Good Writing!
2nd Edition
Published on 19. July 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
538 pages
978-0-205-27334-8 (ISBN)
Description
Good Writing! is a rhetoric, reader, and handbook designed for the developing writer.
Emphasizing the reading and writing connection, it guides students through the interrelated processes of critical reading and personal and academic writing in a non-threatening way, building skills congruent with current research on language and writing. Students work through generating, drafting, revising, and editing essays using a process-oriented and interactive approach. Since students learn from reading and discussing other writers' work, Good Writing! includes many writing samples by both student and professional writers. It also offers extensive individual and collaborative writing activities. The handbook section features sentence building expansion and revision, with special attention to common problems encountered by ESL writers.
Emphasizing the reading and writing connection, it guides students through the interrelated processes of critical reading and personal and academic writing in a non-threatening way, building skills congruent with current research on language and writing. Students work through generating, drafting, revising, and editing essays using a process-oriented and interactive approach. Since students learn from reading and discussing other writers' work, Good Writing! includes many writing samples by both student and professional writers. It also offers extensive individual and collaborative writing activities. The handbook section features sentence building expansion and revision, with special attention to common problems encountered by ESL writers.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-205-27334-8 (9780205273348)
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Content
* Indicates selections new to this edition. I.A RHETORIC AND READER.
1.Becoming a Writer.
Why We Write.
Is Writing Old-Fashioned? How Does Writing Help Us?
Becoming a Writer.
Learning to Talk, Learning to Write.
STUDENT ESSAY: Michael Rafferty, The Boxes.
Writing in School.
Understanding Writing.
The Processes of Writing. The Writing Process: Understanding Terms. Generating and Exploring Ideas. Drafting. Revising. Editing.
Standard Written English: The Language of School.
The Dialect Nobody Speaks.
A Community of Writers: Knowing and Sharing.
A Community of Writers: Working Together.
Group Work during Generating and Exploring Topics. Group Work during Revising. Group Work during Editing.
Preparing to Write.
2.Becoming a Critical Reader.
Responding to What We Read.
Responding through Writing.
A Reading Journal.
Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own. Sandra Cisneros, Beautiful and Cruel. Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour.
An Essential Skill: Summarizing.
Randall Collin and Scott Coltrane, The Love Revolution and the Rise of Feminism. *Lawrence Stone, Short History of Love.
Supporting Your Ideas.
Activating Reading Strategies.
Activating Strategies We Already Have.
Reading a New Text: Confessions of a Football Junkie.
Developing Good Reading Strategies.
Previewing What We Read.
Langston Hughes, Salvation. *Anna Quindlen, Evan's Two Moms. *Randy Shilts, What's Fair in Love and War. *Emily Praeger, Major Barbie. *Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Drugs from Bugs.
Reading Strategy: Previewing the Text. Reading Critically. Reading Strategy: Highlighting and Notes. Trying Out Strategies.
Deborah Tannen, Linguistic Battle of the Sexes.
Reading Strategy: Reviewing the Text. Reading Strategy: Evaluating the Text.
3.Exploring Structure: From Paragraph to Essay.
A Basic Structure: The Paragraph.
Examining the Paragraph.
*Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man.
Developing Topic Sentences.
*Judson Landis, Norms.
Developing the Idea. Ways Topic Sentences Evolve. Placing the Topic Sentences. Trying Out the Topic Sentences. Focusing the Topic Sentence. Types of Topic Sentences. Organizational Patterns of Paragraphs.
Developing the Paragraph.
Strategies for Development.
Unity and Coherence.
Unity. Coherence. Ways to Achieve Coherence. More Than Just a Word or Phrase.
Special Paragraphs: Beginnings and Endings.
Introductory Paragraphs: Engaging Openings. Avoid These Openings. Beyond the "Hook" in Introductory Paragraphs. Concluding Paragraphs. Avoid These Attitudes. Avoid These Conclusions. Tying Initial and Final Paragraphs Together. Titles: An Invitation to Read. Finding Titles.
From Paragraph to Essay.
4.Understanding the Writing Process.
Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Context.
Analyzing the News.
*Two Mexican Adventures. *The British Act and Speak Out. *Dear Ann Landers. *Meet the Bride and Groom. *Making a Match.
Analyzing the News: How Our Purpose for Writing Emerges.
Trying Out the Process.
Working through the Process of Writing.
Generating. Drafting. Horoscope: Hogwash or Heaven? *Students Tackle the Zodiac. The Best and Worst of Us. Partners and Group Strategies for Generating Ideas.
