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Curious Writer 2nd edition [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 848 pages, height x width: 232x191 mm, weight: 1399 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2007
  • Izdevniecība: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 0205531466
  • ISBN-13: 9780205531462
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 848 pages, height x width: 232x191 mm, weight: 1399 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2007
  • Izdevniecība: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 0205531466
  • ISBN-13: 9780205531462
Citas grāmatas par šo tēmu:
The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing.

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The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing.
Preface xxxvii
Acknowledgments xlv
Part One The Spirit of Inquiry
1(88)
Writing as Inquiry
3(30)
Motives for Writing
4(1)
Beliefs About Writing
4(6)
Exercise 1.1 What Do You Believe?
5(1)
One Student's Response Jon's Journal
6(1)
Inquiring into the Details Journals
7(1)
Unlearning Unhelpful Beliefs
7(1)
The Beliefs of This Book
8(2)
Inquiring into the Details Portfolios
10(1)
Writing Situations and Rhetorical Choices
10(2)
Habits of Mind
12(6)
Start with Questions, Not Answers
12(1)
Suspend Judgment
13(1)
Search for Surprise
14(1)
Exercise 1.2 A Roomful of Details
14(1)
One Student's Response Margaret's Journal
15(2)
Inquiring into the Details Invention Strategies
17(1)
Writing as a Process
18(12)
Recognizing the Challenges
18(1)
Exercise 1.3 What Is Your Process?
19(3)
Thinking About Your Process
22(2)
Linear Versus Recursive Models
24(1)
Dialectical Thinking
25(1)
Exercise 1.4 Practicing Dialectical Thinking
26(1)
One Student's Response Jon's Journal
26(1)
Writing with Computers
27(3)
Exercise 1.5 Overcome Your Own Challenges
30(1)
Using What You Have Learned
30(3)
Reading as Inquiry
33(36)
Motives for Reading
34(1)
Beliefs About Reading
34(2)
Exercise 2.1 What Do You Believe?
35(1)
Reading Situations and Rhetorical Choices
36(3)
Reading as a Process
39(15)
Linear Versus Recursive Models
39(1)
Exercise 2.2 Reading Strategies
40(1)
Reading Henry David Thoreau, excerpt from Walden
41(2)
Inquiring into the Details Reading Perspectives
43(1)
Dialectical Thinking
43(1)
Writing with Computers
44(1)
Believing and Doubting
44(1)
Exercise 2.3 Practicing Dialectical Thinking
45(1)
Reading Bruce Ballenger, ``The Importance of Writing Badly''
45(3)
One Student's Response Todd's Journal
48(1)
Inquiring into the Details The Double-Entry Journal
49(1)
Adapting to Unfamiliar Reading Situations
50(1)
Exercise 2.4 Further Practice: Untangling Academic Prose
51(1)
Reading David F. Noble, excerpt from The Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
51(2)
Inquiring into the Details Encountering Unfamiliar Genres
53(1)
``Reading'' the Visual
54(12)
Learning the Grammar of Images
56(1)
Some Strategies for Reading Images
56(2)
Exercise 2.5 Reading Images
58(4)
The ``Look'' of Writing
62(4)
Using What You Have Learned
66(3)
Ways of Inquiring
69(20)
Opening Questions for Inquiry
70(1)
Exploration
71(1)
Explanation
72(1)
Evaluation
73(1)
Reflection
74(1)
Practicing Inquiry
75(11)
Exercise 3.1 Exploring Within and Without
78(1)
Reading Frank Bruni, excerpt from ``It Died for Us''
79(1)
One Student's Response Daniel's Journal
80(1)
Exercise 3.2 Explaining to Yourself, Explaining to Others
81(1)
One Student's Response Daniel's Journal
82(1)
Exercise 3.3 Evaluating the Arguments
82(2)
One Student's Response Daniel's Journal
84(1)
Exercise 3.4 Reflecting on the Process
85(1)
One Student's Response Daniel's Journal
85(1)
Symphonic Inquiry
86(1)
Inquiring into the Details Time to Write
86(1)
Using What You Have Learned
87(2)
Part Two Inquiry Projects
89(338)
Writing a Personal Essay
91(42)
Writing About Experience
91(1)
Motives for Writing a Personal Essay
92(1)
The Personal Essay and Academic Writing
93(1)
Features of the Form
94(15)
Personal Essay Anne-Marie Oomen, ``The Barn''
95(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
98(1)
Personal Essay Naomi Shihab Nye, ``Long Overdue''
99(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
102(1)
Personal Essay Judith Ortiz Cofer, ``One More Lesson''
103(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
106(1)
Seeing the Form Self-Portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston
107(1)
Inquiring into the Details The Literacy Narrative
108(1)
The Writing Process
109(22)
Thinking About Subjects
109(1)
Generating Ideas
110(1)
One Student's Response Margaret's Journal
110(1)
Listing Prompts
110(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
111(1)
Visual Prompts
111(1)
Research Prompts
112(1)
Inquiring into the Details Clustering or Mapping
113(1)
Judging What You Have
114(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
114(1)
Questions About Purpose and Audience
