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Reading Critically, Writing Well
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Location:
Jacksonville, FL
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Summary: Providing students with a detailed framework for analyzing both the content and the craft of various readings, this best-selling first-year composition reader helps students go from reading and analyzing the texts of others to writing their own. Organized by rhetorical purpose and offering detailed guidance on writing with differing purposes, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students make the connection between reading and writing better than any other composit ...show moreHelps students make the connection between reading and writing. Axelrod and Cooper's emphasis on critical reading strategies first teaches students how to analyze the content and craft of successful writing and then shows them how to apply the strategies to their own writing.Presents two basic critical reading strategies, Reading for Meaning and Reading Like a Writer, in the first chapter and uses them to frame the questions that follow each reading.Covers the full range of writing that students will do in college -- from autobiography and reflection to evaluation and argument. 50 readings, with 5 professional essays and 1 student essay in each chapter, demonstrate rhetorical goals through a variety of topics and styles.A guide to reading opens each chapter and walks students through a reading selection, pointing out rhetorical strategies and techniques for closer critical reading.A guide to writing at the end of each chapter takes students through the process of drafting, writing, and revising an essay for each rhetorical purpose.An appendix on strategies for research and documentation discusses field, library, and online research.Improved and simplified. The design now makes it easier to find and understand information and navigate the text. The guides to reading and to writing have been streamlined and redesigned -- with more bulleted and numbered lists -- to help students identify basic rhetorical features and writing strategies and use them in their own writing.Updated readings -- one-third new to this edition -- from a diverse set of authors, including Michael Kinsley, Amanda Coyne, and Chang-Rae Lee, continue to exemplify compelling writing in each of the various rhetorical purposes.Highlighted treatment of rhetorical strategies within chapters and in a new rhetorical index makes it easier for students to find and review the essentials of good writing.Enhanced treatment of argumentation, in the guides to reading and to writing, helps students analyze arguments and develop them in their own writing.Updated treatment of research and documentation includes new material covering research on the Internet, finding and evaluating electronic sources, integrating sources in writing, and documenting with the latest MLA and APA guidelines.For each chapter: --Writing assignments and individual and collaborative activities. --A Guide to Reading takes students through a sample reading and shows them how to read for meaning and to read like a writer. --A Guide to Writing provides a detailed walk-through of the writing assignment, from brainstorming a topic and writing a first draft to critically reading the draft and revising for the final version. --Special reading strategies, such as evaluating the logic of an argument and contextualizing, to help students develop critical reading skills.For each selection: --Informative headnotes place each author and reading in the proper context to help students better understand the reading and the audience for which it was written.--Reading for Meaning and Reading Like a Writer exercises guide students through a detailed analysis of both the content and the craft of each reading.
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Books & Magazines
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November 15 2023 on Americanlisted
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