The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers Brief Edition, without Handbook

by Stephen Reid

• ISBN13: 9780130210296
• ISBN10: 0130210293
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

A comprehensive guide to writing for one- or two-semester freshman composition courses. This all-in-one text offers hallmark coverage of the purposes of writing, focusing on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. While the guide emphasizes traditional writing purpose and process, the author also considers the technological changes that influence and enhance contemporary writing, including expanded coverage of researching, evaluating, and documenting internet sources.

Table of Contents

(NOTE: New selections are in bold and marked with an * asterisk.)

Writing Myths and Rituals

Writing Fitness

On Keeping a Journal

Purposes and Processes for Writing

Writing for Myself

Purposes for Writing

Purpose and Audience

Purpose and Audience in Two Essays

The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl

I'm OK, but You're Not

Dimensions of the Processes

Writing with a Computer

A Writing Process at Work: Collecting and Shaping

Athletes and Education

On Writing Athletes and Education

A Writing Process at Work: Drafting

From The Declaration of Independence

Observing and Revising

Techniques for Writing about Observations

One Fan's Burden

The Snake

Observing Wolves

*Take This Fish and Look at It

Observing: The Writing Process

Collecting

Observing: Student Writing

Permanent Tracings

Empty Windows

Remembering

Techniques for Writing about Memories

Remembering: Professional Writing

The Day Language Came into My Life

Lives on the Boundary

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self

Remembering: The Writing Process

Remembering: Student Writing

The Wind Catcher

Reading

Techniques for Writing about Reading

Summarizing and Responding to an Essay

Teach Diversitywith a Smile

Some Don't Like Their Blues at All

Say It Ain't Cool

Reading: Professional Writing

Animal Rights and Beyond

*IBM and The X-Files

Reading and Writing Processes

Children and Violence in America

Reading: Student Writing

Drawing the Line

A Response to Deborah Tannen's Essay

Is Deborah Tannen Convincing?

Investigating

Techniques for Investigative Writing

How the Web Works

Investigating: Professional Writing

Plotting a Net Gain

*You, Inc

The Homeless and Their Children

Investigating: The Writing Process

Investigating: Student Writing

See Dick Run

Run, Dick, Run

Why, Why, Why?

My Friend

An Alcoholic

Explaining

Techniques for Explaining

Explaining: Professional Writing

Welcome to Cyberspace

The Global Village Finally Arrives

How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently

Explaining: The Writing Process

Drafting

Explaining: Student Writing

The Police Were Calling Me Names: An Explanation of Hard-Core Punk Rock

Anorexia Nervosa

Evaluating

Techniques for Writing Evaluations

Oprah...Oscar; Oscar...Oprah

Evaluating: Professional Writing

Watching the Eyewitless News

First Born, Later Born

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