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The Longwood Guide to Writing, 4/E
Ronald F. Lunsford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bill Bridges, Sam Houston State University

ISBN-10: 0205553761
ISBN-13: 9780205553761

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 736 pp
Published: 11/06/2007

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Reflecting the author's fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, authoritative, and current aims-based rhetorics on the market.

 

This comprehensive rhetoric with readings, a research guide, and brief handbook helps students see writing as rhetorical and as a process.  Students are introduced to all phases of reading and writing and then engage in a range of “writing occasions”–writing personal essays; informative and evaluative essays; position, persuasive, and problem/solution essays; and essays about and from literature.  Each of the core “writing occasions” chapters features professional readings, discusses the rhetorical triangle, and follows a student through the writing process.  Students also learn effective ways to conduct research, write with sources, and take essay exams.  Throughout The Longwood Guide, students are offered opportunities to examine and refine their own individual writing processes.  

 

  • A three-chapter sequence at the beginning of the text details strategies for the writing process, from generating ideas to shaping those ideas to rewriting.  The invention chapter provides an extraordinary variety of prewriting strategies—some of them unique to this book—while the revision chapter addresses sentence-level, paragraph-level, and global revision.
    • The Rhetorical Triangle section within each chapter in Part Two underscores for students the rhetorical nature of writing and highlights how the subject matter and reader changes depending on the purpose for writing.
    • Sample Student Process in Parts Two and Three show one student work per chapter each in stages of invention, drafting, and revision, revealing an emphasis on writing as a process throughout the text.
    • Exceptionally strong and nuanced presentation of argument introduces students to the differences in purpose, audience, and strategy when arguing to articulate and support a position versus when arguing to persuade (Chs 9, 10, 11).
    • Invention is emphasized throughout the text, both as a foundational chapter in Part One and in the Guidelines section of each chapter in Part Two.
    • The reading/ writing connection is underscored in Responding to Readings (Ch. 4) which presents students with a comprehensive range of reading strategies they can also use to inform their own writing.
    • Well-chosen professional and student samples appear throughout and many are accompanied by peer reviews and instructor comments to highlight the collaborative nature of writing.
    • A comprehensive chapter on research and writing with sources includes student writing samples and up-to-the-minute information about researching on the Internet and evaluating and documenting online sources.
    • The Preparing for Publication section provides a brief handbook.

     

    • Students are offered a set of principles for reading visual texts (Ch 4. Responding to Readings) accompanied by analysis and exercises; these principles are revisited throughout the aims-based writing occasion chapters and reinforce a consistent way of approaching visuals with a critical eye.
    • Nuanced argument coverage has been supplemented with a new discussion of how visuals persuade.  Topics overlap those of the readings, offering students opportunities to synthesize written and visual texts in their own compositions (Ch. 10 Persuasion Essays).
    • Expanded treatment of working with sources focuses on summary and paraphrase and offers discussion, samples, instruction, and exercises for practice (Ch 4: Responding to Readings).
    • A thorough discussion of how writers use tables and graphs to convey informationis followed by exercises in which students practice generating their own graphics as well as evaluating those written by others’ Ch. 6 Information Essays).
    • Coverage of evaluating texts has been greatly expanded to include analysis of and exercises for evaluating visual texts such as political cartoons, political advertisements, and web sites (Ch. 8 Evaluation Essays).

     

    Preface

     

    I. STRATEGIES FOR THE WRITING PROCESS.

    Why Write?
    How Does Writing Happen?
    Stages in the Writing Process
    Writing and Reading
    Computers and Writing

    1. Invention: Finding Something to Say

    Finding Topics
    Writing about an Assigned Topic

    Exploring Topics

    Finding Information

    Sample Student Process–Prewriting

    From Inventing to Drafting
     

    2. Shaping an Essay

    Initial Shaping Strategies
    Sample Student Process–Discovery Draft

    Developing an Essay's Structure

    Elements of an Essay

     
    3. Revising

    Revising Strategies

    Writer's Notebook: Responding to Readers' Comments

    Editing Strategies

    Writing a Self-Assessment

    Sample Student Process–Revision

            Marisol Vargas, Mirror Image

     

    4. Responding to Readings

    Sample Reading
            Lee K. Abbott, The True Story of Why I Do What I Do

    Reading Strategies for Texts
    Readings Strategies for Visuals

    Writers Notebook: Dialogue Notes

    Writing Paraphrases and Summaries
            *Steven Pinker, Racist Language, Real and Imagined
    Writing a Response
    Sample Student Essay - Summary and Response
            *Christian Clark, Emotion and the Death Penalty: An Analysis of Jaclyn Tablert's, "Justice For Those Who Have Shown Us No Mercy"

     

    II. WRITING OCCASIONS

    Aims of Discourse
    Modes of Discourse
    Wedding Aim and Mode
    Classifying Occasions

    5. Personal Essays
        Sample Essays
                Datus Proper, Dark Hollow
                Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
                Charles McNair, My Father's Cabin
                *Christopher Fisher, Scars
        The  Rhetorical Triangle
        Distinguishing Features of Personal Essays
        Visuals and Personal Essays
        Assignment and Guidelines for Writing
        Sample Student Process
                Chris Miller, Gringos on Safari

     

    6. Information Essays
        Sample Essays
                Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On the Fear of Dying

