A Writer's Resource (comb) with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0

Maimon, Elaine; Peritz, Janice; Blake Yancey, Kathleen

ISBN 10: 007325892X ISBN 13: 9780073258928

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Riassunto

The second edition of A Writer's Resource draws on its authors' 20 years of research into writing in college and provides the most extensive technological support available, forming an indispensable resource for learning, writing, researching, and editing. The second edition features a stonger focus on visual rhetoric, new documentation flowcharts, a new chapter on multimedia assignments, enhanced coverage of note-taking and plagiarism, new online peer review utilities (as well as course management utilities for instructors), and more!

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L'autore:

Elaine P. Maimon is President of Governors State University in the south suburbs of Chicago, where she is also Professor of English. Previously she was Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Provost (Chief Campus Officer) at Arizona State University West, and Vice President of Arizona State University as a whole. In the 1970s, she initiated and then directed the Beaver College writing-across-the-curriculum program, one of the first WAC programs in the nation. A founding Executive Board member of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), she has directed national institutes to improve the teaching of writing and to disseminate the principles of writing across the curriculum. With a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she later helped to create the Writing Across the University (WATU) program, she has also taught and served as an academic administrator at Haverford College, Brown University, and Queens College.

Contenuti:

*new to this edition

1. Learning across the Curriculum

1. Writing to Learn

a. Studying the world through a range of disciplines

b. Using writing as a tool for learning

c. Taking responsibility for reading, writing, and research

d. Recognizing that writing improves with practice

*2. Learning in a Multimedia World

a. Becoming aware of the persuasive power of images

b. Making effective use of multimedia elements

c. Taking advantage of online and other electronic tools for learning

3. Learning in English as a Second Language

a. Becoming aware of cultural differences in communication

b. Using writing to learn more about English

c. Using learning tools that are available for multilingual students

2. Writing and Designing Papers

4. Reading, Thinking, Writing: The Critical Connection

a. Reading critically

b. Thinking critically

c. Writing critically

5. Planning and Shaping

a. Learning how to approach assignments

b. Exploring your ideas

c. Developing a working thesis

d. Planning a structure that suits your assignment

*e. Considering visuals

6. Drafting

a. Using online tools for drafting

b. Developing ideas and using visuals

c. Writing focused, clearly organized paragraphs

*d. Integrating visuals effectively

7. Revising and Editing

a. Getting comments from readers

b. Using online tools for revising

c. Focusing on the purpose of your writing

d. Testing your thesis

e. Reviewing the structure of your paper as a whole

f. Revising for paragraph development, paragraph unity, and coherence

*g. Revising visuals

h. Editing sentences

i. Proofreading carefully

j. Using campus, Internet, and community resources

k. Learning from one student’s revisions

8. Designing Academic Papers and Portfolios

a. Considering audience and purpose

b. Using computer toolbars

c. Thinking intentionally about design

*d. Compiling a portfolio

3. Common Assignments across the Curriculum

9. Informative Reports

a. Understanding the assignment

b. Approaching writing an informative report as a process

c. Student paper: Informative report

d. Writing reviews of the literature

10. Interpretive Analyses and Writing about Literature

a. Understanding the assignment

b. Approaching writing an interpretive analysis as a process

c. Student paper: Interpretive analysis

11. Arguments

a. Understanding the assignment

b. Approaching writing an argument as a process

c. Student paper: Argument

12. Other Kinds of Writing Assignments

a. Personal essays

b. Lab reports in the experimental sciences

c. Case studies in the social sciences

d. Essays exams

e. Coauthored projects

*13. Oral Presentations

a. Planning and shaping your presentation

b. Drafting your presentation

c. Preparing for your presentation

*14. Multimedia Writing

a. Learning about tools for creating multimedia texts

b. Analyzing images

c. Creating a hypertext essay

d. Creating multimedia presentations

e. Creating a Web site

f. Creating and interacting with weblogs

4. Writing beyond College

15. Service Learning and Community-Service Writing

a. Addressing the community on behalf of your organization or yourself

b. Designing brochures, posters, and newsletters

*16. Letters to Raise Awareness and Share Concern

17. Writing to Get and Keep a Job

a. Exploring internship possibilities