Drafting.
Developing a Discovery Draft. Revising. Having a Writing Conference with Yourself.
Editing.
Partner or Group Strategies for Editing.
5.Generating and Exploring Topics.
Gathering Ideas.
First Questions. Tuning In. The World of Print. The World of Talk. Tapping into Personal Experience. Idea Mapping. Traditional Strategies for Academic Writing.
Freewriting.
Looping.
Listing.
Erma Bombeck, Big Lies Have Small Beginnings. Joe Schoenmann, Cheating May Be on the Upswing at UW-Madison. Anthony Flint, Review of "Cheating 101." (Excerpts).
Using Reporter's Questions.
Study Shows High School, College Students Cheat, Lie. Lisa Bauman, Stressing SAT Brings Criminal Results.
Questions to Explore One's Views.
Robert J. Samuelson, Teen-Agers in Dreamland.
Mapping.
Reading to Explore Our Ideas.
Diane Ravitch, Back to Basics: Test Scores Don't Lie.
Keeping Your Reading Journal at Hand.
Cubing.
Using Traditional Patterns of Development and Organization.
Developing a Controlling Idea for an Essay. Using Strategies to Develop Controlling Ideas.
Informal Outlining and Organizing.
Scratch Outline. Comparative Outline. Cause and Effect Relationships. Comparison and Contrast Chart. Opinion Chart.
Allan Bloom, Self-Centeredness. Joan Beck, Why America's Students Are Falling Behind. Susan Chira, Renegade Researchers Offer Rebuttal: U.S. Schools Are Better Than Many Say.
6.Writing from Personal Experience: Narration and Description.
Narration.
Characteristics of Narration. Characteristics of Description.
Richard Wright, The Kitten. Sandra Cisneros, Hairs. Susan Kenny, Mirrors. STUDENT ESSAY: Jennifer Urman, Passage. STUDENT ESSAY: Marjorie Harnden, Christmas Time. Thomas Whitecloud, Blue Winds Dancing. STUDENT ESSAY: Ruth Aida Canas, I Love You, Chava. STUDENT ESSAY: Catalina Ruge, Diary.
Thing to Consider: The "So What?" Factor.
STUDENT ESSAY: David Schwartz, Unforgettable Father Rossiter. STUDENT ESSAY: Tom McDonald, Shaking Hands with God.
On Your Own.
Developing a Personal Experience Essay.
Drafting and Revising.
Reflecting.
7.Writing to Inform, Writing to Analyze.
Critical Strategies for Analyzing and Writing.
Types of Analysis.
Supporting Our Ideas.
Using Reasons. Using Examples.
STUDENT ESSAY: Life in the Fast Food Lane.
Organizing Expository Writing.
STUDENT ESSAY: Eric Betthauser, Super Mario: A Member of the Family. STUDENT ESSAY: Tom McDonald, Comic Books: Then and Now.
Writing Introductions and Conclusions.
Introductions. Conclusions.
STUDENT ESSAY: Tom McDonald, In Search of a Good Scare. STUDENT ESSAY: Movies. STUDENT ESSAY: Stephen Severson, Copycat.
Assessing Paragraph by Paragraph.
*Ann Lamott, Bird by Bird.
A Revision Plan. Editing. Reflection.
Analyzing.
Analysis Project.
Lisa Grunwald, If a Woman Ran America....
Examining Other Sources.
. Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice. Diane Ravitch, Back to Basics: Test Scores Don't Lie. John Stossel, Author Says Girls Lose Sense of Self.
8.Reading and Responding to Arguments.
The Daily News: Often Debatable.
*Angie Bluethman, Jeremy, 9, Faces Felony Trial. *Cattlemmen Sue Over Comment on "Oprah" Show.
To Hunt or Not to Hunt.
Responding to the Arguments.
Psychoanalyzing Little Artists.
STUDENT ESSAY: Marjorie Harnden, A Sign of the Times.
Responding to the Arguments.
The Fur Fight.
*STUDENT ESSAY: Jay Zimmerman, The Facts about Fur.
Responding to the Arguments.
The Beauty Queen.
STUDENT ESSAY: Kevin Piper, Atlantic City, Again.
Responding to the Arguments.
Terry Mulcher, No Dummies: Miss America Hopefuls Smash Stereotypes. Letters from USA Today.
On Your Own.
STUDENT ESSAY: Judith Christ, Stop the Labels.
