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With a clear and easy-to-read presentation, visual instruction, and pedagogical support, Writing Today is a practical and useful guide to writing in college and beyond.   Check us out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/johnsonsheehanpaine!

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Author:   Richard Johnson-Sheehan ,  Charles Paine ,  Charles Paine
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   1.125kg
ISBN:  

9780205617449

ISBN 10:   0205617441
Pages:   888
Publication Date:   13 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780321846099
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Getting Started Chapter 1: Writing and Genres A Working Definition of Genres Using Genres to Write Successfully Genre and the Writing Process Using Genres in College and Your Career Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 2: Topic, Angle, Purpose Topic: What Am I Writing About? Angle: What is New or Has Changed Recently About the Topic? Purpose: What Do I Want to Accomplish? Choosing the Appropriate Genre Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 3: Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations Profiling Readers Analyzing the Context Using Genres to Analyze the Rhetorical Situation Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Part 2: Using Genres to Express Ideas Chapter 4: Memoirs Overview A Student's Memoir: Binky and Toodles: A Frontier Saga by Alisa Harris Inventing Your Memoir's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Memoir Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Memoir Revising and Editing Your Memoir MicroGenre: The Literacy Narrative Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write Quick Start Guide Readings Wang Ping, Book War Joe Mackall, Words of My Youth Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 5: Profiles Overview A Student's Profile: Brother, Life Coach, Friend: Troubled Kids Turn Their Lives Around by Katie Koch Inventing You Profile's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Profile Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Profile Revising and Editing Your Profile MicroGenre: The Resume Quick Start Guide Readings Jody Ipsen, Prudencia Jennifer Senior, The Near-Fame Experience Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 6: Reviews Overview A Student's Review: Review of AC/DC's Black Ice by Kim Sanders Inventing Your Review's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Review Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Review Revising and Editing Your Review MicroGenre: The Rave Tom Charity, Review: Star Trek is Exhilarating. Quick Start Guide Readings Carina Chocano, Long Overdue: Review of Movie Juno Gerard Jones, Violent Media is Good for Kids Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 7: Evaluations Overview A Student's Evaluation: Evaluation of Spring Break Options by Danielle Cordaro Inventing Your Evaluation's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Evaluation Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Evaluation Revising and Editing Your Evaluation MicroGenre: The Slam Mark Vaughn, The Worst Car I Ever Owned Quick Start Guide Readings Tony Swan, 2008 Mini Cooper Clubman-Road Test Jeff Hemmel, There's Something About Breckenridge Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 8: Literary Analysis Overview A Student's Literary Analysis: Doing the Right Thing in Edwidge Danticat's `A Wall of Fire Rising' Inventing Your Literary Analysis' Content Organizing and Drafting Your Literary Analysis Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Literary Analysis Revising and Editing Your Literary Analysis MicroGenre: The Reading Response Student Reading Response to Langston Hughes' I, Too Quick Start Guide Readings: A Casebook on Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat, A Wall of Fire Rising Renee H. Shea, An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 9: Rhetorical Analysis Overview A Student's Rhetorical Analysis: Rhetorical Analysis of the Keep America Beautiful Public Service Announcement (1971) by Wes Rodenburg Inventing Your Rhetorical Analysis' Content Organizing and Drafting Your Rhetorical Analysis Choosing an Appropriate Style Designing Your Rhetorical Analysis Revising and Editing Your Rhetorical Analysis MicroGenre: The Ad Critique Seth Stevens, Salesjerk Quick Start Guide Readings Jack Shafer, How Obama Does That Thing He Does Liza Featherstone, What's a Girl to Read? Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 10: Commentaries Overview A Student's Commentary: Why My Generation Doesn't Care About Performance Enhancement by David Meany Inventing You Commentary's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Commentary Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Commentary Revising and Editing Your Commentary MicroGenre: The Letter to the Editor Michael Spatz, Why I'm Against the Statewide Smoking Ban Quick Start Guide Readings Benedict Carey, Brain Enhancement is Wrong, Right? James Bowman, Oops! I'll Do It Again. And Again. And Again. Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 11: Position Papers Overview A Student's Position Paper: Allowing Guns on Campus will Prevent Shootings, Rape by Tyler Ohmann Inventing Your Position Paper's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Position Paper Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Position Paper Revising and Editing Your Position Paper MicroGenre: The Rebuttal Russ Walker and David Roberts, Letter to the Editor on Climate Story Quick Start Guide Readings Sam Harris, In Defense of Torture Kate Dailey, Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide The Same Support As Those In Real Life? Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 12: Proposals Overview A Student Group's Proposal: Changing the Campus Climate by Fahmida Ahmed, Jeff Brown, David Felix, Todd Haurin, and Better Seto Inventing Your Proposal's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Proposal Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Proposal Revising and Editing Your Proposal MicroGenre: The Pitch One Page Genealogy, One Page Genealogy Quick Start Guide Readings Robert Sullivan, The Wild Bunch Alfie Kohn, From Degrading to De-Grading Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 13: Reports Overview A Student's Report: Scott Walker, Gender Stereotypes and Toys: Is it Nature or Nurture? Inventing Your Report's Content Organizing and Drafting Your Report Choosing An Appropriate Style Designing Your Report Revising and Editing Your Report MicroGenre: The Brief Amanda Lenhart and Susannah Fox, Twitter and Status Updating Quick Start Guide Readings Dave Johns, My Own Private B.O. American Psychological Association (APA), Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Part 3: Developing A Writing Process Chapter 14: Inventing Ideas and Pre-Writing Pre-Writing Using Heuristics Exploratory Writing Giving Yourself Time to Invent and Prewrite Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 15: Organizing and Drafting Using Genres to Organize Your Ideas Sketching an Outline Drafting and Overcoming Writer's Block Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 16: Choosing A Style Writing in Plain Style Establishing a Persona Writing Visually with Detail Writing Visually with Figurative Language Writing with Sound Improving Your Writing Style Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 17: Designing Before You Begin Designing Five Basic Principles of Design Design Principle 1: Balance Design Principle 2: Alignment Design Principle 3: Grouping Design Principle 4: Consistency Design Principle 5: Contrast Using Photography and Images Using Graphs and Charts Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 18: Revising and Editing Level 1: Global Revision Level 2: Substantive Editing Level 3: Copyediting Level 4: Proofreading Peer Review: Asking For and Giving Advice Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Part 4: Strategies for Shaping Ideas Chapter 19: Drafting Introductions and Conclusions Beginnings, Middles, and Endings Drafting Introductions: Tell Them What You're Going to Tell Them Drafting Conclusions: Tell Them What You Told Them Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 20: Developing Paragraphs and Sections Creating a Basic Paragraph Getting Paragraphs to Flow Deciding on Paragraph Length Organizing a Section Using Sections and Paragraphs Together Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 21: Using Basic Rhetorical Patterns Narrative Description Definition Classification Comparison and Contrast Combining Rhetorical Patterns Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 22: Using Argument Strategies to Persuade What is Arguable? Using Reason, Authority, and Emotion Countering or Disarming Your Opponents Avoiding Logical Fallacies Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 23: Working Collaboratively with Other Writers Working with a Group of Other Writers Choosing Group Roles Figuring Out What the Group Needs to Do Getting the Work Done Editing and Proofreading Each Other's Work Working with a Team Forming: Planning a Project Storming: Overcoming Differences Norming: Getting Down to Work Performing: Working as a Team Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Part 5: Doing Research Chapter 24: Starting Your Research Why Do Research in the First Place? Following a Reliable Research Process Starting Your Research Process Doing Start-Up