115(1)
Questions for Reflection
116(1)
Writing the Sketch
116(1)
Writing with Computers
116(2)
Student Sketch Lana Kuchta, ``The Way I Remember''
118(2)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
120(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
120(1)
Questions for Peer Review
120(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
121(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
121(1)
Composing the Draft
122(1)
Methods of Development
123(1)
Using Evidence
124(1)
Workshopping the Draft
124(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
124(1)
Questions for Readers
124(1)
Writing with Computers
125(1)
Revising the Draft
126(1)
Polishing the Draft
127(1)
Student Essay Julia C. Arredondo, ``Beet Field Dreams''
128(2)
Evaluating the Essay
130(1)
Using What You Have Learned
131(2)
Writing a Profile
133(44)
Writing About People
133(1)
Motives for Writing a Profile
134(1)
The Profile and Academic Writing
135(1)
Features of the Form
135(17)
Profile Sonja Livingston, ``Thumb-Sucking Girl''
137(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
138(1)
Profile Anonymous, ``Soup''
139(2)
Inquiring into the Essay
141(1)
Profile Lauren Slater, ``Dr. Daedalus''
142(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
145(1)
Profile Gib Akin, ``Learning About Work from Joe Cool''
146(4)
Inquiring into the Essay
150(1)
Seeing the Form Roy Takeno Reading Paper in Front of Office by Ansel Adams
151(1)
The Writing Process
152(23)
Thinking About Subjects
152(1)
Generating Ideas
153(1)
Listing Prompts
153(1)
One Student's Response Jennifer's Journal
153(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
154(1)
Visual Prompts
155(1)
Research Prompts
155(1)
One Student's Response Bruce's Journal
156(1)
Judging What You Have
156(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
156(1)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
157(1)
Interviewing
158(1)
Making Contact
159(1)
Conducting the Interview
160(1)
Inquiring into the Details Tape Recorders
161(1)
Listening and Watching
161(2)
Interview Notes Margaret Parker, ``Medical Student''
163(1)
Writing the Sketch
164(1)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
165(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
165(1)
Questions for Peer Review
165(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
166(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
166(1)
Composing the Draft
167(1)
Writing with Computers
167(1)
Methods of Development
168(1)
Using Evidence
168(1)
Workshopping the Draft
168(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
168(1)
Questions for Readers
169(1)
Revising the Draft
169(1)
Polishing the Draft
170(1)
Student Essay Margaret Parker, ``Medical Student''
171(3)
Evaluating the Essay
174(1)
Using What You Have Learned
175(2)
Writing a Review
177(42)
Writing That Evaluates
177(1)
Motives for Writing a Review
178(1)
The Review and Academic Writing
179(1)
Features of the Form
179(16)
Review Mark Kermode, ``Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest''
183(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
184(2)
Review Lester Bangs, ``Review of Peter Guralnick's Lost Highway''
186(2)
Inquiring into the Essay
188(2)
Review Ann Hodgman, ``No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch''
190(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
193(1)
Seeing the Form Choosing the Best Picture
193(2)
The Writing Process
195(22)
Thinking About Subjects
195(1)
Generating Ideas
195(1)
Listing Prompts
195(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
196(1)
Visual Prompts
196(1)
Research Prompts
196(1)
Writing with Computers
197(1)
Judging What You Have
198(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
198(1)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
198(1)
Exercise 6.1 From Jury to Judgment
199(2)
One Student's Response Christy's Journal
201(1)
Thinking About Criteria
202(1)
Inquiring into the Details Collaborating on Criteria
203(1)
Writing the Sketch
204(1)
Student Sketch Christy Claymore, ``Casablanca Endures: Even as Time Goes By''
204(2)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
206(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
206(1)
Questions for Peer Review
206(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
207(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
207(1)
Re-Experience
207(1)
Interview
207(1)
Read
207(1)
Composing the Draft
208(1)
Methods of Development
209(1)
Using Evidence
209(1)
Workshopping the Draft
210(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
210(1)
One Student's Response Christy's Journal
210(1)
Questions for Readers
210(1)
Revising the Draft
211(2)
Polishing the Draft
213(1)
Student Essay Christy Claymore, ``Casablanca Endures, Even as Time Goes By''
213(3)
Evaluating the Essay
216(1)
Using What You Have Learned
217(2)
Writing a Proposal
219(48)
Writing About Problems and Solutions
