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Short Guide to College Writing, A (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University
Pat Bellanca, Harvard University
Marcia Stubbs, Wellesley College

ISBN-10: 0321457420
ISBN-13: 9780321457424

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 384 pp
Published: 01/26/2007

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One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing.

 

Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers students clear, practical guidance on college writing.  Students can turn to this book for help with everything from choosing a topic, writing an analysis, and documenting sources to constructing a paragraph and punctuating a quotation. Separate chapters provide support for revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy.  Discussion and examples of description and narration are included, but the emphasis throughout is on the most common college writing assignments: analysis, argument, and research. Students are taught the essential skills for effective college writing–skills they will need when writing for a first-year composition course, or for any other college-level course.

  • An emphasis on the link between critical thinking and strong writing encourages students to be careful and critical thinkers and analyzers of text and image.
  • A wealth of actual student writing samples illustrates key skills, with an emphasis on writing analyses, arguments, and researched essays.
  • Step-by-step examples of the revision process are found throughout the text.
  • Frequent Checklists provide quick reviews of key points.
  • Detailed discussions of plagiarism help students develop the essential skill of using sources responsibly (Chs. 7 and 9).
  • Chapters on conciseness and clarity provide practical strategies for revising effectively (Chs. 4 and 5).

  • A new chapter (Ch. 11) on writing essay exams offers practical advice on an important form of college writing–one about which students receive little information or instruction.
  • A new section on analyzing advertisements (Ch. 7) emphasizes the need to be critical consumers of visual as well as written texts.
  • Opposing arguments are represented by new essays on torture by Philip Heymann and Alan Dershowitz (Ch. 8), with accompanying analyses.
  • More checklists and bulleted lists provide additional summaries and overviews of important topics.

Preface.

I. THE WRITING PROCESS.

1. Developing Ideas.

 

Starting.

Focusing.

Developing Ideas.

 

2. Drafting and Revising.

 

Reading Drafts.

Peer Review: The Benefits of Having a Real Audience.

SUKI HUDSON, Two Sides of a Story (Student Essay).

 

3. Shaping Paragraphs.

Paragraph Form and Substance.

Paragraph Unity: Topic Sentences, Topic Ideas.

Unity in Paragraphs.

Organization in Paragraphs.

Coherence in Paragraphs.

Linking Paragraphs Together.

CHERYL LEE, The Story Behind the Gestures (Student Essay).

Paragraph Length.

Introductory Paragraphs.

Concluding Paragraphs.

Checklist for Revising Paragraphs.

 

4. Revising for Conciseness.

Instant Prose.

Extra Words and Empty Words.

Extra Sentences, Extra Clauses: Subordination.

Some Concluding Remarks About Conciseness.

Checklist for Revising for Conciseness.

 

5. Revising for Clarity.

Clarity.

Clarity and Exactness: Using the Right Word.

Clarity and Coherence.

Clarity and Sentence Structure: Parallelism.

Checklist for Revising for Clarity.

 

6. Writing with Style.

Academic Styles, Academic Audiences.

Defining Style.

Style and Tone.

Acquiring Style.

II. COLLEGE WRITING.

7. Analyzing Texts.

Analyzing am Image.

Analyzing Advertisements.

Checklist for Analyzing Advertisements.

Analyzing Texts.

Analysis Versus Summary and Paraphrase.

The Gettysburg Address: Summary, Paraphrase, Analysis.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address.

Paraphrasing and Summarizing Literary Texts.

Classifying and Thinking.

Cause and Effect.

DOLORES HAYDEN, Advertisements, Pornography, and Public Space.

Analysis and Description.

Comparing.

Checklist for Revising Comparisons.

Process Analysis.

ANNE HEBALD MANDELBAUM, It's the Portly Penguin That Gets the Girl, French Biologist Claims.

Explaining an Analysis.

 

8. Persuading Readers.

Emotional Appeals.

Making Reasonable Arguments.

Claims and Evidence.

Three Kinds of Claims: Claims of Fact, Value, and Policy.

Three Kinds of Evidence: Examples, Testimony, Statistics.

A Note on Definition in the Persuasive Essay.

LENA FLORA, The Plight of the Politically Correct (Student Essay).

How Much Evidence Is Enough?

Two Kinds of Reasoning: Induction and Deduction.

Avoiding Fallacies.

Wit.

Tone and Ethical Appeal.

A Note on Critical Thinking.

Organizing an Argument.

Checklist for Revising Drafts of Persuasive Essays.

Persuasion at Work: Two Writers Consider Torture.

PHILIP B. HEYMANN, Torture Should Not Be Authorized

ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, Yes, It Should Be “On the Books”

EDWARD KOCH, Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life.

 

9. Using Sources.

Why Use Sources?

What Is a Source? Primary and Secondary Materials.

Developing a Research Topic.

The Library's Central Information System.

Using the Internet.

Checklist for Evaluating Websites.

Reading and Taking Notes on Secondary Sources.

Acknowledging Sources.

Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism.

 

10. Writing the Research Essay.

Writing the Essay.

Checklist for Revising Drafts of Research Essays.

A Sample Research Essay (MLA Format).

BEATRICE CODY, Politics and Psychology in The Awakening (Student Essay).

A Sample Research Essay (APA Format).

JACOB ALEXANDER, Nitrite: Preservative or Carcinogen? (Student Essay).

 

11. Writing Essay Examinations

Why Write Examinations?  Examinations as Critical Thinking

Writing Essay Answers.

Questions on Literature and the Social Sciences.

Questions on the Physical Sciences.

III. A WRITER'S HANDBOOK.

12. Punctuating Sentences.

Three Common Errors: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-On Sentences.

The Period.

The Question Mark.

The Colon.

The Semicolon.

The Comma.

The Dash.

Parentheses.

Italics.

Capital Letters.

The Hyphen.

The Apostrophe.

Abbreviations.

Numbers.

 

13. Using the Right Word.

A Note on Idioms.

A Writers Glossary.

 

14. Documenting Sources.

Documentation.

MLA Format.

APA Format.

A Note on Other Systems of Documentation.

 

15. Preparing the Manuscript.

Basic Manuscript Form.

Using Quotations (and Punctuating Them Correctly).

Corrections in the Final Copy.

 

Last Words.

Credits.

Index.

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    Rauhut & Smith
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    Gilyard, Holdstein & Schuster
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    Barnet, Bellanca & Stubbs
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    Thio
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    Matson
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    Eggers
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    Eggers
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    Carson, Lapsansky-Werner & Nash
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 640 pages | Instock
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    Carson, Nash & Lapsansky-Werner
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 352 pages | Instock
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    • The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history.

    In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present.

    Inasmuch as that history is grounded in struggle–in the consistent and insistent call to the United States to deliver on the constitutional promises made to all its citizens–this book is also an American history text, weaving into the narrative the milestones of mainstream American history, economy, politics, arts and letters.

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    Carson, Nash & Lapsansky-Werner
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 384 pages | Instock
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    DiYanni
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    Rauhut
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