Research Assessing the Reliability of Your Sources Managing Your Research Process Following and Modifying Your Research Plan Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 25: Finding Sources and Collecting Information Using Primary and Secondary Sources Finding Electronic Sources Using the Internet Critically: A Word of Caution Finding Print Sources Finding Empirical Sources Developing an Annotated Bibliography Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 26: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources Quoting Sources Paraphrasing and Summarizes Sources Framing Quotes, Paraphrases, and Summaries Avoiding Plagiarism Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 27: Using MLA Style Parenthetical Citations Preparing the List of Works Cited Citing Sources in the List of Works Cited A Student's MLA Research Paper: Katelyn Turnbow, Lives Not Worth the Money? Chapter 28: Using APA Style Parenthetical Citations Preparing the List of References Citing Sources in the List of References A Student's APA Research Paper: Austin Duus, Assortative Mating and Income Inequality Part 6: Getting Your Ideas Out There Chapter 29: Using the Internet Creating a Social Networking Site Starting Your Own Blog Joining a Virtual World Putting Videos and Podcasts on the Internet Is This Writing? Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 30: Creating A Portfolio Two Basic Kinds of Portfolios Getting Started on Your Portfolio Step One: Collecting Your Work into an Archive Step Two: Selecting the Appropriate Artifacts Step Three: Reflecting on Your Work and Abilities Step Four: Presenting Your Materials Keeping Your Portfolio Up to Date Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 31: Succeeding on Essay Exams Preparing for an Essay Exam Starting Your Essay Exam Answering an Essay-Exam Question Finishing Your Essay Exam An Example Essay Exam Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Chapter 32: Presenting Your Work Getting Started Organizing the Content of Your Presentation Designing Your Visual Aids Delivering Your Presentation Practicing and Rehearsing Quick Start Guide Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This Part 7: Anthology of Readings Chapter 33: Memoir M. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain bell hooks, Talking Back Langston Hughes, Salvation Bich Minh Nguyen, The Good Immigrant Student Chapter 34: Profiles Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of the One-Breasted Women Joanne Christie, John Zdanowski, Second Life Finance Chief Thomas Lynch, Bodies in Motion and Rest K.C. Cole, Fun with Physics Chapter 35: Reviews Christine Schoefer, Harry Potter's Girl Trouble. Ann Bauer, Erica Kane is My Guru Todd Hertz, Twilight Jane Lampman, `Left Behind,' a Virtual Battle for the Souls of Unbelievers Chapter 36: Evaluations Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies Dave Barry, The Lord of the Dance Doesn't Have Anything on Me Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving Steven Levy, Apple iPhone 3GS Chapter 37: Literary Analyses Kate Chopin Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour [short story] Daniel P. Deneau, Chopin's `The Story of an Hour' Robert Frost Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [poem] Steven Monte, An Overview of `Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' Laura Miller, Touched by a Vampire Chapter 38: Rhetorical Analyses Marie Arana, He's Not Black Gary Sloan, Sleuthing Patriotic Slogans Libby Copeland, Shooting from the Hip, With a Smile to Boot Rebecca Feldmann, Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertising Chapter 39: Commentaries Michael Bronski, A Gay Man's Case Against Gay Marriage Kay S. Hymowitz, Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen Marci A. Hamilton, Why Suing College Students for Illegal Music Downloading is Right Ken Harbaugh, Challenging Veteran Stereotypes Chapter 40: Position Papers Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union Todd Huffman, TV Watching-The Top Environmental Hazard for Children Eilene Zimmerman, It's Time to Drink Toilet Water Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Making of a Divorce Culture Chapter 41: Proposals Julia Whitty, Diet for a Warm Planet Carrie Lukas, Who Pays for My Time Off? Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Wendell Berry, Thoughts in the Presence of Fear Chapter 42: Reports SAMHSA, Underage Alcohol Use Among Full-Time College Students Katherine Bessiere, A. Fleming Seay, and Sara Kiesler, The Ideal Elf: Identity Exploration in World of Warcraft Jennifer Senior, Alone Together Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms? from Freakonomics Part 8: Handbook Credits. Index.

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