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Keys to Successful Writing, 3/E
Marilyn Anderson, El Camino College

ISBN-10: 0321145534
ISBN-13: 9780321145536

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 528 pp
Published: 03/26/2004

This item has been replaced by Keys to Successful Writing (with Readings) (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E.

Keys to Successful Writing is a rhetoric/reader/handbook that helps students become better writers by presenting straightforward, consistently applicable tools and techniques.

The book's organization flows from simple to more complex essays and focuses on five “keys” to successful essay writing—purpose, focus, material, structure, and style. This distinctive heuristic, developed by the author and tested in her classrooms, helps students focus on the skills and ways of thinking that will make them stronger writers. Featuring a student-friendly, highly accessible writing style, the text presents clear, specific strategies for writing. These methods are combined with student and professional models that are engaging, provocative, and contemporary. An editing handbook is also included to establish the text as a complete writing resource. A series of interactive writing exercises and activities and longer writing assignments give the text a predictable organizational structure that's easy to learn from and teach.

“Using the Computer” sections offer suggestions and activities to teach students how to make the most of computers to write collaboratively, explore various Websites, and conduct a job search.

“Options for Writing” provide creative, thoughtful, absorbing prompts for student writing assignments.

“Journal Writing” segments include advice on working with a journal and journal writing exercises.

“Responding to Writing” activities ask students to reflect on and react to their own writing and others'.

“A Writer's Toolkit” in Part III discusses résumés, letters, and writing portfolios to take students through college composition and beyond.

Service learning writing options offer students the chance to get involved in their communities.

A section on public speaking and public writing after Parts I and II, helps students link the “keys” of effective writing with those of effective speaking.

A “Film and Literature” writing assignment has been added to each chapter. This new assignment asks students to compose a short essay after viewing a film and read the corresponding short story or book as a comparison.

“Using the Computer” sections have been updated to reflect current Web addresses and electronic tools.

A new student essay model reflects the four stages of the composing process in Chapter 2.

Part IV readings have been reorganized so that brief essays are followed by longer ones.

A new student essay model has been added to Chapter 8, “Writing with Sources.”

Notecards, a student speech, and strategies for public speaking preparation have been added to the unit on public speaking.

Six complete student essays for editing have been added to the handbook section.

Preface for Instructors.

Preface for Students.

I. EXPLORING THE REALM OF COLLEGE READING AND WRITING.

1. Reading, Thinking, and Writing for College.

2. Defining the Essay and the Composing Process.

3. Discovering through Prewriting.

4. Finding a Thesis and Drafting.

5. Using Body Paragraphs to Develop Essays.

6. Creating Effective Introductions and Conclusions.

7. Revising and Polishing the Essay.

8. Writing with Sources.

II. EXPLORING DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS: CHOOSING PATTERNS TO FIT PURPOSE.

9. Writing about Events: Narration and Illustration.

10. Observing the World: Description and Definition.

11. Making Connections: Process and Cause/Effect.

12. Showing Relationships: Comparison/Contrast and Division/Classification.

13. Taking a Stand: Argument.

III. EXPLORING OTHER OPTIONS: A WRITER'S TOOLKIT.

Unit 1: Timed Writing.

Unit 2: Portfolios.

Unit 3: Connecting With Your Audience: Public Speaking and Writing.

Unit 4: Public Writing.

IV. EXPLORING OTHER WRITERS: A COLLECTION OF READINGS.

Thematic Contents.

College Community:

“For Equality's Sake, the SAT Should Be Abolished,” Julian Weissglass.

“We're Lying: Safe Sex and White Lies in the Time of Aids,” Megan Daum.

“The Path of Books and Bootstraps,” Jill Leovy.

Work Community:

“Ambition,” Perri Klass.

“Zipped Lips,” Barbara Ehrenreich.

“Delivering the Goods,” Bonnie Jo Campbell.

“The Turning Point,” Craig Swanson.

“McDonald's Is Not Our Kind of Place,” Amitai Etzioni.

“Facing Down Abusers,” Im Jung Kwuon.

Civic Community:

“Offering Euthanasia Can Be An Act of Love,” Derek Humphry.

“Who Gets to Choose?” Jean Nandi.

“American Health, Then and Now,” Bryan Williams and Sharon Knight.

“Gravity's Rainbow,” Guy Trebay.

Writer's Community:

“Welcome to the Email Combat Zone,” Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman.

“A List of Topics for Writing Practice,” Natalie Goldberg.

“We Are, Like, Poets,” Jim Frederick.

Family Community:

“Diary of a Child Anorexic,” Lori Gottlieb.

“The Meanings of a World,” Gloria Naylor.

“And Then I Went to School,” Joseph H. Suina.

“Whose Eyes Are Those, Whose Nose?,” Margaret Brown.

Global Community:

“The Salsa Zone,” Richard Rodriguez.

“The Knife,” Richard Selzer.

“Normal Life Took Often Isn't Part of the News,” Susan Benesch.

V. EDITING ESSAYS: A CONCISE HANDBOOK.

Guide to the Handbook Test.

Reviewing Diagnostic Laws of Speech.

Glossary.

Index.

First-Year Composition - Rhetoric [BRIDGE --- BASIC WRITING/COMPOSITION] (Composition)
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