A Short Guide To College Writing

Author : Sylvan Barnet,Pat Bellanca,Marcia Stubbs
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : PSU:000067078967

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A Short Guide to College Writing by Sylvan Barnet,Pat Bellanca,Marcia Stubbs Pdf

One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series,A Short Guide to College Writingis a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing. Engagingly written by a well-known author team,A Short Guide to College Writingoffers students clear, practical guidance. Students can turn to this book for help with everything from choosing a topic, writing an analysis, and documenting sources to constructing a paragraph and punctuating a quotation. Separate chapters provide support for revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy. Discussion and examples of description and narration are included, but the emphasis throughout is on the most common college writing assignments: analysis, argument, and research. Students are taught the essential skills for effective college writing–skills they will need when writing for a first-year composition course, or for any other college-level course.

Author : Sylvan Barnet,Pat Bellanca,Marcia Stubbs
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106019296455

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A Short Guide to College Writing by Sylvan Barnet,Pat Bellanca,Marcia Stubbs Pdf

One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series,A Short Guide to College Writingis a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing. Brief, high-quality rhetoric with lower price. Drafting, revising, research, documentation. General Interest.

Author : Jan A. Pechenik
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biology
ISBN : 0134008316

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A Short Guide to Writing about Biology by Jan A. Pechenik Pdf

This book teaches students to think as biologists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing. Students are provided with the tools they'll need to be successful writers in college and their profession, how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically.

Author : Pamela Arlov
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : College readers
ISBN : 0130488968

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Wordsmith by Pamela Arlov Pdf

In the REAL WORLD, do we write just ONE mode in isolation? With a strong focus on writing and the writing process, WORDSMITH: COLLEGE WRITING, Second Edition also groups the methods of development in threes -- to better show students the relationships between them, and to give students strategies for using more than one in their papers: The Showing and Telling chapter covers Description, Narration, and Example. The Limiting and Ordering chapter covers Definition, Classification, and Process. The Examining Logical Connections chapter covers Comparison-Contrast, Cause-Effect, and Argument. Throughout the text, WORDSMITH: A GUIDE TO PARAGRAPHS AND SHORT ESSAYS 2E also provides extensive exercises for students to practice their skills: Practice and Review Exercises are brief, short-answer style exercises. Editing, Group and Writing Assignments require working with or creating writing samples. Progressive Writing Assignments connect writing process concepts from other chapters. With a focus on writing and a variety of exercises, WORDSMITH: A GUIDE TO COLLEGE WRITING 2E illustrates how the elements of good writing are rarely performed in isolation.

Author : Daniel Couch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Bibliographical citations
ISBN : 1943536910

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Your Guide to College Writing by Daniel Couch Pdf

Your Guide to College Writing is a practical handbook for academic writers. This book teaches you the rules for college research and writing and shows you how to follow them in real-world examples. By starting with the basics of paragraphs, sentences, punctuation, word choice, research, and guides to MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, you'll become comfortable with the building blocks of writing in college. When you have trouble with a specific error or tricky problem, you'll find easy-to-follow instructions for crafting solutions that you can use throughout your career as a formal writer. Formal academic writing can be complex. This handbook is written in clear and accessible language and is designed to be a reference guide to help you quickly find the right topic. Each topic is explained and illustrated by several examples that show how it works and how to use it, complete with samples and annotations. Your Guide to College Writing has you covered on topics that include: Organizing paragraphs effectively Writing appropriate openings and conclusions Completing sentence fragments Fixing run-on sentences Using commas correctly Identifying reliable sources Working with sources responsibly Citing sources accurately in MLA, APA, and Chicago style Formatting your paper in MLA, APA, and Chicago style

Author : M. Garrett Bauman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1413031064

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Ideas and Details by M. Garrett Bauman Pdf

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0321965248

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A Short Guide to Writing about Film by Timothy Corrigan Pdf

This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.

