Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, The: Brief Edition

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

• ISBN13: 9780321106216
• ISBN10: 0321106210
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson (Manual)

Summary

The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Edition offers 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. Part One, "A Rhetoric for College Writers," provides a conceptual framework for The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, Brief Edition, by showing how inquiring writers pose problems, pursue them through discussion and exploratory writing, and solve them within a rhetorical context shaped by the writer's purpose, audience, and genre. Part Two, "Writing Projects," contains thirteen self-contained assignment chapters arranged according to the purposes for writing. Each chapter guides students through the process of generating and exploring ideas, composing and drafting, and revising and editing. Concluding each chapter are "Guidelines for Peer Reviewers," which sum up the important features in the assignments and facilitate detailed, helpful peer reviews. Part Three, "A Guide to Composing and Revising," is comprised of three self-contained chapters of nuts-and-bolts strategies for composing and revising. Part Four "A Rhetorical Guide to Research," presents pedagogically sequenced instruction for helping students learn to conduct searches, evaluate sources, and incorporate sources into their own writing. Research skills are taught within a rhetorical context with special attention to the rhetoric of websites. Part Five, "A Guide to Special Writing and Speaking Occasions," gives students helpful advice on working in groups, giving speeches and presentations, writing essay exams, assembling portfolios, and writing reflective self-evaluations.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	vii
Writing Projects	xxi
Thematic Contents	xxii
Preface	xxix
Using Part Opener Images	xl
PART ONE A Rhetoric for College Writers	3	(82)
Posing Problems: The Demands of College Writing	5	(19)
Pursuing Problems: Exploratory Writing and Talking	24	(16)
Thinking Rhetorically about Question, Thesis, and Support	40	(20)
Thinking Rhetorically about Purpose, Audience, and Genre	60	(25)
PART TWO Writing Projects	85	(392)
WRITING TO LEARN
Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Observer	87	(21)
Reading Rhetorically: The Writer as Strong Reader	108	(44)
WRITING TO EXPRESS
Writing an Autobiographical Narrative	152	(22)
WRITING TO EXPLORE
Writing an Exploratory Essay	174	(23)
WRITING TO INFORM
Writing an Informative (and Surprising) Essay	197	(21)
WRITING TO ANALYZE AND SYNTHESIZE
Analyzing Images	218	(31)
Analyzing Numerical Data	249	(26)
Analyzing a Short Story	275	(29)
Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas	304	(33)
Investigating Cause and Consequence	337	(35)
WRITING TO PERSUADE
Writing a Classical Argument	372	(45)
Making an Evaluation	417	(24)
Proposing a Solution	441	(36)
PART THREE A Guide to Composing and Revising	477	(96)
Writing as a Problem-Solving Process	479	(18)
Composing and Revising Closed-Form Prose	497	(47)
Composing and Revising Open-Form Prose	544	(29)
PART FOUR A Rhetorical Guide to Research	573	(110)
An Introduction to Research	575	(6)
Finding and Evaluating Sources	581	(36)
Using, Citing, and Documenting Sources	617	(51)
Advanced or Specialized Research Skills	668	(15)
PART FIVE A Guide to Special Writing and Speaking Occasions	683	(2)
Oral Communication: Working in Groups and Giving Speeches	685	(16)
Essay Examinations: Writing Well Under Pressure	701	(14)
Assembling a Portfolio and Writing a Reflective Self-Evaluation	715