The Writer’s Response A Reading-Based Approach To College Writing
by McDonald, Stephen; Salomone, WilliamEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-14
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Table of Contents
| The Reading-Writing Conversation | |
| Writing with a Central Idea | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Prewriting: From Writer''s Block to Writing | |
| Live Each Moment for What It''s Worth | |
| Without Emotion | |
| A View from Mount Ritter | |
| Prewriting: Choosing a Preliminary Topic Sentence or Thesis | |
| Prewriting: Preparing a Rough Outline | |
| Grouping Related Points | |
| Identifying Group Topics | |
| Choosing a Tentative Organization | |
| Writing: The First Draft | |
| Rewriting: Revising and Editing | |
| Assignments: Writing with a Central Idea | |
| Evaluating Sample Papers | |
| Sentence Combining: Embedding Adjectives | |
| Adverbs, and Prepositional Phrases | |
| Reading for the Central Idea | |
| Paragraphs and Topic Sentences | |
| Paragraphs without Topic Sentences | |
| Essays and Thesis Statements | |
| Three Passions I Have Lived For | |
| Jailbreak Marriage | |
| How to Stay Alive | |
| Participating Actively in the Writer-Reader Dialogue | |
| Printed Noise | |
| Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results | |
| A Required Course in Beating the Freshman Blues | |
| Are You Living Mindlessly? Assignments: Writing a Personal Response | |
| Evaluating Sample Papers | |
| Sentence Combining: Coordination | |
| Supporting the Central Idea | |
| Brief Examples | |
| Extended Examples | |
| Statistics | |
| Expert Opinion or Testimony | |
| Combining Types of Support | |
| Explaining the Significance of the Support | |
| Writing Introductions and Conclusions | |
| Male Fixations | |
| Fear of Heights: Teachers | |
| Parents, and Students Are Wary of Achievement | |
| Surviving a Year of Sleepless Nights | |
| Getting to Know about You and Me | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Evaluating Sample Papers | |
| Sentence Combining: Using Subordination | |
| Unity and Coherence Unity | |
| Coherence | |
| Improving Unity and Coherence with Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences | |
| Are Families Dangerous? | |
| A Generation of Bigots Comes of Age | |
| Colorblind | |
| Burned Out and Bored. | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Evaluating Sample Papers | |
| Sentence Combining: Verbal Phrases | |
| Writing About Reading | |
| Summarizing and Responding to Reading | |
| Writing a Brief Summary | |
| Norman Cousins | |
| The Decline of Neatness | |
| Writing an Extended Summary | |
| Writing a Summary-Response Essay | |
| The Bachelor: Silly | |
| Sexist and to Many | |
| Irresistible | |
| Killing Women: A Pop-Music Tradition | |
| The Changing Face of America | |
| College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening? | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Evaluating Sample Papers | |
| Sentence Combining: Appositives | |
| Evaluating Reading Selections | |
| Audience and Purpose | |
| Evaluating Support | |
| Appearances Are Destructive | |
| Why Competition? | |
| History: Pass the Popcorn | |
| Please | |
| Teenagers in Dreamland | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Evaluating Sample Papers | |
| Sentence Combining: Parallelism | |
| Synthesizing Ideas from Reading Selections | |
| Preparing Your Sources and Notes | |
| Clarify Your Purpose | |
| Read and Highlight Your Sources | |
| Take Notes | |
| Organizing Your Material | |
| Group Related Ideas | |
| Develop a Rough Outline of the Issues | |
| Writing the Draft | |
| Write a Preliminary Thesis Statement | |
| Write the First Draft | |
| Documenting Your Sources | |
| Revising and Refining the Synthesis | |
| Refine the Thesis Statement | |
| Add or Refine Topic Sentences | |
| Rethink Weak Paragraphs | |
| Proofread for Errors in Grammar | |
| Spelling, and Punctuation | |
| Flag Burning and Freedom of Speech | |
| Paul Greenberg | |
| The American Flag: A Symbol We Should Protect | |
| Charles Levendosky | |
| Flag Burning and the First Amendment | |
| Robert Dole | |
| Many Americans Do Battle to Save Our Flag | |
| Flag-Burning Ban: Protecting What It Symbolizes or the Symbol? | |
| The Minimum Legal Drinking Age | |
| Should the Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered to Eighteen or Nineteen? | |
| Yes | |
| Should the Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered to Eighteen or Nineteen? | |
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