{"product_id":"students-book-of-college-english-mla-update-edition-9780134586489","title":"Students Book of College English MLA Update","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: GETTING STARTED: THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING AND WRITING      1. Critical Reading   Why Read?  Tips for Reading Critically  Critical Reading in Action    Louise Levathes “Everything Is Illuminated”  Reading Academic Writing  Tips for Reading Academic Course Material    Howard Markel “When Germs Travel”  Reading as Inquiry  Strategy Checklist: Reading Critically    Leon Botstein “Curtailing High School: A Radical Proposal”  Reading Visual Images  Reading Photographs  Tips for Reading Photographs  Examining a Photo  Reading Advertisements  Tips for Reading Advertisements  Examining an Advertisement  Reading Graphs, Tables, and Charts  Tips for Reading Graphs, Tables, and Charts  Reading Cartoons  Tips for Reading Cartoons  Examining a Cartoon  Reading Web Sites  Tips for Reading and Evaluating Web Sites  Examining a Web Site  Strategy Checklist: Reading and Evaluating Web Sites  Critical Reading with Visuals    Christopher Caldwell “Intimate Shopping: Should Everyone Know What  You Bought Today?”  Strategy Checklist: Reading and Interpreting Visuals     2. Active Writing   Choosing a Good Topic  Setting Limits on a Topic  Narrowing a Topic in Stages  Determining Your Purpose and Audience  Writing in the Third Person  Prewriting  Strategy Checklist: Prewriting  Organizing Ideas  Tips for Writing a Rough Draft  One Student Writing: First Draft  Strategy Checklist: Getting Started with Writing     3. Finding and Supporting a Thesis   Identifying the Elements of a Good Thesis  Tips for Evaluating a Thesis  Developing Your Thesis  Tips for Developing a Thesis  Evaluating Thesis Statements: Strong or Weak?  Supporting Your Thesis with Details  Using Data: Statistics, Cases, and Expert Testimony  Using Sensory Details  Student Writing: Thesis and Details    Joseph Anderson, “Getting Juiced” [Student essay]    Thomas Healey, “You Must Be Crazy!” [Annotated student essay]  Writers and Details 61    Lindsay Abrams “The Unexpected Ways a Fetus Is Shaped by a Mother’s Environment”    Langston Hughes “Salvation”  Strategy Checklist: Stating and Supporting a Thesis     4. Planning a Paper: Outlining   Why Outline?  Creating a Rough Outline  Tips for Making a Rough Outline  Making a Formal Outline  Establishing Main Divisions  Adding Details  Formatting a Formal Outline  Writing a Topic Outline  Writing a Sentence Outline  Correcting a Formal Outline  One Student Writing: From Prewriting to Essay    Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” [poem]    Carla Blake “The Mighty Should Despair” [Student essay]  Preparing Your Formal Outline  Tips for Writing a Formal Outline  Strategy Checklist: Preparing a Formal Outline     5. Writing Your Paper: An Overview   Writing a Strong Introduction  Stating the Thesis  Forecasting the Paper  Using Different Introductory Strategies  Tips for Writing a Strong Introduction  Writing the Body Paragraphs  Writing Topic Sentences  One Student Writing: Topic Sentences    Charles DeMarco “College Hardships” [Annotated student essay]  Using Transitions  Developing Paragraphs: Unity and Coherence  Tips for Achieving Paragraph Unity  Tips for Achieving Paragraph Coherence  Writing a Strong Conclusion  Tips for Writing a Strong Conclusion     6. Revising, Editing, and Proofreading Your Paper  Revising Your First Draft  Revising to Improve Your Thesis  Revising for Appropriate Supporting Detail  Revising for Better Organization  Revising for Purpose and Audience  Revising the Introduction, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusion  Revising Your Introduction  Revising Your Body Paragraphs  Revising Your Conclusion  Peer Review: Learning from Other Students  One Student Writing: Revising and Editing    Intermediate Draft, “Too Much Exercise” [Student essay]  Editing  Learning from Your Instructor’s Comments    Intermediate Draft, “Final Paragraphs With Instructor’s Comments” [Student essay]  Proofreading  Tips for Careful Proofreading  Strategy Checklist: Revising and Editing Your Drafts  One Student Writing: Final Draft    Final Draft, Mike Boyle, “Too Much Exercise” [Student essay]  A Brief Note on Style     