Successful college writing : skills, strategies, learning styles /
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Bedford/St. Martins,
2012.
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Adademic quick start.
- Succeeding in college
- Writing in college
- Reading in college
- Responding critically to text and images
- pt. 2. Strategies for writing essays.
- Prewriting: how to find and focus ideas
- Developing and supporting a thesis
- Drafting an essay
- Writing effective paragraphs
- Revising content and organization
- Editing sentences and words
- pt. 3. Patterns of development.
- Narration: recounting events
- Description: portraying people, places, and things
- Illustration: explaining with examples
- Process analysis: explaining how something works or is done
- Comparison and contrast: showing similarities and differences
- Classification and division: explaining categories and parts
- Definition: explaining what you mean
- Cause and effect: using reasons and results to explain
- pt. 4. Reading and writing arguments.
- Reading arguments
- Writing arguments
- pt. 5. Writing with sources.
- Planning a paper with sources
- Finding sources and taking notes
- Writing a paper using sources
- pt. 6. Academic and business applications.
- Reading and writing about literature
- Essay examinations and portfolios
- Oral presentations and business writing
- pt. 7. Handbook: writing problems and how to correct them.