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Writing for Life: Paragraph to Essay (with MyWritingLab)
D.J. Henry, Daytona State College

ISBN-10: 0205574580
ISBN-13: 9780205574582

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper Bound with PIN; 736 pp
Published: 12/31/2007

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Writing for Life motivates students by using real-life situations to answer the question “what’s the point” and uses unique visual representations of the writing process to make it accessible to developmental writers.

 

This revolutionary text will transform the developmental classroom — and transform students’ writing and lives.  With a ground-breaking design developed in conjunction with Dorling Kindersley Publishers (DK) that makes writing, reading and thinking processes visible, Writing for Life shows the processes rather than just telling students about them. Highly graphic layouts and unique visual pedagogy empower students to transfer the learning strategies they already use in interpreting the visual world to the task of writing.  The book’s contents and features, carefully crafted and tested, reflect author D.J. Henry’s 25 years of classroom experience and her studies into learning theory research, making it a powerful, relevant tool for teaching writing.


  • To motivate students to write, writing is treated as an important life skill as students interact with real-life writing situations (from negotiating rental agreements to understanding job requirements).
  • Unprecedented visual pedagogy via the use of visual representations of the writing process (organized series of photos to show the modes of development) and multicolored highlighting and annotating, supports visual learners and empowers students to take full advantage of their existing learning skills to see writing, reading, and thinking processes.
  • A strong emphasis on the connections of writing-reading-critical thinking expands students thinking, helping them to extract more from readings and communicate more clearly in their writing.
    • Numerous chapter-spanning critical thinking opportunities (“My First Thoughts” prewriting activity, “One Student Writer’s Response” sections, “The Writer’s Journal” sections, and “Academic Learning Logs”) teach students to reflect and become goal-oriented about their own writing.
    • Portfolio-writing assignments and practical portfolio advice builds critical thinking and reflection skills in students and supports instructors who wish to use a portfolio system.
  • “Workshop: Writing Step-by-Step” sections in every modes chapter and in Chapter 13 (“Understanding the Essay”) give students a full walk-through of the entire writing process, and show, realistically, how processes and patterns weave together in real writing situations.
  • Abundant grammar coverage with clear, annotated, color-coded sentence examples and mastery exercises hones grammar skills and shows students how to apply and integrate those building-block skills in their own writing.
    • “Grammar in Action” boxes in each rhetorical mode chapter offer specific advice on correcting common errors that are likely to arise in the context of a particular rhetorical pattern.
  • To prepare students for college writing, each particular rhetorical mode is related to writing in academic courses, and students are introduced to using sources in writing and writing for essay exams.
  • Twenty engaging, high-interest reading selections by classic and contemporary authors spark student interest and provide them with models for their own writing.
  • ESL Hints in the margins of the Instructor’s Annotated Edition present practical advice to help instructors give their ESL students the extra help and guidance they need.
  • MyWritingLab is a comprehensive practice and assessment program built on progressive learning that moves students from literal comprehension (Recall) to critical application (Apply) to demonstrating concepts in their own writing (Write).  

 

PART I.  GETTING READY TO WRITE

1.  Getting Ready to Learn About Writing

2.  Thinking through the Writing Process

 

PART II. USING PATTERNS TO DEVELOP PARAGRAPHS

3.  Understanding the Paragraph

4.  The Descriptive Paragraph

5.  The Narrative Paragraph

6.  The Process Paragraph

7. The Example Paragraph

8.  The Classification Paragraph

9.  The Comparison Contrast Paragraph

10.  The Definition Paragraph

11.  Cause and Effect Paragraph

12.  The Persuasion Paragraph

 

PART III. HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY

13.  Understanding the Essay

14.   Effective Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles

15.  Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Essays

 

PART IV. THE BASIC SENTENCE

16.  Subjects, Verbs, and the Simple Sentence

17.  Compound and Complex Sentences

 

PART V.  WRITING CLEAR SENTENCES

18.  Sentence Variety

19.  Sentence Clarity

20.  Parallelism

 

PART VI.  RECOGNIZING AND AVOIDING ERRORS

21.  Comma Splices and Run-ons

22.  Fragments

23.  Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

24.  Subject-Verb Agreement

25.  The Past Tense of Verbs

26.  The Past Participle

27.  Nouns and Pronouns

28.  Adjectives and Adverbs

 

PART VII.  PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS

29.  The Comma

30.  The Apostrophe

31.  Quotation Marks

32.  End Punctuation: Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point

33.  Capitalization

 

PART VIII.  UNDERSTANDING EXPRESSION

34.  Revising for Effective Expression

35.  Improving Your Spelling

36.  Mastering Often Confused Words

37.  Dialects and Standard English

 

PART IX.  READING SELECTIONS

DESCRIPTION:

• John Haines, “Snow”

• United States Park Services, “Maya Lin’s Design Submission to the Vietnam Memorial Competition”

NARRATION:

• Sidney Poitier, from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography  

• Amy Tan, “Confessions”

PROCESS:

• Clifford Stoll, “Cyberschool” 

• Mark Twain, “Old Age”

EXAMPLE/ILLUSTRATION:

• Robert Benchley, “Why I Am Pale”  

• Nikki Giovanni, “My Own Style”  

CLASSIFICATION:

• Martin Luther King, Jr., “Ways of Meeting Oppression”

• Judith Viorst, “The Truth about Lying”   

COMPARISON/CONTRAST:

• Dave Barry, “The Ugly Truth about Beauty”

• Rachel Carson, “A Fable for Tomorrow”

DEFINITION:

• Bernard Cooper, “The Fine Art of Sighing”

• May Paumier Jones. “Siena, Burnt, and Raw”  

CAUSE/EFFECT

• E. B. White, “Hunger”  

• Stephen King, “Why We Crave Horror Movies”

PERSUASION

• Yuh J-Yeon. “Let’s Tell the Story of All America’s Cultures”  

• Joe Lieberman, “Statement on Rating the Ratings System” 

• Russell Simmons, “The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Statement for the Senate Committee

on Governmental Affairs Hearing on Entertainment Ratings July 25, 2001”

LAYERED PATTERNS:

• Mary Sarton, “The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life”  

• Gary Soto, “The Jacket”  

 

Appendix A:  Using Sources in Your Writing

Appendix B:  Writing with SUCCESS for an Essay Exam

Appendix C:  The Writing Portfolio

Index

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