PART TWO: METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT     7. Description  Writing Your Descriptive Paper  Tips for Writing a Descriptive Essay  Assignment: Description  Student Writing: Description    Enrique Colon, “Focus. Focus.” [Annotated student essay]    Nick Fiscina, “Dad’s Disappointment” [Student essay]  Description in the World Around You  Critical Reading: Description    Esmeralda Santiago, “A Blanco Navidad for New Yorikans” [Annotated professional essay]    John R. Regan “My Room at the Lilac Inn”    Roger Angell “On the Ball”    Joan Didion “Marrying Absurd”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Descriptive Paper     8. Narration  Writing Your Narrative Paper  Tips for Writing a Narrative Essay  Assignment: Narration  Student Writing: Narration    Pat Melia “Saving a Life”    Jarrett David Lee Jackson “My Father’s House”  Narrative in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    Carol K. Littlebrant “Death Is a Personal Matter”    tanya barrientos, “Se Habla Español”    Greg Sarris “You Don’t Look Indian”    Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour”    Stephen Crane “I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Narrative Paper     9. Example  Writing Your Example Paper  Tips for Writing an Example Essay  Assignment: Example  Student Writing: Example    Carmen Sepulveda “Waiting Tables Is Hard Work” [Annotated student essay]  Researched Student Writing: Example    Lawrence Miller “Helping the Environment” [MLA-style essay]  Example in the World Around You  Critical Reading: Example    margaret foster “College’s Raison d’être: British Literature or Software Engineering?”  Readings for Writing    Barbara Ehrenreich “What I’ve Learned from Men”    John Grisham “Boxers, Briefs and Books”    Judy Brady “I Want a Wife”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Example Paper     10. Process  Writing Your Process Paper  Tips for Writing a Process Essay  Assignment: Example  Student Writing: Process    Michael Wollan “Coffee Time” [Annotated student essay]  Researched Student Writing: Process    Omprakash K. Pansara “Preparing for the First Day of Classes” [MLA-style essay]  Process in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    Mildred Armstrong Kalish ,”Wash Day”    Scientific American “How to Build a Better Plant”    Nikki Giovanni “Campus Racism 101”    Susan Douglas “Remote Control: How to Raise a Media Skeptic”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Process Paper     11. Comparison and Contrast  Writing Your Comparison–Contrast Paper  Tips for Writing a Comparison–Contrast Essay  Assignment: Comparison and Contrast  Student Writing: Comparison–Contrast  Subject-by-Subject Pattern    Carey Byer, “In the Swim” [Student essay]  Point-by-Point Pattern    Benjamin Simonovich, “Two Jobs” [Student essay]  Comparison and Contrast in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) “The Professional”    Suzanne Britt “That Lean and Hungry Look”    Rick Nauert “On Tween TV, Girls Need to Look Good, Boys Are Brave”  Youthful Imagination: Two Stories for Comparison and Contrast    Shirley Jackson “Charles”    Saki (H. H. Munro) “The Open Window”  Love, Sweet Love: Two Poems for Comparison and Contrast    William Shakespeare “Sonnet 29”    William Shakespeare “Sonnet 130”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Comparison–Contrast Paper     12. Classification and Division  Classification and Division in Action  Using Division (or Analysis)  Using Classification  How Are Classification and Division Different?  Reviewing Division Strategies  Writing Your Classification Paper  Tips for Writing a Classification Essay  Assignment: Classification  Student Writing: Classification    Nick Halikas, “Television Watchers” [Annotated student outline and essay]  Classification in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    Brandon Griggs “The 12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers”    Summer Beretsky “How Do You Classify or Organize Your Panic Attacks?”    John Holt “Three Kinds of Discipline”    Cass R. Sunstein “How Polarizing Is the Internet?”