The College Writer

Part I: A RHETORIC: COLLEGE STUDENT'S GUIDE TO WRITING. 1. Critical Thinking Through Reading, Viewing, and Writing. 2. Beginning the Writing Process. 3. Planning. 4. Drafting. 5. Revising. 6. Editing and Proofreading. 7. Submitting Your Writing and Creating Portfolios. 8. One Writer's Process. Part II. A READER: STRATEGIES AND MODELS. 9. Forms of College Writing. 10. Narration and Description. Mzee Owitti by Jacqui Nyangi Owitti. That Morning on the Prairie by James C. Schaap. A Hanging by George Orwell. Sunday in the Park by Bel Kaufman. 11. Description and Reflection. The Stream in the Ravine by Nicole Suurdt. Scab! by Randall VanderMey. Call Me Crazy But I Have to Be Myself by Mary Seymour. American Dream Boat by K. Oanh Ha. 12. Cause and Effect. Life-Threatening Stress by Tiffany Boyett. If You Let Me Play ... by Mary Brophy Marcus. The Legacy of Generation N by Christy Haubegger. Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids by Anna Quindlen. 13. Comparison and Contrast. Beyond Control by Janae Sebranek. Two Views of the River by Mark Twain. Shrouded in Contradiction by Gelareh Asayesh. Like Mexicans by Gary Soto. 14. Classification. Three Family Cancers by Kim Brouwer. Four Ways to Talk About Literature by John Van Rys. No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch by Ann Hodgman. 15. Process Writing. Wayward Cells by Kerri Mertz. Downloading Photographs from the MC-150 Digital Camera (from WFB). Campus Racism 101 by Nikki Giovonni. Love and Race by Nicholas D. Kristof. 16. Definition. Economic Disparities Fuel Human Trafficking by Shon Bogar. Understanding Dementia by Sarah Anne Morelos. Deft or Daft by David Schelhaas. On Excellence by Cynthia Ozick. 17. Strategies for Argumentation. 18. Taking a Position. An Apology for the Life of Ms. Barbie D. Doll by Rita Isakson. Apostles of Hatred Find It Easy to Spread Their Message by Leonard Pitts Jr. Pornography by Margaret Atwood. Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn. 19. Persuading Readers to Act. To Drill or Not to Drill by Rebecca Pasok. I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Media's Image of Arabs by Jack G. Shaheen. In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face by Kofi A. Annan. 20. Proposing a Solution. Preparing for Agroterror by Brian Ley. Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha by Anna Quindlen. The Media and the Ethics of Cloning by Leigh Turner. 21. Interview Report. The Dead Business by Benjamin Meyer. 22. Lab, Experiment, and Field Reports. Working with Hydrochloric Acid by Coby Williams. The Effects of Temperature and Inhibitors on the Fermentation Process for Ethanol by Andrea Pizano. 23. Writing About Literature and the Arts. 'Good Country People': Broken Body, Broken Soul, by Anya Terekhina. 'Let Evening Come': An Invitation to the Inevitable by Sherry Van Egdom. Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun by Annie Moore. Terror on the Silver Screen: Who Are the Aliens? by David Schaap. 24. Taking Essay Tests. 25. Writing for the Workplace. 26. Writing and Designing for the Web. 27. Preparing Oral Presentations. Part III. RESEARCH AND WRITING. 28. Getting Started: From Planning Research to Evaluating Sources. 29. Conducting Primary and Library Research. 30. Conducting Research on the Internet. 31. Drafting a Paper with Documented Research. 32. MLA Documentation Format. 33. APA Documentation Format.