The Longwood Guide to Writing
Published on 17. October 2000
Book
Hardback
700 pages
978-0-205-27206-8 (ISBN)
Description
Aims-based rhetoric/reader/handbook characterized by its accessibility and based on the authors' classroom teaching. Emphasizes invention, including a unique technique based on Burke. Includes 31 professional and 21 student essays (from authors' classes), 3 poems, and 4 short stories. Differentiates between argument and persuasion - unique. Unique chapters on style at the word and sentence level.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-27206-8 (9780205272068)
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Ronald F. Lunsford | Bill Bridges
The Longwood Guide to Writing
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06/2004
2nd Edition
Pearson
€56.94
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Content
Most chapters include sample readings. I.STRATEGIES FOR THE WRITING PROCESS. Why Write? How Does Writing Happen? Writing and Reading. Computers and Writing. 1.Invention: Finding Something to Say. Finding Topics. Writing about an Assigned Topic. Exploring Topics. Sample Student Process - Prewriting. From Inventing to Drafting. 2.Shaping an Essay. Initial Shaping Strategies. Sample Student Process - Discovery Draft. Developing an Essays Structure. Elements of an Essay. Sample Essay. Rebecca Thomas Kirkendall, Whos a Hillbilly? 3.Revising. Revising Strategies. Editing Strategies. Sample Student Process - Revision. Marisol Vargas, Mirror Image. 4.Responding to Readings. Sample Readings. Denise D. Knight, No Hunting Here, Please. Lee K. Abbott, The True Story of Why I Do What I Do. Lorna Dee Cervantes, Freeway 280. Reading Strategies. Sample Reading Response. Making Dialogue Notes. Geoffrey Cowley, Vaccine Revolution. Writing a Response. Shelby Steele, A Negative Vote on Affirmative Action. II.WRITING OCCASIONS. Aims of Discourse. Modes of Discourse. Wedding Aim and Mode. Classifying Occasions. 5.Personal Essays. Sample Essays. Datus Proper, Dark Hollow. Steven Barboza, My Conversion. Arlene Yusnukis, Purple Mountains Majesty. Daniel Kinken, At the MAC. Ali Duffy, The Dance. The Rhetorical Triangle. Distinguishing Features of Personal Essays. Assignment and Guidelines for Writing. Sample Student Process. Chris Miller, Gringos on Safari. 6.Informative Essays. Sample Essays. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, The Fear of Death. Deborah Tannen, Gender Gap in Cyberspace. Michael Kinsley, Orwell Got It Wrong. Gloria Naylor, Mommy, What Does Nigger Mean? Michel Marriot, Raps Embrace of Nigger Fires Bitter Debate. Kelly McGinley, Investing in Your Future. Joshua Morris, The Middleton Inn: An Architectural Triumph. The Rhetorical Triangle. Distinguishing Features of Informative Essays. Assignment and Guidelines for Writing Assignment. Meir Shalev, If Bosnians Were Whales. Sample Student Process. Steve Duran, The Space between Your Ears. 7.Evaluation Essays. Sample Essays. Mark Twain, Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses. Ellen Goodman, Beauty Industry on Rampage. Stacy Birch, What a Child Deserves. Michelle Lebsock, Gillian Welch: Musics Next Big Thing. The Rhetorical Triangle. Distinguishing Features of Evaluative Essays. Assignment and Guidelines for Writing. Sample Student Process. Bridget McCollam, Adult Audiences Only. 8.Essays about and from Literature. Sample Stories and Poems. Joyce Carol Oates, Shopping. Antonya Nelson, In the Land of Men. Jose Armas, El Tonto del Barrio. Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour. Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something. Serman Alexie, That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump. Sherman Alexie, Powwow at the End of the World. Sample Student Essays. Kelly McGinle