{"product_id":"writing-papers-in-college-9780205029068","title":"Writing Papers in College","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface        PART ONE Principles of Reading and Writing       Ch.  1 Reading Critically    Why Read?    Reading for Best Results    Critical Reading in Action        Lawrence Downes, “The Shy, Egg-Stealing Neighbor You Didn’t Know You Had”        Ch.  2 Reading Visual Images    Reading a Photograph, Drawing, or Advertisement    Reading Charts, Graphs, Tables, and Cartoons    Reading and Evaluating Web Sites    Critical Reading on Your Own        Christopher Caldwell, “Intimate Shopping: Should Everyone Know What You Bought Today?”        Ch.  3 Active Writing    Choosing a Topic    Determining Your Purpose and Audience    Prewriting    Writing Drafts    One Student Writing: First Draft        First Draft: John Fousek, “My Roommate”        Ch.  4 Finding and Supporting a Thesis    Understanding the Thesis    Elements of a Good Thesis    Stating Your Thesis    Supporting Your Thesis: Details        Ch.  5 Planning a Paper: Outlining    Making a Formal Outline    Preparing Your Formal Outline        Ch.  6 Writing Your Paper    Writing Your Introduction    Writing the Body Paragraphs    Writing a Strong Conclusion        Ch.  7 Revising for Thought, Content, and Structure    Revising to Improve Your Thesis    Revising for Appropriate Supporting Details    Revising for Better Organization    Revising for Purpose and Audience    Revising for Suitable Structure: Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion        Ch.  8 Revising to Improve Language    Revising Your Language        Ch.  9 Revising and Editing to Improve Style    Wordiness and Economy    Passive and Active Verbs    Correcting Faulty Parallelism    Faulty Subordination    Revising for Sentence Variety        Ch.  10 Revising and Editing for Additional Style Problems    Triteness    Euphemisms    Repetition, Good and Bad    Slang    Sexist Language        Ch.  11 One Student Writing: Revising and Editing in Action    Peer Review: Learning from Other Students    Revising and Editing: One Student Writing    Proofreading    Putting It All Together    Final Draft: One Student Writing        PART TWO Methods of Development       Ch.  12 Description    Writing Your Descriptive Paper    Writing Topics        Ch.  13 Narration    Writing Your Narrative Paper    Writing Topics        Ch.  14 Example    Writing Your Example Paper    Writing Topics        Ch.  15 Process    Writing Your Process Paper    Writing Topics        Ch.  16 Comparison and Contrast    Writing Your Comparison—Contrast Paper    Comparison—Contrast Patterns    Writing Topics        Ch.  17 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    Writing Topics        Ch.  18 Cause and Effect    Writing Your Cause and Effect Paper    Writing Topics        Ch.  19 Definition    Writing Your Definition Paper    Writing Topics        Ch.  20 Argumentation    Using Logic    Writing Your Argumentation Paper    Writing Topics        PART THREE Research and Writing from Sources       Ch.  21 Doing Research    Choosing Your Subject    Developing Your Thesis    Doing Preliminary Reading    Preparing Your Preliminary Outline    Finding Sources and Developing a Working Citations List        Ch.  22 Selecting, Organizing, and Integrating Source Material in Your Writing    Taking Notes    Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources in Your Paper    Avoiding Plagiarism    Preparing Your Formal Outline        Ch.  23 Writing Your Research Paper and Citing and Documenting Sources    Writing Your Research Paper: An Overview    Documenting Sources in the Humanities: MLA Style    Documenting Sources in the Social Sciences: APA Style    Preparing Your Manuscript    Sample MLA-Style Research Paper        Elizabeth Kessler, “The Banning of the Polygraph”            A Mini Book of Essential Grammar and Common Errors        Credits    Index     ","brand":"Pearson Education (US)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524626063703,"sku":"9780205029068","price":47.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780205029068.jpg?v=1731857518","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-papers-in-college-9780205029068","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}