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[Pages:400]College Writing Skills
Tom Tyner Breadan Publishing
Breadan Publishing College Writing Skills
Tom Tyner
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Preface
College Writing Skills is a process-oriented textbook written to help students develop their college-level writing skills. The intent of College Writing Skills is to help prepare students for success in required college writing courses, in courses across the curriculum that require writing, and in occupations beyond college. Students learn by writing, and the textbook provides a variety of writing assignments that require you to develop and apply different writing and thinking skills as you progress through the book.
Essay Writing
In college composition courses, students write a variety of essays. In College Writing Skills, you write a different type of essay in each unit of the textbook, twelve essays in all. To engage your interest and allow you to draw upon your experience and knowledge, you choose your own writing topic for each type of essay: narrative, expository, persuasive, comparative, problem/solution, and critique.
Along with your twelve essay assignments, you also write timed in-class essays which will help prepare you for in-class writing in other English courses as well as essay tests across the curriculum. Experience is the best teacher for writing under in-class time constraints, and College Writing Skills provides you with eleven such experiences.
Writing Process
In each unit, you use a writing process to develop your essays. The basic process of prewriting, drafting, revision, and editing is repeated in each unit, with new instructional elements presented in each section that apply to the type of essay you are writing. The process is repeated in each unit so that you become familiar enough with it to use for any writing you may do.
The text also recognizes the individual differences among writers. For some writers, prewriting may involve detailed planning while for others, it may involve coming up with an idea to get started. The text recognizes such differences and allows for individual flexibility within the writing process rather than a one-size-fits-all model. The textbook also recognizes that some students come to the course with considerable writing experience, and you are encouraged to take both what you find valuable from the text and from your previous writing experiences to create the most effective personal writing process.
Importance of Revision
College Writing Skills also strongly emphasizes the role of revision in the writing process. Throughout the text, you work on revising and improving your writing in a number of areas: wording, organization, content development, paragraphing, openings and conclusions, transitional wording, and so on. The text provides specific revision guidelines for the type of writing you do in each unit and emphasizes the role that revision has for all writers.
Writing Correctness
As the last step in the writing process, you proofread and edit your essay drafts to eliminate errors. Being able to write "correctly" ? using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling ? is critical to your writing success in college and beyond and an achievable goal.
Within each unit, the text provides instruction in the areas of punctuation, grammar usage, and spelling where writers have the most problems: run-on sentences and comma splices, sentence fragments, comma usage, subject-verb agreement, and so on. You also learn to proofread a draft effectively, looking in particular for your personal error tendencies.
Writing as Communication
College Writing Skills also emphasizes writing as a form of communication. To that end, you write for different reading audiences, including your classmates, and for a particular purpose: to inform, entertain, influence, educate, or move readers to action. The writing assignments in the text are "real" in the sense that they are written for others to read and for particular purposes.
Writing Samples
Throughout the text are sample essays ? first drafts and revised versions - that you can use in number of ways: to get ideas for your writing, to see how writers develop, organize, and paragraph their essays, to read and evaluate different openings and conclusions, to see how writers develop and support a thesis, or to see how writers incorporate research material into their essays. The sample essays also provide models for each type of essay that you write.
Readings
In each unit, you "take a break" from writing between essay assignments to read some in-text essays written by published writers. You read them for your personal enjoyment, to see how other writers develop their essays, and to get some ideas for your own writing. The "Questions for Discussion" at the end of each essay serve to initiate class or group discussions, including how the topics and issues in the essays may relate to your own experiences.
