Exploring writing. Paragraphs and essays /
Jhon Langan
Exploring writing. Paragraphs and essays / - 1 - USA Mc Graw hill 2008 - 658 21.5cm de ancho X 27.5cm de largo - Serie .
BRIEF CONTENTS
PARTI Writing Skills and Process
1 An betroduction to Writing 2
2. The Writing Procest 16
PART 2 Basic Principles of Effective Writing
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing 50
4. The Third Step and Fourth Steps in Writing 82
5. Four Bases for Revising Writing 119
PART 3 Paragraph Development
6. Exemplification
146
7. Process 157
8. Cause and Effect 167
9. Comparison or Contrast
175
10. Definition 188
11. Division-Classification
197
12. Description 208
13. Narration 218
14. Argument 227
PART 4 Essay Development
15. Introduction to Essay Development 243
16. Writing the Essay 256
17. Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles 286
18. Patterns of Essay Development 301
19. Special College Skills 331
20. Writing a Research Paper 353
PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills
SECTIONI Grammar
21. Subjects and Verbs
381
22. Sentence Sense
386
23. Fragments 389
24. Run-Ons 402
READINGS
CAUSE AND EFFECT
A Love Affair with Books, Bernadete Piassa 549
Thank You, Alex Haley 554
Shame, Dick Gregory 559
Smash Thy Neighbor, John McMurtry
570
What's Wrong with Schools?, Casey
Banas
601
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising, Ann McClintock
606
The Professor Is a Dropout, Beth Johnson
588
Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyce Garity
640
COMPARISON OR CONTRAST
Smash Thy Neighbor, John McMurtry
570
A Hanging, George Orwell 577
A Legendary Moment, Haven
Kimmel
584
The Monster, Deems Taylor 595
Here's to Your Health, Joan Dunayer 618
Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyce Garity
640
DEFINITION
Shame, Dick Gregory 559
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising. Ann McClintock
606
DIVISION-CLASSIFICATION
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising, Ann McClintock
606
ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION
Smash Thy Neighbor, John McMurtry
570
Here's to Your Health, Joan Dunayer 618
College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?, David Daniels 630
In Praise of the F Word, Mary Sherry
635
Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyce Garity 640
Exploring Writing
Emphasizing both process and practice. Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays will help students apply and advance their writing skills. Learning to write effective paragraphs and essays, master essential sentence skills, and read critically are turning points for student writers, these skills will prepare them to write essays in college and tackle many types of writing in the real world. Along the way, there are many small but important skills to explore and develop-using specific and concrete language, selecting good supporting details, writing an effective topic sentence, creating a convine-ing argument, organizing a paragraph in a way that best fits its purpose, and so on.
Four Bases
Exploring Writing asserts that four principles in particular are keys to ef-fective writing unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. These four principles, or "bases," are highlighted on the inside back cover and rein-forced throughout the book.
Unity means seeing the whole as the sum of its parts; in an effective essay, students should make one point and stick to it.
Support stresses on the importance of using specific evidence to back up that point
Coherence focuses on the ways writers organize and connect this evidence-and how they transition between ideas.
Sentence Skills demonstrate an attention to the craft of writing and its elements; clear, error-free sentences maximize the effectiveness of the other three bases.
Countless Possibilities
In this text, I encourage students to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored While the four bases provide a founda tion, there are many important factors in writing effectively. Chapter 1 asks students to examine their attitude toward writing, to write what they know about or can learn about and to consider keeping a writing journal. Ap.
pendix B: A Writer's Journal gives them room to start recording ideas
Personal Discoveries
A writer's journey is as personal as it is practical, Exploring Writing ascribes to the belief that the best way to begin writing is with personal experience After students have learned to support a point by providing material from
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Exploring writing. Paragraphs and essays / - 1 - USA Mc Graw hill 2008 - 658 21.5cm de ancho X 27.5cm de largo - Serie .
BRIEF CONTENTS
PARTI Writing Skills and Process
1 An betroduction to Writing 2
2. The Writing Procest 16
PART 2 Basic Principles of Effective Writing
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing 50
4. The Third Step and Fourth Steps in Writing 82
5. Four Bases for Revising Writing 119
PART 3 Paragraph Development
6. Exemplification
146
7. Process 157
8. Cause and Effect 167
9. Comparison or Contrast
175
10. Definition 188
11. Division-Classification
197
12. Description 208
13. Narration 218
14. Argument 227
PART 4 Essay Development
15. Introduction to Essay Development 243
16. Writing the Essay 256
17. Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles 286
18. Patterns of Essay Development 301
19. Special College Skills 331
20. Writing a Research Paper 353
PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills
SECTIONI Grammar
21. Subjects and Verbs
381
22. Sentence Sense
386
23. Fragments 389
24. Run-Ons 402
READINGS
CAUSE AND EFFECT
A Love Affair with Books, Bernadete Piassa 549
Thank You, Alex Haley 554
Shame, Dick Gregory 559
Smash Thy Neighbor, John McMurtry
570
What's Wrong with Schools?, Casey
Banas
601
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising, Ann McClintock
606
The Professor Is a Dropout, Beth Johnson
588
Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyce Garity
640
COMPARISON OR CONTRAST
Smash Thy Neighbor, John McMurtry
570
A Hanging, George Orwell 577
A Legendary Moment, Haven
Kimmel
584
The Monster, Deems Taylor 595
Here's to Your Health, Joan Dunayer 618
Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyce Garity
640
DEFINITION
Shame, Dick Gregory 559
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising. Ann McClintock
606
DIVISION-CLASSIFICATION
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising, Ann McClintock
606
ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION
Smash Thy Neighbor, John McMurtry
570
Here's to Your Health, Joan Dunayer 618
College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?, David Daniels 630
In Praise of the F Word, Mary Sherry
635
Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyce Garity 640
Exploring Writing
Emphasizing both process and practice. Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays will help students apply and advance their writing skills. Learning to write effective paragraphs and essays, master essential sentence skills, and read critically are turning points for student writers, these skills will prepare them to write essays in college and tackle many types of writing in the real world. Along the way, there are many small but important skills to explore and develop-using specific and concrete language, selecting good supporting details, writing an effective topic sentence, creating a convine-ing argument, organizing a paragraph in a way that best fits its purpose, and so on.
Four Bases
Exploring Writing asserts that four principles in particular are keys to ef-fective writing unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. These four principles, or "bases," are highlighted on the inside back cover and rein-forced throughout the book.
Unity means seeing the whole as the sum of its parts; in an effective essay, students should make one point and stick to it.
Support stresses on the importance of using specific evidence to back up that point
Coherence focuses on the ways writers organize and connect this evidence-and how they transition between ideas.
Sentence Skills demonstrate an attention to the craft of writing and its elements; clear, error-free sentences maximize the effectiveness of the other three bases.
Countless Possibilities
In this text, I encourage students to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored While the four bases provide a founda tion, there are many important factors in writing effectively. Chapter 1 asks students to examine their attitude toward writing, to write what they know about or can learn about and to consider keeping a writing journal. Ap.
pendix B: A Writer's Journal gives them room to start recording ideas
Personal Discoveries
A writer's journey is as personal as it is practical, Exploring Writing ascribes to the belief that the best way to begin writing is with personal experience After students have learned to support a point by providing material from
978-0-07-338412-2
LCC
