Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, The: Brief Edition
by Ramage, John D.; Bean, John C.; Johnson, JuneEdition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade,The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Editionoffers the most progressive and teachable introduction now available to academic and personal writing. The four-color guide offers engaging instruction in rhetoric and composition, a flexible sequence of comprehensive writing assignments, numerous examples of student and professional writing, and a thorough guide to research. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Edition has set the new standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.
Table of Contents
| Writing Projects | |
| Thematic Contents | |
| Preface | |
| Writing Projects | |
| Thematic Contents | |
| Preface | |
| A Rhetoric for Writers | |
| Thinking Rhetorically About Good Writing | |
| Good Writing Can Vary from Closed to Open Forms David Rockwood | |
| A Letter to the Editor Thomas Merton | |
| A Festival of Rain Distinctions between Closed and Open Forms of Writing Where to Place Your Writing Along the Continuum | |
| Good Writers Pose Questions about Their Subject Matter Shared Problems Unite Writers and Readers Posing Your Own Subject-Matter Questions Brittany Tinker | |
| Can the World Sustain an American Standard of Living? | |
| Good Writers Write for a Purpose to an Audience within a Genre | |
| How Writers Think about Purpose | |
| How Writers Think about Audience | |
| How Writers Think about Genre Chapter | |
| Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project 1: Posing a Good Subject-Matter Problem Brief Writing Project 2: Understanding Rhetorical Context | |
| Thinking Rhetorically about Your Subject Matter | |
| Professors Value Wallowing in Complexity | |
| Learning to Wallow in Complexity Seeing Each Academic Discipline as a Field of Inquiry and Argument | |
| Good Writers Use Exploratory Strategies to Think Critically about Subject Matter Problems | |
| Freewriting Focused | |
| Freewriting Idea | |
| Mapping Dialectic Talk Playing the Believing and Doubting Game "Believing and Doubting Paul Theroux s Negative View of Sports | |
| A Strong Thesis Surprises Readers with Something New or Challenging | |
| Trying to Change Your Reader s View of Your Subject Giving Your Thesis | |
| Tension through Surprising Reversal | |
| Thesis Statements in Closed-Form Prose Are Supported Hierarchically with Points and Particulars | |
| How Points Convert Information to Meaning | |
| How Removing Particulars Creates a Summary | |
| How to Use Points and Particulars | |
| When You Revise Chapter | |
| Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project: Playing the Believing and Doubting Game | |
| Thinking Rhetorically about How Messages Persuade | |
| Messages Persuade through Their Angle of Vision | |
| Recognizing the Angle of Vision in a Text | |
| Analyzing Angle of Vision | |
| Messages Persuade through Appeals to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos | |
| Nonverbal Messages Persuade Through Visual Strategies That Can Be Analyzed Rhetorically | |
| Visual Rhetoric | |
| The Rhetoric of Clothing and Other Consumer Items | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project: Analyzing Angle of Vision in Two Passages about Nuclear Energy | |
| Thinking Rhetorically about Style and Document Design | |
| Good Writers Make Purposeful Stylistic Choices | |
| Factors That Affect Style | |
| Abstract Versus Concrete Words: Moving Up or Down the Scale of Abstraction | |
| Wordy Versus Streamlined Sentences: Cutting Deadwood to Highlight Your Ideas | |
| Coordination Versus Subordination: Using Sentence Structure to Control Emphasis | |
| Inflated Voice Versus a Natural Speaking Voice: Creating a Persona | |
| Good Writers Make Purposeful Document Design Choices Using Type Using Space and Laying Out Documents Using Color Using Graphics and Images | |
| Examples of Different Document Designs | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project: Converting a Passage from Scientific to Popular Style | |
| Writing Projects | |
| Writing to Learn | |
| Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Observer Explor | |
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