A Writer's Workshop: Student Edition with Student Access Card - Brossura

Brannan, Bob

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073209392 ISBN 13: 9780073209395

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

Riassunto

This process-based paragraph-to-essay level text makes three basic assumptions about developing writers: they learn to write best by writing, they need to revise their work significantly, and they deserve comprehensive instruction on why and how to revise to express themselves more effectively. To this end, A Writer's Workshop provides many opportunities for students at all levels--from the least-to best prepared--to write often with a rhetorical context and to critically evaluate their work.

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Preface

Unit I: Getting Our Feet Wet

1.Practicing the Writing Process

How Do We Begin to Write?

Questions to Ask at the Start of a Writing Project

After Breaking Ground—into the Writing Process

Steps in the Writing Process

Discovering Ideas

Freewriting

Clustering

Brainstorming (Listing)

Journalist’s Questions

Patterns of Development

Journal Entries

Considering Your Audience

Organizing Ideas

Rough Outlines

Formal Outlines

Drafting

Preparing a Workspace and Moving Ahead

Breaking Out of Writer’s Block

Revising

Revision Priority List

Group Revising

How the Writer Can Help the Reader

How the Reader Can Help the Writer

Editing

How to Edit

Major Categories of Mechanical Errors

Proofreading

How to Proofread and Prepare Your Final Manuscript

Diagnostic Writing Assignments

Chapter Summary

2.Making the Most of Reading

Is There a Method to Effective Reading?

Methods for Reading

Prereading: Preparing to Understand

Signposts

Beginnings and Endings

Connections: Linking New to Previous Knowledge

Reading: Processing Ideas

Anticipating and Reacting

Visualizing

Linking New to Previous Knowledge

Reading: Focusing and Recording Main Ideas

Looking for Thesis, Topic, and Summary Sentences

Focusing on Primary (Essential) Examples

Expecting to Find Repeated Material

Noticing the Patterns of Development

Learning to Annotate, Outline, Summarize, and Paraphrase

Organizing Body Paragraphs

Postreading: Retaining Ideas

Chapter Summary

Unit II: Working with the Paragraph

3.Introducing the Paragraph

What Is a Paragraph?

Writing a Topic Sentence

How to Write a Topic Sentence

Focusing Topic Sentences

Revising Topic Sentences

Developing Body Paragraphs

Kinds of Support

Sufficient Support

Relevant Support—Achieving Unity

Clear Support

Writing a Concluding Sentence

How to Write a Concluding Sentence

Expanded Thought

Organizing Body Paragraphs

Connecting Sentences—Achieving Coherence

Methods for Achieving Coherence

Transitions

Repetition

Synonyms

Pronouns

Reference to Main Ideas

Selecting a Title

How to Write Effective Titles

What to Avoid in Titles

Formatting

Chapter Summary

4.Revising Paragraphs

Revising Paragraphs

Revising First-Stage Drafts: Chapters 8-11

Revising Second-Stage Drafts

Editing

Editing Review

Editing Problems for All Patterns of Development

A Special Note on Verb Tense in Narrative

Proofreading

How to Proofread and Prepare Your Final Manuscript

5.Picturing A Place

What Are We Trying to Achieve and Why?

Developing Skills, Exploring Ideas in Descriptive

Paragraphs

Using Specific, Concrete Language

Establishing and Strengthening the Dominant Impression

Organizing Descriptions by Using a Spatial Arrangement

Locating the Reader in Space and Time

Descriptive Paragraphs: Looking Closely at Student Models

"Untitled" by Andrea Turner

"Waking Up the Right Way" by Stacey Becker

Questions for Paragraph Analysis

Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

The Assignment

Establishing Audience and Purpose

Working Through the Writing Assignment

Discovering Ideas

Prewriting Suggestions

Organizing Ideas

Drafting

Revising First-Stage Drafts

Revising Second and Final Drafts

Annotated Student Model

"Our Family Outing" by Jo Lucas

Final-Draft Checklist

Chapter Summary

Alternate Writing Assignments

6.Telling Your Own Story

What Are We Trying to Achieve and Why?

