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Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing with MLA Guide, The, 3/E
John D. Ramage, Arizona State University
John C. Bean, Seattle University

ISBN-10: 0321236351
ISBN-13: 9780321236357

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2003
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap
Published: 07/14/2003
Status: Out of Print

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The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing offers the most progressive and teachable introduction now available to academic and personal writing.

The four-color guide offers engaging instruction in rhetoric and composition, a flexible sequence of comprehensive writing assignments, numerous examples of student and professional writing, and thorough guides to research and editing. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing has set the new standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.

Part One, “A Rhetoric for College Writers,” provides a conceptual framework for The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing by showing how inquiring writers pose problems, pursue them through discussion and exploratory writing, and solve them within a rhetorical context shaped by the writer's purpose, audience, and genre.

Part Two, “Writing Projects,” contains thirteen self-contained assignment chapters arranged according to the purposes for writing. Each chapter guides students through the process of generating and exploring ideas, composing and drafting, and revising and editing. Concluding each chapter are “Guidelines for Peer Reviewers,” which sum up the important features in the assignments and facilitate detailed, helpful peer reviews.

Part Three, “A Guide to Composing and Revising,” comprised of three self-contained chapters of nuts-and-bolts strategies for composing and revising.

Part Four, “A Rhetorical Guide to Research,” presents pedagogically sequenced instruction for helping students learn to conduct searches, evaluate sources, and incorporate sources into their own writing. Research skills are taught within a rhetorical context with special attention to the rhetoric of websites.

Part Five, “A Guide to Special Writing and Speaking Occasions,” gives students helpful advice on working in groups, giving speeches and presentations, writing essay exams, assembling portfolios, and writing reflective self-evaluations.

Part Six, “A Guide to Editing,” is a concise handbook of grammar, usage, mechanics, punctuation, style, and editing.

The authors uniquely emphasize writing as a problem-posing, problem-solving process of inquiry.

The clear organization facilitates a coherent course design, while offering instructors great flexibility in course emphasis and in choice of major writing assignments.

“Writing Projects”—carefully designed, comprehensive writing assignments--guide students through all the phases of the reading and writing processes and make frequent use of group collaboration and peer review. Assignments are designed to promote cognitive growth and stimulate the kind of critical thinking valued in college courses.

With its emphasis on critical thinking, inquiry, and the rhetorical dimensions of writing and reading, The Allyn & Bacon Guide meets The Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) guidelines for outcome goals in first-year composition courses.

Balanced coverage of academic writing and personal and narrative forms provides students with a continuum for understanding differences between academic, thesis-driven, “closed-form” writing and narrative "open-form" writing.

Accessible readings throughout clearly illustrate rhetorical principles and represent a balance between professional and student writers.

A sequenced, skill-based approach to research teaches students expert strategies for conducting academic research in a rhetorical environment.

Attractive four-color design enhances the book's visual appeal and enables the authors to show examples of visual rhetoric and document design in full color.

Expanded emphasis on visual literacy, document design, and the social/rhetorical context of public, non-academic writing, as well as academic writing, is reflected in substantial revisions of Chapters 3, 4, and 5.

Writing Project chapter on "Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas" teaches students how to respond to multiple readings and gives instructors more pedagogical strategies for integrating reading and writing (Chapter 13).

TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE—An expanded discussion of the rhetoric of websites helps students appreciate both the visual and verbal dimensions of web design (Chapter 22).

TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE—A new chapter on oral communication integrates earlier material on working in groups with a new section on giving speeches and PowerPoint presentations (Ch. 25).

Treatment of self-reflective writing has been expanded to include more instruction on assembling portfolios and writing self-evaluations (Chapter 27).

Marginal Cross-References highlight the connections among parts of the text and make it easy for students and instructors to find related material elsewhere in the book.

I. A RHETORIC FOR COLLEGE WRITERS.

1. Posing Problems: The Demands of College Writing.

2. Pursuing Problems: Exploratory Writing and Talking.

3. Thinking Rhetorically About Question, Thesis, and Support.

4. Thinking Rhetorically About Purpose, Audience, and Genre.

II. WRITING PROJECTS.

WRITING TO LEARN.

5. Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Shaper/Observer.

6. Reading Rhetorically: The Writer as Strong Reader.

WRITING TO EXPRESS.

7. Writing an Autobiographical Narrative.

WRITING TO EXPLORE.

8. Writing an Exploratory Essay.

WRITING TO INFORM.

9. Writing an Informative (and Surprising) Essay.

WRITING TO ANALYZE AND SYNTHESIZE.

10. Analyzing Images.

11. Analyzing Numerical Data.

12. Analyzing a Short Story.

13. Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas.

14. Investigating Questions About Causes and Consequences.

WRITING TO PERSUADE.

15. Writing a Classical Argument.

16. Making an Evaluation.

17. Proposing a Solution.

III. A GUIDE TO COMPOSING AND REVISING.

18. Writing as a Problem-Solving Process.

19. Composing and Revising Closed-Form Prose.

20. Composing and Revising Open-Form Prose.

IV. A RHETORICAL GUIDE TO RESEARCH.

21. An Introduction to Research.

22. Finding and Evaluating Library and Internet Sources.

23. Citing and Documenting Sources.

24. Advanced or Specialized Research Skills.

V. A GUIDE TO SPECIAL WRITING AND SPEAKING OCCASIONS.

25. Oral Communication: Working in Groups and Giving Speeches.

26. Essay Examinations: Writing Well Under Pressure.

27. Assembling a Portfolio and Writing a Self-Reflection.

VI. A GUIDE TO EDITING.

HB 1: Improving Your Editing Skills.

HB 2: Understanding Sentence Structure.

HB 3: Signaling Sentence Structure: The Main Uses of Periods, Capital Letters, Commas, and Semicolons.

HB 4: Editing for Standard English Usage.

HB 5: Editing for Style.

HB 6: Editing for Punctuation and Mechanics.

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Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing has set the standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.

The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing is widely praised for its groundbreaking integration of composition research and a rhetorical perspective to writing and reading, and it features a flexible sequence of aims-based writing assignments in various academic and civic genres. Teachers and students value its clear and coherent explanations, engaging classroom activities, and effective writing assignments that help writers produce interesting, idea-rich essays. Numerous examples of student and professional writing accompany this thorough guide to the concepts and skills needed for writing, researching, and editing in college and beyond.
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The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing offers the most progressive and teachable introduction now available to academic and personal writing.

The four-color guide offers engaging instruction in rhetoric and composition, a flexible sequence of comprehensive writing assignments, numerous examples of student and professional writing, and thorough guides to research and editing. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing has set the new standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.
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The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing is widely praised for its groundbreaking integration of composition research and a rhetorical perspective to writing and reading, and it features a flexible sequence of aims-based writing assignments in various academic and civic genres. Teachers and students value its clear and coherent explanations, engaging classroom activities, and effective writing assignments that help writers produce interesting, idea-rich essays. Numerous examples of student and professional writing accompany this thorough guide to the concepts and skills needed for writing, researching, and editing in college and beyond.

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