Inspired to Write Student's Book: Readings and Tasks to Develop Writing Skills
by Jean Withrow , Gay Brookes , Martha Clark CummingsEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-04-05
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Inspired to Write uses powerful and provocative readings to inspire students to write personal and academic essays. Inspired to Write contains 45 thematically grouped readings taken from a variety of genres, including personal essays, stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and academic texts. The readings provide students with models of good writing, stimuli for discussion, and inspiration for their own writing. In addition, tips and strategies to help developing writers are woven throughout the text.
Author Biography
Jean Withrow, Gay Brookes, and Martha Clark Cummings are writing instructors, each with over thirty years of classroom experience
Table of Contents
| To the Instructor | p. vi |
| To the Student | p. x |
| Authors' Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Map of the World | p. xii |
| Becoming | p. 1 |
| Family Origins | p. 4 |
| Brothers | p. 4 |
| The Brown Hen | p. 7 |
| Memory: My Mother | p. 13 |
| There Was Rice at Every Meal | p. 16 |
| Revision | p. 21 |
| Between Two Cultures | p. 22 |
| Safe | p. 22 |
| I Answer to "Elaine" | p. 25 |
| Translating Means Growing Up Fast | p. 29 |
| No Comprendo | p. 34 |
| Revision | p. 38 |
| Heroes | p. 40 |
| Five New Words at a Time | p. 40 |
| My Family Hero | p. 44 |
| An Act of Courage | p. 50 |
| Revision | p. 55 |
| Identity | p. 56 |
| Believing in the True Self | p. 56 |
| Becoming a Writer | p. 59 |
| Homage to my hips | p. 63 |
| The Search for Identity | p. 65 |
| Smoking | p. 69 |
| Revision | p. 72 |
| New Vistas and Ventures | p. 75 |
| Opening New Doors | p. 78 |
| The First Day | p. 78 |
| A Walk to the Jetty | p. 83 |
| On Turning Fifty | p. 87 |
| The Transitions of Life | p. 91 |
| Revision | p. 97 |
| Dating and Marriage | p. 99 |
| Pebbles | p. 99 |
| Kids Talk about Dating across Cultural Lines | p. 101 |
| Weddings | p. 106 |
| Revision | p. 111 |
| Work | p. 113 |
| The First Job | p. 113 |
| Behind the Counter | p. 116 |
| To be of use | p. 121 |
| The Model Medic | p. 124 |
| Revision | p. 129 |
| Exploring Emotions | p. 131 |
| Hope Emerges As Key to Success in Life | p. 132 |
| It's O.K. to Cry: Tears Are Not Just a Bid for Attention | p. 137 |
| Going Through the House | p. 141 |
| Black Steer Canyon | p. 146 |
| Revision | p. 149 |
| A Changing World | p. 151 |
| Health | p. 154 |
| Kids and Chemicals | p. 154 |
| War on Disease | p. 157 |
| No Laughing Matter | p. 161 |
| Revision | p. 165 |
| Environment | p. 167 |
| The Mercury's Rising | p. 167 |
| Warming Seas Prompt Tuvalu Evacuation | p. 168 |
| Buzzard | p. 172 |
| The Brave Little Parrot | p. 175 |
| Revision | p. 180 |
| Gender Roles | p. 182 |
| Taming Macho Ways | p. 183 |
| Women and Work: Around the World, Women Earn Less | p. 188 |
| Battling Chauvinism to Do a Man's Job | p. 190 |
| First Lullabye | p. 194 |
| Revision | p. 196 |
| Into the Future | p. 198 |
| Kill Your Television | p. 198 |
| Lectures vs. Laptops | p. 202 |
| Letters | p. 203 |
| The 20th Century: What's Worth Saving? | p. 206 |
| Entering the Twenty-First Century | p. 210 |
| Revision | p. 214 |
| Peer Feedback Form | p. 217 |
| Index of Toolboxes | p. 219 |
| Index of Readings | p. 219 |
| Index of Authors | p. 219 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 220 |
| Art Credits | p. 226 |
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