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The Working Writer, 5/E
Toby Fulwiler, Emeritus, University of Vermont

ISBN-10: 0132278960
ISBN-13: 9780132278966

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 408 pp
Published: 05/25/2006

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The Working Writer is a brief, process-oriented writing guide, including a combination of purposes and genres.  The author stresses the importance of building students' confidence through finding their own voice in writing, using journaling and other strategies. The Working Writer has more coverage of research than any other brief rhetoric.

Do your students need help with the writing process and the rhetorical situation?

 

The Working Writer, 5th edition, is a brief yet comprehensive rhetoric, meant to guide students through a process approach to learning to write.  Working Writer, 5e is organized around the different but overlapping stages of writing of planning, drafting, researching, revising, and editing.  It explains and illustrates issues of style, punctuation, and mechanics as matters of choices that depend upon audience, purpose and situation rather than static and absolute rules.

 

Do your students need strategies to become more confident in their writing?

  • In-depth discussions of qualitative issues in writing–e.g., journals, voice, collaborative writing, field research, creative nonfiction, and writing portfolios. Features a whole chapter on using journals, with many authentic samples.

o       Enables students who have not used journals in academic settings to learn how to use them to improve their learning as well as their writing.

 

How important is research in your course and in students' college experience?

  • A heavy focus on integrating research into all dimensions of undergraduate writing–considers the research process as a natural part of the writing process.  (See Section IV - Conducting Research in the Disciplines)

o       Introduces students to three modes of research–Internet, library, and field–and recommends all three for comprehensive research writing.

  • Plagiarism - In-depth explanation of how to avoid plagiarism with special attention to using sources effectively and honestly (see concluding section of Working with Sources)

 

What challenges do students have integrating revision as part of the writing process?

  • Revising and editing as a natural part of all good writing–emphasizes revision as the major work of writing classes, and includes specific strategies. (See Part III, Revising and Editing)

o       Offers students specific–and innovative–suggestions for returning to a text and seeing it from a new perspective.

 

How well do your students understand and implement visual rhetoric in writing?

  • Chapter on Reading Images Critically follows Reading Texts Critically in order to offer students a critical vocabulary for discussing the increasing use of visual imagery in all texts, including the texts that students write themselves.
  • Frequent use of visual images throughout to illustrate their role in contemporary rhetoric.

 

New to this Edition

 

New Chapter - Reading Images Critically

 

Significantly Revised Chapter 4 - Elements of Composition

 

Significantly Revised Chapter 8 - Reflecting on Experience (includes material on Experience and Reflecting)

 

Significantly Revised Chapter 9 - Exploring Self and Others (includes material on Identity and Profiling)

 

New Chapter 22 - Writing Across and Within the Disciplines - New brief chapter to introduce research chapters with more of a WAC emphasis

 

New Chapter 25 - Conducting Online Research - includes the most up-to-date strategies for using the Internet in college papers.

 

New Chapter 28 - Writing on the Job - with guidelines for writing pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, business letters and resumes.

 

Three "Writer Reference" appendices elevated to full chapter status:

 

Chapter 14 - Writing Examinations (formerly Reference 4)

Chapter 20 - Punctuating Sentences (formerly Reference 5)

Chapter 28 - Writing on the Job (includes Writing Letter and Resumes)

 

Logically reorganized section on Research comes before MLA and APA guidelines, and serves as an excellent introduction to these guidelines, which are included as Writer References.

 

 

New to this Edition

 

New Chapter - Reading Images Critically

 

Significantly Revised Chapter 4 - Elements of Composition

 

Significantly Revised Chapter 8 - Reflecting on Experience (includes material on Experience and Reflecting)

 

Significantly Revised Chapter 9 - Exploring Self and Others (includes material on Identity and Profiling)

 

New Chapter 22 - Writing Across and Within the Disciplines - New brief chapter to introduce research chapters with more of a WAC emphasis

 

New Chapter 25 - Conducting Online Research - includes the most up-to-date strategies for using the Internet in college papers.

 

New Chapter 28 - Writing on the Job - with guidelines for writing pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, business letters and resumes.

 

Three "Writer Reference" appendices elevated to full chapter status:

 

Chapter 14 - Writing Examinations (formerly Reference 4)

Chapter 20 - Punctuating Sentences (formerly Reference 5)

Chapter 28 - Writing on the Job (includes Writing Letter and Resumes)

 

Logically reorganized section on Research comes before MLA and APA guidelines, and serves as an excellent introduction to these guidelines, which are included as Writer References.

Working Writer, fifth edition

Part One

1    Why Writing Matters

2     Reading Texts Critically

3     Reading Images Critically

4.    The Elements of Composition

5     Keeping a Journal

6     Strategies for Starting

7     Sharing and Responding

 

PART TWO

 Writing Essays

        8        Reflecting on Experience

        9        Exploring Identities: Self and Others

        10      Explaining Things

        11      Arguing For and Against

        12      Interpreting Texts    

        13      Writing Creative Nonfiction

        14      Writing Essay Examinations

PART  THREE

Revising and Editing

15    Strategies for Revision

16    Focused Revision

17    Openings and Closings

18    Options for Paragraphs

19    Options for Sentences

        20    Punctuating Sentences

        21   Portfolios and Publishing

 

PART FOUR   

Research across the disciplines

 

22         Writing and Research Across the Disciplines (new short chapter)

23         Strategies for Conducting Research  

24         Conducting Library Research    (include info from evaluating sources…)

25         Conducting Online Research   (include info from evaluating sources…)

26         Conducting Field Research  (include info from evaluating sources…)

27         Working with Sources  (include plagiarism)                  

        28    

     Writing on the Job (includes Writing Letters and Résumés)  

This outstanding, concise writing guide is key to your success in class and will help you write clearly and convincingly throughout college and beyond.  In The Working Writer, Fifth Edition, Toby Fulwiler supports you with:

  • instruction and models for a broad range of writing occassions: reflecting on experience, exploring self and others, explaining things, arguing for and against, interpreting texts, writing creative nonfiction, writing examinations, and writing on the job.
  • three timely, new chapters: "Reading Images Critically," "Writing Across and Within the Disciplines," and "Writing on the Job."
  • his rich experience and compassionate, candid writing style.

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