9.Analyzing and Writing Arguments, Proposing Solutions.
Problems of Reasoning.
Oversimplifications. Generalizations. Exaggerations or Distortion. Faulty Logic. Slippery Slope. Inappropriate Experts. Out-of-Date Information. Emotionally Charged Words. Attacking the Person.
Mike Royko, Legal Marijuana - A Pot of Gold.
Constructing a Position Paper.
Approaches. Expectations. A Basic Format. Checking the Resources. Testing Evidence.
Evaluating a Student Position Paper.
STUDENT ESSAY: Lorie Hilson, Wanting Winners.
Defining the Issue. Forming a Clear Thesis. Supporting the Thesis. Handling Counterarguments. Being Reasonable. Organizing Effectively. Evaluating Overall.
On Your Own.
Exploring the Issue. Developing Reasons. Anticipating the Opposition. Organizing. Drafting. Revising.
Problem Solving for Revision.
Proposing Solutions.
*Tony Kornheiser, School Board Gets "F" for Coddling Sleepy Students. *STUDENT ESSAY: Cultural Diversity Classes.
On Your Own.
Drafting. Revising.
10.Writing from Research.
Why We Engage in Research.
Our Names: A Personal Research Project.
*Sandra Cisneros, My Name.
What Your Research Project Will Involve.
Asking the Right Questions. Searching for Meaning. Some Tips about Surnames: Beheadings, Clips and Combos. A Wee Warning. Determining Sources of Information. Documentation. What to Document. Maintaining Academic Integrity. Paraphrasing Tips. Quotation Tips. Taking Notes. Bibliography Cards. Note Cards. Reporting Your Sources: Citations.
Using MLA Documentation.
For Citations. For Works Cited. Introducing Source Material. Special Marks. Special Circumstances. When to Document. Working with Source Material: Interpreting, Analyzing, and Synthesizing.
*STUDENT ESSAY: Michelle Vosberg, Like a Fox. *STUDENT ESSAY: Jennifer Vandermeer, Lady of the Lake. *STUDENT ESSAY: The Arrow or the Flesh.
General Tips for Your Research.
Gathering Your Sources. Recording Information. Organizing Your Information. Writing a Draft. Setting Deadlines. Formatting Your Edited Draft. Reflection.
What Is Field Research and Why Do It?
Collecting Data.
Field Notes.
Raw Notes. Raw Notes versus Cooked Notes. Taking Notes. How Long, How Full?. Keeping Track of Data. Major Categories of Data. Sites for Gathering Data. Keeping a Perspective.
Writing Your Field Research Essay.
A Note on Editing.
II.A WRITER'S HANDBOOK.
11.Working with Sentences.
Sentence Boundaries.
Fragments. Practice: Fragments.
PRACTICE 1: Teenage Girls: Dwelling on Emotions. PRACTICE 2 STUDENT ESSAY Concerts, Concerts. *PRACTICE 3: The Chocolate Chip Cookie: Chewy Mystery Solved.
Run-On and Comma Splice. Practice: Run-on and Comma Splice.
PRACTICE 1: Run-On Sentences Yo-Yo Diets. PRACTICE 2: Comma Splices Tummy Fat: Watch Out for Stress!. PRACTICE 3: Run-On and Comma Splice.
STUDENT ESSAY Why Are They Rated Anyway?
PRACTICE 4: Sentence Boundaries.
Beyond Sentence Boundaries.
Misplaced Modifiers. Practice: Beyond Sentence Boundaries. PRACTICE 1.
*PRACTICE 2: The Truth about Cats and Dogs.
Another Kind of Misplaced Modifier. PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2.
*STUDENT ESSAY: Charlie the Tuna as Jerk.
Parallelism. PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2.
PRACTICE 3: How to Get Some Shut-Eye. PRACTICE 4.
A Special Parallelism Problem. PRACTICE 5. Another Parallelism Challenge. PRACTICE 6.
*PRACTICE 7: Michael Dorris, Paper Trail.
12.Connecting Ideas.
Coordination.
Practice: Coordination.
PRACTICE 1: Their Just Desserts. PRACTICE 2: Student Paragraph Week 1. PRACTICE 3: The Alcohol Threat.
Coordinating with a Semicolon.
PRACTICE: Semicolons.
PRACTICE 1: Burgers and Diplomas. PRACTICE 2: Here Comes the Judge.
Other Transitions Between Sentences.