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising your Classification Paper     13. Cause and Effect  Writing Your Cause-and-Effect Paper  Tips for Writing a Cause-and-Effect Essay  Assignment: Cause and Effect  Student Writing: Cause and Effect    Richard S. Smith Cause for Failure [Annotated student outline and essay]  Researched Student Writing: Cause and Effect    Richard Yee Banning Same-Sex Marriage: An Attack on the American Institution [MLA-style essay]  Cause and Effect in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    James Hamblin Drunk and Drunker    Carll Tucker “On Splitting”    Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”    Ilana Ross “Kids Today: Why Do We Text More Than We Talk?”  Reading and Writing About Poetry    A. E. Housman “Is my team ploughing …”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Cause-and-Effect Paper     14. Definition  Writing Your Definition Paper  Beginning a Formal Definition  Tips Writing One-Sentence Definitions  Drafting Your Formal Definition Paper  Writing an Informal Definition Paper  Assignment: Definition  Student Writing: Formal Definition    Harriet Lim “Amnesty” [Student essay]  Student Writing: Informal Definition    Odette-Marie Shamen “Beyond Wealth and Prosperity” [Annotated student essay]  Definition in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    David Owen “The Perfect Job”    Marjorie Garber “What Is “Genius”?”    American Psychological Association “School Bullying is Nothing New, but Psychologists Identify New Ways to Prevent It”    Randy Malamud “The Lost Art of Passwords: What We Lost When Hackers Conquered the Internet”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Definition Paper     15. Argumentation  Using Logic  Induction  Deduction  Using Induction and Deduction  Avoiding Logical Fallacies  Making Appeals  Writing Your Argumentation Paper  Writing a Formal Argument  Tips for Writing a Formal Argument  Developing a Debatable Position  Assignment: Argumentation  Student Writing: Argumentation    Wilson Davis “Say “No” to Drug-Testing School Athletes” [Annotated student essay]  Argumentation: Perspectives on Immigrants in America    President Barak Obama “A Nation of Immigrants”    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “fact vs. fiction”    J. B. Handlesman “Undocumented Aliens”    Nick Milano “Citizenship for Christmas”    Quynh Nguyen “Being a Recent American”  Argumentation: Perspectives on the Death Penalty    Lauren Heist “Capital Punishment: An Example for Criminals”    Alex Shalom “Abolish the Death Penalty”    Death Penalty Information Center “from Death Penalty in 2013: Year-End Report”    Robert Mankoff “Good News”  Argumentation in the World Around You  Readings for Writing    James Q. Wilson “Just Take Away Their Guns”    Meg Greenfield “In Defense of the Animals”    Emily Zac “Tax Payers and Cheap Burgers”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Argumentation Paper     16. Mixing Methods of Development  Developing Your Paper Through Mixed Modes  Tips for Developing a Mixed Modes Essays  Mixing Methods: Looking at Possibilities  Assignment: Mixed Methods of Development  Student Writing: Mixing Methods in Developing Your Essay    Brian Jarvis “Against the Great Divide”  Critical Reading: Mixed Methods of Development    Timothy K. Beal “Bibles du Jour”  Readings for Writing    Herbert J. Gans “Fitting the Poor into the Economy”    Reshma Memon Yaqub “You People Did This”    Amy Crawford “Hush!”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Mixed Modes Paper     PART THREE: SPECIAL WRITING     17. Literary Analysis  Reading Literature for Analysis  Tips for Reading Literature for Analysis  Skipping the Hunt for Morals  Identifying Themes  Interpreting Symbols  Tips for Avoiding Traps Involving Symbols  Watching for Metaphors and Similes  Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Literary Analysis  Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Literary Analysis  Student Writing: Literary Analysis    Shirley Hawkins “The Pains of Frontier Life”  Readings for Writing    Willa Cather “A Wagner Matinee”    Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart”    O. Henry “The Cop and the Anthem”  Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Literary Analysis Paper     18. Writing Essay Exams  Preparing for the Exam  Evaluating the Question  Planning and Writing Your Essay  Tips for Planning and Writing Your Essay  Strategy Checklist: Taking an Essay Exam     