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Process of Writing, The: Composing Through Critical Thinking
Roberta Allen
Marcia Mascolini, both at Western Michigan Unviersity

ISBN-10: 0131821148
ISBN-13: 9780131821149

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1997
Format: Paper; 144 pp
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Appropriate for introductory undergraduate composition courses in business writing and Business Correspondence.

A practical, real-world writing text that provides a hands-on approach to business writing.

  • Focuses on writing as a process.
    • It is designed to help students develop critical thinking skills: analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem solving. This structure helps guide students in the process of writing while motivating them with success even as the difficulty of assignments increases.

  • Provides practical writing instruction.
    • This enables students in a variety of business programs to determine the purpose for their writing, analyze their audience, and use the organizational patterns appropriate for specific writing tasks.

  • Presents daily in-class exercises and assignments which give developing writers necessary practice and reinforces the skills they have learned. It also allows students to evaluate one another's work.

I. CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING.

1. Think Before You Write.

2. Generate and Organize Information.

3. Compose Paragraphs for Specific Purposes.

II. BASIC WRITING FORMS.

4. Descriptions.

5. The Longer Message.

6. Process Description.

7. Compare and Contrast.

8. Write Persuasively.

Appendix A: Letter and Memo Formats.

Appendix B: Proposals and Progress Reports.

Appendix C: Documenting Secondary Sources.

Index.

  • Instructor's Manual
    Allen
    © 1997 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 64 pages | Not Yet Published
    ISBN-10: 0132589974 | ISBN-13: 9780132589970


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