Evergreen A Guide to Writing with Readings

by Fawcett, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780618766444
• ISBN10: 0618766448
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Evergreentakes another leap forward in the paragraph-to-essay-level Developmental Writing market. In this Eighth Edition, the author endeavors to take an exceptional book and make it even more motivating, helpful, and engaging. Susan Fawcett has thoroughly reviewed and updated the text, guided by the thoughtful suggestions of faculty across the country, and by the academic and workplace challenges students face in the twenty-first century. With its new features and powerful WriteSpace online writing program, the Eighth Edition ensures thatEvergreencontinues to meet the needs of students and instructors in any classroom environment. Step-by-step instruction, a range of carefully paced practice exercises, engaging student and professional writing samples, and attention to critical thinking are the keys to this text's appeal. New!Critical Viewingand moreCritical Thinkingassignments promote analysis and problem solving. Many images in the text are accompanied byThinking and Writing Togethertasks that help students apply the rhetorical strategies they learn to a problem, set of facts, or visual image. New!Integrated ESL coverage provides guidance for instructors who work with multilingual students in their classes. ESL Tips in the Instructor's Annotated Edition and the newEvergreen Instructor's Guide to Teaching ESL Studentsprovide grounding in ESL instruction specifically geared to teaching withEvergreen.In addition, a new ESL Appendix in the book focuses on areas of difficulty for ESL students, and more exercises and web links are available at theEvergreenOnline Study Center. Exploring Onlineassignments throughout the text and at the end of every chapter give students the option of further online study, practice, or exploration. Provided as live links at the Online Study Center, these assignments can be accessed while students learn chapter concepts or take practice tests. Quality web sites also follow eachThinking and Writing Togetheractivity and selected practices, so students can learn more about topics of interest for future papers. New!New reading selections offer an even wider variety of essays, including "When Greed Gives Way to Giving," by Ana Veciana-Suarez; "Dear Dads: Save Your Sons," by Christopher N. Bacorn; and "Freedom's Just Another Word," by Anna Quindlen. Sixty-five engaging new models and content-based practice sets are vital toEvergreen's effectiveness. Fresh subjects include the first female Navaho surgeon (to illustrate paragraph coherence), NASCAR safety devices (an example of illustration), and the expanding size of restaurant portions in America (an example of comparison and contrast). New!A four-color design and 46 color images enlivenEvergreen's pedagogy. Every image engages students and prompts them to view, reflect, and connect more deeply with material they read.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Contents

Getting Started

Exploring the Writing Process

The Writing Process

Subject, Audience, and Purpose Exploring Online

Prewriting to Generate Ideas

Freewriting

Brainstorming

Clustering

Asking Questions

Keeping a Journal Exploring Online

Writers' Workshop: Using Just One of Your Five Senses, Describe a Place

Discovering the Paragraph

The Process of Writing Paragraphs

Defining and Looking at the Paragraph

Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence

Generating Ideas for the Body

Selecting and Dropping Ideas

Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline

Writing and Revising the Paragraph Exploring Online

Achieving Coherence

Coherence Through Order

Coherence Through Related Sentences Exploring Online

Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures to Grow Up Fast

Developing the Paragraph

Illustration Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing an Illustration Paragraph Suggested Topic Sentences for Illustration Paragraphs Exploring Online

Narration Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Narrative Paragraph Suggested Topics for Narrative Paragraphs Exploring Online

Description Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Descriptive Paragraph Suggested Topics for Descriptive Paragraphs Exploring Online

Process Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Process Paragraph Suggested Topics for Process Paragraphs Exploring Online

Definition

Single-Sentence Definitions

The Definition Paragraph Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Definition Paragraph Suggested Topics for Definition Paragraphs Exploring Online

Comparison and Contrast

The Contrast and the Comparison Paragraphs Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Contrast or Comparison Paragraph Suggested Topics for Contrast or Comparison Paragraphs

The Comparison-Contrast Paragraph Working Through the Comparison-Contrast Paragraph Suggested Topics for Comparison-Contrast Paragraphs Exploring Online

Classification Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Classification Paragraph Suggested Topics for Classification Paragraphs Exploring Online

Cause and Effect Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph Suggested Topics for Cause and Effect Paragraphs Exploring Online

Persuasion Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Persuasive Paragraph Suggested Topics for Persuasive Paragraphs Exploring Online

Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers

Writing the Essay

The Process of Writing an Essay

Looking at the Essay

Writing the Thesis Statement

Generating Ideas for the Body

Organizing Ideas in an Outline

Ordering and Linking Paragraphs in the Essay

Writing and Revising Essays Checklist: The Process of Writing an Essay Suggested Topics for Essays Exploring Online

Types of Essays

The Illustration Essay

The Narrative Essay

The Descriptive Essay

The Process Essay

The Definition Essay

The Comparison or Contrast Essay

The Classification Essay

The Cause and Effect Essay

The Persuasive Essay Exploring

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