Developing Skills, Exploring Ideas in Narrative Paragraphs

Creating Conflict, Suspense, and a Climax

Finding the Significance of a Story

Building a Story That Shows as well as Tells

Using Effective Dialogue

Including Metaphors and Similes to Add Clarity and Interest

Narrative Paragraphs: Looking Closely at Student Models

"Sixteen and Mother of Twelve" by Leilani Houston

"What a Joke!" by Anna Suarez

Questions for Paragraph Analysis

Writing a Narrative Paragraph

The Assignment

Establishing Your Audience and Purpose

Working through the Writing Assignment

Discovering Ideas

Prewriting Suggestions

Organizing Ideas

Drafting

Revising First-Stage Drafts

Revising Second and Final Drafts

Annotated Student Model

"Do Unto Others" by Chris Potts

Final-Draft Checklist

Chapter Summary

Alternate Writing Assignments

7.Illustrating through Examples

What Are We Trying to Achieve and Why?

Developing Skills, Exploring Ideas in Illustration Paragraphs

Organizing Examples through Subtopic Sentences

Arranging Examples by Order of Importance

Linking Sentences

Developing Examples

Illustration Paragraphs: Looking Closely at Student Models

"Teaching with Whips" by Jeong Yi

"Dying to Have Fun" by Thomas Kellogg

"Dangers in a Deli" by Catherine Denning

Questions for Paragraph Analysis

Writing an Illustration Paragraph

The Assignment

Establishing Your Audience and Purpose

Working through the Writing Assignment

Discovering Ideas

Prewriting Suggestions

Organizing Ideas

Drafting

Revising First-Stage Drafts

Annotated Student Model

"Nothing Worthwhile Comes Easy" by William Ross

Final-Draft Checklist

Chapter Summary

Alternate Writing Assignments

8.Creating and Explaining Groups

What Are We Trying to Achieve and Why?

Developing Skills, Exploring Ideas in Classification Paragraphs

Using a Single Organizing Principle

Selecting an Organizing Principle

Dividing and Developing Topics

Completing the Groups

Classification Paragraphs: Looking Closely at Student Models

"Mall Crashers" by Chanthan Srouch

"Shopping the Easy Way" by Ann Nall

Questions for Paragraph Analysis

Writing a Classification Paragraph

The Assignment

Establishing Your Audience and Purpose

Working through the Writing Assignment

Discovering Ideas

Prewriting Suggestions

Organizing Ideas

Drafting

Revising Drafts

Annotated Student Model

"I Do" by Richard Bailey

Final-Draft Checklist

Chapter Summary

Alternate Writing Assignments

9.Recognizing Causes, Explaining Effects

What Are We Trying to Achieve and Why?

Developing Skills, Exploring Ideas in Cause or Effect Paragraphs

Discovering Causes and Effects

Developing Causes and Effects

Choosing Real Causes and Effects

Thinking Critically

Cause or Effect Paragraphs: Analyzing Student Models

"Making the Promise Last" by Gebdao Kaiwalweroj

"The Thousand-Dollar Lesson" by Lucas Eimers

Questions for Paragraph Analysis

Writing a Cause or Effect Paragraph

The Assignment

Establishing Your Audience and Purpose

Working through the Writing Assignment

Discovering Ideas

Prewriting Suggestions

Organizing Ideas

Drafting

Revising Drafts

Annotated Student Model

"Building Memories" by Brian Peraud

Final-Draft Checklist

Chapter Summary

Alternate Writing Assignments

10.Explaining Activities: Doing Them, Understanding Them

What Are We Trying to Achieve and Why?

Developing Skills, Exploring Ideas in Process-Analysis Paragraphs

Listing All Necessary Steps

Explaining Steps Thoroughly—Giving Reasons and Warnings

Defining All Terms

Avoiding Monotonous Sentence Patterns

Process Analysis Paragraphs: Analyzing Student Models

"A Boy’s Best Friend" by Steve Oh

"Recipe for a Red-Hot Sunday" by Jeff Coburn

Questions for Paragraph Analysis

Writing a Process Analysis Paragraph

The Assignment

Establishing Your Audience and Purpose

Working through the Writing Assignment

Discovering Ideas

Prewriting Suggestions

Organizing Ideas

Drafting

Revising Drafts

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0073209392
• ISBN 13: 9780073209395
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 688