Pearson - Longwood Guide to Writing, The, 4/E - Ronald F. Lunsford & Bill Bridges

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Reflecting the author's fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, authoritative, and current aims-based rhetorics on the market.

This comprehensive rhetoric with readings, a research guide, and brief handbook helps students see writing as rhetorical and as a process. Students are introduced to all phases of reading and writing and then engage in a range of “writing occasions”–writing personal essays; informative and evaluative essays; position, persuasive, and problem/solution essays; and essays about and from literature. Each of the core “writing occasions” chapters features professional readings, discusses the rhetorical triangle, and follows a student through the writing process. Students also learn effective ways to conduct research, write with sources, and take essay exams. Throughout The Longwood Guide, students are offered opportunities to examine and refine their own individual writing processes.

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A three-chapter sequence at the beginning of the text details strategies for the writing process, from generating ideas to shaping those ideas to rewriting. The invention chapter provides an extraordinary variety of prewriting strategies—some of them unique to this book—while the revision chapter addresses sentence-level, paragraph-level, and global revision.

The Rhetorical Triangle section within each chapter in Part Two underscores for students the rhetorical nature of writing and highlights how the subject matter and reader changes depending on the purpose for writing.

Sample Student Process in Parts Two and Three show one student work per chapter each in stages of invention, drafting, and revision, revealing an emphasis on writing as a process throughout the text.

Exceptionally strong and nuanced presentation of argument introduces students to the differences in purpose, audience, and strategy when arguing to articulate and support a position versus when arguing to persuade (Chs 9, 10, 11).

Invention is emphasized throughout the text, both as a foundational chapter in Part One and in the Guidelines section of each chapter in Part Two.

The reading/ writing connection is underscored in Responding to Readings (Ch. 4) which presents students with a comprehensive range of reading strategies they can also use to inform their own writing.

Well-chosen professional and student samples appear throughout and many are accompanied by peer reviews and instructor comments to highlight the collaborative nature of writing.

A comprehensive chapter on research and writing with sources includes student writing samples and up-to-the-minute information about researching on the Internet and evaluating and documenting online sources.

The Preparing for Publication section provides a brief handbook.

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Students are offered a set of principles for reading visual texts (Ch 4. Responding to Readings) accompanied by analysis and exercises; these principles are revisited throughout the aims-based writing occasion chapters and reinforce a consistent way of approaching visuals with a critical eye.
Nuanced argument coverage has been supplemented with a new discussion of how visuals persuade. Topics overlap those of the readings, offering students opportunities to synthesize written and visual texts in their own compositions (Ch. 10 Persuasion Essays).
Expanded treatment of working with sources focuses on summary and paraphrase and offers discussion, samples, instruction, and exercises for practice (Ch 4: Responding to Readings).
A thorough discussion of how writers use tables and graphs to convey informationis followed by exercises in which students practice generating their own graphics as well as evaluating those written by others’ Ch. 6 Information Essays).
Coverage of evaluating texts has been greatly expanded to include analysis of and exercises for evaluating visual texts such as political cartoons, political advertisements, and web sites (Ch. 8 Evaluation Essays).

Table of Contents

Preface

I. STRATEGIES FOR THE WRITING PROCESS.

Why Write?

How Does Writing Happen?

Stages in the Writing Process

Writing and Reading

Computers and Writing

1. Invention: Finding Something to Say

Finding Topics

Writing about an Assigned Topic

Exploring Topics

Finding Information

Sample Student Process–Prewriting

From Inventing to Drafting

2. Shaping an Essay

Initial Shaping Strategies

Sample Student Process–Discovery Draft

Developing an Essay's Structure

Elements of an Essay

3. Revising

Revising Strategies

Writer's Notebook: Responding to Readers' Comments

Editing Strategies

Writing a Self-Assessment

Sample Student Process–Revision

Marisol Vargas, Mirror Image

4. Responding to Readings

Sample Reading

Lee K. Abbott, The True Story of Why I Do What I Do

Reading Strategies for Texts

Readings Strategies for Visuals

Writers Notebook: Dialogue Notes

Writing Paraphrases and Summaries

*Steven Pinker, Racist Language, Real and Imagined

Writing a Response

Sample Student Essay - Summary and Response

*Christian Clark, Emotion and the Death Penalty: An Analysis of Jaclyn Tablert's, "Justice For Those Who Have Shown Us No Mercy"

II. WRITING OCCASIONS

Aims of Discourse

Modes of Discourse

Wedding Aim and Mode

Classifying Occasions

5. Personal Essays

Sample Essays

Datus Proper, Dark Hollow

Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

Charles McNair, My Father's Cabin

*Christopher Fisher, Scars

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Personal Essays

Visuals and Personal Essays

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

Sample Student Process

Chris Miller, Gringos on Safari

6. Information Essays

Sample Essays

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On the Fear of Dying

Suzanne Smalley, The Perfect Crime

Jay Chiat, Illusions are Forever

Arthur Rosenfeld, Should Anyone Have to Live WIth Pain?