Table of Contents
Unit One: Narrative Writing
Writing Reflection
1
Narrative Writing
3
Writing Process
3
Prewriting
4
Focusing Your Topic
5
Free Writing
5
Drafting
8
Providing Description
8
Descriptive Words
10
Power of Verb
10
Power of Adjectives
12
First-Draft Guidelines
15
A Little Logic
17
Revision
19
Sentence Wording
19
Revision Guidelines ss
23
Peer Review
27
Editing
30
Correct Writing
30
Irregular Verbs
31
Run-on Sentences
35
Editing Guidelines
38
A Little Logic
39
Reading Break
40
"In the Face of Adversity," 40
Nelson Mandela
"Escape," Park Ji Woo
43
Using Personal Experience
for Support
46
Prewriting
47
Topic Selection
47
Drafting
49
Presenting Your Point
49
Drafting Guidelines
51
A Little Logic
53
Revision
54
Revision Guidelines
55
Editing
58
Editing Guidelines
59
Timed Writings
60
Writing the Essay
60
Timed Writing One
63
Unit Two: Expository Writing
Prewriting
65
Topic Selection
65
Audience and Purpose
66
Process Considerations
67
Drafting
68
Opening Paragraphs
68
Closing Paragraphs
70
Drafting Guidelines
71
A Little Logic
73
Revision
74
Transitional Wording
74
Revision Guidelines
78
Editing
83
Subject-verb Agreement
83
Comma Usage
89
Editing Guidelines
96
Timed Essay
97
Timed Writing Two
99
A Little Logic
99
Reading Break
100
"What Pregnant Women Won't
Tell You," Elise Anders
100
"Helping the Homeless,"
Eduard Guzman
104
Prewriting
107
Topic Selection
107
Generating Material
108
Audience and Purpose
109
Drafting
110
Paragraph Development
110
Providing Examples
114
Drafting Guidelines
119
A Little Logic
122
Revision
123
Revision Guidelines
123
Editing
127
Editing Guidelines
128
Timed Writing Three
129
Unit Three: Persuasive Writing
Prewriting
131
Topic Selection
131
Brainstorming
132
Thesis Statement
133
Thesis Support
136
Making a List
139
Opposing Viewpoints
139
Drafting
141
Reading Audience
141
Writing Purpose
143
Drafting Guidelines
146
A Little Logic
147
Revision
148
Organization
148
Revision Guidelines
150
Editing
152
Sentence Fragments
152
Commonly Confused Words 155
Editing Guidelines
160
Timed Writing Four
161
A Little Logic
162
Reading Break
"Is College Worth It?"
Alondra Frey
163
"The Intelligence of Beasts,"
Colin Woodward
166
Incorporating Research 170
Prewriting
171
Topic Selection
171
Researching Your Topic
172
Finding Sources
172
Directed Research
173
Thesis
174
Thesis Support
175
Opposing Arguments
178
Audience and Purpose
179
Drafting
180
Incorporating Research
180
Paraphrasing
180
Drafting Guidelines
183
A Little Logic
185
Revision
186
Varying Sentence Structure
186
Revision Guidelines
190
Editing
193
Double Negatives
193
Editing Guidelines
196
Timed Writing Five
198
A Little Logic
198
Unit Four: Problem Solving
Prewriting
200
Topic Selection
200
Analyzing the Problem
201
Finding Solutions
203
Thesis
204
Drafting
206
Audience and Purpose
206
Organization
207
Drafting Guidelines
207
Revision
210
Revision Guidelines
211
Editing
215
Colons, Semi-colons, Dashes 215
Pronoun Usage
219
Subject Pronouns
219
Pronoun-Antecedent
Agreement
221
Editing Guidelines
224
Timed Writing Six
225
A Little Logic
226
Reading Break
227
"Are You a Procrastinator?"
Julianne Kuroda
227
"Cyber Bullying,"
Anton Hout
230
Prewriting
233
Topic Selection
233
Researching Your Topic 234
Workable Solutions
236
Thesis
237
Organizing Research
Material
238
Drafting
239
Audience and Purpose
239
Incorporating Research
240
Avoiding Plagiarism
243
Drafting Guidelines
244
A Little Logic
247
Revision
248
Revision Guidelines
248
Editing
251
Comparative Adjectives 251
Editing Guidelines
255
Timed Writing Seven
256
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