205598748
• ISBN10: 0205598749
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable,The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writinghas set the standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.

Table of Contents

Writing Projects

Thematic Contents

Preface

A Rhetoric For Writers

Thinking Rhetorically About Good Writing

Good Writing Can Vary from Closed to Open Forms

ldquo;A Letter to the Editorrdquo;

ldquo;A Festival of Rainrdquo;

Distinctions between Closed and Open Forms of Writing

Where to Place Your Writing Along the Continuum

Good Writers Pose Questions about Their Subject Matter

Shared Problems Unite Writers and Readers

Posing Your Own Subject-Matter Questions

ldquo;Can the World Sustain an American Standard of Living?rdquo;

Good Writers Write for a Purpose to an Audience within a Genre

How Writers Think about Purpose

Purpose as Rhetorical Aim

Purpose as a Response to a Motivating Occasion

Purpose as a Desire to Change Your Readerrsquo;s View

How Writers Think about Audience

How Writers Think about Genre Chapter Summary

Brief Writing Project 1: Posing a Good Subject-Matter Problem

Brief Writing Project 2: Understanding Rhetorical Context

Thinking Rhetorically about Your Subject Matter

Professors Value ldquo;Wallowing in Complexity.rdquo

Learning to Wallow in Complexity

Seeing Each Academic Discipline as a Field of Inquiry and Argument

Good Writers Use Exploratory Strategies to Think Critically about Subject Matter Problems

Freewriting

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.