Argument Now A Brief Rhetoric

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-18
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary

This writing guide helps writers develop a familiarity with computers and a sense of how various platforms and programs can develop writing skills. With a combined twenty years of teaching in networked classrooms, the authors provide an introduction for students¿and teachers¿to new ways of analyzing and writing arguments with computers. Emphasizing rhetorical considerations and the writing process, not the technology itself, the text provides new methods for teaching writing with computers. The text maximizes the opportunities computers offer students to engage in the writing process with a sense of freedom and creativity. It encourages students to ¿play¿ with their own text, with their ideas and words, with written dialogue and polylogue. An approachable writing style makes the innovative content easy to understand.

Table of Contents

Preface
Writing Orientations
Writing Processes: A Review
Approaching the Writing Situation: Purpose and Audience
Thinking about Purpose
Thinking about Audience
Writing Spotlight: The YOUth & AIDS Web Site Project
Capturing Your Ideas: Pre-Writing Strategies
Pre-Writing about Reading
Writing in a Journal
Freewriting
Listing
Finding a Focus
Organizing a Writing Project
Choosing a Form or Genre
Clarifying Your Thesis
Developing an Outline
Writing the First Draft
Starting the Rough Drafthellip;At Last!
Effective Introductions
Effective Theses
Effective Conclusions
A Student Writer in Action-A Rough Draft
More than Type, Click, Print: Rewriting and Revising
Revising for Unity, Coherence, and Style
Getting Help-Peer Review
Tracking Changes
Finishing Touches: Editing and Proofreading
Spell-Checkers and Grammar-Checkers
A Writer in Action: Galen Geer's Revised Draft
Useful Links
Additional Writing Activities
Something to Talk About: Understanding Academic Writing
What Makes Writing "Academic"?
Academic Writing: Audience and Purpose
Academic Writing and the Public
Some Key Characteristics of Academic Writing
Writing Spotlight: Popular Academic Writing
Writing for an Academic Audience: Some Conventions and Expectations
Academic readers read critically
Informed academic readers expect outside sources and appropriate documentation
Academic readers expect to see familiar genres
13 Academic readers look for the argument
13 Academic readers expect stylish and mechanically correct writing
Strategies used in Academic Writing
Comparison and Contrast
Definition
Analysis
Useful Links
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