Exploring writing. Paragraphs and essays /

By:

Jhon Langan

Language: Inglés Series: SeriePublication details: Mc Graw hill USA 2008Edition: 1Description: 658 21.5cm de ancho X 27.5cm de largoISBN:

978-0-07-338412-2

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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

Summary: 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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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