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Author:   David Skwire ,  Harvey Wiener
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   14th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.894kg
ISBN:  

9780134586489

ISBN 10:   0134586484
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   13 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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PART ONE: GETTING STARTED: THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING AND WRITING 1. Critical Reading Why Read? Tips for Reading Critically Critical Reading in Action   Louise Levathes “Everything Is Illuminated” Reading Academic Writing Tips for Reading Academic Course Material   Howard Markel “When Germs Travel” Reading as Inquiry Strategy Checklist: Reading Critically   Leon Botstein “Curtailing High School: A Radical Proposal” Reading Visual Images Reading Photographs Tips for Reading Photographs Examining a Photo Reading Advertisements Tips for Reading Advertisements Examining an Advertisement Reading Graphs, Tables, and Charts Tips for Reading Graphs, Tables, and Charts Reading Cartoons Tips for Reading Cartoons Examining a Cartoon Reading Web Sites Tips for Reading and Evaluating Web Sites Examining a Web Site Strategy Checklist: Reading and Evaluating Web Sites Critical Reading with Visuals   Christopher Caldwell “Intimate Shopping: Should Everyone Know What You Bought Today?” Strategy Checklist: Reading and Interpreting Visuals 2. Active Writing Choosing a Good Topic Setting Limits on a Topic Narrowing a Topic in Stages Determining Your Purpose and Audience Writing in the Third Person Prewriting Strategy Checklist: Prewriting Organizing Ideas Tips for Writing a Rough Draft One Student Writing: First Draft Strategy Checklist: Getting Started with Writing 3. Finding and Supporting a Thesis Identifying the Elements of a Good Thesis Tips for Evaluating a Thesis Developing Your Thesis Tips for Developing a Thesis Evaluating Thesis Statements: Strong or Weak? Supporting Your Thesis with Details Using Data: Statistics, Cases, and Expert Testimony Using Sensory Details Student Writing: Thesis and Details   Joseph Anderson, “Getting Juiced” [Student essay]   Thomas Healey, “You Must Be Crazy!” [Annotated student essay] Writers and Details 61   Lindsay Abrams “The Unexpected Ways a Fetus Is Shaped by a Mother’s Environment”   Langston Hughes “Salvation” Strategy Checklist: Stating and Supporting a Thesis 4. Planning a Paper: Outlining Why Outline? Creating a Rough Outline Tips for Making a Rough Outline Making a Formal Outline Establishing Main Divisions Adding Details Formatting a Formal Outline Writing a Topic Outline Writing a Sentence Outline Correcting a Formal Outline One Student Writing: From Prewriting to Essay   Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” [poem]   Carla Blake “The Mighty Should Despair” [Student essay] Preparing Your Formal Outline Tips for Writing a Formal Outline Strategy Checklist: Preparing a Formal Outline 5. Writing Your Paper: An Overview Writing a Strong Introduction Stating the Thesis Forecasting the Paper Using Different Introductory Strategies Tips for Writing a Strong Introduction Writing the Body Paragraphs Writing Topic Sentences One Student Writing: Topic Sentences   Charles DeMarco “College Hardships” [Annotated student essay] Using Transitions Developing Paragraphs: Unity and Coherence Tips for Achieving Paragraph Unity Tips for Achieving Paragraph Coherence Writing a Strong Conclusion Tips for Writing a Strong Conclusion 6. Revising, Editing, and Proofreading Your Paper Revising Your First Draft Revising to Improve Your Thesis Revising for Appropriate Supporting Detail Revising for Better Organization Revising for Purpose and Audience Revising the Introduction, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusion Revising Your Introduction Revising Your Body Paragraphs Revising Your Conclusion Peer Review: Learning from Other Students One Student Writing: Revising and Editing   Intermediate Draft, “Too Much Exercise” [Student essay] Editing Learning from Your Instructor’s Comments   Intermediate Draft, “Final Paragraphs With Instructor’s Comments” [Student essay] Proofreading Tips for Careful Proofreading Strategy Checklist: Revising and Editing Your Drafts One Student Writing: Final Draft   Final Draft, Mike Boyle, “Too Much Exercise” [Student essay] A Brief Note on Style PART TWO: METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT 7. Description Writing Your Descriptive Paper Tips for Writing a Descriptive Essay Assignment: Description Student Writing: Description   Enrique