Practice: Transition Words. PRACTICE 1.
PRACTICE 2: Gentle Giants Take Time to Tutor.
Another Way to Use Transition Words.
Practice: Your Brain: Use It or Lose It.
PRACTICE Using Various Methods.
PRACTICE 1: Slips of the Tongue. PRACTICE 2: Garth Brooks: The Price of Stardom.
13.Subordination.
Practice: Bart Simpson: Hero of the 80s.
PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2. PRACTICE 3.
PRACTICE 4: Fat Chance.
More Subordination: Embedding.
Noting Punctuation. Practice: Embedding.
PRACTICE 1:A Long-Run Show: "M*A*S*H."
More Ways of Combining and Modifying Sentences.
PRACTICE 2: Hubba-Hubba, Bubba. A Dog's Life. Class-y Dinner Time.
One More Strategy: Using -ing and -ed.
Practice: Using -ing and -ed.
PRACTICE 1: Elvis, Special Delivery.
PRACTICE 2. Practice: Ways to Join Ideas.
*PRACTICE 1: King of the Seas. *PRACTICE 2: Man's Best - and Oldest - Friend.
14.Revising Sentences.
Expanding.
Practice: Expanding Sentences. PRACTICE 1. A Word about Commas. PRACTICE 2.
Changing a Single Word.
Practice: Changing Words. PRACTICE 1.
*PRACTICE 2: Fluff 'n Stuff
Working within Paragraphs.
Practice: Paragraphs.
PRACTICE 1: Renaissance Man. PRACTICE 2: The Most Dangerous Game.
PRACTICE 3.
Deleting Words and Phrases.
Practice: Deleting. PRACTICE 1. More Deadwood. PRACTICE 2. Occasionally Deadwood: Passive Sentences. PRACTICE 3. *PRACTICE 4: A Bitter Gene?
15.Editing Sentences.
General Editing Strategies.
Subjects/Verbs.
Subject. Verb. Subject-Verb Agreement. Practice: Subject and Verb. PRACTICE 1. Reversing Order. PRACTICE 2. Compound Subjects. Repeating the Subject. Checking Verb Tenses. Maintaining Consistency in Verb Tense. PRACTICE 1.
*PRACTICE 2: A Fact That's Hard to Swallow.
Using Progressive Tenses.
*PRACTICE 3: A Little Taste of Winter.
PRACTICE 4.
Pronouns.
Practice: Pronouns. PRACTICE 1. Avoiding Sexist Language. PRACTICE 2. A Special Set of Pronouns: Indefinites. PRACTICE 3. PRACTICE 4. Common Pronoun Problems. PRACTICE 5. Matching Pronouns with Pronouns. Matching Pronouns with Collective Nouns. PRACTICE 6. Pronoun Antecedent. PRACTICE 7. PRACTICE 8. Demonstrative Pronouns. PRACTICE 9. PRACTICE 10.
Adjectives and Adverbs.
Adjectives. Comparing Adjectives. Adverbs. Comparing Adverbs. Special Adverbs.
Revising and Editing Sentences.
*W. Hodding Carter, In the Wake of the Vikings, the Pursuit of a Dream. *Student Essay: Life as I know It.
16.Mechanics: Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling.
Apostrophes.
Showing Possession. Practice: Apostrophes. PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2. PRACTICE 3. PRACTICE 4. Contractions.
Colons.
Practice: Colons.
Commas.
Separating Items in a Series. Separating Places and Dates. Using Commas with Modifiers.
Quotation Marks.
Direct Quotations. Punctuation with Quotation Marks. Titles.
Capitalization.
Practice: Capitalization. A Capitalization Problem: Our Relatives.
Spelling.
Why It Matters. Learning a Few, Only a Few, Rules. Writing Out Numbers. Confusing Word Pairs. Words Often Misspelled. Strategies. Practice: Sentence Boundaries and Other Punctuation. Practice: Mechanics (Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling).
III.EVALUATING WRITING.
Evaluating Student Responses.
Sue Gross To Kill a King.
The Writing Task. Questions for Evaluating Student Responses. Rating the Response.
Trying Out the Evaluation Process.
Explanation.
Sample Responses to To Kill a King.
PRACTICE ESSAY. STUDENT ESSAY: How to Tell Kids a Crisis Problem. STUDENT ESSAY: Include the Child.
IV.STUDENT ESSAYS FOR REVISION AND EDITING PRACTICE.
Short Takes.
Short Essays.
