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New Directions for Writers, Volume II: College Writing and the World of Work
Dr. Cheryl Reed, Research Analyst, MTS Technologies
Dr. Cheryl Reed, Senior Research Fellow, Teachers without Borders
Carol Ann D. Ellis, Empire State College
Carol Ann D. Ellis, Senior Research Fellow, Teachers without Borders

ISBN-10: 0321067517
ISBN-13: 9780321067517

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 512 pp
Published: 12/13/2002
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New Directions in Writing is a student-oriented writing text developed to help students meet the writing requirements of the real world, as well as of the college classroom.

“Writers Write” contributions from real-life writers in action, reinforce the thesis for the section in which they appear. They demonstrate how skills such as audience awareness, focus of intent, attention to style, and productive integration of research look in action.

“Quick Lists” sum up key points and can be used as rubrics for assessing student understanding in an area.

Both student and professional examples are included throughout the text. The goal is let students hear the voices of their peers as well as those who have succeeded in fields in which they, too, may aspire to succeed.

“Practice” activities are integrated throughouteach section. Both individual and group activities that get students involved by offering the opportunity to write and learn about issues that are important to them.

“Writers on the Job” sections in Part IV encompass the thinking and writing practices of particular fields: business in the social sciences, and in the health sciences.

Photos open each new section and serve to visually stimulate users as well as act as springboards for writing.

“The Hub”— which takes its title from a common name for university student centers—is a “writer's grammar.” Its goal is to get students thinking about grammar and usage as a series of rhetorical, writerly, reader-oriented choices rather than as a systematic memorization of rules. The topics included were suggested in polls of teachers and crafted primarily by students in Basic Writing II and III courses from examples out of their own writing.

Most chapters include “Writing Activities” and “Writers Write.”

Introduction: How This Book Is Different.

PART 1: A QUICK LOOK AT THE BASICS.

Section 1: Why We Write.

What Writing Does.

Who Reads Our Writing.

Writing as Part of a Team.

Getting Ideas.

Quick List: Invention Questions.

Section 2: How Writers Develop Ideas.

How Great Ideas Develop.

Investigating Ideas.

Quick List: Investigating the Mystery

Section 3: Giving Readers Good Clues.

What Readers Expect.

How Trains of Thought Happen.

Quick List: Giving Readers Good Clues

PART II. YOUR TURN: EXPERIMENTING WITH WRITERS' TOOLS.

Section 4: Investigating the Library.

Know Your Sources.

Quick List: The Library Search.

Section 5: Investigating the Internet.

Research on the Internet.

Evaluating Web Information.

Quick List: Searching the Internet.

Section 6: Interviewing Informed Sources.

Types of Interviews.

Types of Questions.

Quick List: The Information Interview.

Section 7: Tools Writers Use.

Strategies, Modes, and Formats.

Quick List: Strategies for Clear Writing

Section 8: Testing What We Do.

Getting Feedback.

Finding Good Peer Readers.

What? Write This Again?: Revising.

But I Thought I Was Through: Copy Editing.

Quick List: Testing Your Ideas.

Part III. WRITERS IN COLLEGE.

Section 9: Joining the Conversation.

What Makes College Writing Different?

Sharing What You Know: Audiences.

Skill Link 1. Arguments.

Quick List: What's Everyone Arguing About?

Skill Link 2. Critical Thinking.

Quick List: Testing the Logic.

Strategy 1. Make a Rule from a Specific Case.

Strategy 2. Apply a Rule to a Specific Situation.

Strategy 3. Add Something New to Readers' Knowledge.

Strategy 4. Extend, Question, or Rethink an Idea.

Strategy 5. Put Old Ideas Together in a Fresh Way.

Quick List: Joining the Conversation.

Section 10: Giving Credit Where Credit's Due.

Ways to Cite Sources.

Informal Citations.

Setting Up Quotes.

MLA Format.

The Works Cited Page.

A Model MLA Works Cited Page.

Giving Credit Where Credit's Due.

PART IV: WRITERS ON THE JOB.

Section 11: Writing in Business.

What Makes Business Writing Different?

Workaday Business Writing.

Sharing What You Know.

Skill Link 1. Everyday Paper Trails.

Quick Lists: Memos and Letters.

Skill Link 2. Electronic Writing.

Quick List: Electronic Communication.

Quick List: Netiquette Sites.

Skill Link 3. Networking.

Quick List: Workaday Business Writing.

Section 12: Writing in the Social Sciences.

What Makes Social Science Writing Different?

What to Expect in College.

Workaday Writing in the Social Sciences.

Sharing What You Know.

Skill Link 1. Using Narrative on the Job.

Quick List: Narrative Reports.

Skill Link 2. Reading the Scholarly Article.

Quick List: Reading Scholarly Work.

Skill Link 3. Electronic Sources & Community Research.

Quick List: Electronic Writing.

Quick List: Workaday Writing in the Social Sciences.

Section 13: Writers In The Health Sciences.

What Makes Health Science Writing Different?

What to Expect in College.

Workaday Writing in the Health Sciences.

Sharing What You Know.

Quick List: What to Communicate, and When.

Skill Link 1. Communicating with Specialists Quick List: Practice Now for Medical Writing.

Skill Link 2. Communicating with Non-Specialists.

Quick List: Talking to Patients.

Skill Link 3: Health Information: Finding Credible Sources.

Health-Oriented Websites.

Quick List: Evaluating Health Websites.

Quick List: Workaday Writing in the Health Sciences.

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