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A Short Guide to College Writing Sylvan Barnet

A Short Guide to College Writing By Sylvan Barnet

A Short Guide to College Writing by Sylvan Barnet


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A Short Guide to College Writing by Sylvan Barnet

One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing. Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers clear, practical guidance. You can turn to this book for help with everything from choosing a topic, writing an analysis, and documenting sources to constructing a paragraph and punctuating a quotation. Separate chapters provide support for revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy.

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Table of Contents

Preface

I THE WRITING PROCESS

1 Developing Ideas

Starting

Focusing

Checklist for a Thesis Sentence

Developing Ideas

2 Drafting and Revising

Reading Drafts

Peer Review: The Benefits of Having a Real Audience

Checklist for Peer Review

SUKI HUDSON, Two Sides of a Story (Student Essay)

Checklist for Drafting and Revising

3 Shaping Paragraphs

Paragraph Form and Substance

Paragraph Unity: Topic Sentences, Topic Ideas

Unity in Paragraphs

Organization in Paragraphs

Coherence in Paragraphs

Linking Paragraphs Together

CHERYL LEE, The Story Behind the Gestures (Student Essay)

Paragraph Length

Introductory Paragraphs

Concluding Paragraphs

Checklist for Revising Paragraphs

4 Revising for Conciseness

Instant Prose

Extra Words and Empty Words

Extra Sentences, Extra Clauses: Subordination

Some Concluding Remarks About Conciseness

Checklist for Revising for Conciseness

5 Revising for Clarity

Clarity

Clarity and Exactness: Using the Right Word

Clarity and Coherence

Clarity and Sentence Structure: Parallelism

Checklist for Revising for Clarity

6 Writing with Style

Academic Styles, Academic Audiences

Defining Style

Style and Tone

Acquiring Style

Part II COLLEGE WRITING

7 Analyzing Texts

Analyzing an Image

Analyzing Advertisements

Checklist for Analyzing Advertisements

Analyzing Texts

Analysis Versus Summary and Paraphrase

The Gettysburg Address: Summary, Paraphrase, Analysis

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address

Paraphrasing and Summarizing Literary Texts

Classifying and Thinking

Cause and Effect

DOLORES HAYDEN, Advertisements, Pornography, and Public Space

Analysis and Description

Comparing

Checklist for Revising Comparisons

Process Analysis

ANNE HEBALD MANDELBAUM, It's the Portly Penguin That Gets the Girl, French Biologist Claims

Explaining an Analysis

8 Persuading Readers

Emotional Appeals

Making Reasonable Arguments

Claims and Evidence

Three Kinds of Claims: Claims of Fact, Value, and Policy

Three Kinds of Evidence: Examples, Testimony, Statistics

A Note on Definition in the Persuasive Essay

LENA FLORA, The Plight of the Politically Correct (Student Essay)

How Much Evidence Is Enough?

Two Kinds of Reasoning: Induction and Deduction

Avoiding Fallacies

Wit

Tone and Ethical Appeal

A Note on Critical Thinking

Organizing an Argument

Checklist for Revising Drafts of Persuasive Essays

Persuasion at Work: Two Writers Consider Torture

PHILIP B HEYMANN, Torture Should Not Be Authorized

ALAN M DERSHOWITZ, Yes, It Should Be "On the Books"

9 Using Sources

Why Use Sources?

What Is a Source? Primary and Secondary Materials

Developing a Research Topic

The Library's Central Information System

Using the Internet

Checklist for Evaluating Websites

Reading and Taking Notes on Secondary Sources

Acknowledging Sources

Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism

10 Writing the Research Essay

Writing the Essay

Checklist for Revising Drafts of Research Essays

A Sample Research Essay (MLA Format)

BEATRICE CODY, Politics and Psychology in The Awakening (Student Essay)

A Sample Research Essay (APA Format)

JACOB ALEXANDER, Nitrite: Preservative or Carcinogen? (Student Essay)

III A WRITER'S HANDBOOK

11 Punctuating Sentences

Three Common Errors: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-On Sentences

The Period

The Question Mark

The Colon

The Semicolon

The Comma

The Dash

Parentheses

Italics

Capital Letters

The Hyphen

The Apostrophe

Abbreviations

Numbers

12 Using the Right Word

A Note on Idioms

A Writers Glossary

13 Documenting Sources

Documentation

MLA Format

APA Format

A Note on Other Systems of Documentation

14 Preparing the Manuscript

Basic Manuscript Form

Using Quotations (and Punctuating Them Correctly)

Corrections in the Final Copy

Last Words

Credits

Index

Additional information

CIN0205706606G
9780205706600
0205706606
A Short Guide to College Writing by Sylvan Barnet
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
2009-11-06
368
N/A
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