Writing Today, Brief Edition, with NEW MyCompLab with eText -- Access Card Package

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Table of Contents:
Part 1: Getting Started   Chapter 1:  Writing and Genres     What Are Genres?     Using Genres to Write Successfully     Genre and the Writing Process     Using Genres in College and Your Career     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 2: Topic, Angle, Purpose     Topic: What Am I Writing About?     Angle: What is New About the Topic?     Purpose: What Do I Want to Accomplish?     Choosing the Appropriate Genre     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 3: Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations     Profiling Readers     Analyzing the Context     Genres and the Rhetorical Situation     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This        Part 2: Using Genres to Express Ideas   Chapter 4: Memoirs     Overview     *One Student’s Work: “Diving In” by Helen Sanderson     Inventing Your Memoir’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Memoir     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Memoir     Revising and Editing Your Memoir     MicroGenre: The Literacy Narrative         Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write”from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass     Quick Start Guide    Readings          Wang Ping, “Book War”          Joe Mackall, “Words of My Youth”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 5: Profiles     Overview     One Student’s Work: “Brother, Life Coach, Friend: Troubled Kids Turn Their Lives Around” by Katie Koch     Inventing You Profile’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Profile     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Profile     Revising and Editing Your Profile     MicroGenre: The Bio         *About John Charles Cook     Quick Start Guide    Readings         Jennifer Senior, “The Near-Fame Experience”        *Walter Kirn, “The Grand Canyon: A Whole New World”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, MicroGenre: The Resume   Chapter 6: Reviews     Overview     *One Student’s Work: “’Toy Story 3’ Is An Adult’s Film for Children” by Yair Rosenberg     Inventing Your Review’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Review     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Review     Revising and Editing Your Review     MicroGenre: The Rave         *Francois Marchand, "Review: The Black Keys shake up the Orpheum in Vancouver”     Quick Start Guide    Readings         Carina Chocano, “Long Overdue: Review of Movie Juno”         Gerard Jones, “Violent Media is Good for Kids”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 7: Literary Analyses     Overview     One Student’s Work: “Doing the Right Thing in Edwidge Danticat’s `A Wall of Fire Rising’”by Nick Baca     Inventing Your Literary Analysis’ Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Literary Analysis     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Literary Analysis     Revising and Editing Your Literary Analysis     MicroGenre: The Reading Response         *Student Reading Response to Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”     Quick Start Guide     Readings:     A Casebook on Edwidge Danticat         Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”         *Corine Milano, “Edwidge Danticat: Return to Haiti”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 8: Rhetorical Analyses     Overview     One Student’s Work: “Rhetorical Analysis of the Keep America Beautiful Public Service Announcement (1971)” by Wes Rodenburg     Inventing Your Rhetorical Analysis’ Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Rhetorical Analysis     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Rhetorical Analysis     Revising and Editing Your Rhetorical Analysis     MicroGenre: The Ad Critique         *Theo Keith, “Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad sells Detroit”     Quick Start Guide     Readings         Jack Shafer, “How Obama Does That Thing He Does”         Liza Featherstone, “What’s a Girl to Read?”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 9: Commentaries     Overview     One Student’s Work: “Why My Generation Doesn’t Care About Performance Enhancement” by David Meany     Inventing You Commentary’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Commentary     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Commentary     Revising and Editing Your Commentary     MicroGenre: The Letter to the Editor         Michael Spatz, “Why I’m Against the Statewide Smoking Ban”     Quick Start Guide    Readings         *Douglas Rushkoff, “Are Jobs Obselete?”        *Tony Blair, “Faith in a Globalized Age.”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 10: Arguments     Overview     One Student’s Work: “Allowing Guns on Campus will Prevent Shootings, Rape” by Tyler Ohmann     Inventing Your Argument’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Argument     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Argument     Revising and Editing Your Argument     MicroGenre: The Rebuttal         Russ Walker and David Roberts, “Letter to the Editor on Climate Story”     Quick Start Guide    Readings         Sam Harris, “In Defense of Torture”         Kate Dailey, "Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide The Same Support As Those In Real Life?"     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 11: Proposals     Overview     *One Student Group’s Work: “SCC Café Proposal” by The Associated Students of the University of Washington (Seattle Campus)     Inventing Your Proposal’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Proposal     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Proposal     Revising and Editing Your Proposal     MicroGenre: The Pitch         *Dave Chenell and Eric Cleckner, “Elevator Pitch: graFighters”     Quick Start Guide    Readings         *John R. Gerdy, “For True Reform, Athletic Scholarships Must Go”         Alfie Kohn, “From Degrading to De-Grading”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 12: Reports     Overview     One Student’s Work: Scott Walker, “Gender Stereotypes and Toys: Is it Nature or Nurture?”     