Colon, “Focus. Focus.” [Annotated student essay]   Nick Fiscina, “Dad’s Disappointment” [Student essay] Description in the World Around You Critical Reading: Description   Esmeralda Santiago, “A Blanco Navidad for New Yorikans” [Annotated professional essay]   John R. Regan “My Room at the Lilac Inn”   Roger Angell “On the Ball”   Joan Didion “Marrying Absurd” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Descriptive Paper 8. Narration Writing Your Narrative Paper Tips for Writing a Narrative Essay Assignment: Narration Student Writing: Narration   Pat Melia “Saving a Life”   Jarrett David Lee Jackson “My Father’s House” Narrative in the World Around You Readings for Writing   Carol K. Littlebrant “Death Is a Personal Matter”   tanya barrientos, “Se Habla Español”   Greg Sarris “You Don’t Look Indian”   Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour”   Stephen Crane “I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Narrative Paper 9. Example Writing Your Example Paper Tips for Writing an Example Essay Assignment: Example Student Writing: Example   Carmen Sepulveda “Waiting Tables Is Hard Work” [Annotated student essay] Researched Student Writing: Example   Lawrence Miller “Helping the Environment” [MLA-style essay] Example in the World Around You Critical Reading: Example   margaret foster “College’s Raison d’être: British Literature or Software Engineering?” Readings for Writing   Barbara Ehrenreich “What I’ve Learned from Men”   John Grisham “Boxers, Briefs and Books”   Judy Brady “I Want a Wife” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Example Paper 10. Process Writing Your Process Paper Tips for Writing a Process Essay Assignment: Example Student Writing: Process   Michael Wollan “Coffee Time” [Annotated student essay] Researched Student Writing: Process   Omprakash K. Pansara “Preparing for the First Day of Classes” [MLA-style essay] Process in the World Around You Readings for Writing   Mildred Armstrong Kalish ,”Wash Day”   Scientific American “How to Build a Better Plant”   Nikki Giovanni “Campus Racism 101”   Susan Douglas “Remote Control: How to Raise a Media Skeptic” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Process Paper 11. Comparison and Contrast Writing Your Comparison–Contrast Paper Tips for Writing a Comparison–Contrast Essay Assignment: Comparison and Contrast Student Writing: Comparison–Contrast Subject-by-Subject Pattern   Carey Byer, “In the Swim” [Student essay] Point-by-Point Pattern   Benjamin Simonovich, “Two Jobs” [Student essay] Comparison and Contrast in the World Around You Readings for Writing   Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) “The Professional”   Suzanne Britt “That Lean and Hungry Look”   Rick Nauert “On Tween TV, Girls Need to Look Good, Boys Are Brave” Youthful Imagination: Two Stories for Comparison and Contrast   Shirley Jackson “Charles”   Saki (H. H. Munro) “The Open Window” Love, Sweet Love: Two Poems for Comparison and Contrast   William Shakespeare “Sonnet 29”   William Shakespeare “Sonnet 130” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Comparison–Contrast Paper 12. Classification and Division Classification and Division in Action Using Division (or Analysis) Using Classification How Are Classification and Division Different? Reviewing Division Strategies Writing Your Classification Paper Tips for Writing a Classification Essay Assignment: Classification Student Writing: Classification   Nick Halikas, “Television Watchers” [Annotated student outline and essay] Classification in the World Around You Readings for Writing   Brandon Griggs “The 12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers”   Summer Beretsky “How Do You Classify or Organize Your Panic Attacks?”   John Holt “Three Kinds of Discipline”   Cass R. Sunstein “How Polarizing Is the Internet?” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising your Classification Paper 13. Cause and Effect Writing Your Cause-and-Effect Paper Tips for Writing a Cause-and-Effect Essay Assignment: Cause and Effect Student Writing: Cause and Effect   Richard S. Smith Cause for Failure [Annotated student outline and essay] Researched Student Writing: Cause and Effect   Richard Yee Banning Same-Sex Marriage: An Attack on the American Institution [MLA-style essay] Cause and Effect in the World Around You Readings for Writing   James Hamblin Drunk and Drunker   Carll Tucker “On Splitting”   Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”   Ilana Ross “Kids Today: Why Do We Text More Than We Talk?” Reading and Writing About Poetry   A. E. Housman “Is my team ploughing …” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Cause-and-Effect Paper 14. Definition Writing Your Definition Paper Beginning a Formal Definition Tips Writing One-Sentence Definitions Drafting Your Formal Definition Paper Writing an Informal Definition Paper Assignment: Definition Student Writing: Formal Definition   Harriet Lim “Amnesty” [Student essay] Student Writing: Informal Definition   Odette-Marie Shamen “Beyond Wealth and Prosperity” [Annotated student essay] Definition in the World Around You Readings for Writing   David Owen “The Perfect Job”   Marjorie Garber “What Is “Genius”?”   