219(3)
Problems of Consequence
220(1)
Problems of Scale
221(1)
Motives for Writing a Proposal
222(1)
The Proposal and Academic Writing
223(1)
Features of the Form
223(20)
Proposal Barrett Seaman, ``How Bingeing Became the New College Sport''
225(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
226(1)
Proposal Michael Arad and Peter Walker, ``Reflecting Absence''
227(2)
Inquiring into the Essay
229(2)
Proposal James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros, ``The End of Tall Buildings''
231(5)
Inquiring into the Essay
236(1)
Proposal Julie Ann Homutoff, ``A Research Proposal: Effect of Infant's Perceived Gender on Adolescents' Ratings of the Infants''
237(5)
Inquiring into the Essay
242(1)
Seeing the Form The Faces of Meth Use
242(1)
The Writing Process
243(22)
Thinking About Subjects
243(1)
Generating Ideas
244(1)
Listing Prompts
244(1)
One Student's Response Caesar's Journal
244(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
245(1)
One Student's Response Gina's Journal
245(1)
Visual Prompts
246(1)
Inquiring into the Details Causation
246(1)
Research Prompts
247(1)
Judging What You Have
248(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
248(1)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
249(1)
Questions of Form
249(1)
Inquiring into the Details Writing a Research Proposal
250(1)
Research Considerations
251(1)
Writing the Sketch
251(1)
Student Sketch Gina Sinisi, ``Clothing Optional''
252(1)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
253(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
253(1)
One Student's Response Gina's Journal
253(1)
Questions for Peer Review
254(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
254(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
254(1)
Writing with Computers
255(1)
Composing the Draft
256(1)
Methods of Development
257(1)
Using Evidence
258(1)
Inquiring into the Details Evidence---A Case Study
258(1)
Workshopping the Draft
259(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
259(1)
Questions for Readers
259(1)
Revising the Draft
259(2)
Polishing the Draft
261(1)
Student Essay Gina Sinisi, ``Clothing Optional''
262(2)
Evaluating the Essay
264(1)
Using What You Have Learned
265(2)
Writing an Argument
267(48)
Writing to Persuade People
267(6)
Getting into Arguments
268(1)
Argument and Inquiry
269(1)
Making Claims
270(2)
Two Sides to Every Argument?
272(1)
Motives for Writing an Argument
273(1)
The Argument and Academic Writing
274(1)
Features of the Form
275(11)
Argument Ellen Goodman, ``Getting Real in the Classroom''
278(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
279(1)
Inquiring into the Details Some Basic Argument Strategies
280(1)
Argument George F. Will, ``The `Growth Model' and the Growth of Illiteracy''
281(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
282(1)
Argument Erin Aubry Kaplan, ``Still Trying to Kick the Kink''
283(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
284(1)
Seeing the Form The ``Imagetext'' as Argument
285(1)
The Writing Process
286(27)
Thinking About Subjects
287(1)
Generating Ideas
287(1)
Listing Prompts
287(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
288(1)
One Student's Response Ben's Journal
288(1)
Visual Prompts
289(1)
Research Prompts
289(2)
Writing with Computers
291(1)
Judging What You Have
291(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
291(1)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
292(1)
Research Considerations
293(1)
Narrowing the Question
294(1)
Writing the Sketch
295(1)
Student Sketch Ben Bloom, ``How to Really Rock the Vote''
296(1)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
296(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
297(1)
Inquiring into the Details Ethos, Pathos, and Logos and the Rhetorical Situation
297(2)
Questions for Peer Review
299(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
299(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
300(1)
Inquiring into the Details Using Toulmin to Analyze Arguments
301(2)
Composing the Draft
303(1)
Methods of Development
304(1)
Using Evidence
305(1)
Inquiring into the Details What Evidence Can Do
306(1)
Workshopping the Draft
306(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
306(1)
Questions for Readers
306(1)
Inquiring into the Details Common Logical Fallacies
307(2)
Revising the Draft
309(1)
Polishing the Draft
310(1)
Student Essay Kelly Sundberg, ``I Am Not a Savage''
311(2)
Evaluating the Essay
313(1)
Using What You Have Learned
313(2)
Writing a Critical Essay
315(56)
Writing About Literature
315(1)
Motives for Writing a Critical Essay
316(1)
The Critical Essay and Academic Writing
317(1)
Features of the Form
318(31)
Short Story Leslie Marmon Silko, ``Lullaby''
319(7)
Inquiring into the Story
326(1)
One Student's Response Noel's Journal
327(1)
Short Story Joyce Carol Oates, ``Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?''
