A Short Guide to College Writing

Name: A Short Guide to College Writing
Brand: Pearson
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Sylvan Barnet Pat Bellanca Marcia Stubbs(Author)

Pearson (Publisher)

5th Edition

Published on 9. March 2012

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360 pages

978-0-205-23861-3 (ISBN)

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Preface xvii

PART ONE The Writing Process 1

CHAPTER 1 Developing Ideas 2

STARTING 2

How to Write: Writing as a Physical Act 2

Some Ideas About Ideas: Strategies for Invention 2

Asking Questions and Answering Them 3

Listing 5

Clustering 7

Scratch Outlining 7

Freewriting 9

FOCUSING 9

Critical Thinking: Subject, Topic, Thesis 9

Finding a Topic 10

Developing a Thesis 11

CHECKLIST for a Thesis Sentence 13DEVELOPING IDEAS 13Thinking About Audience and Purpose: The Readeras Collaborator 14Writing the Draft 15 CHAPTER 2 Drafting and Revising 17READING DRAFTS 17Imagining Your Audience and Asking Questions 17PEER REVIEW: THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A REALAUDIENCE 20From Assignment to Essay: A Case History 21CHECKLIST for Peer Review 24First Draft 24Summary of Peer Group Discussion 26Final Version 28Suki HudsonTwo Sides of a Story (Student Essay) 28CHECKLIST for Drafting And Revising 30 CHAPTER 3 Shaping Paragraphs 31PARAGRAPH FORM AND SUBSTANCE 31The Shape of a Paragraph 33PARAGRAPH UNITY: TOPIC SENTENCES, TOPIC IDEAS 34Examples of Topic Sentences at Beginning and at End,and of Topic Ideas 34UNITY IN PARAGRAPHS 36ORGANIZATION IN PARAGRAPHS 37COHERENCE IN PARAGRAPHS 38Transitions 39Repetition 40LINKING PARAGRAPHS TOGETHER 41Cheryl LeeThe Story Behind the Gestures 41PARAGRAPH LENGTH 45The Use and Abuse of Short Paragraphs 45INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS 48CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS 55CHECKLIST for Revising Paragraphs 56 CHAPTER 4 Revising for Conciseness 57INSTANT PROSE 58How to Avoid Instant Prose 59EXTRA WORDS AND EMPTY WORDS 60Weak Intensifiers 61Circumlocutions 61Wordy Beginnings 62Empty Conclusions 63Wordy Uses of the Verbs To Be, To Have , and To Make 63Redundancy 64Negative Constructions 65EXTRA SENTENCES, EXTRA CLAUSES:SUBORDINATION 66Who, Which, That 67It Is, This Is, There Are 67SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS ABOUT CONCISENESS 68CHECKLIST for Revising For Conciseness 68 CHAPTER 5 Revising for Clarity 70CLARITY 70CLARITY AND EXACTNESS: USINGTHE RIGHT WORD 72Denotation 72Connotation 73Avoiding Sexist Language 74Quotation Marks as Apologies 75Being Specific 76Using Examples 77Jargon and Technical Language 79Cliches 80Metaphors and Mixed Metaphors 81Euphemisms 83Passive or Active Voice? 84The Writer's "I" 86CLARITY AND COHERENCE 87Cats Are Dogs 88Items in a Series 88Modifiers 89Misplaced Modifiers 89Squinting Modifiers 90Dangling Modifiers 91Reference of Pronouns 91Vague Reference of Pronouns 92Shift in Pronouns 92Ambiguous Reference of Pronouns 93Agreement 93Noun and Pronoun 93Subject and Verb 94Three Additional Points 94Repetition and Variation 95CLARITY AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE: PARALLELISM 97CHECKLIST for Revising for Clarity 98 CHAPTER 6 Writing with Style 99ACADEMIC STYLES, ACADEMIC AUDIENCES 99DEFINING STYLE 102STYLE AND TONE 103ACQUIRING STYLE 105Clarity and Texture 106Originality and Imitation 106 PART TWO College Writing 107CHAPTER 7 Using Sources 108WHAT IS A SOURCE? 