A. Did You Ever Notice a Freshman?. B. Traditions. C. Concerts. D. Jobs. E. Jobs Teach. F. Spiking the Ball.
Personal Experience.
Personal Experience Essays.
A. Sunday Hero. B. The Captain. C. The Soap.
Informative Writing.
Informative Essays.
A. On the Road to the NBA. B. Fantasy Games. Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Argument.
Argumentative Essays.
A. Violent Concerts. B. Just One Credit. C. Dogs in the Dorm?
V.KEEPING TRACK OF WRITING SKILLS AND PROBLEMS.
Revision Log.
Editing Log.
Spelling Log.
Index.
1.Becoming a Writer.
Why We Write.
Is Writing Old-Fashioned? How Does Writing Help Us?
Becoming a Writer.
Learning to Talk, Learning to Write.
STUDENT ESSAY: Michael Rafferty, The Boxes.
Writing in School.
Understanding Writing.
The Processes of Writing. The Writing Process: Understanding Terms. Generating and Exploring Ideas. Drafting. Revising. Editing.
Standard Written English: The Language of School.
The Dialect Nobody Speaks.
A Community of Writers: Knowing and Sharing.
A Community of Writers: Working Together.
Group Work during Generating and Exploring Topics. Group Work during Revising. Group Work during Editing.
Preparing to Write.
2.Becoming a Critical Reader.
Responding to What We Read.
Responding through Writing.
A Reading Journal.
Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own. Sandra Cisneros, Beautiful and Cruel. Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour.
An Essential Skill: Summarizing.
Randall Collin and Scott Coltrane, The Love Revolution and the Rise of Feminism. *Lawrence Stone, Short History of Love.
Supporting Your Ideas.
Activating Reading Strategies.
Activating Strategies We Already Have.
Reading a New Text: Confessions of a Football Junkie.
Developing Good Reading Strategies.
Previewing What We Read.
Langston Hughes, Salvation. *Anna Quindlen, Evan's Two Moms. *Randy Shilts, What's Fair in Love and War. *Emily Praeger, Major Barbie. *Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Drugs from Bugs.
Reading Strategy: Previewing the Text. Reading Critically. Reading Strategy: Highlighting and Notes. Trying Out Strategies.
Deborah Tannen, Linguistic Battle of the Sexes.
Reading Strategy: Reviewing the Text. Reading Strategy: Evaluating the Text.
3.Exploring Structure: From Paragraph to Essay.
A Basic Structure: The Paragraph.
Examining the Paragraph.
*Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man.
Developing Topic Sentences.
*Judson Landis, Norms.
Developing the Idea. Ways Topic Sentences Evolve. Placing the Topic Sentences. Trying Out the Topic Sentences. Focusing the Topic Sentence. Types of Topic Sentences. Organizational Patterns of Paragraphs.
Developing the Paragraph.
Strategies for Development.
Unity and Coherence.
Unity. Coherence. Ways to Achieve Coherence. More Than Just a Word or Phrase.
Special Paragraphs: Beginnings and Endings.
Introductory Paragraphs: Engaging Openings. Avoid These Openings. Beyond the "Hook" in Introductory Paragraphs. Concluding Paragraphs. Avoid These Attitudes. Avoid These Conclusions. Tying Initial and Final Paragraphs Together. Titles: An Invitation to Read. Finding Titles.
From Paragraph to Essay.
4.Understanding the Writing Process.
Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Context.
Analyzing the News.
*Two Mexican Adventures. *The British Act and Speak Out. *Dear Ann Landers. *Meet the Bride and Groom. *Making a Match.
Analyzing the News: How Our Purpose for Writing Emerges.
Trying Out the Process.
Working through the Process of Writing.
Generating. Drafting. Horoscope: Hogwash or Heaven? *Students Tackle the Zodiac. The Best and Worst of Us. Partners and Group Strategies for Generating Ideas.
Drafting.
Developing a Discovery Draft. Revising. Having a Writing Conference with Yourself.
Editing.
Partner or Group Strategies for Editing.
5.Generating and Exploring Topics.
Gathering Ideas.
First Questions. Tuning In. The World of Print. The World of Talk. Tapping into Personal Experience. Idea Mapping. Traditional Strategies for Academic Writing.
Freewriting.
Looping.
Listing.
Erma Bombeck, Big Lies Have Small Beginnings. Joe Schoenmann, Cheating May Be on the Upswing at UW-Madison. Anthony Flint, Review of "Cheating 101." (Excerpts).
