Writing Today / Edition 2

by Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Charles Paine

Overview

For courses in English Composition.

Practical writing skills for composing in the real world

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205210084
Publisher:	Longman
Publication date:	01/16/2012
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	880
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Richard Johnson-Sheehan is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. There, he has directed the Introductory Composition program and served as the Director of the Purdue Writing Lab and the Purdue OWL. He teaches a variety of courses in composition, professional writing, medical writing, environmental writing and writing program administration, as well as classical rhetoric and the rhetoric of science. He has also published widely in these areas.

Johnson-Sheehan's books on writing include Argument Today, coauthored by Charles Paine; Technical Communication Today, now in its fifth edition and Writing Proposals, now in its second edition. He was awarded the 2008 Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. In 2017, he was awarded the J.R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Society for Technical Communication.

Charles Paine is a Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he directs the Core Writing and the Rhetoric and Writing programs. He teaches first-year composition and courses in writing pedagogy, the history of rhetoric and composition and many other areas. His published books span a variety of topics in rhetoric and composition, including The Resistant Writer (a history of composition studies), Teaching with Student Texts (a coedited collection of essays on teaching writing) and Argument Today (an argument-based textbook).

An active member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), he has served on its Executive Board and as coleader of the WPA Summer Conference Workshop. He cofounded and coordinates the Consortium for the Study of Writing in College, a joint effort of the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The Consortium conducts general research into the ways that undergraduate writing can lead to enhanced learning, engagement and other gains related to student success.

Table of Contents

1. Writing and Genres
2. Topic, Angle, Purpose
3. Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations
4. Reading Critically, Thinking Analytically
5. Reflecting Critically, Starting Your Portfolio

1. Memoirs
2. Profiles
3. Reviews
4. Literary Analyses
5. Rhetorical Analyses
6. Commentaries (Argument)
7. Arguments (Argument)
8. Proposals (Argument)
9. Formal Reports
10. Research Papers

1. Inventing Ideas and Prewriting
2. Organizing and Drafting
3. Choosing a Style
4. Designing
5. Revising and Editing

1. Developing Paragraphs and Sections
2. Using Basic Rhetorical Patterns
3. Using Argumentative Strategies (Argument)
4. Collaborating and Peer Response

1. Starting Your Research
2. Finding Sources and Collecting Evidence
3. Citing, Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing Sources
4. Using MLA Style
5. Using APA Style

1. Writing with Social Networking
2. Succeeding on Written Exams and Assessments
3. Presenting Your Work

1. College and a New Life
2. Identity and Human Nature
3. Culture and Entertainment
4. Place and Environment
5. Health and Safety
6. Science and Technology

1. Sentences
2. Verbs
3. Pronouns
4. Style
5. Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling

• 1.0 Why Do People Succeed in College (And Some Don't)?
• 1.1 Managing Your Time
• 1.2 Reading Smarter for Classes
• 1.3 Taking Good Notes in Class
• 1.4 Coping with Stress in College
• 1.5 Starting a Study Group
• 1.6 Talking to Your Instructors
• 1.7 Getting Help on Campus
• 1.8 Succeeding in Online and Hybrid Writing Courses

• 2.0 What is Different About College Reading?
• 2.1 Previewing a Text
• 2.2 Reading
• 2.3 Highlighting and Annotating
• 2.4 Playing the Believing and Doubting Game
• 2.5 Analyzing the Reliability of an Author's Evidence
• 2.6 Evaluating the Validity of an Author's Reasoning
• 2.7 Responding to a Text by Reflecting on Your Reading Process

• 3.0 What's Your Writing Process?
• 3.1 Analyzing Your Rhetorical Situation
• 3.2 Using Prewriting to Get Ideas Out of Your Head
• 3.3 Concept Mapping (or Mind Mapping)
• 3.4 Freewriting
• 3.5 Brainstorming Lists of Ideas
• 3.6 Using the "Five-W and How" Questions

• 4.0 How Should You Put Your Paper Together?
• 4.1 Writing Your Introduction (Tell Them What You're Going to Tell Them!)
• 4.2 Writing Your Thesis Statement
• 4.3 Organizing the Body of Your Paper (Tell Them)
• 4.4 Writing Your Conclusion Paragraph (Tell Them What You Told Them)
• 4.5 Using Effective Headings in Your Papers

• 5.0 Why is This Sentence So Hard to Read?
• 5.1 Finding the Doer and the Main Action of the Sentence
• 5.2 Putting the Doer of the Main Action in the Subject of the Sentence
• 5.3 Stating the Main Action of the Sentence as a Verb
• 5.4 Turning Passive Sentences into Active Sentences
• 5.5 Making Sentences Breathing Length
• 5.6 Combining Sentences

• 6.0 What Do Paragraphs Do?
• 6.1 Identifying the Topic Sentence of a Paragraph
• 6.2 Using Support Sentences in Paragraphs
• 6.3 Using Transitional Words and Phrases to Bridge Sentences
• 6.4 Bridging Two Paragraphs with Transitions
• 6.5 Types of Paragraphs

• 7.0 Why Do Research?
• 7.1 Is This Real News or Fake News?
• 7.2 Focusing a Research Question
• 7.3 Turning a Research Question into a Working Thesis or Hypothesis
• 7.4 Triangulating Sources
• 7.5 Using an In-Text Citation
• 7.6 Creating a List of Works Cited or References

• 8.0 Why is Grammar Important Anyway?
• 8.1 Comma Splice
• 8.2 Fused Sentence
• 8.3 Sentence Fragment
• 8.4 Subject-Verb Disagreement
• 8.5 Pronoun-Antecedent Disagreement
• 8.6 Apostrophe Errors
• 8.7 Misused Commas
• 8.8 Dangling Modifiers
• 8.9 Faulty Parallelism
• 8.10 Pronoun-Case Error
• 8.11 Shifted Tense
• 8.12 Vague Pronouns

• 9.0 What Does Punctuation Do, and Why Is It Important?
• 9.1 The Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark
• 9.2 The Comma
• 9.3 The Apostrophe
• 9.4 The Semicolon and Colon
• 9.5 Quotation Marks and Italics
• 9.6 Dashes and Hyphens
• 9.7 Parentheses, Brackets, and Ellipsis Dots