The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing with MLA Guide

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

• ISBN13: 9780321236357
• ISBN10: 0321236351
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780321106223, 9780321291509
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman
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Summary

The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing 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 thorough guides to research and editing. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing 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 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, 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. Part Six, A Guide to Editing, is a concise handbook of grammar, usage, mechanics, punctuation, style, and editing.

Table of Contents

A Rhetoric for College Writers

Posing Problems: The Demands of College Writing

Pursuing Problems: Exploratory Writing and Talking

Thinking Rhetorically About Question, Thesis, and Support

Thinking Rhetorically About Purpose, Audience, and Genre

Writing Projects

Writing to Learn

Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Shaper/Observer

Reading Rhetorically: The Writer as Strong Reader

Writing to Express

Writing an Autobiographical Narrative

Writing to Explore

Writing an Exploratory Essay

Writing to Inform

Writing an Informative (and Surprising) Essay

Writing to Analyze and Synthesize

Analyzing Images

Analyzing Numerical Data

Analyzing a Short Story

Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas

Investigating Questions About Causes and Consequences

Writing to Persuade

Writing a Classical Argument

Making an Evaluation

Proposing a Solution

A Guide to Composing and Revising

Writing as a Problem-Solving Process

Composing and Revising Closed-Form Prose

Composing and Revising Open-Form Prose

A Rhetorical Guide to Research

An Introduction to Research

Finding and Evaluating Library and Internet Sources

Citing and Documenting Sources

Advanced or Specialized Research Skills

A Guide to Special Writing and Speaking Occasions

Oral Communication: Working in Groups and Giving Speeches

Essay Examinations: Writing Well Under Pressure

Assembling a Portfolio and Writing a Self-Reflection

A Guide to Editing

HB 1: Improving Your Editing Skills

HB 2: Understanding Sentence Structure

HB 3: Signaling Sentence Structure: The Main Uses of Periods, Capital Letters, Commas, and Semicolons

HB 4: Editing for Standard English Usage

HB 5: Editing for Style

HB 6: Editing for Punctuation and Mechanics

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