Composing to Communicate

A Student's Guide, 2016 MLA Update (with APA 2019 Update Card)

Robert Saba (Autor)

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2020
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
978-0-357-60092-4 (ISBN)

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COMPOSING TO COMMUNICATE: A STUDENT’S GUIDE takes a conversational, "how to" approach to show you how writing connects to your academic and career goals. The textbook’s jargon-free instruction provides you with accessible strategies that can be applied to all of your college writing tasks. The textbook focuses on teaching you how you can use writing and communicating to solve real problems and address issues that matter to you. It supports this theme by presenting student writing samples that demonstrate how writing for class can be more than just an academic exercise. Learning objectives open each chapter so you can focus on the most important points. The variety of writing projects, readings, and interviews with student writers aim to make your composition course more interesting than you may have imagined it could be. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016 MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.

Robert Saba is the associate director of undergraduate writing programs at Florida International University in Miami. He has taught college writing for more than twenty-five years, specializing in first-year composition, advanced research, approaches to literature, courses about the history of the essay, and personal narratives. His publications include articles on writing, politics, and film, as well as short fiction and French-to-English translations.

Part I: WRITING TO COMMUNICATE AND SOLVE PROBLEMS.
1.The Relevance of Writing.
Writing as Communication.
Communication Situations and Goals.
The Basics of Problem Solving.
Brian Lawrence, Video Games as Art?
Becoming a Good Writer.
Leon Botstein, High School, an Institution Whose Time Has Passed: Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood.
Joining the Conversation.
Academic Writing and Academic Style.
Evaluate Your Learning.
Additional Readings.
2Pac Shakur, ?Unconditional Love? Lyrics.
Charles Bukowski, Fifth Grade Was a Little Better, from Ham on Rye.
2. Planning Essays as Communication.
Understanding Communication Goals.
Communication to Inform.
Communication to Solve Problems.
How to Plan.
Planning Different Kinds of Essays.
Ellen Goodman, When Big Father/Big Mother Spy on the Children.
LL Cool J, Impotent Demon.
Organization.
Naomi Wolf, The Porn Myth.
Jon Kerstetter, Triage.
Gerald W. Lynch and Roberta Blotner, Legalizing Drugs Would Not Lead to a Reduction in Crime.
Evaluate Your Learning.
Additional Readings.
Tibor R. Machan, Humans Ought to Use Nature to Serve Their Own Needs.
3. An Overview of the Writing Process.
A Process of Discovery.
Developing a Revision Process.
Planning and Invention.
The Rough Draft.
Writing the Opening.
Thesis Statements.
Revision and Rewriting.
Editing for a Professional Presentation.
Evaluate Your Learning.
Additional Readings.
William Zinsser, Simplicity, from On Writing Well.
Donald M. Murray, The Maker?s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.
Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space.
Chuck Palahniuk, My Life As a Dog.
Part II: WRITING PROJECTS AND ESSAYS.
4. Narrative Essays.
Writing Narratives to Communicate and Solve Problems.
Basic Elements of Narratives.
A Student?s Essay Proposal.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2020
Verlagsort	Belmont, CA
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	835 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-357-60092-4 / 0357600924
ISBN-13	978-0-357-60092-4 / 9780357600924
Zustand	Neuware