Author : Sylvan Barnet
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015061182336

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A Short Guide to Writing about Art by Sylvan Barnet Pdf

This edition addresses such fundamental matters as: description versus analysis; critical approaches to art (e.g., formal analysis; cultural materialism; gender studies); getting ideas for an essay; developing paragraphs; organizing a comparison; using bibliographic tools, including the internet; writing a catalog entry; quoting sources; documenting sources, using either the Art Bulletin style or the Chicago Manual style; avoiding sexist and Eurocentric language; writing citations for illustrations; engaging in peer review; editing the final draft; writing essay examinations.

Author : M. Garrett Bauman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0155021494

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Ideas and Details by M. Garrett Bauman Pdf

Author : Kate L. Turabian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780226816333

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Student's Guide to Writing College Papers by Kate L. Turabian Pdf

High school students, two-year college students, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper—and for decades Kate Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. In the new fourth edition of Turabian’s popular guide, the team behind Chicago’s widely respected The Craft of Research has reconceived and renewed this classic for today’s generation. Designed for less advanced writers than Turabian’s Manual of Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams here introduce students to the art of defining a topic, doing high-quality research with limited resources, and writing an engaging and solid college paper. The Student’s Guide is organized into three sections that lead students through the process of developing and revising a paper. Part 1, "Writing Your Paper," guides students through the research process with discussions of choosing and developing a topic, validating sources, planning arguments, writing drafts, avoiding plagiarism, and presenting evidence in tables and figures. Part 2, "Citing Sources," begins with a succinct introduction to why citation is important and includes sections on the three major styles students might encounter in their work—Chicago, MLA, and APA—all with full coverage of electronic source citation. Part 3, "Style," covers all matters of style important to writers of college papers, from punctuation to spelling to presenting titles, names, and numbers. With the authority and clarity long associated with the name Turabian, the fourth edition of Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers is both a solid introduction to the research process and a convenient handbook to the best practices of writing college papers. Classroom tested and filled with relevant examples and tips, this is a reference that students, and their teachers, will turn to again and again.

Author : John Biays,Carol Wershoven
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 020521312X

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Wordsmith Mywritinglab With Pearson Etext Standalone Access Card by John Biays,Carol Wershoven Pdf

Author : Keith Hjortshoj
Publisher : Bedford Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106019990982

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The Transition to College Writing by Keith Hjortshoj Pdf

This brief rhetoric introduces the essential reading and writing strategies students need to succeed in courses across the curriculum. Taking the transition from high school to college as his starting point, Hjortshoj speaks directly and honestly to students, offering them practical strategies to shed ineffective habits and move toward a more mature, flexible understanding of how to respond to academic challenges. Distilling information about writing assignments from across the curriculum, Hjortshoj shows students how to decode these assignments and approach them effectively. The second edition offers more advice on how to meet the difficult challenge of synthesizing and integrating sources, and the text has been streamlined to be a better reference.

Author : M. Garrett Bauman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1428262318

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Ideas & Details: A Guide to College Writing by M. Garrett Bauman Pdf

Taking a no-frills approach to composition, IDEAS & DETAILS: A GUIDE TO COLLEGE WRITING, Seventh Edition, offers all the essentials of writing papers--from research and style to grammar and mechanics--to show students how detailed writing strategies can help them succeed in any course. In this brief writing guide, students will also discover timely professional essays, a balance of short and long assignments, over one hundred brain teasers that provide students with invention strategies to stimulate creativity, and integrated coverage of visual rhetoric with fifty photographs and works of art that illustrate techniques of writing in a visual way. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551119922

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Writing Essays About Literature by Katherine O. Acheson Pdf

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

Author : Holly Davis,Julian Tyson,Jan A. Pechenik
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 0205550606

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A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry by Holly Davis,Julian Tyson,Jan A. Pechenik Pdf

"This useful writing guide, by a team that includes two prominent chemists and the author of Pearson's best-selling A Short Guide to Writing About Biology, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing"--Back cover