108SUMMARIZING SOURCES 109Writing a Summary 109Steven PinkerMind Over Mass Media 110PARAPHRASING SOURCES 115QUOTING SOURCES 118ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES 122Using Sources without Plagiarizing 122Acknowledging a Direct Quotation 124Acknowledging a Paraphrase or Summary 124Acknowledging an Idea 127Fair Use of Common Knowledge 128"But How Else Can I Put It?" 128CHECKLIST for Avoiding Plagiarism 129A PLAGIARISM SELF-TEST 130QUIZ YOURSELF: HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUTCITING SOURCES? 130Section 1: Plagiarism and AcademicDishonesty 130Section 2: Common Knowledge 131Section 3: Quoting, Paraphrasing, andSummarizing Texts 132ANSWER KEY TO PLAGIARISM QUIZ 134Section 1: Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty 134Section 2: Common Knowledge 134Section 3: Quoting, Paraphrasing,and Summarizing Texts 135Illegal Trade Passage 135Romance Nove Passage 135 CHAPTER 8 Analyzing Texts 136ANALYZING AN IMAGE 136ANALYZING ADVERTISEMENTS (VISUAL RHETORIC) 137Who's That Girl? An Analysis of a 2010 Dolce & GabbanaAdvertisement 139CHECKLIST for Analyzing Advertisements 141ANALYZING TEXTS 141CLASSIFYING AND THINKING 142Examples of Classifying 142CAUSE AND EFFECT 143Dolores HaydenAdvertisements, Pornography, and Public Space 159ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION 148Description at Work in the Analytic Essay 149COMPARING 150Organizing Short Comparisons 151Longer Comparisons 154Ways of Organizing an Essay Devoted to a Comparison 155CHECKLIST for Revising Comparisons 158PROCESS ANALYSIS 158Anne Hebald MandelbaumIt's the Portly Penguin That Gets the Girl, French Biologist Claims 159EXPLAINING AN ANALYSIS 161 CHAPTER 9 Persuading Readers 162EMOTIONAL APPEALS 162MAKING REASONABLE ARGUMENTS 163CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE 165THREE KINDS OF CLAIMS: CLAIMS OF FACT, VALUE, ANDPOLICY 165Claims of Fact 165Claims of Value 166Claims of Policy 167THREE KINDS OF EVIDENCE: EXAMPLES, TESTIMONY,STATISTICS 167Examples 168Testimony 169Statistics 170A NOTE ON DEFINITION IN THE PERSUASIVE ESSAY 171HOW MUCH EVIDENCE IS ENOUGH? 172TWO KINDS OF REASONING: INDUCTIONAND DEDUCTION 172AVOIDING FALLACIES 173WIT 177Avoiding Sarcasm 177TONE AND ETHICAL APPEAL 178CRITICAL THINKING: ASSUMPTIONSAND IMPLICATIONS 179ORGANIZING AN ARGUMENT 180CHECKLIST for Revising Draftsof Persuasive Essays 181PERSUASION AT WORK: TWO PROFESSORS CONSIDERLAPTOPS IN THE CLASSROOM 182Carlo RotellaTuition Lost on the Tecno-Dependent 182An Analysis of Rotella's Argument 184Elena ChoyLaptops in the Classroom? No Problem 185An Analysis of Choy's Argument 189 CHAPTER 10 Writing the Research Essay 190WRITING RESEARCH ESSAYS 190PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS 192WHAT TO DO WITH SOURCES 193DEVELOPING A RESEARCH TOPIC 194Finding Sources 194THE LIBRARY'S CENTRAL INFORMATIONSYSTEM 195EVALUATING WEB SOURCES AND A NOTEON WIKIPEDIA 196CHECKLIST for Evaluating Web Sites 198READING AND TAKING NOTES ON SECONDARYSOURCES 198A Guide to Note-Taking 199WRITING THE ESSAY 202CHECKLIST for Revising Drafts ofResearch Essays 205A SAMPLE RESEARCH ESSAY (MLA FORMAT) 206Beatrice CodyPolitics and Psychology in The Awakening(Student Essay) 207An Analysis of Cody's Use of Sources 221A SAMPLE RESEARCH ESSAY (APA FORMAT) 222Jacob AlexanderNitrite: Preservative or Carcinogen? (Student Essay) 223An Analysis of Alexander's Use of Sources 238 PART THREE A Writer's Handbook 241CHAPTER 11 Punctuating Sentences 242A Word on Computer Grammar and Punctuation Checks 244THREE COMMON ERRORS: FRAGMENTS, COMMA SPLICES,AND RUN-ON SENTENCES 244Fragments and How to Correct Them 244How to Correct Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences 246THE PERIOD 248THE QUESTION MARK 248THE COLON 249THE SEMICOLON 250THE