328(12)
Inquiring into the Story
340(1)
Critical Essay Alice Hall Petry, ``Who Is Ellie? Oates' `Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'''
341(2)
Inquiring into the Essay
343(1)
Essay Michael Dorris, ``Three Yards''
344(1)
Inquiring into the Details How to Read Nonfiction
345(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
346(1)
Seeing the Form Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
347(2)
The Writing Process
349(20)
Thinking About Subjects
349(1)
Generating Ideas
350(1)
Listing Prompts
350(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
351(1)
Visual Prompts
351(1)
Research Prompts
351(1)
Inquiring into the Details Common Literary Devices
352(1)
Judging What You Have
353(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
353(2)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
355(1)
Inquiring into the Details What Is a ``Strong Reading''?
356(1)
Writing the Sketch
357(1)
Student Sketch Julie Bird, ``What Is the Role of Nature in `Lullaby'?''
358(1)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
358(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
358(1)
Questions for Peer Review
359(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
359(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
359(2)
Writing with Computers
361(1)
Composing the Draft
361(1)
Methods of Development
362(1)
Using Evidence
363(1)
Workshopping the Draft
363(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
363(1)
Questions for Readers
363(1)
Revising the Draft
364(1)
Polishing the Draft
365(1)
Student Essay Julie Bird, ``Nature as Being: Landscape in Silko's `Lullaby'''
366(3)
Evaluating the Essay
369(1)
Using What You Have Learned
369(2)
Writing an Ethnographic Essay
371(56)
Writing About Culture
371(1)
Motives for Writing Ethnography
372(1)
Ethnography and Academic Writing
372(1)
Features of the Form
373(16)
Ethnographic Essay Rachel Simmons, ``From Odd Girl Out: Intimate Enemies''
375(4)
Inquiring into the Essay
379(1)
Ethnographic Essay Patricia Leigh Brown, ``For the Muslim Prom Queen, There Are No Kings Allowed''
380(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
383(1)
Ethnographic Essay Rebekah Nathan, ``My Freshman Year: Worldliness and Worldview''
384(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
387(1)
Seeing the Form Mrs. Smith's Kitchen Table and Vanity the Day after She Died
388(1)
The Writing Process
389(36)
Thinking About Subjects
389(1)
Writing with Computers
390(1)
Generating Ideas
390(1)
Listing Prompts
391(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
392(1)
Visual Prompts
392(1)
Research Prompts
393(1)
Writing with Computers
393(1)
Judging What You Have
394(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
394(1)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
395(1)
Inquiring into the Details Questions Ethnographers Ask
395(1)
Research Considerations
396(1)
Inquiring into the Details Ethnography and Ethics
397(2)
Field Notes Rita Guerra, ``Field Notes on Friday Afternoon at Emerald Lanes''
399(1)
Writing the Sketch
400(1)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
401(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
401(1)
Questions for Peer Review
402(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
402(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
402(1)
Inquiring into the Details Useful Library Databases for Ethnography
403(1)
Composing the Draft
403(1)
Methods of Development
404(1)
Using Evidence
405(1)
Workshopping the Draft
405(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
405(1)
Questions for Readers
406(1)
Revising the Draft
406(1)
Polishing the Draft
