
Writing That Makes Sense, 2nd Edition
Critical Thinking in College Composition
David S. Hogsette(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 5. November 2019
626 pages
978-1-5326-5010-9 (ISBN)
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The second edition of Writing That Makes Sense takes students through the fundamentals of the writing process and explores the basic steps of critical thinking. Drawing upon over twenty years of experience teaching college composition and professional writing, David S. Hogsette combines relevant writing pedagogy and practical assignments with the basics of critical thinking to provide students with step-by-step guides for successful academic writing in a variety of rhetorical modes. New in the second edition:
-Expanded discussion of how to write effective thesis statements for informative, persuasive, evaluative, and synthesis essays, including helpful thesis statement templates.
-Extensive templates introducing students to conventions of academic discourse, including integrating outside sources, interacting with other writers' ideas, and dialoguing with multiple perspectives.
-Examples of academic writing from different disciplines illustrating essay titles, abstracts, thesis statements, introductions, conclusions, and voice.
-Expanded discussion of voice in academic writing, including an exploration of active and passive voice constructions in different disciplines and tips on how to edit for clarity.
-A new chapter on writing in the disciplines.
-Updated sample student papers.
-New readings with examples of opposing views and multiple perspectives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-5010-9 (9781532650109)
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David S. Hogsette is a professor of English and director of the writing program at Grove City College, where he teaches college composition, professional and technical communication, Romanticism, Gothic literature, fantasy literature, and science fiction. He is author of Emails to a Young Seeker: Exchanges in Mere Christianity (2011).
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