Title:
The Longwood guide to writing
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Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Pearson Longman, 2008
Physical Description:
xxii, 703 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780205553761
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Summary
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Reflecting the author's fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based rhetorics on the market.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| I Strategies For The Writing Process |
| Why Write? |
| How Does Writing Happen? |
| Stages in the Writing Process |
| Writing and Reading |
| Computers and Writing |
| 1 Invention: Finding Something to Say Finding Topics |
| Writing about an Assigned Topic Exploring Topics |
| Finding Information Sample Student Process Prewriting From Inventing to Drafting |
| 2 Shaping an Essay Initial Shaping Strategies |
| Sample Student Process Discovery |
| Draft Developing an Essay's |
| Structure Elements of an Essay |
| Writing Strategy: Beating the Dreaded Writer's Block |
| 3 Revising Revising Strategies Writer's Notebook: Responding to Readers' |
| Comments Editing Strategies |
| Writing a Self-Assessment Sample |
| Student Process Revision Marisol Vargas, Mirror Image |
| 4 Responding to Readings Sample ReadingLee Abbott |
| The True Storyof Why I Do |
| What I Do Reading Strategies for Texts |
| Readings Strategies for Visuals Writers Notebook: Dialogue Notes |
| Writing Paraphrases and Summaries |
| Writing a Response |
| Sample Student Essay |
| Summary and Response |
| Christian Clark |
| An Analysis of Jaclyn Tablert's |
| "Justice For Those |
| Who Have Shown Us No Mercy" |
| II Writing Occasions |
| Aims of Discourse |
| Modes of Discourse |
| Wedding Aim and Mode |
| Classifying Occasions |
| 5 Personal Essays Sample Essays |
| Datus Proper, Dark Hollow Judith Ortiz Cofer |
| The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria |
| Charles McNair, My Father's Cabin |
| The Rhetorical Triangle |
| Distinguishing Features of Personal Essays |
| Assignments and Guidelines for Writing |
| Sample Student Process Chris Miller, Gringos on Safari |
| 6 Information Essays |
| Sample Essays |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On the Fear of Dying |
| Suzanne Smalley, The Perfect Crime |
| Jay Chiat,Illusions are Forever |
| Arthur Rosenfelf, Should Anyone Have to Live in Pain? |
| Gloria Naylor, Mommy |
| What Does "Nigger" Mean? |
| Michel Marriott, Rap's Embrace of "Nigger" Fires Bitter Debate |
| Kelly McGinley, Investing in Your Future |
| The Rhetorical Triangle |
| Subject |
| Writer |
| Reader |
| Distinguishing Features of Information Essays |
| Reader's Knowledge |
| Clarity |
| Assignment and Guidelines for Writing |
| Assignment |
| Choosing a Topic |
| Collecting Information |
| Focus Statement |
| Planning Your Essay's Structure |
| Meir Shalev, If Bosnian's Were Whales |
| Thesis Statement |
| Refining Your Writing |
| Sample Student Process |
| Michael Graham, All in a Day's Work: Generalizing |
| Profiling, and Stereotyping |
| Checklist: Critiquing an Information Essay |
| 7 Essays About and From Literature |
| Sample Stories, Poems, and Nonfiction Prose |
| Joyce Carol Oates, Shopping |
| Antonya Nelson, In the Land of Men |
| Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour |
| Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something |
| Margaret Atwood, Spelling |
| She |