           Suzanne Smalley, The Perfect Crime 
           Jay Chiat, Illusions are Forever
           Arthur Rosenfeld, Should Anyone Have to Live WIth Pain? 
           Gloria Naylor, Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean? 
           *Sandra Y. Govan, Listening to the Word, or 21st Century Readers and "The Souls of Black Folk"
           *Elizabeth C. Gardner, Transforming a Nation, Transforming an Enemy
        The Rhetorical Triangle
        Distinguishing Features of Information Essays
        Assignment and Guidelines for Writing
        Making Use of Visuals
                Meir Shalev, If Bosnians Were Whales
        Sample Student Process
                Michael Graham, All In a Day's Work: Generalizing, Profiling, and Stereotyping
     

    7. Essays About and From Literature
        Sample Works of Literature
                Joyce Carol Oates, Shopping
                *Aaron Gwyn, Of Falling
                Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something
                Margaret Atwood, Spelling
                Sherman Alexie, That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump
                Sherman Alexie, The Powwow at the End of the World
                *Sherman Alexie, Evolution
        Sample Essays
                Kendra Stead, The Making of Spells
                *Amy Wright, A Quest to Return to the Garden: Perception "Of Falling"
                Kendra Stead, No Exceptions
                *Steve Stoeckel, What About the Customer?
        The Rhetorical Triangle
        Distinguishing Features of Interpretive Essays
        Assignment and Guidelines for Writing
        Writing About  Literature
        Writing From Literature
        Sample Student Process
                Kristina Geray, "How Exhausting It  Is"  To Keep Up Appearances
     
    8. Evaluation Essays
        Sample Essays

          Ellen Goodman, Beauty Industry on Rampage

          *Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Shooting to Win; Do Attack Ads Work? You Bet -- and That's Not All Bad

           Bill Bridges, “No Thanks"–A Step Beyond "Just Say No”

           Jennifer Pitman, Booze It? Lose It! An Evaluation of North Carolina's Drunk Driving Laws

           *Amy Wright, "The DaVinci Code": A Study in Print and Film 

    The Rhetorical Triangle

    Distinguishing Features of Evaluation Essays
           Lou Jacobs, What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have?

    Evaluating Visual Images

    Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

    An Exercise in Evaluation and The Internet

    Portfolios

            Jacqueline Cotter, Getting It Right: Fitting Message to Audience

            Steve Duran, Steve Wants an A

    Sample Student Process

            Bridget McCollam, Adult Audiences Only

     

    9. Position Essays

    Sample Essays

            *Michael Haley, The Right Not to Listen

            *David Amante, Teaching Is Always A Political Act

            *Stephen Jay Gould, Nonoverlapping Magisteria

             Jennifer Pitman, Euthanasia and the Right to Die

    The Rhetorical Triangle

    Distinguishing Features of Position Essays

    Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

    Sample Student Process

            Heather Hall, The Next Big Winner Is...!! 

     

    10. Persuasion Essays

    Sample Essays

            Michael R. Heaphy, Dismemberment and Choice

            *Thomas Oliphant, Exposed in the Supreme Court: Lies About 'Partial Birth Abortion'

            *Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream
            *Richard Dawkins, When Religion Steps On Science's Turf: The Alleged Separation Between the Two Is Not So Tidy

            Jaime Sherrill, Zero Tolerence for Abuse

            Jaclyn Talbert,  Justice for Those Who Have Shown Us No Mercy

    The Rhetorical Triangle

    Distinguishing Features of Persuasion Essays

    Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

    Sample Student Process

            Alysia Tucker, No More

     

    11. Problem/Solution Essays

    Sample Essays.

            William E. King, Out of Hurricane's Way        
            Julie Titone, Balance of Power: Can Endangered Salmon and Hydroelectric Plants Share the Same Rivers?

            Andrew Overton, Change

    The Rhetorical Triangle

    Distinguishing Features of Problem/Solution Essays

    Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

    Sample Student Process

            Kristina Geray, The Pet Overpopulation Problem

     

    III. RESEARCH

     

    12. Researching and Writing

    Topic Selection

    Searching a Topic

    Incorporating Material from Sources

    Documenting Information

    Citations
    Sample Annotated Essay
            *Clarita Brown, The American Indian Movement as a Counterculture

    Writing Assignment

    Sample Student Process

            Gardiner Rhoderick, Yes, It's Graffiti, but Is It Art? 

     

    IV. WRITING AND ASSESSING

            Assessment via Essay Exams

    13. Essay Examinations

    Packaging the Process

    Planning Your Essay's Content

    Planning Your Essay's Structure

    Overlapping Terminologies

    Essays That Ask for Practical Applications

    Planning Sample Essays

     

    V. PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION

    Basic Grammar

    Parts of Speech

    Phrases and Modification

    Sentence Functions

    Sentence Types
    Punctuation, Spelling, and Manuscript Mechanics

    End Punctuation

    Punctuation within Sentences

    Spelling

    Manuscript Mechanics

    Capitalization
     

    Literary Credits
    Index

      Reflecting the author's fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based rhetorics on the market.

      This comprehensive guide helps students see the organic nature of the writing process by continually offering them the opportunity to examine and refine their own individual writing processes. Students are introduced to all phases of reading and writing and then engage in a range of “writing occasions”—writing personal essays, informative and evaluative essays, essays from and about literature, and position, persuasive, and problem/solution essays. Each of the core “writing occasions” chapters features professional readings, discusses the rhetorical triangle, and follows a student through the writing process. Students also learn effective ways to conduct research, write with sources, take essay exams, and create portfolios.

      This complete composition resource comes in a paperback format with a brief handbook included for maximum flexibility.

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      Lunsford & Bridges
      © 2005 | Longman | Paper; 736 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0321272358 | ISBN-13: 9780321272355
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