American Psychological Association “School Bullying is Nothing New, but Psychologists Identify New Ways to Prevent It”   Randy Malamud “The Lost Art of Passwords: What We Lost When Hackers Conquered the Internet” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Definition Paper 15. Argumentation Using Logic Induction Deduction Using Induction and Deduction Avoiding Logical Fallacies Making Appeals Writing Your Argumentation Paper Writing a Formal Argument Tips for Writing a Formal Argument Developing a Debatable Position Assignment: Argumentation Student Writing: Argumentation   Wilson Davis “Say “No” to Drug-Testing School Athletes” [Annotated student essay] Argumentation: Perspectives on Immigrants in America   President Barak Obama “A Nation of Immigrants”   U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “fact vs. fiction”   J. B. Handlesman “Undocumented Aliens”   Nick Milano “Citizenship for Christmas”   Quynh Nguyen “Being a Recent American” Argumentation: Perspectives on the Death Penalty   Lauren Heist “Capital Punishment: An Example for Criminals”   Alex Shalom “Abolish the Death Penalty”   Death Penalty Information Center “from Death Penalty in 2013: Year-End Report”   Robert Mankoff “Good News” Argumentation in the World Around You Readings for Writing   James Q. Wilson “Just Take Away Their Guns”   Meg Greenfield “In Defense of the Animals”   Emily Zac “Tax Payers and Cheap Burgers” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Argumentation Paper 16. Mixing Methods of Development Developing Your Paper Through Mixed Modes Tips for Developing a Mixed Modes Essays Mixing Methods: Looking at Possibilities Assignment: Mixed Methods of Development Student Writing: Mixing Methods in Developing Your Essay   Brian Jarvis “Against the Great Divide” Critical Reading: Mixed Methods of Development   Timothy K. Beal “Bibles du Jour” Readings for Writing   Herbert J. Gans “Fitting the Poor into the Economy”   Reshma Memon Yaqub “You People Did This”   Amy Crawford “Hush!” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Mixed Modes Paper PART THREE: SPECIAL WRITING 17. Literary Analysis Reading Literature for Analysis Tips for Reading Literature for Analysis Skipping the Hunt for Morals Identifying Themes Interpreting Symbols Tips for Avoiding Traps Involving Symbols Watching for Metaphors and Similes Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Literary Analysis Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Literary Analysis Student Writing: Literary Analysis   Shirley Hawkins “The Pains of Frontier Life” Readings for Writing   Willa Cather “A Wagner Matinee”   Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart”   O. Henry “The Cop and the Anthem” Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Literary Analysis Paper 18. Writing Essay Exams Preparing for the Exam Evaluating the Question Planning and Writing Your Essay Tips for Planning and Writing Your Essay Strategy Checklist: Taking an Essay Exam 19. Business Writing: An Overview Distinguishing Inquiry and Complaint Letters Letter of Inquiry Letter of Complaint Writing and Formatting a Letter Tips for Writing and Formatting a Letter Writing a Letter to Apply for a Job Preparing Your Résumé Tips for Preparing a Résumé Writing E-mails Tips for Successful E-Mails PART FOUR: RESEARCH 20. Doing Research Choosing Your Topic Doing Preliminary Reading Searching the Internet Conducting an Internet Search of Your Subject Evaluating Online Sources Tips for Evaluating Web Sites Used in Your Research Using General Encyclopedias Using Specialized Reference Works Preparing Your Preliminary Outline Taking Advantage of Libraries Limiting Your Research Topic Determining a Research Question Finding Sources and Developing a Working References List Finding Articles Finding Books: The Online Library Catalog Electronic Database Indexes Keeping Records for Your References Taking Notes Note-Taking Options: Pencils or Keyboards? Evaluating Sources Tips for Evaluating Your Sources Recording Quotations Summarizing and Paraphrasing in Your Notes