Using Reporter's Questions.
Study Shows High School, College Students Cheat, Lie. Lisa Bauman, Stressing SAT Brings Criminal Results.
Questions to Explore One's Views.
Robert J. Samuelson, Teen-Agers in Dreamland.
Mapping.
Reading to Explore Our Ideas.
Diane Ravitch, Back to Basics: Test Scores Don't Lie.
Keeping Your Reading Journal at Hand.
Cubing.
Using Traditional Patterns of Development and Organization.
Developing a Controlling Idea for an Essay. Using Strategies to Develop Controlling Ideas.
Informal Outlining and Organizing.
Scratch Outline. Comparative Outline. Cause and Effect Relationships. Comparison and Contrast Chart. Opinion Chart.
Allan Bloom, Self-Centeredness. Joan Beck, Why America's Students Are Falling Behind. Susan Chira, Renegade Researchers Offer Rebuttal: U.S. Schools Are Better Than Many Say.
6.Writing from Personal Experience: Narration and Description.
Narration.
Characteristics of Narration. Characteristics of Description.
Richard Wright, The Kitten. Sandra Cisneros, Hairs. Susan Kenny, Mirrors. STUDENT ESSAY: Jennifer Urman, Passage. STUDENT ESSAY: Marjorie Harnden, Christmas Time. Thomas Whitecloud, Blue Winds Dancing. STUDENT ESSAY: Ruth Aida Canas, I Love You, Chava. STUDENT ESSAY: Catalina Ruge, Diary.
Thing to Consider: The "So What?" Factor.
STUDENT ESSAY: David Schwartz, Unforgettable Father Rossiter. STUDENT ESSAY: Tom McDonald, Shaking Hands with God.
On Your Own.
Developing a Personal Experience Essay.
Drafting and Revising.
Reflecting.
7.Writing to Inform, Writing to Analyze.
Critical Strategies for Analyzing and Writing.
Types of Analysis.
Supporting Our Ideas.
Using Reasons. Using Examples.
STUDENT ESSAY: Life in the Fast Food Lane.
Organizing Expository Writing.
STUDENT ESSAY: Eric Betthauser, Super Mario: A Member of the Family. STUDENT ESSAY: Tom McDonald, Comic Books: Then and Now.
Writing Introductions and Conclusions.
Introductions. Conclusions.
STUDENT ESSAY: Tom McDonald, In Search of a Good Scare. STUDENT ESSAY: Movies. STUDENT ESSAY: Stephen Severson, Copycat.
Assessing Paragraph by Paragraph.
*Ann Lamott, Bird by Bird.
A Revision Plan. Editing. Reflection.
Analyzing.
Analysis Project.
Lisa Grunwald, If a Woman Ran America....
Examining Other Sources.
. Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice. Diane Ravitch, Back to Basics: Test Scores Don't Lie. John Stossel, Author Says Girls Lose Sense of Self.
8.Reading and Responding to Arguments.
The Daily News: Often Debatable.
*Angie Bluethman, Jeremy, 9, Faces Felony Trial. *Cattlemmen Sue Over Comment on "Oprah" Show.
To Hunt or Not to Hunt.
Responding to the Arguments.
Psychoanalyzing Little Artists.
STUDENT ESSAY: Marjorie Harnden, A Sign of the Times.
Responding to the Arguments.
The Fur Fight.
*STUDENT ESSAY: Jay Zimmerman, The Facts about Fur.
Responding to the Arguments.
The Beauty Queen.
STUDENT ESSAY: Kevin Piper, Atlantic City, Again.
Responding to the Arguments.
Terry Mulcher, No Dummies: Miss America Hopefuls Smash Stereotypes. Letters from USA Today.
On Your Own.
STUDENT ESSAY: Judith Christ, Stop the Labels.
9.Analyzing and Writing Arguments, Proposing Solutions.
Problems of Reasoning.
Oversimplifications. Generalizations. Exaggerations or Distortion. Faulty Logic. Slippery Slope. Inappropriate Experts. Out-of-Date Information. Emotionally Charged Words. Attacking the Person.
Mike Royko, Legal Marijuana - A Pot of Gold.
Constructing a Position Paper.
Approaches. Expectations. A Basic Format. Checking the Resources. Testing Evidence.
Evaluating a Student Position Paper.
STUDENT ESSAY: Lorie Hilson, Wanting Winners.
