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About the Book
About the Book
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One of the most successful all-inclusive rhetorics on the market, From Idea to Essay is a classic that distinguishes itself with a story, poem, and photo writing assignment in each modes chapter.
This systematic rhetoric/reader/handbook carefully leads the student through the process of essay writing. It provides numerous sample readings—imaginative literature as well as the essay, specific guidelines on how to approach each rhetorical mode, writing assignments, and both student and professional models of completed assignments. In addition to covering nine rhetorical modes, the text includes a complete unit on the research paper and a comprehensive handbook section. Prereading, prewriting, and writing exercises throughout offer guidance in the fundamentals of reading and writing.
Features
- All chapters in Part II, “Writing the Essay,” follow the same pedagogical structure:
- “Reading for Ideas,” including both a short story and a poem.
- “How to Write,” analyzing a writing assignment, professional model and a student model.
- “Alternate Readings,” exploring current issues.
- Additional Writing Assignments.
- Photo writing assignments.
- Part IV, “The Research Paper,” includes two student research papers written in MLA and APA documentation styles.
- Part V, “A Handbook,” includes exercises with answers at the back, providing students immediate feedback for self-grading.
- Unique coverage of sentence-combining in Chapter 3 shows students how to put together ideas in compound or complex sentences.
New to this Edition
- Fourteen new readings include a mix of often-anthologized favorites and new writers, like Isaac Asimov, Brent Staples, Catherine Houck, and Carl Sagan.
- A new section in Chapter 1, “Generating Ideas With Visual Images,” presents visual images from a newspaper, advertisement, artwork, and cartoon that teach students how to critically analyze and express their opinions of these types of images.
- A thorough revision of Chapter 15, “Argumentation,” includes a new cluster of readings—one pro, one con, and one exploratory—on the issue of commercial pilots having guns in the cockpit.
- “Student Tip” boxes offer practical advice, directly from students, on how they completed a particular assignment.
- “Writing Tip” boxes offer guidance from the authors on how to get more out of the writing process.
- Chapter 17, “The Research Paper,” contains updated coverage of electronic research techniques, and a stronger focus on researching the growing amount of information on the Internet.
- A thoroughly revised Instructor's Manual accompanies the text.
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