Table Of ContentPreface Howto Use This Book Part1: Rhetorical Situations1:Purpose 2:Audience 3:Genre 4:Stance 5:Media / Design *6:Writing in Academic Contexts Part2: Genres 7:Writing a Literacy Narrative *?EmilyVallowe, ?Write or Wrong Identity? MarjorieAgosín, ?Always Living in Spanish? ShannonNichols, ?Proficiency? **?SofiaGomez, ?Mother Goose in Monterrey? 8:Analyzing Texts *?HannahBerry, ?The Fashion Industry: Free to Be? WilliamSafire, ?A Spirit Reborn? *EmilyNussbaum, ?In Defense of Liz Lemon? **SamAnderson, ?Just One More Game . . . Angry Birds, Farmville,and Other Hyperaddictive Stupid Games? ?StephanieHuff, ?Metaphor and Society in Shelley?s?Sonnet?? 9:Reporting Information *?MichaelaCullington, ?Does Texting Affect Writing?? *NicholasCarr, ?Rural > City > Cyberspace: The Biggest Migrationin Human History? JamesFallows, ?Throwing Like a Girl? **MatthewO?Brien, ?The Strange Economics of EngagementRings? 10:Arguing a Position ?JoannaMacKay, ?Organ Sales? *HeatherDouglas, ?The Dark Side of Science? LawrenceLessig, ?Some Like It Hot? **AndrewLeonard, ?Black Friday: Consumerism MinusCivilization? 11:Abstracts 12:Annotated Bibliographies MichaelBenton, Mark Dolan, Rebecca Zisch, ?TeenFilm$? ?JessicaAnn Olson, ?Global Warming? 13:Evaluations ?AliHeinekamp, ?Juno: Not Just Another Teen Movie? 14:Lab Reports ?SarahThomas, ?The Effect of Biofeedback Training? 15:Memoirs RickBragg, ?All Over But the Shoutin?? 16:Profiles *?ChristianDanielsen, ?Paperclip Man? 17:Proposals MichaelGranof, ?Course Requirement: Extortion? 18:Reflections JonathanSafran Foer, ?My Life as a Dog? 19:Résumés and Job Letters 20:Mixing Genres AnnaQuindlen, ?Write for Your Life? *21:Choosing Genres Part3: Processes 22:Writing as Inquiry 23:Collaborating 24:Generating Ideas and Text 25:Drafting 26:Assessing Your Own Writing 27:Getting Response and Revising 28:Editing and Proofreading 29:Compiling a Portfolio Part4: Strategies 30:Beginning and Ending 31:Guiding Your Reader 32:Analyzing Causes and Effects 33:Arguing 34:Classifying and Dividing 35:Comparing and Contrasting 36:Defining 37:Describing 38:Dialogue 39:Explaining Processes 40:Narrating 41:Reading Strategies 42:Taking Essay Exams Part5: Doing Research 43:Developing a Research Plan 44:Finding Sources 45:Evaluating Sources 46:Synthesizing Ideas 47:Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing 48:Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism 49:Documentation 50:MLA Style 51:APA Style Part6: Media / Design *52:Choosing Media *53:Designing Text *54:Using Visuals *55:Writing Online Handbook Sentences CompleteSentences SentenceFragments CommaSplices, Fused Sentences Verbs Subject-VerbAgreement Pronouns Parallelism Coordinationand Subordination Shifts Language AppropriateWords PreciseWords CommonlyConfused Words UnnecessaryWords Adjectivesand Adverbs Articles WordsThat Build Common Ground Punctuation/Mechanics Commas Semicolons EndPunctuation QuotationMarks Apostrophes OtherPunctuation Marks Hyphens Capitalization Italics Abbreviations Numbers Glossary/ Index MLAand APA Directories HandbookMenu *New to the third edition **Multimodal writing ?Student writing
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