Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings / Edition 10

Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings / Edition 10

by Jean Wyrick
ISBN-10:
1305394216
ISBN-13:
9781305394216
Pub. Date:
01/01/2016
Publisher:
Cengage Learning
ISBN-10:
1305394216
ISBN-13:
9781305394216
Pub. Date:
01/01/2016
Publisher:
Cengage Learning
Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings / Edition 10

Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings / Edition 10

by Jean Wyrick

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Overview

Writing well is just a step away! Join the thousands of students who have learned to write well with Jean Wyrick s clear, thoughtful advice. STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS, 10th Edition, is the ultimate step-by-step guide to writing effective academic essays. Wyrick offers friendly, practical guidelines for composing different types of essays, with discussion of everything from choosing a topic to developing an essay to polishing your prose. This 10th edition includes new Visualizing the Process flowcharts that provide at-a-glance summaries of the steps for completing each of the major assignments in the text; many new professional readings and sample essays that offer useful models for academic writing and also touch on engaging topics intended to spark ideas for your own writing; and a wealth of exercises, group activities, and longer assignments that provide additional essay topic ideas and opportunities to apply and review what you are learning.

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ISBN-13: 9781305394216
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Publication date: 01/01/2016
Series: Wyrick's Steps to Writing Well Series
Edition description: Student
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jean Wyrick is Professor Emerita of English at Colorado State University, where she was director of composition for 11 years. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching writing, training writing teachers, and designing writing/writing-across-the-curriculum programs. Her other textbooks include THE RINEHART READER and DISCOVERING IDEAS. She has presented over 100 workshops and papers on the teaching of writing, American literature, American studies, and women's studies.