407(2)
Student Essay Kersti Harter, ``Beyond `Gaydar': How Gay Males Identify Other Gay Males''
409(16)
Evaluating the Essay
425(1)
Using What You Have Learned
425(2)
Part Three Inquiring Deeper
427(168)
Writing a Research Essay
429(62)
Writing with Research
429(1)
Research Essays Versus Research Papers
430(1)
Motives for Writing a Research Essay
431(1)
The Research Essay and Academic Writing
431(1)
Features of the Form
432(20)
Undocumented Research Essay Christian Century Magazine, ``Courting Confusion''
434(1)
Inquiring into the Essay
435(1)
Documented Research Essay Beth Bailey, ``The Worth of a Date''
436(3)
Inquiring into the Essay
439(1)
Inquiring into the Details Reading Academic Research Essays
440(1)
Documented Research Paper Tracy Lambert, Arnold Kahn, and Kevin Apple, ``Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up''
441(8)
Inquiring into the Essay
449(1)
Seeing the Form Idaho State Penitentiary, Women's Prison
450(2)
The Writing Process
452(37)
Thinking About Subjects
452(1)
Generating Ideas
453(1)
Listing Prompts
453(1)
Fastwriting Prompts
453(1)
One Student's Response Julian's Journal
454(1)
Visual Prompts
454(1)
Research Prompts
454(1)
Judging What You Have
455(1)
What's Promising Material and What Isn't?
456(1)
Is It a Researchable Question?
456(1)
Questions About Audience and Purpose
457(1)
Inquiring into the Details Finding the Focusing Question
457(1)
One Student's Response Julian's Journal
458(1)
Writing the Sketch
459(1)
Student Sketch Amy Garrett-Brown, ``Why Do People Tan?''
459(2)
Moving from Sketch to Draft
461(1)
Evaluating Your Own Sketch
461(1)
Questions for Peer Review
461(1)
Reflecting on What You've Learned
462(1)
Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information
462(1)
Composing the Draft
463(1)
Methods of Development
464(1)
Using Evidence
464(2)
Workshopping the Draft
466(1)
Reflecting on the Draft
466(1)
Writing with Computers
466(1)
Questions for Readers
467(1)
Revising the Draft
467(2)
Polishing the Draft
469(2)
Student Essay Gordon E. Seirup, ``College Dating''
471(17)
Evaluating the Essay
488(1)
Using What You Have Learned
489(2)
Research Techniques
491(40)
Methods of Collecting
491(1)
Research in the Electronic Age
492(8)
Magic Words That Open Doors
493(1)
How Librarians Organize Books
493(1)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
494(2)
Google Your Boole
496(4)
Developing Working Knowledge
500(9)
Writing with Computers
501(3)
Searching Key Library References
504(2)
Inquiring into the Details Methods of Recording Information
506(1)
Conducting Subject Surveys on the Web
507(1)
Inquiring into the Details The Working Bibliography
508(1)
Evaluating Library Sources
509(1)
Evaluating Web Sources
510(2)
Developing Focused Knowledge
512(9)
Finding Books
514(1)
Finding Periodicals
514(1)
Inquiring into the Details How to Annotate a Book
515(1)
Finding Newspapers
515(1)
Finding Sources on the Web
516(1)
Writing in the Middle: Synthesizing Source Information and Your Own Ideas
516(1)
Double-Entry Journal
517(1)
Research Log
517(1)
Writing with Computers
518(1)
One Student's Response Claude's Research Log
519(2)
Interviews
521(3)
Arranging Interviews
521(1)
Conducting the Interview
522(1)
Using the Interview in Your Writing
523(1)
Surveys
524(5)
Defining a Survey's Goals and Audience
524(1)
Types of Survey Questions
525(1)
Crafting Survey Questions
525(1)
Inquiring into the Details Types of Survey Questions
526(1)
Conducting a Survey
527(1)
Using Survey Results in Your Writing
528(1)
Using What You Have Learned
529(2)
Using and Citing Sources
531(64)
Controlling Information
531(1)
Using Sources
532(6)
Summarizing
533(1)
Paraphrasing