Defining the Issue. Forming a Clear Thesis. Supporting the Thesis. Handling Counterarguments. Being Reasonable. Organizing Effectively. Evaluating Overall.
On Your Own.
Exploring the Issue. Developing Reasons. Anticipating the Opposition. Organizing. Drafting. Revising.
Problem Solving for Revision.
Proposing Solutions.
*Tony Kornheiser, School Board Gets "F" for Coddling Sleepy Students. *STUDENT ESSAY: Cultural Diversity Classes.
On Your Own.
Drafting. Revising.
10.Writing from Research.
Why We Engage in Research.
Our Names: A Personal Research Project.
*Sandra Cisneros, My Name.
What Your Research Project Will Involve.
Asking the Right Questions. Searching for Meaning. Some Tips about Surnames: Beheadings, Clips and Combos. A Wee Warning. Determining Sources of Information. Documentation. What to Document. Maintaining Academic Integrity. Paraphrasing Tips. Quotation Tips. Taking Notes. Bibliography Cards. Note Cards. Reporting Your Sources: Citations.
Using MLA Documentation.
For Citations. For Works Cited. Introducing Source Material. Special Marks. Special Circumstances. When to Document. Working with Source Material: Interpreting, Analyzing, and Synthesizing.
*STUDENT ESSAY: Michelle Vosberg, Like a Fox. *STUDENT ESSAY: Jennifer Vandermeer, Lady of the Lake. *STUDENT ESSAY: The Arrow or the Flesh.
General Tips for Your Research.
Gathering Your Sources. Recording Information. Organizing Your Information. Writing a Draft. Setting Deadlines. Formatting Your Edited Draft. Reflection.
What Is Field Research and Why Do It?
Collecting Data.
Field Notes.
Raw Notes. Raw Notes versus Cooked Notes. Taking Notes. How Long, How Full?. Keeping Track of Data. Major Categories of Data. Sites for Gathering Data. Keeping a Perspective.
Writing Your Field Research Essay.
A Note on Editing.
II.A WRITER'S HANDBOOK.
11.Working with Sentences.
Sentence Boundaries.
Fragments. Practice: Fragments.
PRACTICE 1: Teenage Girls: Dwelling on Emotions. PRACTICE 2 STUDENT ESSAY Concerts, Concerts. *PRACTICE 3: The Chocolate Chip Cookie: Chewy Mystery Solved.
Run-On and Comma Splice. Practice: Run-on and Comma Splice.
PRACTICE 1: Run-On Sentences Yo-Yo Diets. PRACTICE 2: Comma Splices Tummy Fat: Watch Out for Stress!. PRACTICE 3: Run-On and Comma Splice.
STUDENT ESSAY Why Are They Rated Anyway?
PRACTICE 4: Sentence Boundaries.
Beyond Sentence Boundaries.
Misplaced Modifiers. Practice: Beyond Sentence Boundaries. PRACTICE 1.
*PRACTICE 2: The Truth about Cats and Dogs.
Another Kind of Misplaced Modifier. PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2.
*STUDENT ESSAY: Charlie the Tuna as Jerk.
Parallelism. PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2.
PRACTICE 3: How to Get Some Shut-Eye. PRACTICE 4.
A Special Parallelism Problem. PRACTICE 5. Another Parallelism Challenge. PRACTICE 6.
*PRACTICE 7: Michael Dorris, Paper Trail.
12.Connecting Ideas.
Coordination.
Practice: Coordination.
PRACTICE 1: Their Just Desserts. PRACTICE 2: Student Paragraph Week 1. PRACTICE 3: The Alcohol Threat.
Coordinating with a Semicolon.
PRACTICE: Semicolons.
PRACTICE 1: Burgers and Diplomas. PRACTICE 2: Here Comes the Judge.
Other Transitions Between Sentences.
Practice: Transition Words. PRACTICE 1.
PRACTICE 2: Gentle Giants Take Time to Tutor.
Another Way to Use Transition Words.
Practice: Your Brain: Use It or Lose It.
PRACTICE Using Various Methods.
PRACTICE 1: Slips of the Tongue. PRACTICE 2: Garth Brooks: The Price of Stardom.
13.Subordination.
Practice: Bart Simpson: Hero of the 80s.
PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2. PRACTICE 3.
PRACTICE 4: Fat Chance.
More Subordination: Embedding.
Noting Punctuation. Practice: Embedding.
PRACTICE 1:A Long-Run Show: "M*A*S*H."
