Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader

Preface To Student Rhetoric Chapter 1 Writing: First Look Purposes of Writing Audience for Your Writing Qualities of Good Writing Writing and Ethics 1 Chapter 2 Strategies for Successful Reading Orienting Your Reading First Reading Additional Readings Mastering Reading Problems Reading to Critique Reading Assignments Carefully Reading as a Writer The Appeal of the Androgynous Man by Amy Gross Writing About You Read Chapter 3 Planning and Drafting Your Paper Understanding the Assignment Zeroing In on a Topic Gathering Information Organizing the Information Creating an Outline Developing a Thesis Statement Writing the First Draft Planning and Drafting with a Computer Chapter 4 Revising and Editing Your Paper Preparing to Revise Considering the Whole Essay Strengthening Paragraph Structure and Development Sharpening Sentences and Words Writing the Introduction and Conclusion Selecting a Title Peer Evaluation of Drafts Proofreading Your Draft Revising with a computer Collaborative Writing Maintaining and Reviewing a Portfolio Chapter 5 Paragraphs Characteristics of Effective Paragraphs Paragraphs with Special Functions Chapter6 Effective Sentences Sentence Strategies Chapter 7 Diction, Tone, Style Toward Clear Diction Toward Rhetorical Effect Special Stylistic Techniques Eliminating Flawed Diction Chapter 8 Narration: Relating Events Purpose Action Conflict Point of View Key Events Dialogue Ethical Issues Writing a Narrative *SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF NARRATION: Joy through the Tears by Brittany Coggin Critical Edge Chapter 9 Description: Presenting Impressions Purpose Sensory Impressions Dominant Impression Vantage Point Selection of Details Arrangement of Details Ethical Issues Writing a Description *SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF DESCRIPTION: My Serenity by Rachel Harvey Critical Edge Chapter 10 Process Analysis: Explaining How Kinds of Process Analysis Papers Ethical Issues Writing a Process Analysis *SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF PROCESS ANALYSIS: Basic Song Writing Technique by Hannah Hill Critical Edge Chapter 11 Illustration: Making Yourself Clear Selecting Appropriate Examples Number of Examples Organizing the Examples Ethical Issues Writing an Illustration SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF ILLUSTRATION: If It Is Worth Doing by Janice Carlton Critical Edge Chapter 12 Classification: Grouping into Categories Selecting Categories Number of Categories Developing Categories Ethical Issues Writing a Classification SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF CLASSIFICATION: of Video Games for Children by Kyra Glass Critical Edge Chapter 13 Comparison: Showing Relationships Selecting Items for Comparison Developing a Comparison Organizing a Comparison Using Analogy Ethical Issues Writing a Comparison *SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF COMPARISON: Differences between Korean and English by Sunho Lee Critical Edge Chapter 14 Cause and Effect: Explaining Patterns in Causal Analysis Reasoning Errors in Causal Analysis Ethical Issues Writing a Causal Analysis SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Why Students Drop Out of College by Diann Fisher Critical Edge Chapter 15 Definition: Establishing Boundaries Types of Definitions Ethical Issues Writing an Extended Definition SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF DEFINITION: Rediscovering Patriotism by Peter Wing Critical Edge Chapter 16 Argument: Convincing Others Rational Appeal Reasoning Strategies Emotional Appeal Ethical Appeal Ferreting Out Fallacies Ethical Issues Writing an Argument *SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF ARGUMENT: Bottled Troubled Water by Scott Lemanski Critical Edge Chapter 17 Mixing the Writing Strategies and How to Mix Strategies Ethical Issues Problem/Solution Report Evaluation Report *SAMPLE ESSAY USING SEVERAL WRITING STRATEGIES: Eating Alone in Restaurants by Bruce Jay Friedman Critical Edge Chapter 18 Essay Examination Studying for the Examination Types of Test Questions Preparing to Write Writing the Examination Answer Chapter 19 Writing About Literature Elements of Literature Ethical Issues Writing a Paper on Literature SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY ON LITERATURE: Scratchy Wilson: No Cardboard Character by Wendell Stone Reader Rhetorical Table of Contents Narration The Perfect Picture by James Alexander Thom Sound and Fury by Dan Greenburg Momma,s Encounter by Maya Angelou The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas Description When the Full Moon Shines Its Magic over Monument Valley by John V. Young Assembly Line Adventure by Lesley Hazleton Once More to the Lake by E. B. White Process Analysis Fast Track to Perfection by Ian Dunbar *Taking Carbon Down by Caroline Golman Let,s Get Vertical! by Beth Wald Can Generation Xers Be Trained? by Shari Caudron Illustration Binge Drinking: Campus Killer by Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rambos of the Road by Martin Gottfried Going for Broke by Matea Gold and David Ferrell The Company Man by Ellen Goodman Classification What Are Friends for? by Marion Winik The Men We Carry in Our Minds by Scott Russell Sanders A Tale of Four Learners by Bernice McCarthy Which Stooge Are You? by Ron Geraci Comparison Grant and Lee: Study in Contrasts by Bruce Catton Conversational Ballgames by Nancy Masterson Sakamoto Barbie Doesn,t Live Here Anymore by Mariflo Stephens Private Language, Public Language by Richard Rodriguez Art Form for the Digital Age by Henry Jenkins Cause and Effect Old Father Time Becomes a Terror by Richard Tomkins Why We Keep Stuff by Caroline Knapp Why Marriages Fail by Anne Roiphe *Why We Flirt by Belinda Luscombe and Kate Stinchfield Definition The Smell of Success Isn,t All That Sweet by Laurence Shames The Blended Economy by Marc Zwelling *Krumping by Marc Zwelling Argument *The Problem with Single-Payer Plans by Ezekiel J. Emanuel *Has Canada Got the Cure? by Holly Dressel The Misguided Zeal of the Privacy Lobby by Alan Ehrenhalt Halt and Show Your Papers! by Barbara Dority I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. A Journalist,s View of Black Economics by William Rasberry *The Case for by Nathan Thornburgh *Not Amnesty but Attrition by Mark Krikorian Mixing the Writing Strategies *Supermarket Pastoral by Michael Pollan From Social Bodies: Tightening the Bonds of Beauty by Deborah A. Sullivan Gender Gap in Cyberspace by Deborah Tannen * new to this edition