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For over thirty years, READINGS FOR WRITERS has been the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This best-seller continues its tradition of providing the most comprehensive coverage of writing, while also offering the greatest reading selections of any rhetorical reader on the market. With more than 100 selections from a broad range of topics and genres, this text offers something to spark excitement in any developing writer.
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Publisher
Wadsworth
ISBN-10
0495899496
ISBN-13
9780495899495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73262631
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
832 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Readings for Writers (With 2009 Mla Update Card)
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Language Experience Approach, Study & Teaching, Rhetoric, Readers
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
40.9 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
13
Target Audience
College Audience
Table of Content
Part I: READING AND WRITING.1. Guidelines for Critical Reading.Kinds of Reading, Andy Rooney. Hidden within Technology's Empire, A Republic of Letters, Saul Bellow.2. What Is Rhetoric?Road Map to Rhetoric. Grammar and Rhetoric. Audience and Purpose. The Internal Reader/Editor. Levels of English. Writing as a Process. Writing about Visual Images Exercises. Advice: What--and How--to Write When You Have No Time to Write, Donald Murray. Examples: I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter to Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln [New selection]. Have a Cigar, James Herriot. Real Life Student Writing: E-mail from Samoa.3. What Is a Writer's Voice?Road Map to Writer's Voice. Voice: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Vocabulary. Syntax. Attitude. Exercises. Advice: How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words, Paul Roberts. Examples: Tone: The Writer's Voice in the Reader's Mind, Mort Castle. The Waltz, Dorothy Parker. Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution, Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Salvation, Langston Hughes. A Grunt's Prayer, Ken Noyle [New selection]. Real Life Student Writing: A Thank-You Note to an Aunt.4. What Is a Thesis?Road Map to a Thesis. Finding Your Thesis. Key Words in the Thesis. Characteristics of a Good Thesis. Nine Errors to Avoid in Composing a Thesis. The Explicit versus the Implicit Thesis. Advice: Thesis, Sheridan Baker. Examples: The Grieving Never Ends, Roxanne Roberts. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor. Spring, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Real Life Student Writing: A Eulogy to a Friend Killed in a Car Wreck.5. How Do I Organize?Road Map to Organizing. Organizing the Short Essay. Organizing the Long Essay. Planning by Listing Supporting Materials. Organizing with a Formal Outline. Advice: Write to be Understood, Jim Staylor [New selection]. Examples: My Wood, E.M. Forester. Rules for Aging, Roger Rosenblatt. The Catbird Seat, James Thurber. That Time of Year (Sonnet 73), William Shakespeare. Real Life Student Writing: Note from a Graduate Student to a Department Secretary.6. Developing Paragraphs.Road Map to Developing Paragraphs. Parts of the Paragraph. Supporting Details. Topic Sentence Developed over More Than One Paragraph. Position of the Topic Sentence. Paragraph Patterns. Characteristics of a Well-Designed Paragraph. Writing Your Own Paragraphs. Advice: Writing Successful Paragraphs, A.M. Tibbetts and Charlene Tibbetts. Examples: Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the Beginning. From the Lessons of the Past, Edith Hamilton. Pain, William Somerset Maugham. I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech), Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. Man against Darkness, W. T. Stace. What Is a Poet? Mark Van Doren. On Disease, Lewis Thomas, M.D. The Flood, Robert Frost. Real Life Student Writing: Letter of Application to an Honors Program.Part II: PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT: THE RHETORICAL MODES.7. Narration.Road Map to Narration. What Narration Does. When to Use Narration. How to Write a Narrative. Warming Up to Write a Narrative. Examples: Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell. My Name is Margaret, Maya Angelou. Shame, Dick Gregory. On Black Fathering, Cornel West [New selection]. Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden. Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: What Does Islam Say about Terrorism? Abdullah Momin. "Postscript" to Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen Bin Laden. Punctuation Workshop: The Period. Student Corner: The Right Moves against Terrorism, Sion Arakelian.8. Description.Road Map to Description. What Description Does. When to Use Description. How to Write a Description. Warming Up to Write a Description. Examples: The Libido for the Ugly, H. L. Mencken. Hell, James Joyce. A Worn Path, Eudora Welty. Pigeon Woman, May Swenson. Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Body Image, Cindy Maynard. Stretch Marks, Anna Quindlen. Punctuation Workshop: The Comma. Student Corner: Body Modification--Think about It! Shelley Taylor [New selection].9. Process Analysis.Road
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