Models for Writers Short Essays for Composition

Name: Models for Writers Short Essays for Composition
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ISBN: 9780312531133

ISBN-10: 0312531133

ISBN-13: 9780312531133

Edition: 10th 2009

Authors: Alfred Rosa, Paul Eschholz

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Book details

List price: $47.99
Edition: 10th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 3/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Preface


Introduction for Students



On Reading and Writing Well



The Writing Process Prewriting


Understand Your Argument Choose a Subject Area, and Focus on a Topic


Get Ideas and Collect Information


Establish Your Thesis Know Your Audience Determine Your Method of Development


Map Your Organization Writing the First Draft


Create a Title Focus on Beginnings and Endings Revising Editing Run-ons: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices Sentence Fragments


Subject-Verb Agreement Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Verb Tense Shifts Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Faulty Parallelism Weak Nouns and Verbs Academic Diction and Tone ESL Concerns (Articles and Nouns) Proofreading Writing an Expository Essay: A Student Essay in Progress



Golf: A Character Builder(student essay)



From Reading to Writing Getting the Most Out of Your Reading



Prepare Yourself to Read the Selection



The Selection



Reread



Annotate the Text with Marginal Notes



Analyze the Text with Questions An Example: Annotating Isaac Asimov’s “Intelligence”



Fable for Tomorrow Using Your Reading in the Writing Process Reading as a Writer Writing from Reading: Three Sample Student Essays A Narrative Essay



The Strong Arm of a Sixth-Grade Teacher (student essay)


A Response Essay



The Excuse “Not To”(student essay)


An Analytical Essay




The Elements of the Essay



Thesis



The Most Important Day James Lincoln Collier


Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name



Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer



Unity



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