COMMA 251THE DASH 257PARENTHESES 258ITALICS 259CAPITAL LETTERS 260THE HYPHEN 262THE APOSTROPHE 263ABBREVIATIONS 265NUMBERS 266 CHAPTER 12 Using the Right Word 268A NOTE ON IDIOMS 269A WRITER'S GLOSSARY 270 CHAPTER 13 Documenting Sources 294DOCUMENTATION 294MLA FORMAT 295Citations Within the Text 295Author and Page Number in Parenthetic Citation 298Title and Page Number in Parentheses 298Author, Title, and Page Number in Parentheses 299A Government Document or a Work of Corporate Authorship 299A Work by Two or Three Authors 299Parenthetic Citation of an Indirect Source (Citation of Material ThatItself Was Quoted or Summarized in Source) 300Parenthetic Citation of Two or More Works 300A Work in More Than One Volume 300An Anonymous Work 301A Literary Work 301A Personal Interview 304Lectures 304Electronic Sources 304A Note on Footnotes in an Essay Using Parenthetic Citations 305The List of Works Cited 306Alphabetic Order 306Form on the Page 306The Elements of the Citation 306Print Sources 307Author's Name 307Title of Book 308Place of Publication, Publisher, Date, and Medium ofPublication 308A Book by More Than One Author 309Government Documents 310Works of Corporate Authorship 310Republished Work 310A Book in Several Volumes 310One Book with a Separate Title in a Set of Volumes 311A Book with an Author and an Editor 311A Revised Edition of a Book 311A Translated Book 312An Introduction, Foreword, or Afterword 312A Book with an Editor but No Author 312A Work in a Volume of Works by One Author 312A Work in a Collection of Works by Several Authors 313A Book Review 313An Article or Essay-Not a Reprint-in a Collection 314An Article or Essay Reprinted in a Collection 314An Encyclopedia or Other Alphabetically ArrangedReference Work 315An Article in a Scholarly Journal 315An Article in a Weekly, Biweekly, or Monthly Publication 316An Article in a Newspaper 316Web Sources 317Sources Found Through Web Sites 318Entire Online Site 318Part of a Site 318Online Magazine Article 318Online Newspaper Article 318Online Reference Article 318Online Scholarly Journal Article 318Wiki 319Blog 319Podcast 319Online Audio or Video 319Sources Found Through a Database or Scholarly Project 319Book Accessed from a Scholarly Project 319Scholarly Journal Accessed from a Database 319Magazine Article Accessed from a Database 320Government Document Accessed from a Database 320Electronic Sources Also Available in Another Medium 320Work of Art Accessed Online 320Film Accessed Online 320Other Common Sources 321An Electronic Book 321A Video Recording or Film 321A CD or Other Sound Recording 321A Television or Radio Program 321An Interview 321An E-mail Message 322An Oral Presentation (A Lecture, Address, or Speech) 322Visual Art 322Digital File 323APA FORMAT 323Citations Within the Text 324A Summary of an Entire Work 324A Reference to a Page or Pages 324A Reference to an Author Represented by More Than One WorkPublished in a Given Year in the References 325The List of References 325Form on the Page 325Alphabetic Order 325Form of Title 326Sample References 327A Book by One Author 327A Book by More Than One Author 327A Collection of Essays 327A Work in a Collection of Essays 327Government Documents 327A Journal Article 327An Article from a Monthly or Weekly Magazine 328An Article in a Newspaper 328A Book Review 328Electronic Sources 328A NOTE ON OTHER SYSTEMS OF DOCUMENTATION 330Biology and Other Sciences 330Chemistry 330Journalism 330Law 330Medicine 330Physics 330 CHAPTER 14 Preparing the Manuscript 331BASIC MANUSCRIPT FORM 331Last Words 336\Credits 000Index 000

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