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Refining, Reading, Writing
- Includes 2009 MLA update card , 1st Edition
- ISBN-10: 0176103538 ISBN-13: 9780176103538
- 338 Pages
- © 2008 Published
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Preface
Unit One: Reading the Writings: Active Reading--Reading from Context, Skimming, Scanning, and Purpose & Audience
Active reading
Reading from context
Skimming
Scanning
Purpose
Audience
Readings:
“Murdering the Innocents” by Charles Dickens
Levels of Language: Word use, prefixes & suffixes
“Your New Computer” by Bill Bryson
Levels of Language: Jargon
“Prison Studies” by Malcolm X
Levels of Language: Slang
Unit Two: Writing from Readings: Responding to Readings: Summary and Critique
Responding in writing
Critique
“The Real McCoy” by Ralph Nader
Point of View
Irony
Readings:
“Smoking Is Good for My Business” by David Ginsburg
Rhetorical questions, Parallel Structure, Irony
“The Virtues of Ambition” by Joseph Epstein
“The Atoms Image Problem” by Jay Ingram
Unit Three: Organized Writing: Composing the Formula Five-Paragraph Essay
Step One: Generate Information
Step Two: Select & Arranging Information
Step Three: Presenting the Information
Student Sample Essay I: “Effective Driving” by Marcelo Olenewa
Student Sample Essay II: “My True Love Is Reading” by Rosemary Afriye
Student Sample Essay III: “The Common Ston”e by Jeff Haas
Step Four: Editing the Information
Unity & Coherence
Exercises for Coherence
Readings:
“What I Have Lived For” by Bertrand Russell
“Writing and Its Rewards” by Richard Marius
“How to Write with Style” by Kurt Vonnegut
Unit Four: Writing that Informs the Reader: Examples, Process Analysis, Comparison and Contrast, Classification, and Cause and Effect
Analyzing Patterns in Reading and Writing Exposition
Other Patterns of Development: Analogy & Definition
Essay of Example
Sample Student Essay: “Thoughts of Winter” by Victoria Santiago
Readings:
“The Great Communicator” by Margaret Atwood
“Overpopulation Is Bad, But Overconsumption Is Worse” by David Suzuki
“Remembrance” by Timothy Findley
“In Praise of the Humble Comma” by Pico Iyer
Essay of Process Analysis
Student Sample Essay: “How to Use Less Communication” by Stuart Johns
Readings:
“Blue Jeans: Born to Last” by Leslie C. Smith
“How to Mend a Broken Heart” by Nicola Bleasby
“You Are a Contract Painkiller” by Maureen Littlejohn
“Ten Steps to the Creation of a Modern Media Icon” by Mark Kingwell
Essay of Comparison and Contrast
Student Sample Essay: “Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast?” by Sandra Stewart
Readings:
“A Fable for Tomorrow” by Rachel Carson
“Whats Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her” by Anne McIlroy
“English, French: Why Not Both?” by Peggy Lampotang
“The Insufficiency of Honesty” by Stephen L. Carter
Essay of Classification
Student Sample Essay: “The Canadian Dream” by Julie-Ann Yoshikuni
Readings:
“Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends” by Judith Viorst
“Bird-Feeder Enlightenment” by Sean Twist
“A Few Kind Words for Superstition” by Robertson Davies
Essay of Cause and Effect
Student Sample Essay: “Illiterate like Me” by Dan Zollmann
Readings:
“Im a Banana and Proud of It” by Wayson Choy
“The New Apartheid” by Derek Cohen,
“When Bright Girls Decide Math Is a Waste of Time” by Susan Jacoby
“Deliberate Strangers” by Charlie Angus
Unit Five: Writing that Affects the Reader: Description, Narration, Argument/Persuasion
Essay of Description
Readings:
“Pinball” by J. Anthony Lukas
“Curtain Up” by Catherine George
“Chasing Buzz” by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
“The Shack” by Margaret Laurence
Essay of Narration
Readings:
“The Minnie Mouse Kitchen” by Michael Dorris
“Growing Up on Grace” by Rosie DiManno
“The Fight” Maya Angelou
“But a Watch in the Night: A Scientific Fable” by James C. Rettie
Essay of Argument & Persuasion
Student Sample Essay: “Our Earthly Fate” by Sang Il Lee
Readings:
“Playing Piano: Body, Embodiment and Gender” by Ruth Grogan
“Rediscovering Christmas” by Almas Zakiuddin
“Dont You Think Its Time to Start Thinking” Northrop Frye
“The Case for Curling up with a Book” by Carol Shields
“A World Not Neatly Divided” by Amritya Sen
Unit Six: Writing a Research Paper
The Research Paper: what? why? how?
How to Search and Research
How to Use Quotations in a Research Paper
Documentation
MLA Documentation Style
APA Documentation Style
Sample Research Paper
Outlining
Appendix: Reading your Own Writing
A1. Proofreading, Editing and Revision
“Win the War against Typos” by Patty Martino Alspaugh
A2. Proofreading Checklist
A3. Using Transitions
A4. Recognizing Prefixes and Suffixes
A5. Grammar Review
A5.1 Verbs
A5.2 Sentence structure
A5.3 Pronouns
A5.4 Parallel structure
A5.5 Modifiers
A6. Punctuation
“How to Punctuate” by Russell Baker
Glossary of Terms
Copyrights
Index