Writing Analytically / Edition 6

by David Rosenwasser, Jill Stephen

Overview

A rhetoric that treats writing as thinking, Writing Analytically offers a sequence of specific prompts that teach students across the curriculum how to use writing to arrive at ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780495910084
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Rosenwasser taught at the College of William and Mary prior to joining the faculty at Muhlenberg College, where he served the English department for 36 years. With scholarly interests in contemporary Irish literature, comic theory and writing studies, he has taught novel courses on both British and European fiction, modern and contemporary Irish writing, as well as ALICE IN WONDERLAND and its afterlife as cultural myth. In addition, he taught a first-year seminar on comic theory called Laughing to Death and a creative writing course called The Nature of Narrative. Dr. Rosenwasser's literary papers include studies of Edna O'Brien, William Trevor and Malcolm Lowry, and an analysis of the politics of Bruce Springsteen's albums, written with a political science professor. His current interests in literature include contemporary Irish fiction and drama, particularly Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. He completed his B.A. at Grinnell College and both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, specializing in the theory and history of the novel.


Jill Stephen served on the Muhlenberg College faculty for 34 years. She has taught courses on writing and rhetoric, the history of the English language, Anglo-Saxon literature, Early Modern prose and poetry, Shakespeare, John Milton and a first-year seminar called Thinking Like a Writer. Especially interested in poetry as a form of thought, she also has taught courses on the connection between Romantic poetry and Early Modern religious poetry, courses on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and of Frank O'Hara and the New York School, and a creative writing course called Poetry and the Imaginative Process. Dr. Stephen's literary papers include a study of the fiction of Irish writer John McGahern and studies of the poetry and critical appropriation of Emily Dickinson. Before coming to Muhlenberg, she taught part time at New York University and at Hunter College (CUNY). She completed her B.A. at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and both her M.A. and Ph.D. at New York University, specializing in Early Modern literature and rhetorical theory.

Table of Contents

1. Habits of Mind: Getting Ready to Have Ideas
2.Noticing: Learning to Observe
3.Interpreting: Asking So What?
4.Reading: How to Do It & What to Do With It
5.Linking Evidence and Claims
6.The Evolving Thesis
7.Five Kinds of Weak Theses and How to Fix Them
8.Writing the Researched Paper: Conversing with Sources
9.Introductions and Conclusions
10.Forms and Formats
11.Style
12.Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them.

Editorial Reviews

"The sections on binaries are VERY helpful, since so many of my students think and write in binary opposites. Wonderful examples and writing activities. Also, I LOVE the Method and Notice and Focus."

"I think Chapter 8 is the most useful chapter in WA. I use both the "bad" and "good" examples of an essay to help my students understand what's required of their own work. My students are not acquainted with writing anything other than a "report," so examples of writings that offer an extended analysis of ideas are crucial."

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