What it Takes: Writing in College
Laurence Behrens, University of California, Santa Barbara
Len Rosen, Bentley College

ISBN-10: 0205647820
ISBN-13: 9780205647828

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 192 pp
Published: 10/21/2008

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What It Takes: Writing in College covers the types of college writing assignments for which Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum is best known: the summary, the critique, and the synthesis, as well as analysis.  This brief, handy guide introduces each of the strategies required for writing successful college papers, and takes students step by step through the process of writing based on source material.  

Guides students in writing college papers with clear strategies that are useful for a variety of introductory or advanced courses requiring source-based writing assignments.

 

Explains the elements of argument including claim, support, and assumption to demonstrate for students how the Toulmin approach to argument is used in writing college papers.

 

Shows students how to support their academic arguments by helping them to evaluate and mine source materials for facts, expert opinions, and examples.

 

Annotated student argument paper highlights and discusses argumentative strategies that a student writer uses in drafting and developing a paper.

Chapter 1: Summary

What Is a Summary?

Can a Summary Be Objective?

Using the Summary

The Reading Process

How to Write Summaries

Demonstration: Summary

Avoiding Plagiarism

Chapter 2: Critical Reading and Critique

Critical Reading

Critique

Demonstration: Critique

Practice Critique

Chapter 3: Synthesis

What is a Synthesis?

Purpose

Using Your Sources

Types of Syntheses: Argument and Explanatory

How to Write Syntheses

The Argument Synthesis

Demonstration: Developing an Argument Synthesis- Volunteering in America

Developing and Organizing the Support for Your Arguments

The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis

The Explanatory Synthesis

Summary

Chapter 4: Analysis

What Is an Analysis?

Demonstration: Analysis

How to Write Analyses

Analysis: A Tool for Understanding

WHAT IT TAKES
Writing in College

Laurence Behrens
Leonard J. Rosen

What It Takes: Writing in College introduces you to the four core skills you will need to succeed as a writer in college–summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. From the authors of the bestselling classic, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, this handy guide walks you through the essentials of writing college papers.

  • For three decades, more than one million students have learned “what it takes”–skills needed to succeed not only in their writing courses but also in courses across the curriculum, from anthropology to zoology.
  • Engagingly written with lively examples and timely model papers, What It Takes will help you spot the crux of an argument and find the elements across a variety of sources that will bolster and invigorate your academic writing.
  • Success in many college courses depends upon how well you write papers and exams. The material in What It Takes has a proven track record of helping generations of students achieve this goal.

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    What It Takes: Writing in College covers the types of college writing assignments for which Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum is best known: the summary, the critique, and the synthesis, as well as analysis.  This brief, handy guide introduces each of the strategies required for writing successful college papers, and takes students step by step through the process of writing based on source material.  

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    Behrens & Rosen
    © 2009 | Longman | Paper; 192 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205647820 | ISBN-13: 9780205647828
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    • Celebrating its 25th year of helping students of all majors and interests learn to write effectively for college, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Tenth Edition, remains the best-selling interdisciplinary composition text. 

     

    This rhetoric and reader guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis, and offers a focused opportunity for practicing these skills in a new chapter, Ch. 7, “Practicing Academic Writing.”  Part II provides a wide range of carefully-selected, cross-disciplinary readings, including a chapter on advertising that emphasizes the need to “read” visual texts in an increasingly visual age, and two new chapters on sleep and marriage.

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    • This brief version of the best-selling cross-curricular classic retains its hallmark coverage of source-based writing skills combined with five popular readings chapters.

     

    This portable version represents a carefully chosen selection from the comprehensive version of the text, with five of seven readings chapters included in their entirety. The abbreviated rhetoric section covers the skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis, taking students step-by-step through the process of writing papers based on source material. Students then put these skills to practice on thematically-linked essays on provocative topics in the readings chapters. A stronger focus on argumentation addresses the trend found in today's composition classrooms.

     

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