For over 30 years, READINGS FOR WRITERS has been the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings. With more than 100 selections from a broad range of topics and genres, this text offers something to spark excitement in any writer. INDICE: Thematic Table of Contents..Preface..Part I: READING AND WRITING: FROM READING TO WRITING..1. Guidelines for Critical Reading. Kinds of Reading.Steps to Critical Reading. Read Actively. Demystify the Writer. Understand What You Read. Imagine an Opposing Point of View for All Opinions. Look for Biases and Hidden Assumptions. Separate Emotion from Fact. If the Issue Is New to You, Look up the Facts. Use Insights from One Subject to Illuminate or CorrectAnother. Evaluate the Evidence. Ponder the Values behind a Claim. Recognize Logical Fallacies. Don't Be Seduced by Bogus Claims. Annotate Your Reading. Finally, Be Sure You Understand the Writer's Opening Context. Answers to CriticalReading Questions on Andy Rooney. Hidden within Technology's Empire, a Republic of Letters / Saul Bellow..2. What Is Rhetoric? Road Map to Rhetoric. Grammar and Rhetoric. The Importance of Good Grammar. Letting the Habits of LiterateWriters Be the Final Referee. Exercises. The Importance of Rhetoric. Audienceand Purpose. The Internal Reader/Editor. Levels of English. Writing as a Process. Writing about Visual Images. 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. Have a Cigar / James Herriot. Chapter Writing Assignments. Pointer from a Pro: Write Often. Real-Life Student Writing. E-Mail from Samoa..3. What Is a Writer's Voice? Road Map to Writer's 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. Chapter Writing Assignments. Real-Life Student Writing. A Thank-You Note to an Aunt..4. What Is a Thesis? Road Map to 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. Exercises. Advice. The 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. Chapter Writing Assignments. 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. Exercises. Advice. Write to Be Understood / Jim Staylor. Examples. My Wood / E. M. Forster. Rulesfor Aging / Roger Rosenblatt. The Catbird Seat / James Thurber. That Time of Year (Sonnet 73) / William Shakespeare. Chapter Writing Assignments. Real-LifeStudent Writing. Note from a Graduate Student to a Department Secretary..6. Developing Paragraphs. Road Map to Paragraphs. Parts of the Paragraph. Supporting Details. Topic Sentence Developed over More Than One Paragraph. Position ofthe Topic Sentence. Paragraph Patterns. Characteristics of a Well-designed Paragraph. Writing Your Own Paragraphs. Exercises. Advice. Writing Successful Paragraphs / A. M. Tibbetts and Charlene Tibbetts. Examples. Paragraphs with theTopic 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 Percé. Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the End. Man against Darkness / W. T. Stace. What Is a Poet? / Mark Van Doren. On Disease / Lewis Thomas, M.D. The Flood / Robert Frost. Chapter Writing Assignments. Real-Life Student Writing. Letter of Application to an Honors Program.
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