Table of Contents

Part I: THE BASICS OF THE SHORT ESSAY. 1. Prewriting. Getting Started (or Soup-Can Labels Can Be Fascinating). Selecting a Subject. Finding Your Essay s Purpose and Focus. Pump-Primer Techniques. After You ve Found Your Focus. Practicing What You ve Learned. Discovering Your Audience. How to Identify Your Readers. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Keeping a Journal (Talking to Yourself Does Help). Chapter 1 Summary. 2. The Thesis Statement. What Is a Thesis? What Does a Working Thesis Do? Can a Working Thesis Change? Guidelines for Writing a Good Thesis. Avoiding Common Errors in Thesis Statements. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Using the Essay Map. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Chapter 2 Summary. 3. The Body Paragraphs. Planning the Body of Your Essay. Composing the Body Paragraphs. The Topic Sentence. Focusing Your Topic Sentence. Placing Your Topic Sentence. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Paragraph Development. Paragraph Length. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Paragraph Unity. Practicing What You ve Learned. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Paragraph Coherence. Practicing What You ve Learned. Paragraph Sequence. Transitions between Paragraphs. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Chapter 3 Summary. 4. Beginnings and Endings. How to Write a Good Lead-In. Avoiding Errors in Lead-Ins. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. How to Write a Good Concluding Paragraph. Avoiding Errors in Conclusions. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. How to Write a Good Title. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Chapter 4 Summary. 5. Drafting and Revising: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking. What Is Revision? When Does Revision Occur? Myths about Revision. Can I Learn to Improve My Revision Skills? Preparing to Draft. Some Basic Tips for Drafting. Some Hints When Drafting on a Computer. Some Hints When Handwriting a Draft. Writing Centers, Computer Classrooms, and Electronic Networks. Procrastination: Enemy of Critical Thinking, Thief of Time. I. Revising for Purpose, Thesis, and Audience. II. Revising for Ideas and Evidence. What Is Critical Thinking? Thinking Critically as a Writer. Critical Thinking and Visual Literacy. III. Revising for Organization. IV. Revising for Clarity and Style. V. Editing for Errors. VI. Proofreading. A Final Checklist for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: The Fear No One Talks About. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Collaborative Activities: Group Work, Peer Revision Workshops, and Team Projects. Benefiting from Collaborative Activities. Guidelines for Peer Revision Workshops. Guidelines for Small-Group Work. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Some Last Advice: How to Play with Your Mental Blocks. Chapter 5 Summary. 6. Effective Sentences. Developing a Clear Style. Practicing What You ve Learned. Developing a Concise Style. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Developing an Engaging Style. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Developing an Emphatic Style. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Chapter 6 Summary. 7. Word Logic. Selecting the Correct Words. Practicing What You ve Learned. Selecting the Best Words. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Applying What You ve Learned to Your Writing. Chapter 7 Summary. 8. The Reading-Writing Connection. How Can Reading Well Help Me Become a Better Writer? How Can I Become an Analytical Reader? Steps to Reading Well. Sample Annotated Essay: College for Grown-Ups. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. How Can I Read Multimodal Texts Analytically? Steps to Reading Multimodal Texts Well. Sample Annotated Advertisement. Writing a Summary. Practicing What You ve Learned. Benefiting from Class Discussion. Practicing What You ve Learned. Chapter 8 Summary. Part One Summary: The Basics of the Short Essay. Part II: PURPOSES, MODES, AND STRATEGIES. 9. Development by Example. Why and How to Use Examples In Your Writing. Developing Your Essay. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: If You Want to Get to Know a New Place, Go For a Run. Professional Essay: So What s So Bad about Being So-So? A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 10. Process Analysis. Types of Process Analysis Essays. Developing Your Essay. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: An Experiment in Spending Less. Professional Essay (Informative Process): To Bid the World Farewell. Professional Essay (Directional Process): Preparing for the Job Interview: Know Thyself. A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 11. Comparison and Contrast. Developing Your Essay. Which Pattern Should You Use? Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay (Point-by-Point Pattern): When It s Time to Study, Get Out of Your Pajamas. Sample Student Essay (Block Pattern): More Than Just the Crust: New York and Chicago Style Pizza. Professional Essay (Point-by-Point Pattern): Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts. Professional Essay (Block Pattern): Two Ways of Viewing the River. A Revision Worksheet. A Special Kind of Comparison: The Analogy. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 12. Definition. Why Do We Define? Developing Your Essay. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: Blind Paces. Professional Essay: The Munchausen Mystery. A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 13. Division and Classification. Division. Classification. Developing Your Essay. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: The Native American Era at Mesa Verde. Professional Essay (Classification): The Plot against People. Professional Essay (Division): What Is REALLY in a Hot Dog? A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 14. Causal Analysis. Developing Your Essay. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: It s Simply Not Worth It. Professional Essay: Why Are Young People Ditching Cars for Smartphones? A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 15. Argumentation. Developing Your Essay. Problems to Avoid. Common Logical Fallacies. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: Better Information Equals Healthier Eating. Professional Essays (Paired): Mandatory Voting Won t Cure Dismal Turnout and Required Voting Yields Benefits. Analyzing Advertisements. Divergent Viewpoints: Gun Ownership in America. Competing Products: Sources of Energy. Popular Appeals: Spending Our Money. Practicing What You ve Learned. A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 16. Description. How to Write Effective Description. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment: Birthday by Marc Chagall. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: Treeclimbing. Professional Essay: Pretty Girl. A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 17. Narration. Writing the Effective Narrative Essay. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned: Tornado Over Kansas by John Steuart Curry. Essay Topics. A Topic Proposal for Your Essay. Sample Student Essay: Never Underestimate the Little Things. Professional Essay: Don t Mess with Auntie Jean. A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. 18. Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies. Choosing the Best Strategies. