دانلود کتاب Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings

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Cover
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
To the Student
Part 1: The Basics of the Short Essay
Chapter 1: Prewriting
Getting Started
Selecting a Subject
Finding Your Essay’s Purpose and Focus
Pump-Primer Techniques
After You’ve Found Your Focus
Discovering Your Audience
How to Identify Your Readers
Keeping a Journal (Talking to Yourself Does Help)
Chapter 1: Summary
Chapter 2: The Thesis Statement
What Is a Thesis? What Does a “Working Thesis” Do?
Can a “Working Thesis” Change?
Guidelines for Writing a Good Thesis
Avoiding Common Errors in Thesis Statements
Using the Essay Map
Chapter 2: Summary
Chapter 3: The Body Paragraphs
Planning the Body of Your Essay
Composing the Body Paragraphs
The Topic Sentence
Paragraph Development
Paragraph Length
Paragraph Unity
Paragraph Coherence
Paragraph Sequence
Chapter 3: Summary
Chapter 4: Beginnings and Endings
How to Write a Good Lead-In
Avoiding Errors in Lead-Ins
How to Write a Good Concluding Paragraph
Avoiding Errors in Conclusions
How to Write a Good Title
Chapter 4: Summary
Chapter 5: Drafting and Revising: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
What Is Revision?
When Does Revision Occur?
Myths about Revision
Can I Learn to Improve My Revision Skills?
Preparing to Draft
Writing Centers, Computer Classrooms, and Electronic Networks
Procrastination: Enemy of Critical Thinking, Thief of Time
A Revision Process for Your Drafts
A Final Checklist for Your Essay
Sample Student Essay
Collaborative Activities: Group Work, Peer Revision Workshops, and Team Projects
Benefiting from Collaborative Activities
Some Last Advice: How to Play with Your Mental Blocks
Chapter 5: Summary
Chapter 6: Effective Sentences
Developing a Clear Style
Developing a Concise Style
Developing an Engaging Style
Developing an Emphatic Style
Chapter 6: Summary
Chapter 7: Word Logic
Selecting the Correct Words
Selecting the Best Words
Chapter 7: Summary
Chapter 8: The Reading-Writing Connection
How Can Reading Well Help Me Become a Better Writer?
How Can I Become an Analytical Reader?
How Can I Read Multimodal Texts Analytically?
Writing a Summary
Benefiting from Class Discussions
Chapter 8: Summary
Part 2: Purposes, Modes, and Strategies
Chapter 9: Development by Example
Why and How to Use Examples in Your Writing
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Chapter 10: Process Analysis
Types of Process Analysis Essays
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Professional Essays
Chapter 11: Comparison and Contrast
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Professional Essay
A Special Kind of Comparison: The Analogy
Chapter 12: Definition
Why Do We Define?
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Chapter 13: Division and Classification
Division
Classification
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Chapter 14: Causal Analysis
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Chapter 15: Argumentation
Developing Your Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Analyzing Advertisements
Chapter 16: Description
How to Write Effective Description
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Chapter 17: Narration
Writing the Effective Narrative Essay
Sample Student Essay 1
Sample Student Essay 2
Chapter 18: Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies
Sample Student Essay
Part 3: Special Assignments
Chapter 19: Conducting Research and Using Sources
Focusing Your Topic
Beginning Your Library Research
Beginning Your Online Research
Conducting Primary Research
Preparing a Working Bibliography
Choosing and Evaluating Your Sources
Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
Taking Notes
Incorporating Your Source Material
Avoiding Plagiarism
Chapter 20: Documenting Sources
MLA Style
APA Style
Footnote and Bibliography Form
Using Supplementary Notes
Sample Student Essay Using MLA Style
Sample Student Essay Using APA Style
Chapter 21: Classroom Writing: Exams, Timed Essays, and Presentations
Steps to Writing Well Under Pressure
Writing the Summary-and-Response Essay
Sample Student Essay
Writing for Classroom Presentations
Chapter 22: Writing about Literature
Using Literature in the Composition Classroom
Suggestions for Close Reading of Literature
Steps to Reading a Story
Annotated Story
Sample Student Essay
Steps to Reading a Poem
Annotated Poem
Sample Student Essay
General Guidelines for Writing about Literature
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 23: Writing in the World of Work
Composing Business Letters
Sample Business Letter
Creating Memos
Sending Professional E-Mail
Writing Cover Letters and Designing Résumés
Sample Résumés
Preparing Interview Notes and Post-Interview Letters
Part 4: A Concise Handbook
Chapter 24: Major Errors in Grammar
Assessing Your Skills: Grammar
Errors with Verbs
Errors with Nouns
Errors with Pronouns
Errors with Adverbs and Adjectives
Errors in Modifying Phrases
Errors in Sentences
Chapter 25: A Concise Guide to Punctuation
Assessing Your Skills: Punctuation
Punctuation Guidelines
Chapter 26: A Concise Guide to Mechanics
Assessing Your Skills: Mechanics
Part 5: Additional Readings
Chapter 27: Development by Example
“Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples
“Six Myths about Choosing a College Major” by Jeffrey J. Selingo
“Take This Fish and Look at It” by Samuel H. Scudder
Chapter 28: Process Analysis
“Bite-Sized History” by Carlton Stowers
“Some Friendly Advice” by Jesse McKinley
Chapter 29: Comparison and Contrast
“Us and Them” by David Sedaris
“The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer
“Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White
Chapter 30: Definition
“The Exam Dream” by Eric Hoover
“What Is Poverty?” by Jo Goodwin Parker
“A VIrtual Wallet” by Audrey Wick
Chapter 31: Division and Classification
“Party Manners” by Richard L. Grossman
“The Colorful Plate” by Dianne Moeller
“How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met” by Kashmir Hill
Chapter 32: Causal Analysis
“Some Lessons from the Assembly Line” by Andrew Braaksma
“Mystery!” by Nicholas Meyer
“The Mind Game” by Joshua Bell
Chapter 33: Argumentation
“Putting Up with Hate” by The Denver Post Editorial Board
“Judging by the Cover” by Bonny Gainley
Chapter 34: Description
“Still Learning from My Mother” by Cliff Schneider
“A Day at the Theme Park” by W. Bruce Cameron
“The Battle of the Ants” by Henry David Thoreau
Chapter 35: Narration
“37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” by Martin Gansberg
“Salvation” by Langston Hughes
“Arrival at Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
Chapter 36: Essays Using Multiple Strategies and Styles
“Courage in Greensboro” by Owen Edwards
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
Chapter 37: Literature
“Bilingual/Bilingüe” by Rhina P. Espaillat
“Poem for an Inked Daughter” by Jane Wheeler
“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
Credits
Index
Credits
Index