More Ways of Combining and Modifying Sentences.
PRACTICE 2: Hubba-Hubba, Bubba. A Dog's Life. Class-y Dinner Time.
One More Strategy: Using -ing and -ed.
Practice: Using -ing and -ed.
PRACTICE 1: Elvis, Special Delivery.
PRACTICE 2. Practice: Ways to Join Ideas.
*PRACTICE 1: King of the Seas. *PRACTICE 2: Man's Best - and Oldest - Friend.
14.Revising Sentences.
Expanding.
Practice: Expanding Sentences. PRACTICE 1. A Word about Commas. PRACTICE 2.
Changing a Single Word.
Practice: Changing Words. PRACTICE 1.
*PRACTICE 2: Fluff 'n Stuff
Working within Paragraphs.
Practice: Paragraphs.
PRACTICE 1: Renaissance Man. PRACTICE 2: The Most Dangerous Game.
PRACTICE 3.
Deleting Words and Phrases.
Practice: Deleting. PRACTICE 1. More Deadwood. PRACTICE 2. Occasionally Deadwood: Passive Sentences. PRACTICE 3. *PRACTICE 4: A Bitter Gene?
15.Editing Sentences.
General Editing Strategies.
Subjects/Verbs.
Subject. Verb. Subject-Verb Agreement. Practice: Subject and Verb. PRACTICE 1. Reversing Order. PRACTICE 2. Compound Subjects. Repeating the Subject. Checking Verb Tenses. Maintaining Consistency in Verb Tense. PRACTICE 1.
*PRACTICE 2: A Fact That's Hard to Swallow.
Using Progressive Tenses.
*PRACTICE 3: A Little Taste of Winter.
PRACTICE 4.
Pronouns.
Practice: Pronouns. PRACTICE 1. Avoiding Sexist Language. PRACTICE 2. A Special Set of Pronouns: Indefinites. PRACTICE 3. PRACTICE 4. Common Pronoun Problems. PRACTICE 5. Matching Pronouns with Pronouns. Matching Pronouns with Collective Nouns. PRACTICE 6. Pronoun Antecedent. PRACTICE 7. PRACTICE 8. Demonstrative Pronouns. PRACTICE 9. PRACTICE 10.
Adjectives and Adverbs.
Adjectives. Comparing Adjectives. Adverbs. Comparing Adverbs. Special Adverbs.
Revising and Editing Sentences.
*W. Hodding Carter, In the Wake of the Vikings, the Pursuit of a Dream. *Student Essay: Life as I know It.
16.Mechanics: Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling.
Apostrophes.
Showing Possession. Practice: Apostrophes. PRACTICE 1. PRACTICE 2. PRACTICE 3. PRACTICE 4. Contractions.
Colons.
Practice: Colons.
Commas.
Separating Items in a Series. Separating Places and Dates. Using Commas with Modifiers.
Quotation Marks.
Direct Quotations. Punctuation with Quotation Marks. Titles.
Capitalization.
Practice: Capitalization. A Capitalization Problem: Our Relatives.
Spelling.
Why It Matters. Learning a Few, Only a Few, Rules. Writing Out Numbers. Confusing Word Pairs. Words Often Misspelled. Strategies. Practice: Sentence Boundaries and Other Punctuation. Practice: Mechanics (Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling).
III.EVALUATING WRITING.
Evaluating Student Responses.
Sue Gross To Kill a King.
The Writing Task. Questions for Evaluating Student Responses. Rating the Response.
Trying Out the Evaluation Process.
Explanation.
Sample Responses to To Kill a King.
PRACTICE ESSAY. STUDENT ESSAY: How to Tell Kids a Crisis Problem. STUDENT ESSAY: Include the Child.
IV.STUDENT ESSAYS FOR REVISION AND EDITING PRACTICE.
Short Takes.
Short Essays.
A. Did You Ever Notice a Freshman?. B. Traditions. C. Concerts. D. Jobs. E. Jobs Teach. F. Spiking the Ball.
Personal Experience.
Personal Experience Essays.
A. Sunday Hero. B. The Captain. C. The Soap.
Informative Writing.
Informative Essays.
A. On the Road to the NBA. B. Fantasy Games. Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Argument.
Argumentative Essays.
A. Violent Concerts. B. Just One Credit. C. Dogs in the Dorm?
V.KEEPING TRACK OF WRITING SKILLS AND PROBLEMS.
Revision Log.
Editing Log.
Spelling Log.
Index.