Disagreements: Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions Developing Your Thesis Preparing Your Formal Outline Making a Slug Outline Writing a Formal Outline Strategy Checklist: Doing Research 21. Writing Your Research Paper Writing Your Research Paper: An Overview The First Draft Subsequent Drafts Using Explanatory Notes Toward the Final Copy Quoting and Paraphrasing Your Sources Quoting an Original Source Paraphrasing an Original Source Direct Quotations: How Many? Integrating Quotes into Your Own Writing Tips for Using Sources Within Your Own Sentences Avoiding Plagiarism Documenting Sources in the Humanities: MLA Style Parenthetical Citations: Special Instances A List of Works Cited Preparing the Works Cited List Tips for Preparing the Works Cited List Documenting Sources in the Social Sciences: APA Style Parenthetical Citations A List of APA References Preparing Your APA References List Tips for Preparing an APA References List Preparing Your Manuscript Tips for Preparing the Final Copy Strategy Checklist: Writing Your Research Paper Frequently Asked Questions about Writing Research Papers Sample MLA-Style Research Paper PART FIVE: STYLE 22. Proper Words in Proper Places Identifying Denotation and Connotation in Words The Importance of Connotation Word Sensitivity Using Concrete Language Using Specific Details Using Specific Words and Phrases Using Comparisons 23. Effective Sentences Eliminating Wordiness Cutting Deadwood Avoiding Pointless Repetition of Meaning Cutting Wordy Clauses Avoiding Delay of Subject Recognizing Passive and Active Verbs Correcting Faulty Parallelism What Is Parallelism? Avoiding Faulty Parallelism Avoiding Faulty Subordination in Sentence Combining Improving Sentence Variety Varying Sentence Length Varying Sentence Structure 24. Additional Style Problems and Solutions Avoiding Triteness Avoiding Euphemisms Recognizing Effective and Undesirable Repetition Repetition for Clarity Repetition for Impact Undesirable Repetition of Meaning Undesirable Repetition of the Same Word Undesirable Repetition of Sounds Avoiding Slang Recognizing Fancy Writing Avoiding Sexist Language Tips for Avoiding Sexist Language Distinguishing Special Features of College Writing Tips for Writing in an Academic Style PART SIX: HANDBOOK, GLOSSARY, AND ESL POINTERS Handbook Glossary of Problem Words ESL Pointers: Tips for Non-Native Writers Verbs and Helping Verbs, Including Modals Summary Checklist: Principal Parts and Auxiliaries for Three Sample Verbs Using Helping Verbs and Modals with Principal Parts of Verbs Phrasal Verbs Tips and Pointers for Phrasal Verbs Nouns: Countable and Uncountable Examples of Nouns You Cannot Count The Articles a, an, and the Prepositions Using in, at, and on Correction Symbols and Abbreviations Guide to the Handbook and Glossary

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David Skwire, with degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Cornell University, taught composition, creative writing, and American literature at Cuyahoga Community College for twenty-five years. He also served on the faculties of Tufts University and Temple University. He acknowledges, however, that his job of most interest to students was a two-year stint as a writer of humorous greeting cards. In addition to his coauthorship of Student’s Book of College English, he is author of the successful Writing with a Thesis. Now retired, Skwire lives near Cleveland. Harvey S. Wiener taught for many years as professor of English at LaGuardia Community College. He has served in a variety of administrative positions, most recently as Vice President at Marymount Manhattan College. Dr. Wiener has directed the basic writing program at Pennsylvania State University and has taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Queensborough Community College, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, Wiener holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature from Fordham University. He was founding president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and was chair of the Teaching of Writing Division of the Modern Language Association. Wiener is the author of many books on reading and writing for college students and their teachers, including The Writing Room. His book for parents, Any Child Can Write, was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate. His most challenging writing assignment was a test to quality as Chief Writer for a network soap opera by developing the content for six weeks of episodes. He does not regret having lost the job to someone else.

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