b. Keeping an up-to-date résumé

c. Writing an application letter

d. Preparing for a job interview

e. Applying college writing to writing on the job

f. Writing as a consumer

5. Researching

18. Understanding Research

a. Understanding primary and secondary research

b. Recognizing the connection between research and college writing

c. Choosing an interesting research question

d. Understanding the research assignment

e. Creating a research plan

19. Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources

a. Using the library in person and online

b. Consulting various kinds of sources

c. Understanding keywords and keyword searches

d. Using printed and online reference works

e. Using print indexes and online databases

f. Using search engines and subject directories to find Internet sources

g. Using your library’s online catalog or card catalog to find books

h. Taking advantage of printed and online government documents

i. Exploring online communication

*20. Finding and Creating Effective Visuals

a. Finding quantitative data and displaying it visually

b. Searching for appropriate images in online and print sources

21. Evaluating Sources

a. Questioning print sources

b. Questioning Internet sources

c. Evaluating a source’s arguments

22. Doing Research in the Archive, Field, and Lab

a. Adhering to ethical principles

b. Preparing yourself for archival research

c. Planning your field research carefully

d. Keeping a notebook when doing lab research

23. Working with Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

a. Maintaining a working bibliography

b. Taking notes on your sources

c. Taking stock of and synthesizing what you have learned

d. Integrating quotations, paraphrases, and summaries

*e. Avoiding plagiarism and copyright infringement

24. Writing the Paper

a. Planning and drafting your paper

b. Revising your draft

c. Documenting your sources

25. Discipline-Specific Resources in the Library and on the Internet

6. MLA Documentation Style

26. MLA Style: In-Text Citations

MLA In-Text Citations: Directory to Sample Types

27. MLA Style: List of Works Cited

MLA Works-Cited Entries: Directory to Sample Types

28. MLA Style: Explanatory Notes

29. MLA Style: Paper Format

30. Student Paper in MLA Style

7. APA Documentation Style

31. APA Style: In-Text Citations

APA In-Text Citations: Directory to Sample Types

32. APA Style: References

APA Reference Entries: Directory to Sample Types

33. APA Style: Paper Format

34. Student Paper in APA Style

8. Chicago and CSE Documentation Styles

35. Chicago Documentation Style

a. Chicago style: In-text citations and notes

b. Chicago style: Bibliography

c. Sample Chicago-style notes and bibliography entries

d. Sample from a student paper in Chicago style

36. CSE Documentation: Name-Year Style

CSE Name-Year Style: Directory to Sample Types

a. CSE name-year style: In-text citations

b. CSE name-year style: List of references

c. CSE name-year style: Sample references list

37. CSE Documentation: Number style

CSE Number Style: Directory to Sample Types

a. CSE number style: In-text citations

b. CSE number style: List of references

c. CSE number style: Sample references list

9. Editing for Clarity

38. Wordy Sentences

a. Eliminating redundancies

b. Avoiding unnecessary repetition

c. Replacing wordy phrases

d. Reducing clauses and phrases

e. Combining sentences

f. Making sentences straightforward

39. Missing Words

a. Adding words needed in compound structures

b. Including that when it is needed for clarity

c. Making comparisons clear

d. Adding articles (a, an, the) where necessary

40. Mixed Constructions

a. Untangling mixed-up sentence structures

b. Making sure predicates fit subjects

c. Editing sentences with is when, is where, the reason . . . is because

41. Confusing Shifts

a. Making your point of view consistent in person and number

b. Keeping verb tenses consistent

c. Avoiding unnecessary shifts in mood and voice

d. Avoiding shifts between direct and indirect quotations and questions

42. Faulty Parallelism

a. Making items in a series parallel

b. Making paired ideas parallel

c. Repeating function words as needed

43. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

a. Putting modifiers close to the words they modify

b. Clarifying ambiguous modifiers

c. Moving disruptive modifiers

d. Checking split infinitives for ambiguity

e. Fixing dangling modifiers

44. Coordination and Subordination

a. Using coordination to express equal ideas

b. Using subordination to express unequal ideas

c. Avoiding subordination of major ideas

d. Combining short, choppy sentences

e. Avoiding excessive subordination

45. Sentence Variety

a. Varying sentence openings

b. Varying sentence length and structure

c. Including cumulative and periodic sentences and rhetorical questions

d. Trying inversions

46. Active Verbs

a. Considering alter...

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 007325892X
• ISBN 13: 9780073258928
• Rilegatura: Pettine di plastica
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 635