534(2)
Quoting
536(2)
Citing Sources
538(4)
Writing with Computers
539(1)
Avoiding Plagiarism
539(1)
Exercise 13.1 The Accidental Plagiarist
540(2)
MLA Documentation Guidelines
542(33)
Inquiring into the Details The Common Knowledge Exception
543(1)
Citing Sources
543(1)
Where to Put Citations
544(1)
Inquiring into the Details Citations That Go with the Flow
545(1)
When You Mention the Author's Name
545(1)
When There Is No Author
546(1)
Works by the Same Author
546(1)
When One Source Quotes Another
547(1)
Personal Interviews
547(1)
Several Sources in a Single Citation
548(1)
Sample Parenthetical References for Other Sources
548(2)
Writing with Computers
550(1)
Format
551(1)
The Layout
551(3)
Preparing the Works Cited Page
554(1)
Format
555(1)
Citing Books
556(5)
Citing Periodicals
561(4)
Citing Nonprint and Other Sources
565(2)
Citing ``Portable'' Databases
567(1)
Citing Online Databases
568(7)
A Sample Paper in MLA Style
575(1)
APA Documentation Guidelines
575(19)
How the Essay Should Look
575(1)
Page Format
575(1)
Inquiring into the Details Recent APA Style Changes
576(1)
Title Page
576(1)
Abstract
576(1)
Body of the Paper
576(2)
References Page
578(1)
Appendix
579(1)
Notes
579(1)
Tables and Figures
579(1)
Language and Style
580(1)
Citing Sources in Your Essay
580(1)
When the Author Is Mentioned in the Text
580(1)
When the Author Isn't Mentioned in the Text
580(1)
When to Cite Page Numbers
580(1)
A Single Work by Two or More Authors
581(1)
A Work with No Author
581(1)
Two or More Works by the Same Author
581(1)
An Institutional Author
581(1)
Multiple Works in the Same Parentheses
582(1)
Interviews, E-Mail, and Letters
582(1)
New Editions of Old Works
582(1)
A Web Site
582(1)
Preparing the References List
583(1)
Order of Sources
583(1)
Order of Information
583(1)
Sample References
584(5)
Citing Electronic Sources
589(1)
Sample Electronic Sources
590(3)
A Sample Paper in APA Style
593(1)
Using What You Have Learned
594(1)
Part Four Re-Inquiring
595
Revision Strategies
597(40)
Re-seeing Your Topic
597(1)
Divorcing the Draft
598(1)
Writing with Computers
599(1)
Strategies for Divorcing the Draft
599(2)
Photography as a Metaphor for Revision
601(1)
Five Categories of Revision
602(2)
Problems of Purpose
604(5)
Revision Strategy 14.1: What's Your Primary Motive?
605(1)
Revision Strategy 14.2: What Do You Want to Know About What You Learned?
606(1)
Revision Strategy 14.3: Finding the Focusing Question
606(1)
One Student's Response Julia's Draft
607(1)
Revision Strategy 14.4: What's the Relationship?
608(1)
Problems with Meaning
609(7)
Implicit or Explicit Meaning
609(1)
Looking Beyond the Obvious
610(1)
Methods for Discovering Your Thesis
610(1)
Revision Strategy 14.5: Find the ``Instructive Line''
610(1)
Revision Strategy 14.6: Looping Toward a Thesis
611(1)
Revision Strategy 14.7: Reclaiming Your Topic
612(1)
Revision Strategy 14.8: Believing and Doubting
613(1)
Methods for Refining Your Thesis
614(1)
Revision Strategy 14.9: Questions as Knives
614(1)
Revision Strategy 14.10: Qualifying Your Claims
615(1)
Problems with Information
616(4)
Revision Strategy 14.11: Explode a Moment
616(1)
Revision Strategy 14.12: Beyond Examples
617(2)
Revision Strategy 14.13: Research
619(1)
Revision Strategy 14.14: Backing up Your Assumptions
619(1)
Problems with Structure
620(6)
Formal Academic Structures
620(1)
Revision Strategy 14.15: Reorganizing Around Thesis and Support
620(2)
Revision Strategy 14.16: Multiple Leads
622(1)
Inquiring into the Details Types of Leads
623(1)
Revision Strategy 14.17: The Frankenstein Draft
624(1)
Revision Strategy 14.18: Make a PowerPoint Outline
625(1)
Problems of Clarity and Style
