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Writing with a Purpose has always been distinguished by its emphasis on the role of purpose in the writing process, its comprehensive coverage for first-year writing, and its effective use of examples and exercises. Designed as a four-in-one (rhetoric, reader, research guide, handbook) for one- and two-semester composition courses, this respected and reliable text has helped train countless students. The Fourteenth Edition includes streamlined coverage to allow for expanded material on such critical topics as research and argumentation. A technology program, Writing with a Purpose Online, allows students to access writing guidance as needed while drafting and revising. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.

The Writing Process
Toward Purposeful Writing
The Writer's Environment and Habits
The Stages of the Writing
Process Making Decisions in the Writing
Process Selecting Your Subject
Analyzing Your Audience Guidelines for selecting your subject
Guidelines for analyzing your audience
Determining Your Purpose Forming a Working Purpose: The Hypothesis Testing Your Hypothesis: The Discovery Draft Purpose and Thesis
Guidelines for determining your purpose Coordinating Decisions in the Writing
Process Seeing with a Purpose Readings
Gail Godwin, Becoming a Writer
Brandon's Clown Writing Assignments
Planning Strategies and Your Journal
Keeping a Journal on your computer
Listing on your computer
Freewriting on your computer
Speculating on your computer
Interviewing on your computer
Reading on your computer
A Final Word about Planning Readings
On Keeping a Journal
The Five Rings Writing Assignments
Drafting The Scratch Outline Drafting a Hypothesis
The Discovery Draft
The Descriptive Outline Composing an Effective Thesis Preparing a Formal Outline Drafting on your computer
A Final Word about Drafting Readings
Comforting Thoughts
A Man with All Reasons Writing Assignments
Revising Looking to Revise
Reading to Revise Revision Agenda Revising: A Case Study on your computer
A Final Word about Revising Readings
New Products
The Coupon Conspiracy (4th Draft) Writing Assignments
Designing Conventions of MLA and APA
Style Elements of Design
Typeface Graphics Color and White Space
Principles of Design Proximity
Alignment Repetition Contrast
Headings Breaking the Rules Designing with Your Computer Readings
Since When Did USA Today Become the National Design Ideal?
The Telephone Paradox Writing Assignments
Writing Structures
Common Methods of Development Narration: What Happened?
Description: What Does It Look Like?
Process Analysis: How Do You Do It?
Comparison: How Is It Similar or Different?
Classification: What Kind of Subdivision Does It Contain?
Definition: How Would You Characterize It?
Causal Analysis: Why Did It Happen?
Exploring methods of development on your computer Readings
Watching Whales Writing Assignments
Argument Planning: Investigating the Argument
Drafting: Organizing the Argument
Revising: Eliminating Fallacies
Composing an argument on your computer Readings
Execution
Who Controls Information? (Our Side) Writing Assignments
Paragraphs: Units of Development
The Requirements of Topical Paragraphs
Special Paragraphs
Revising Topical Paragraphs
Revising Special Paragraphs
Composing paragraphs on your computer Readings
Family: The One Social Glue
La Frontera Writing Assignments
Sentences: Patterns of Expression
Expanding and Combining Sentences
Types of Sentences and Their Effects
Revising Sentences Three Pieces of Advice on Sentence
Variety Composing sentences on your computer Readings
Excerpts from a Painter's Studio Notes
The Knife Writing Assignments
Diction: The Choice of Words
Denotation and Connotation
Three Qualities of Effective Diction
Revising Diction Correcting Diction on your computer Readings
The Microscope
Total Eclipse Writing Assignments
Tone and Style Tone
Style Guidelines for revising your style
Checking your tone and style on your computer Readings
Third World Driving Hints and Tips
Prague Writing Assignments
Writing Research
Planning the Research Paper
Understanding the Assignment Making a Schedule Selecting a Subject
Finding Sources Evaluating Sources
Guidelines for evaluating sources
Taking Notes Planning your research paper on your computer Writing Assignments
Writing the Research Paper
Organizing a Preliminary Outline
Developing a Thesis Writing the First Draft Creating the Introduction
Quoting Sources
Documenting Sources
Notes
Listing or Evaluating
Sources or Referring to Additional
Sources Listing Sources: Sample Entries
Designing the Final Draft (MLA Style)
Writing your research paper on your computer
Sample Student Research Paper Writing Assignments
Readings with a Purpose
Writing Strategies Strategy
Narration and Description
Inside and Out
Digging Questions about Strategy Strategy
Process Analysis
Anatomy of a Garage Band Barbara Ehrenreich, Selling in Minnesota Strategy
Comparison and Contrast
Same Goal/Different Plan
The Golden Spike Strategy
Division and Classification
Listmakers
Television Did It First: Ten Myths About "New" Media Strategy
Definition
Depression James Gleick, Attention! Multitaskers Strategy
Causal Analysis
Only Child Policy Eric Foner
Changing History Strategy
Argument
The Recycling Controversy
The End of Nature Writing Assignments
Handbookof Grammar and Usage The Evolution of English Understanding Sentence Elements
Recognize the Basic Elements of Sentences
Recognize the Basic Sentence Patterns
Expand and Vary Sentence Patterns Writing Logical and Effective Sentences
Sentence Sense
Active and Passive Sentences
Maintain Parallelism among Sentence Elements
Word Order
Position Modifiers Carefully
Comparisons
Conciseness Writing Grammatical Sentences
Eliminate Sentence Fragments
Eliminate Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
Agreement
Case
Verb Tenses
Adjectives and Adverbs Choosing Effective Diction
Use a Dictionary
Consider Issues of Diction Observing the Rules of Punctuation
Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
Commas
Unnecessary Commas
Semicolons
Colons
Dashes
Parentheses
Quotation Marks
Brackets
Ellipses Observing the Rules of Mechanics
Capitalization
Italics
Quotation Marks
Apostrophes
Hyphenation
Numbers
Abbreviations
Spelling
A Glossary of Contemporary Usage
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles
Subject Index
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