The Writer's Response
A Reading-Based Approach To Writing
Heinle (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 1. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-4130-2930-7 (ISBN)
Description
THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing-unity, coherence, and support-but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for students preparing for higher-level work. Through a variety of exercises and extensive readings, the text teaches students to read carefully and summarize accurately, to recognize and respond to specific points in the material they have read, to synthesize ideas from several reading selections, and to evaluate and argue about the ideas they have found in their reading material. Although the authors' focus is on writing about reading, they also encourage students to use their personal experiences to develop and support their ideas. This combination results in a text that not only imparts the fundamentals of college-level writing, but also helps each student find his or her own voice-and discover that they do, indeed, have something to say.
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Florence, KY
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4130-2930-7 (9781413029307)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1: THE READING-WRITING CONVERSATION. 1. Writing with a Central Idea. 2. Reading for the Central Idea. 3. Supporting the Central Idea. 4. Unity and Coherence Unity. Part 2: WRITING ABOUT READING. 5. Summarizing and Responding to Reading. 6. Evaluating Reading Selections. 7. Synthesizing Ideas from Reading Selections. 8. Arguing from Several Reading Selections. Part 3: EDITING SKILLS. 9. Some Basic Editing Terms. 10. Sentence Fragments. 11. Fused Sentences and Comma Splices. 12. Consistency in Verb Tense and Verb Voice. 13. Subject-Verb Agreement. 14. Pronoun Agreement and Reference. 15. Pronoun Case. 16. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. 17. Comma Usage. 18. Semicolons and Colons. 19. The Apostrophe. 20. Quotation Marks. 21. Titles, Capitalization, and Numbers. 22. Clear and Concise Sentences. Part 4: ADDITIONAL READINGS FOR WRITING.