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Writing Keystones: Essays and Research
Leslie Dupont, University of Arizona

ISBN-10: 0321078691
ISBN-13: 9780321078698

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 352 pp
Published: 11/05/2003
Status: Out of Print

Suggested retail price: $67.80
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Writing Keystones —the second book in a brief new rhetoric series from Longman—is a mini rhetoric for the essay-level developmental writing course.

Writing Keystones explores critical thinking, reading, and essay writing. It breaks down specific essays with extensive annotations to take students through the drafting, revising, and proofreading processes step by step.

Writing Keystones helps students think concretely and consciously about what is meaningful to them in writing and about why essay writing is so important academically. It emphasizes the revision process so that students learn to get their preliminary ideas out before organizing and expanding them (thus alleviating some of the fears that accompany essay writing). This book also shows the differences among pre-writing/invention, drafting, revising for organization and content development, revising sentences for clarity and expression, and proofreading. In addition, it walks students through various aspects of the research process, helping them learn to evaluate sources for credibility and to be imaginative about finding an enormous variety of credible resources available to them.

Keystones also provides extensive and detailed formatting guidelines for setting up MLA- and APA-style bibliographies, offering step-by-step instructions for many types of bibliographic entries. Modes of discourse are discussed in terms of how they relate to one another and work together to form effective essays; in addition, analysis and persuasion are discussed in great detail as two of the most common essay forms students will encounter in college.

Brief! Approximately 300 pages.

Essay models with extensive annotations show students what is involved in revising, editing, and proofreading.

Extensive material on the research process and on finding resources helps students navigate the complicated research process and also provides suggestions for a variety of resources that they might not have considered (i.e., beyond Web sites, books, and periodicals)

Extensively annotated information and models for MLA and APA documentation styles gives students very specific, detailed guidelines for using MLA and APA style in bibliographies and within the bodies of their essays.

Two chapters on sentence-level grammar, addressing sentence basics and frequent error patterns, help students focus on sentence-level editing and proofreading, anticipating common errors that many of them make.

This text is also available as a SafariX WebBook. SafariX Textbooks Online is an exciting new choice for students looking to save money. As an alternative to purchasing the print textbook, students can subscribe to the same content online and save up to 50% off the suggested list price of the print text. Students can search the text, make notes online, print out reading assignments that incorporate lecture notes, and bookmark important passages for later review. For more information, or to subscribe to the SafariX WebBook, visit www.safarix.com.

Each chapter begins with “What's the Point?” and concludes with “Applications.”

1. How Do You Get from a First Draft to a Final Draft?

2. What Is an Essay?

Essay Structure.

How Modes of Discourse Work in Essays.

3. Prewriting and Drafting: Getting the Words Out.

Visual Prewriting.

Kinesthetic (Movement-Based) Prewriting.

Oral (Spoken) Prewriting.

Aural (Hearing-Based) Prewriting.

Writing-Based Prewriting.

First Drafts.

4. Revising.

Revising for Organization.

Revising for Content Development.

Essay Drafts During Revision.

Types of Content.

Using Other People's Ideas Correctly.

5. Is It Clear to Your Readers? Revising for Style.

Clarity.

Repetitiveness.

Wordiness.

6. Analysis: Looking Below the Surface.

Reading and Writing Analytically.

How Other Modes of Discourse Work with Analysis.

Types of Analysis.

How to Analyze a Text.

7. Persuasion: Connecting with Your Readers.

What Is Persuasion?

Types of Persuasive Documents.

Strategies Used to Persuade.

How Other Modes of Discourse Work with Persuasion.

Errors Made in Persuasion.

8. The Research Process: Answering Your Questions Effectively.

What Is Research?

How to Research.

Begin with a Question.

Collect Information.

Evaluating Resources.

9. Finding Your Resources.

Library Resources.

Online Resources.

Other Resources.

10. Documentation Styles: How to Set Up Your Essays and Use Your Sources.

Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation Style.

Setting Up Your MLA Papers to Look Professional.

American Psychological Association (APA) Documentation Style.

Setting Up Your APA Papers to Look Professional.

The APA References Page.

Sample APA Bibliographic Entries.