Inventing Your Report’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Report     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Report     Revising and Editing Your Report     MicroGenre: The Explainer         *“Planking: What is it and Why it is Popular”     Quick Start Guide    Readings         *Andrew Gelman and George A. Romero, “How Many Zombies Do You Know? Using Indirect Survey Methods to Measure Alien Attacks and Outbreaks of the Undead”         American Psychological Association (APA), “Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls.”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres   Chapter 13: Research Papers     Overview     One Student’s Work: “Lives Not Worth the Money?” by Katelyn Turnbow     Inventing Your Research Paper’s Content     Organizing and Drafting Your Research Paper     Choosing an Appropriate Style     Designing Your Research Paper     Revising and Editing Your Research Paper     MicroGenre: The Annotated Bibliography         *Sara Rodriguez, “Annotated Bibliography: The Fog of Revolution”     Quick Start Guide    Readings          *Taylor Clark, “Nervous Nellies”          *James Knoll, “Serial Murder: A Forensic Psychiatric Perspective”     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres     Part 3: Developing A Writing Process    Chapter 14: Inventing Ideas and Pre-Writing     Pre-Writing     Using Heuristics     Exploratory Writing     Taking Time to Invent and Prewrite     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 15: Organizing and Drafting     Using Genres to Organize Your Ideas     Sketching an Outline     Drafting Through Writer’s Block     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 16: Choosing A Style     Writing in Plain Style     Establishing Your Voice     Writing Descriptively with Tropes     Improving Your Writing Style     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 17: Designing     Before You Begin Designing     Five Basic Principles of Design     Design Principle 1: Balance     Design Principle 2: Alignment     Design Principle 3: Grouping     Design Principle 4: Consistency     Design Principle 5: Contrast     Using Photography and Images     Using Graphs and Charts     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 18: Revising and Editing     Level 1: Global Revision     Level 2: Substantive Editing     Level 3: Copyediting     Level 4: Proofreading     Peer Review: Asking For Advice     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Part 4: Strategies for Shaping Ideas    Chapter 19: Drafting Introductions and Conclusions     Drafting Introductions     Drafting Conclusions     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 20: Developing Paragraphs and Sections     Creating a Basic Paragraph     Getting Paragraphs to Flow (Cohesion)     Organizing a Section     Using Sections and Paragraphs Together     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 21: Using Basic Rhetorical Patterns     Narrative     Description     Definition     Classification     Cause and Effect     Comparison and Contrast     Combining Rhetorical Patterns     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 22: Using Argumentative Strategies     What is Arguable?     Using Reason, Authority, and Emotion     Avoiding Logical Fallacies     Rebuttals and Refutations     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 23: Working Collaboratively with Other Writers     Working with a Group of Other Writers     Working with a Team     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This     Part 5: Doing Research   Chapter 24: Starting Research     Starting Your Research Process     Doing Start-Up Research     Assessing a Source’s Reliability     Managing Your Research Process     Following and Modifying Your Research Plan     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 25: Finding Sources and Collecting Information     Using Primary and Secondary Sources     Finding Electronic and Online Sources     Finding Print Sources     Using Empirical Sources     Developing an Annotated Bibliography     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 26: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources     Common Knowledge: What You Don’t Need to Cite     Paraphrasing and Summarizes Sources     Framing Quotes, Paraphrases, and Summaries     Avoiding Plagiarism     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 27: Using MLA Style     Parenthetical Citations     Preparing the List of Works Cited     Citing Sources in the List of Works Cited     A Student’s MLA Research Paper: Brian Naidus, “A Whole New World: A Background on the Life of the Freshwater Shark”   Chapter 28: Using APA Style     Parenthetical Citations     Preparing the List of References     Citing Sources in the List of References     A Student’s APA Research Paper: Austin Duus, “Assortative Mating and Income Inequality”   Part 6: Getting Your Ideas Out There   Chapter 29: Using the Internet     Is This Writing?     Creating a Social Networking Site     Starting Your Own Blog     Writing Articles for Wikis     Putting Videos and Podcasts on the Internet     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 30: Creating A Portfolio     Two Basic Kinds of Portfolios     Getting Started on Your Portfolio     Step One: Collecting Your Work     Step Two: Selecting the Appropriate Artifacts     Step Three: Reflecting on Your Work     Step Four: Presenting Your Materials     Creating an E-Portfolio     Keeping Your Portfolio Up to Date     Creating a Starter Resume     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 31: Succeeding on Essay Exams     Preparing for an Essay Exam     Starting Your Essay Exam     Answering an Essay Exam Question     Finishing Your Essay Exam     One Student’s Essay Exam     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Chapter 32: Presenting Your Work      Getting Started     Organizing Your Presentation’s Content     Designing Your Visual Aids     Delivering Your Presentation     Practicing and Rehearsing     Quick Start Guide     Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This   Part 7: Handbook   Credits Index