Gloria Naylor, Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean?

*Sandra Y. Govan, Listening to the Word, or 21st Century Readers and "The Souls of Black Folk"

*Elizabeth C. Gardner, Transforming a Nation, Transforming an Enemy

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Information Essays

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

Making Use of Visuals

Meir Shalev, If Bosnians Were Whales

Sample Student Process

Michael Graham, All In a Day's Work: Generalizing, Profiling, and Stereotyping

7. Essays About and From Literature

Sample Works of Literature

Joyce Carol Oates, Shopping

*Aaron Gwyn, Of Falling

Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something

Margaret Atwood, Spelling

Sherman Alexie, That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump

Sherman Alexie, The Powwow at the End of the World

*Sherman Alexie, Evolution

Sample Essays

Kendra Stead, The Making of Spells

*Amy Wright, A Quest to Return to the Garden: Perception "Of Falling"

Kendra Stead, No Exceptions

*Steve Stoeckel, What About the Customer?

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Interpretive Essays

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

Writing About Literature

Writing From Literature

Sample Student Process

Kristina Geray, "How Exhausting It Is" To Keep Up Appearances

8. Evaluation Essays

Sample Essays

Ellen Goodman, Beauty Industry on Rampage

*Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Shooting to Win; Do Attack Ads Work? You Bet -- and That's Not All Bad

Bill Bridges, “No Thanks"–A Step Beyond "Just Say No”

Jennifer Pitman, Booze It? Lose It! An Evaluation of North Carolina's Drunk Driving Laws

*Amy Wright, "The DaVinci Code": A Study in Print and Film

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Evaluation Essays

Lou Jacobs, What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have?

Evaluating Visual Images

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

An Exercise in Evaluation and The Internet

Portfolios

Jacqueline Cotter, Getting It Right: Fitting Message to Audience

Steve Duran, Steve Wants an A

Sample Student Process

Bridget McCollam, Adult Audiences Only

9. Position Essays

Sample Essays

*Michael Haley, The Right Not to Listen

*David Amante, Teaching Is Always A Political Act

*Stephen Jay Gould, Nonoverlapping Magisteria

Jennifer Pitman, Euthanasia and the Right to Die

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Position Essays

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

Sample Student Process

Heather Hall, The Next Big Winner Is...!!

10. Persuasion Essays

Sample Essays

Michael R. Heaphy, Dismemberment and Choice

*Thomas Oliphant, Exposed in the Supreme Court: Lies About 'Partial Birth Abortion'

*Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream

*Richard Dawkins, When Religion Steps On Science's Turf: The Alleged Separation Between the Two Is Not So Tidy

Jaime Sherrill, Zero Tolerence for Abuse

Jaclyn Talbert, Justice for Those Who Have Shown Us No Mercy

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Persuasion Essays

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

Sample Student Process

Alysia Tucker, No More

11. Problem/Solution Essays

Sample Essays.

William E. King, Out of Hurricane's Way

Julie Titone, Balance of Power: Can Endangered Salmon and Hydroelectric Plants Share the Same Rivers?

Andrew Overton, Change

The Rhetorical Triangle

Distinguishing Features of Problem/Solution Essays

Assignment and Guidelines for Writing

Sample Student Process

Kristina Geray, The Pet Overpopulation Problem

III. RESEARCH

12. Researching and Writing

Topic Selection

Searching a Topic

Incorporating Material from Sources

Documenting Information

Citations

Sample Annotated Essay

*Clarita Brown, The American Indian Movement as a Counterculture

Writing Assignment

Sample Student Process

Gardiner Rhoderick, Yes, It's Graffiti, but Is It Art?

IV. WRITING AND ASSESSING

Assessment via Essay Exams

13. Essay Examinations

Packaging the Process

Planning Your Essay's Content

Planning Your Essay's Structure

Overlapping Terminologies

Essays That Ask for Practical Applications

Planning Sample Essays

V. PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION

Basic Grammar

Parts of Speech

Phrases and Modification

Sentence Functions

Sentence Types

Punctuation, Spelling, and Manuscript Mechanics

End Punctuation

Punctuation within Sentences

Spelling

Manuscript Mechanics

Capitalization

Literary Credits

Index

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