Full Description
No matter where you are in the writing process or how confident you are in your writing, THE COLLEGE WRITER: A GUIDE TO THINKING, WRITING, AND RESEARCHING, 7E offers valuable guidance and support. This fully updated four-in-one resource provides a rhetoric, reader, research guide, and complete handbook for writers of any skill level. Updated professional and student writing samples highlight important features of academic writing -- from organization to documentation -- while modeling strategies and timely topics to use in your own papers. A reader-friendly organization leads you through the process of composing academic and research-based essays. Revisions emphasize how to craft strong paragraphs and thesis statements, analyze and respond to readings, and compose multimodal texts. With MindTap, you can even choose an online, multimedia learning experience with an eBook, audio and video files, weblinks, practice exercises, and bonus content on test-taking, workplace writing, and oral presentations.
Contents
Part I: THE WRITING PROCESS
1. Getting Started.
The Writing Process: From Start to Finish. Aiming for Writing Excellence. Understanding Your Project. Developing a Topic. Researching Your Topic. Getting Started: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
2. Reading Critically.
Cultivating Critical-Thinking Habits. Using the SQ3R Reading Strategy. Critical Thinking Through Reading. Taking Notes Actively. Responding to a Text. Summarizing a Text. Engaging with Social Media. Critical Reading: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
3. Viewing Critically.
Viewing an Image Actively. Interpreting an Image. Evaluating an Image. Critiquing a Video. Detecting Misinformation. Viewing Critically: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
4. Planning Your Piece.
Forming Your Thesis Statement. Developing a Plan or an Outline. Experiment with Mapping Methods. Planning the Design of Your Project. Planning Your Piece: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
5. Drafting: From Paragraphs to Essays.
Basic Essay Structure: Major Moves. Tips for Drafting. Drafting Paragraphs. Opening Your Draft. Developing the Middle. Ending Your Draft. The Last Step in Drafting: Your Working Title. Drafting: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
6. Revising Your Draft.
Tips for Revising Your Work. Revising Your Ideas. Revising Your Organization. Revising for Voice. Strengthening Your Body Paragraphs. Revising Collaboratively. Revising Your Draft: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
7. Polishing Your Prose.
Tips for Polishing Your Prose. Strengthening Sentence Style. Fixing Weak Wording. Polishing Your Prose: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
8. One Writer's Process.
Ariana's Assignment and Response. Angela's Planning. Ariana's First Draft. Ariana's Revision. Ariana's Edited Draft. Ariana's Proofread Draft. Ariana's Finished Essay. One Writer's Process: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
Part II: READER: STRATEGIES AND SAMPLES.
9. Forms of College Writing.
Three Curricular Divisions. Writing in the Humanities. Writing in the Social Sciences. Writing in the Natural Sciences. The Rhetorical Modes. Critical Thinking and Writing: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
10. Personal Writing.
Meeting the Mode. Strategies for Crafting Personal Essays. Personal Essays: Learning Writers' Moves. "Speaking Ill of the Dead," by Rachel Ten Hove. "It Took Me 18 Years to Embrace My Name," by Fiza Pirani. "What I Learned in Prison," by James Kilmore. DIY: Craft Your Own Personal Essay. The Personal Essay: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
11. Analytical Writing: Definition.
Meeting the Mode. Strategies for Crafting Definition Essays. Definition Essays: Learning Writers' Moves. "How 'Namaste' Flew Away From Us," by Kumari Devarajan. "The History of 'Coming Out," by Abigail Saguy. "Dead Indians," by Thomas King. DIY: Craft Your Own Definition Essay. Definition Essays: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
12. Analytical Writing: Classification.
Meeting the Mode. "Why We Lift," by Hillary Gammons. Strategies for Classification Essays. Classification Essays: Learning Writer's Moves. "Latin American Music," by Kathleen Kropp. "Understanding the Four Types of AI: From Reactive Robots to Self-Aware Beings," by Arend Hintze. "Four Ways to Talk About Literature," by John Van Rys. DIY: Craft Your Own Classification Essay. Classification: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
13. Analytical Writing: Process.
Meeting the Mode. "American Lumpia: Filipino Egg Roll," by Andrea Santiago. Strategies for Writing Process Essays. Process Essays: Learning Writer's Moves. "Chasing the Stoke," by Tim Zekveld. "Yogurt: Milk & Mayhem," by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau. "The Emancipation of Abe Lincoln," by Eric Foner. DIY: Craft Your Own Process Essay. Process Writing: Applications. Learning-Objectives Checklist.
14. Analytical Writing: Comparison-Contrast.
Meeting the Mode. "Modern Arranged Marriages," by Ariana King. Strategi
