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Cengage Advantage Books: The Composition of Everyday Life A Guide to Writing, Concise Edition

by Mauk, John; Metz, John

ISBN13: 9781428289802
ISBN10: 1428289801
Additional ISBN(s): 9780495802020
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2008-12-30
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Showing students that the act of writing is connected to everyday living, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Concise Edition, 3E emphasizes invention while helping student writers re-discover concepts, uncover meaning, and re-think the world around them.

Inventing Ideas
Asking Questions
Re-Inventing Education
Considering the Essay
Reading and Relating to Essays
Getting Beyond the Weasel: Reading for Rhetoric
Applying Rhetoric to Your Own Writing
How to Use the Composition of Everyday Life
Remembering Who You Were
Readings
Brent Staples, Black Men, Public Spaces
Cindy Bosley, How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant
Jennifer Schwind-Pawlak, The Thrill of Victory + The Agony of Parents
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Explaining Relationships
Readings
John Steinbeck, Americans and the Land
Jim Crockett, Mugged
Daniel P. Doezema, Political Adaptation
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Observing
Readings
Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels
Chester McCovey, The Front Porch
Justin Scott, Corpse Colloquy
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Analyzing Concepts
Readings
S. I. Hayakawa, What It Means to Be Creative
Simon Benlow, "Have It Your Way": Consumerism Invades Education
Petra Pepellashi, What Is Education? Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Analyzing Images
Readings
Elizabeth Thoman, Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream
Cameron Johnson, The Mighty Image
Rebecca Hollingsworth, An Imperfect Reality
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Making Arguments
Readings
David Crabtree, Ph.D., Why a Great Book''s Education Is the Most Practical! Ann Marie Paulin, Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters
Elizabeth Bohnhorst, Floppy Disk Fallacies
Jayme Stayer, Whales R Us
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Responding to Arguments
Readings
George Lakoff, What Orwell Didn''t Know
Daniel Bruno, Entitlement Education
Allison Hester, Reality Check
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Evaluating
Readings
Steven Poole, Goodbye Cruel Word
Ed Bell, The Andy Griffith Show: Return to Normal
Jaren Provo, Star Trek
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Searching for Causes
Readings
Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? Leonard Kress, Throwing Up Childhood
Jamie Bentley, American Consumerism
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Proposing Solutions
Readings
Paul Roberts, How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
Deirdre Mahoney, Attending to the Word
Rachel Scofield, Reverence for Food
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Resonance
Thesis
Rhetorical Tools
Organizational Strategies
Writer''s Voice
Vitality
Peer Review
Delivery
Thinking Radically (Re-Seeing the World)
Readings
Michael Moore, Why Doesn''t GM Sell Crack? Simon Benlow, An Apology to Future Generations
Simon Wykoff, Unemployed, and Working Hard
Outside Reading
Invention
Point of Contact
Analysis
Public Reso
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