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Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond uses written instruction and visual tools to teach students how to read, write, and research effectively for different purposes.   Lester Faigley’s clear and inviting teaching style and Dorling Kindersley’s accessible and striking design combine to give students a textbook that shows them what readers and writers actually do.  Unique and dynamic presentations of reading, writing, and research processes in the text bring writing alive for students and speak to students with many learning styles.  Throughout the book, students are engaged and learning, with such notable features as “process maps” to guide students through the major writing assignments, extensive examples of student “Writers at work,” and diverse, distinctive reading selections.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: The Writer as Explorer   1. Thinking as a Writer     Explore through writing     Understand the process of writing     Understand the rhetorical situation     Analyze your assignment     Think about your genre and medium     Think about your topic     Think about your audience     Think about your credibility   2.  Reading to Explore     Become a critical reader     Look with a critical eye     Read actively     Recognize fallacies     Respond as a reader     Move from reading to invention   3. Planning     Move from a general topic to a writing plan     Narrow your topic     Write a thesis     Make a plan   4. Drafting     Draft with strategies in mind     Write a zero draft     Draft from a working outline     Start fast with an engaging title and opening paragraph     Develop paragraphs     Conclude with strength     Link within and across paragraphs   5. Revising     Revising and editing     Evaluate your draft     Respond to others     Pay attention to details last     Revise using your instructor’s comments     PART TWO: The Writer as Guide     Writing to Reflect 6.       Reflections     Writing reflections     What makes a good reflection     How to read reflections         Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Some Lines for a Younger Brother . . .         David Sedaris, Let it Snow         Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, My Hips, My Caceras         Rebecca Solnit, Open Door         Amy Tan, Mother Tongue     How to write a reflection         Student example         Janine Carter, The Miracle Quilt     Projects   Writing to Inform 7.      Observations     Writing observations     What makes a good observation     How to read observations         Mary Roach, Monster in a Ryokan         Sandra Tsing Loh, Coming Home to Van Nuys         Kellie Schmitt, The Old Man Isn’t There Anymore         Ansel Adams, Photographs of Japanese-Americans at Manzanar         National Park Service, Yellowstone’s Geothermal Resources     How to write an observation         Student example         Sarah Cuellar, Playing in Traffic: How Parallel Play Helps Preschool Children "Merge" into Group Play     Projects   8.      Informative Essays     Reporting information     What makes good informative writing     How to read informative writing         Chip Walter, Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss         Kheehong Song and Allison Cui, Understanding China’s Middle Class         Robin Dunbar, Gossip Is Good for You         World Wildlife Fund, Measuring Human Demand         Christopher McCandless, The Heart Disease Test Madeover     How to write to inform         Student example         Lakshmi Kotra, The Life Cycle of Stars     Projects   Writing to Analyze 9.      Rhetorical, Visual, and Literary Analyses     Writing to analyze     Analyzing text and context     Writing a rhetorical analysis     Writing a visual analysis     Writing a literary analysis     How to read analyses         Tim Collins, Straight from the Heart         David T. Z. Mindich, The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless         Example for analysis: Volkswagen Beetle         Example for analysis: Kate Chopin, The Storm         Example for analysis: Dagoberto Gilb, Love in LA         Student example         Quandre Brown, Fender-bender Romance in Dagoberto Gilb's "Love in LA"     How to write an analysis         Student example         Kelsey Turner, Biting the Hands That Feed America     Projects   Writing Arguments 10.  Causal Arguments     Writing a causal argument     What makes a good causal argument     How to read causal arguments         Laura Fraser, The French Paradox         Emily Raine, Why Should I Be Nice To You? Coffee Shops and the Politics of Good Service         Kay S. Hymowitz, The New Girl Order         Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change         Clay Shirkey, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus         Eduardo Porter, The Price of Crossing Borders     How to write a causal argument         Student example         Armandi Tansel, Modern Warfare: Video Games’ Link to Real-World Violence     Projects   11.  Evaluation Arguments     Writing an evaluation argument     What makes a good evaluation argument     How to read evaluation arguments         P. J. O'Rourke, The End of the Affair         Editorial. The Worst Policy on Campus         Bill McKibben, The Only Way to Have a Cow         Jane McGonigal, The Four Secrets to Making Our Own Happiness         Stephanie Rosenbloom, The Nitpicking Nation      How to write an evaluation         Student example         Jenna Picchi, Organic Foods Should Come Clean     Projects   12.  Position Arguments     Writing a position argument     What makes a good position argument     How to read position arguments         Ted Koppel, Take My Privacy, Please!         Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?         Mark Winne, When Handouts Keep Coming, the Food Line Never Ends         Michael Pollan, Eat Food, Food Defined         David Carr, Why Twitter Will Endure         James Paul Gee, Games, Not Schools, Are Teaching Kids to Think         Buff Daddy         Food Cops Bust Cookie Monster      How to write a position argument         Student example         Patrice Conley, Flagrant Foul: The NCAA’s Definition of Student Athletes as Amateurs     Projects   13.  Proposal Arguments     Writing a proposal argument     What makes a good proposal argument     How to read proposal arguments         Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence         Richard Nixon, Building the Interstate Highway System         San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Connecting the City         Glenn Loury, A Nation of Jailers         Peter W. Huber, Bound to Burn         Chris Packham and Mark Wright, Should Pandas Be Left to Face Extinction?      How to write a proposal argument         Student example         Kim Lee, Let’s Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All     Projects   PART THREE: The Multimodal Writer   14. Thinking Visually     Communicate with visuals and words     Know when to use images and graphics     Take pictures that aren’t boring     Compose images     Create tables, charts, and graphs   15. Designing Documents     Start with your readers     Use headings and subheadings effectively     Design pages     Understand typography     Create tables, charts, and graphs   16. Delivering Presentations     Plan a presentation     Design effective visuals     Deliver a successful presentation   17. Writing for Online Courses     Keep track of online coursework     Participate in online discussions     Manage online writing   18. Working as a Team     Organize a team     Brainstorm as a team     Work as a team   PART FOUR: The Writer as Researcher   Guide to Research   19. Planning Research     Analyze the research task     Ask a question     Determine what you need     Draft a working thesis   20. Finding Sources     Identify the kinds of sources that you need     Search using keywords     Find sources in databases     Find sources on the Web     Find multimedia sources     Find print sources         Create a working bibliography   21. Evaluating Sources     Determine the relevance and quality of sources     Determine the kind of source     Determine if a source is trustworthy     Create an annotated bibliography   22. Exploring in the Field     Conduct interviews     Administer surveys     Make observations   23. Writing the Research Project     Write a draft     Avoid plagiarism     Quote sources without plagiarizing     Summarize and paraphrase sources without plagiarizing     Incorporate quotations     Incorporate visuals     Review your research project   24. MLA Documentation     Elements of MLA documentation     Entries in the works-cited list     In-text citations in MLA style     Books in MLA-style works cited     Web sources in MLA-style works cited     Other sources in MLA-style works cited     Visual sources in MLA-style works cited     Sample MLA paper             Sarah Picchi, It’s Time to Shut Down the Identity Theft Racket   25. APA Documentation     APA citations     In-text citations in APA style     Books in APA-Style references list     Periodicals in APA-Style references list     Web sources in APA-Style references list     Other sources in APA-Style references list     Sample APA paper         Blair Zacharias, Parking Design Recommendations for Publically Funded Commercial Redevelopment Projects    Appendixes: A. Writing Essay Exams B. Creating Portfolios  

About the Author :
Lester Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing at Texas in 1993, and he served as the 1996 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over twenty books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.