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Sample Student Essay: Pass the Broccoli—Please! Professional Essay: Courage in Greensboro. A Revision Worksheet. Reviewing Your Progress. Using Strategies and Sources. Part III: SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. 19. Conducting Research and Using Sources. Focusing Your Topic. Beginning Your Library Research. General Reference Works. Library Catalogs. Databases. Special Collections. Beginning Your Online Research. Practicing What You ve Learned. Conducting Primary Research. The Personal Interview. The Questionnaire. Practicing What You ve Learned. Preparing a Working Bibliography. Choosing and Evaluating Your Sources. Preparing an Annotated Bibliography. Taking Notes. Distinguishing Paraphrase from Summary. Incorporating Your Source Material. Practicing What You ve Learned. Avoiding Plagiarism. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. 20. Documenting Sources. MLA Style. MLA Citations in Your Essay. Compiling a Works Cited List: MLA Style. Sample Works Cited Entries: MLA Style. Electronic Sources: MLA Style. Practicing What You ve Learned. APA Style. APA Citations in Your Essay. Compiling a Reference List: APA Style. Sample Reference List Entries: APA Style. Electronic Sources: APA Style. Footnote and Bibliography Form. Using Supplementary Notes. Examples (MLA Style). Sample Student Essay Using MLA Style: Pervasive Computing and Privacy Rights: Who Owns Your Emotions? Sample Student Essay Using APA Style: Pervasive Computing and Privacy Rights: Who Owns Your Emotions? 21. Classroom Writing Assignments: Exams, Timed Essays, and Presentations. Writing Well under Pressure. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Writing the Summary-and-Response Essay. Sample Student Essay: Summary and Response Essay on College for Grown-Ups. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Writing for Classroom Presentations. Steps to Effective Presentation. Guidelines for Effective Delivery. Practicing What You ve Learned. 22. Writing about Literature. Using Literature in the Composition Classroom. Suggestions for Close Reading of Literature. Steps to Reading a Story. Annotated Story: The Story of an Hour. Sample Student Essay: A Breath of Fresh Air. Steps to Reading a Poem. Annotated Poem: When I Heard the Learn d Astronomer. Sample Student Essay: Two Ways of Knowing. Guidelines for Writing about Literature. Problems to Avoid. Practicing What You ve Learned (Story): Geraldo No Last Name by Sandra Cisneros. Practicing What You ve Learned (Poems): Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden; The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. Suggestions for Writing. 23. Writing in the World of Work. Composing Business Letters. Traditional Business Letter Format. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Sample Business Letter. Creating Memos. Sending Professional E-Mail. Problems to Avoid. Writing Cover Letters and Designing Resumes. Effective Cover Letters. Effective Resumes. Problems to Avoid. Sample Resumes. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Preparing Interview Notes and Post-Interview Letters. MindTap Online Chapter. Writing about Visual Arts. Using Visual Arts in the Composition Classroom. Suggestions for Analyzing Paintings. Additional Advice about Sculpture and Photography. Practicing What You ve Learned. Guidelines for Writing about Artworks. Problems to Avoid. Annotated Painting: Nighthawks. Sample Student Essay: Night in the City and Psyche. Suggestions for Writing MindTap Online Chapter. Writing about Film. Using Film in the Composition Classroom. Guidelines for Writing about Film. Problems to Avoid. Sample Student Essay: Catch the Blackbird. Practicing What You ve Learned. Professional Essay: The Theory of Everything. Suggestions for Writing. Glossary of Film Terms. Part IV: A CONCISE HANDBOOK. Parts of Speech. Sentence Components and Classifications. 24. Major Errors in Grammar. Assessing Your Skills: Grammar (Self-scored Diagnostic Test). Errors with Verbs. Practicing What You ve Learned. Practicing What You ve Learned. Errors with Nouns. Errors with Pronouns. Practicing What You ve Learned. Errors with Adverbs and Adjectives. Practicing What You ve Learned. Errors in Modifying Phrases. Practicing What You ve Learned. Errors in Sentences. Practicing What You ve Learned. Practicing What You ve Learned. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Practicing What You ve Learned. Practicing What You ve Learned. Answers to the Grammar Assessment. 25. A Concise Guide to Punctuation. Assessing Your Skills: Punctuation (Self-scored Diagnostic Test). Punctuation Guidelines. The Period. The Question Mark. The Exclamation Point. Practicing What You ve Learned. The Comma. Practicing What You ve Learned. The Semicolon. Practicing What You ve Learned. The Colon. Practicing What You ve Learned. The Apostrophe. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Quotation Marks. Practicing What You ve Learned. Parentheses. Brackets. The Dash. Practicing What You ve Learned. The Hyphen. Practicing What You ve Learned. Italics and Underlining. Practicing What You ve Learned. Ellipsis Points. The Slash. Practicing What You ve Learned. Answers to the Punctuation Assessment. 26. A Concise Guide to Mechanics. Assessing Your Skills: Mechanics (Self-scored Diagnostic Test). Capitalization. Practicing What You ve Learned. Abbreviations. Numbers. Practicing What You ve Learned. Assignment. Spelling. Answers to the Mechanics Assessment. Part V: ADDITIONAL READINGS. 27. Development by Example. Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples. Rhetorical Reasons that Slogans Stick by Mark Forsyth. A Look Into the Double Lives of America s Homeless College Students by Shadee Ashtari. 28. Process Analysis. College Students: Protect Yourself from Identity Theft by Luanne Kadlub. Bite-Size History by Carlton Stowers. 29. Comparison and Contrast. Us and Them by David Sedaris. The Myth Of The Latin Woman: I Just Met A Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Once More to the Lake (August 1941) by E. B. White. 30. Definition. Celebrating Nerdiness by Tom Rogers. The Exam Dream by Eric Hoover. What Is Poverty? by Jo Goodwin Parker. 31. Division/Classification. Virtual Unreality: The Online Sockpuppets That Trick Us All by Charles Seife. The Colorful Plate by Dianne Moeller. Four Kinds of Chance by James Austin. 32. Causal Analysis. Some Lessons from the Assembly Line by Andrew Braaksma. Mystery by Nicholas Meyer. Mind Game by Joshua Bell. 33. Argumentation. The Lost Language of Privacy by David Brooks. Putting Up with Hate by the Denver Post Editorial Board. Judging by the Cover by Bonny Gainley. 34. Description. Still Learning from My Mother by Cliff Schneider. A Day at the Theme Park by W. Bruce Cameron. Battle of the Ants by Henry David Thoreau. 35. Narration. 38 Who Saw Murder Didn t Call the Police by Martin Gansberg. Salvation by Langston Hughes. Arrival at Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. 36. Essays for Further Analysis: Multiple Strategies and Styles. Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail by Jessica Lahey. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. 37. Literature. Bilingual/Biling e by Rhina Espaillet. Poem for an Inked Daughter by Jane Wheeler. A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell.
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