19. Business Writing: An Overview  Distinguishing Inquiry and Complaint Letters  Letter of Inquiry  Letter of Complaint  Writing and Formatting a Letter  Tips for Writing and Formatting a Letter  Writing a Letter to Apply for a Job  Preparing Your Résumé  Tips for Preparing a Résumé  Writing E-mails  Tips for Successful E-Mails     PART FOUR: RESEARCH     20. Doing Research  Choosing Your Topic  Doing Preliminary Reading  Searching the Internet  Conducting an Internet Search of Your Subject  Evaluating Online Sources  Tips for Evaluating Web Sites Used in Your Research  Using General Encyclopedias  Using Specialized Reference Works  Preparing Your Preliminary Outline  Taking Advantage of Libraries  Limiting Your Research Topic  Determining a Research Question  Finding Sources and Developing a Working References List  Finding Articles  Finding Books: The Online Library Catalog  Electronic Database Indexes  Keeping Records for Your References  Taking Notes  Note-Taking Options: Pencils or Keyboards?  Evaluating Sources  Tips for Evaluating Your Sources  Recording Quotations  Summarizing and Paraphrasing in Your Notes  Disagreements: Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions  Developing Your Thesis  Preparing Your Formal Outline  Making a Slug Outline  Writing a Formal Outline  Strategy Checklist: Doing Research     21. Writing Your Research Paper  Writing Your Research Paper: An Overview  The First Draft  Subsequent Drafts  Using Explanatory Notes  Toward the Final Copy  Quoting and Paraphrasing Your Sources  Quoting an Original Source  Paraphrasing an Original Source  Direct Quotations: How Many?  Integrating Quotes into Your Own Writing  Tips for Using Sources Within Your Own Sentences  Avoiding Plagiarism  Documenting Sources in the Humanities: MLA Style  Parenthetical Citations: Special Instances  A List of Works Cited  Preparing the Works Cited List  Tips for Preparing the Works Cited List  Documenting Sources in the Social Sciences: APA Style  Parenthetical Citations  A List of APA References  Preparing Your APA References List  Tips for Preparing an APA References List  Preparing Your Manuscript  Tips for Preparing the Final Copy  Strategy Checklist: Writing Your Research Paper  Frequently Asked Questions about Writing Research Papers  Sample MLA-Style Research Paper     PART FIVE: STYLE     22. Proper Words in Proper Places  Identifying Denotation and Connotation in Words  The Importance of Connotation  Word Sensitivity  Using Concrete Language  Using Specific Details  Using Specific Words and Phrases  Using Comparisons     23. Effective Sentences  Eliminating Wordiness  Cutting Deadwood  Avoiding Pointless Repetition of Meaning  Cutting Wordy Clauses  Avoiding Delay of Subject  Recognizing Passive and Active Verbs  Correcting Faulty Parallelism  What Is Parallelism?  Avoiding Faulty Parallelism  Avoiding Faulty Subordination in Sentence Combining  Improving Sentence Variety  Varying Sentence Length  Varying Sentence Structure     24. Additional Style Problems and Solutions  Avoiding Triteness  Avoiding Euphemisms  Recognizing Effective and Undesirable Repetition  Repetition for Clarity  Repetition for Impact  Undesirable Repetition of Meaning  Undesirable Repetition of the Same Word  Undesirable Repetition of Sounds  Avoiding Slang  Recognizing Fancy Writing  Avoiding Sexist Language  Tips for Avoiding Sexist Language  Distinguishing Special Features of College Writing  Tips for Writing in an Academic Style     PART SIX: HANDBOOK, GLOSSARY, AND ESL POINTERS   Handbook Glossary of Problem Words ESL Pointers: Tips for Non-Native Writers     Verbs and Helping Verbs, Including Modals   Summary Checklist: Principal Parts and Auxiliaries for Three Sample Verbs   Using Helping Verbs and Modals with Principal Parts of Verbs   Phrasal Verbs   Tips and Pointers for Phrasal Verbs   Nouns: Countable and Uncountable   Examples of Nouns You Cannot Count   The Articles a, an, and the   Prepositions   Using in, at, and on Correction Symbols and Abbreviations  Guide to the Handbook and Glossary","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138096103767,"sku":"9780134586489","price":153.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/students-book-of-college-english-mla-update-edition-9780134586489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}