626(9)
Solving Problems of Clarity
627(1)
Revision Strategy 14.19: Untangling Paragraphs
627(2)
Revision Strategy 14.20: Cutting Clutter
629(1)
Inquiring into the Details Transition Flags
630(1)
Revision Strategy 14.21: The Actor and the Action Next Door
631(1)
Improving Style
632(1)
Revision Strategy 14.22: Actors and Actions
632(1)
Revision Strategy 14.23: Smoothing the Choppiness
633(1)
Revision Strategy 14.24: Fresh Ways to Say Things
634(1)
Using What You Have Learned
635(2)
The Writer's Workshop
637
Making the Most of Peer Review
637(3)
Being Read
637(1)
Divorcing the Draft
638(1)
Instructive Talk
639(1)
Models for Writing Workshops
640(2)
Full-Class Workshops
640(1)
Small-Group Workshops
641(1)
One-on-One Peer Review
641(1)
The Writer's Responsibilities
642(2)
Writing with Computers
643(1)
The Reader's Responsibilities
644(1)
What Can Go Wrong and What to Do About It
644(3)
Inquiring into the Details Finding a Role
645(1)
Exercise 15.1 Group Problem Solving
646(1)
One Student's Response Amy's Perspective on Workshops
647(1)
Methods of Responding
647(10)
Experiential and Directive Responses
648(1)
Response Formats
648(1)
The No-Response Workshop
648(1)
The Initial-Response Workshop
649(1)
The Narrative-of-Thought Workshop
649(1)
The Instructive-Lines Workshop
650(1)
The Purpose Workshop
651(1)
The Graphing Reader Interest Workshop
652(1)
The Sum-of-the-Parts Workshop
653(1)
The Thesis Workshop
653(2)
The Editing Workshop
655(1)
Reflecting on the Workshop
656(1)
Using What You Have Learned
657
Appendix A The Writing Portfolio
1(1)
What Is a Portfolio?
1(1)
Types of Portfolios
2(2)
Unevaluated Portfolios
2(1)
Evaluated Portfolio
3(1)
Why Require a Portfolio?
4(1)
Organizing Portfolios
5(1)
Writing a Reflective Letter or Essay
6(3)
Final Preparations
9
Appendix B The Literature Review
1(1)
What Is a Literature Review?
1(1)
How to Write the Literature Review
2
Gathering Materials
2(1)
Reading Strategies
3(1)
Organizing
4
Appendix C The Annotated Bibliography
1(1)
What Is an Annotated Bibliography?
1(2)
How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
3(1)
Gathering Materials
3(1)
Reading Strategies
3(1)
Writing the Annotated Bibliography
4(1)
Sample Student Annotated Bibliography
4
Appendix D The Essay Exam
1(1)
How to Write Essay Exams
2
Gathering Materials
2(1)
Anticipating the Exam
3(1)
Analyzing Essay Questions
4(3)
Planning and Drafting
7
Handbook
1(1)
Sentence Boundaries
3(8)
Fragments
3(4)
Comma Splices
7(3)
Fused Sentences
10(1)
Sentence Inconsistencies
11(5)
Parallelism
12(1)
Coordination and Subordination
13(1)
Mixed Sentences
14(1)
Shifts
15(1)
Problems with Modification
16(4)
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
16(1)
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Modifiers
17(2)
Adjectives and Adverbs
19(1)
Verbs
20(5)
Tense
20(2)
Voice
22(1)
Mood
22(1)
Subject-Verb Agreement
23(2)
Pronouns
25(5)
Pronoun Case
25(2)
Pronoun Reference
27(1)
Pronoun Agreement
28(1)
Relative Pronouns
29(1)
Style
30(4)
Conciseness
30(2)
Appropriate Language
32(2)
Punctuation
34(9)
End Punctuation
36(1)
Semicolon
36(1)
Comma
37(3)
Colon
40(1)
Dash
41(1)
Quotation Marks
41(1)
Other Marks
42(1)
Mechanics and Spelling
43(9)
Capitalization
43(1)
Abbreviation
44(1)
Apostrophe
45(1)
Italics
46(1)
Hyphens
47(1)
Numbers
48(1)
Spelling
49(3)
Review of Basic Grammar
52(17)
Parts of Speech
52(11)
Subjects and Predicates
63(1)
Objects and Complements
63(2)
Phrases
65(1)
Clauses
66(1)
Basic Sentence Patterns
67(1)
Types of Sentences
68(1)
Tips for ESL Writers
69
Articles
69(2)
Verbs
71(3)
Adjectives and Adverbs
74(2)
Prepositions
76(1)
Participles
77
Credits 1(1)
Index 1