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Strategies for College Writing A Rhetorical Reader

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ISBN-10: 0130982555

ISBN-13: 9780130982551

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Funk, Linda S. Coleman, Susan X. Day

List price: $108.80
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For courses in Freshman Composition. This rhetorical reader unifies the reading and writing processes through Who, What, Why, How heuristic that is easy for students to understand. Employing an approach that is firmly process-oriented and based on interactive instruction, this text presents extended, lively essays meant to spur ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and illustrate methods for organizing and presenting information.
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Book details

List price: $108.80
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 5/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 567
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Engaged Reading
Getting Started
Reading with a Plan: Who? What? Why? and How?
Gender Gap in Cyberspace, Deborah Tannen
Using Who? What? Why? and How?
Making the Reading-Writing Connection
Using the Core Strategies
Writing from Reading
Developing Your Writing Skills
Constructing an Essay
Revising and Editing
A Sample Essay from Draft to Final Copy
Internet Sources for Writers
Using Internet Resources
Twelve Tips to Search the Internet Successfully
Strategies for Discovering and Relating Experiences: Narration
Informal Discovery Writing
Diary
From Discovery to Narration
Formal Narration: Relating Discoveries to Readers
Getting Started on a Narrative
Organizing a Narrative
Developing a Narrative
Opening and Closing a Narrative
Using the Model
Jackie's Debut: A Unique Day
Salvation, Langston Hughes
Street Scene: Minor Heroism in a Major Metropolitan Area
No Name Woman
Shooting an Elephant
Further Ideas for Using Narration
Strategies for Appealing to the Senses: Description
The Grandfather
Writing from Reading
Getting Started on a Description
Organizing a Description
Developing a Description
Using the Model
Two Views of the Mississippi
Marrying Absurd
White Breast Flats
In the Kitchen
Once More to the Lake
Further Ideas for Using Description
Strategies for Making a Point: Exemplification
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
Writing from Reading
Getting Started on Exemplification
Organizing Exemplification
Developing Exemplification
Opening and Closing Exemplification
Using the Model
On the Interstate: A City of the Mind
Shitty First Drafts
Slow Descent into Hell
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
A Weight That Women Carry
Further Ideas for Using Exemplification
Strategies for Explaining How Things Work: Process Analysis
Cat Bathing as a Martial Art
Writing from Reading
Getting Started on a Process Analysis
Organizing a Process Analysis
Developing a Process Analysis
Opening and Closing a Process Analysis
Using the Model
Wall Covering
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Embalming Mr. Jones
How to Write a Personal Letter
The Trouble with French Fries
Further Ideas for Using Process Analysis
Strategies for Clarifying Meaning: Definition
The Company Man
Writing from Reading
Getting Started on a Definition
Organizing a Definition
Developing a Definition
Opening and Closing a Definition
Using the Model
Who's a Hillbilly?
I Want a Wife
Mother Tongue
Father Hunger
The Fear
Further Ideas for Using Definition
Strategies for Organizing Ideas and Experience: Division and Cla