Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, The: Brief Edition

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

• ISBN13: 9780205598731
• ISBN10: 0205598730
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780134595023, 9780321291516
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Longman
• More Book Details

Summary

The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade,The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Editionoffers the most progressive and teachable introduction now available to academic and personal writing. The four-color guide offers engaging instruction in rhetoric and composition, a flexible sequence of comprehensive writing assignments, numerous examples of student and professional writing, and a thorough guide to research. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Edition has set the new standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.

Table of Contents

Writing Projects

Thematic Contents

Preface

Writing Projects

Thematic Contents

Preface

A Rhetoric for Writers

Thinking Rhetorically About Good Writing

Good Writing Can Vary from Closed to Open Forms David Rockwood

A Letter to the Editor Thomas Merton

A Festival of Rain 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 Brittany Tinker

Can the World Sustain an American Standard of Living?

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

How Writers Think about Purpose

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 Wallowing in Complexity

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 Focused

Freewriting Idea

Mapping Dialectic Talk Playing the Believing and Doubting Game "Believing and Doubting Paul Theroux s Negative View of Sports

A Strong Thesis Surprises Readers with Something New or Challenging

Trying to Change Your Reader s View of Your Subject Giving Your Thesis

Tension through Surprising Reversal

Thesis Statements in Closed-Form Prose Are Supported Hierarchically with Points and Particulars

How Points Convert Information to Meaning

How Removing Particulars Creates a Summary

How to Use Points and Particulars

When You Revise Chapter

Summary

Brief Writing Project: Playing the Believing and Doubting Game

Thinking Rhetorically about How Messages Persuade

Messages Persuade through Their Angle of Vision

Recognizing the Angle of Vision in a Text

Analyzing Angle of Vision

Messages Persuade through Appeals to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

Nonverbal Messages Persuade Through Visual Strategies That Can Be Analyzed Rhetorically

Visual Rhetoric

The Rhetoric of Clothing and Other Consumer Items

Chapter Summary

Brief Writing Project: Analyzing Angle of Vision in Two Passages about Nuclear Energy

Thinking Rhetorically about Style and Document Design

Good Writers Make Purposeful Stylistic Choices

Factors That Affect Style

Abstract Versus Concrete Words: Moving Up or Down the Scale of Abstraction

Wordy Versus Streamlined Sentences: Cutting Deadwood to Highlight Your Ideas

Coordination Versus Subordination: Using Sentence Structure to Control Emphasis

Inflated Voice Versus a Natural Speaking Voice: Creating a Persona

Good Writers Make Purposeful Document Design Choices Using Type Using Space and Laying Out Documents Using Color Using Graphics and Images

Examples of Different Document Designs

Chapter Summary

Brief Writing Project: Converting a Passage from Scientific to Popular Style

Writing Projects

Writing to Learn

Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Observer Explor

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