Curious Writer, The, Brief Edition

by Ballenger, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780205532131
• ISBN10: 0205532136
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing. This reader-rhetoric stresses the connections between personal and academic writing. Personal essays, writing profiles, writing proposals, research and documentation General Interest; Improving Writing

Table of Contents

Instructor

Preface Student

Preface

The Spirit Of Inquiry

Writing as Inquiry Motives for Writing Beliefs About Writing

What Do You Believe?

One Student's Response

Inquiring into the Details

Unlearning Unhelpful Beliefs

The Beliefs of This Book

Inquiring into the Details

Writing Situations and Rhetorical Choices

Habits of Mind Start with Questions

Not Answers Suspend Judgment Search for Surprise

A Roomful of Details One Student's Response: Margaret's

Journal Inquiring into the Details: Invention Strategies Writing as a Process

Recognizing the Challenges

What Is Your Process?

Thinking About Your Process

Linear versus Recursive Models Dialectical Thinking

Practicing Dialectical Thinking One Student's Response

Journal Writing with Computers

Overcome Your Own

Challenges Using What You Have Learned

Reading as Inquiry Motives for Reading Beliefs About Reading

What Do You Believe?

Reading Situations and Rhetorical Choices

Reading as a Process Linear versus Recursive Models

Reading Strategies Reading

Thoreau, Excerpt from Walden

Inquiring into the Details: Reading Perspectives

Dialectical Thinking Writing with Computers

Believing and Doubting

Practicing Dialectical

Thinking Reading: Bruce Ballenger

"The Importance of Writing Badly"

One Student's Response: Todd's Journal

Inquiring into the Details

The Double-Entry Journal Adapting to Unfamiliar

Reading Situations

Further Practice: Untangling

Academic Prose Reading

Excerpt from The Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation

Inquiring into the Details: Encountering Unfamiliar Genres "Reading" The Visual Learning the Grammar of Images Some Strategies for Reading Images

Reading Images The "Look" of Writing Using What You Have Learned

Ways of Inquiring Opening

Questions for Inquiry Exploration

Explanation Evaluation Reflection Practicing

Inquiry Reading: Bruce Ballenger

"How Much Should We Care What Happens to Animals"

Exploring Within and Without

Reading: Frank Bruni, excerpt from "It Died for Us"

One Student's Response

Explaining to Yourself

Explaining to Others One Student's Response

Evaluating the Arguments One Student's Response: Daniel's Journal

Reflecting on the Process One Student's Response: Daniel's Journal

Symphonic Inquiry Inquiring into the Details: Time to Write Using What You Have Learned

Inquiry Projects

Writing a Personal Essay Writing About

Experience Motives for Writing a Personal

Essay Personal

Essays and Academic Writing

Features of the Form Personal

Essay: Anne-Marie Oomen

"The Barn" Inquiring into the Essay

Personal Essay: Naomi Shibab Nye

"Long Overdue" Inquiring into the Essay

Personal Essay: Judith Ortiz Cofer

"One More Lesson" Inquiring into the Essay

Seeing the Form: Self Portrait by Frances Benjamin

Johnston The Writing Process

Thinking About Subjects Generating

Ideas One Student's Response: Margaret's Journal

Inquiring into the Details: Clustering or Mapping

Judging What You Have Writing the Sketch

Writing with Computers Student Sketch

"The Way I Remember" Moving from Sketch to Draft

Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More

Information Composing the Draft

Workshopping the Draft Writing with Computers

Revising the Draft Polishing the Dr

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