Ideas & Details A Guide to College Writing

This brief rhetoric with a strong focus on student writing now offers more detailed writing strategies, addresses electronic research, and fully integrates professional examples from InfoTrac® College Edition.

PREFACE
1. THE HONEST WRITER
2. THE TWO-PART SECRET OF GOOD WRITING: IDEAS AND DETAILS
3. GETTING IDEAS: BRAIN TEASERS TO HELP YOU WRITE ON ALOST ANYTHING
4. PARAGRAPHS: IDEAS AND DETAILS IN MINIATURE
5. ORDER FROM CHAOS: THESIS AND OUTLINE
6. THE DRAFT: THAT FRENZY NEAR MADNESS
7. REVISING DRAFTS: WRITING IS REVISING
8. WRITING WITH STYLE
9. DESCRIPTION: MAKING YOUR AUDIENCE SEE
10. NARRATION: TELLING YOUR AUDIENCE A STORY
11. INFORMATIVE WRITING: TELLING YOUR AUDIENCE
12. PERSUASIVE WRITING: SEEKING AGREEMENT FROM AN AUDIENCE
13. THE LITERARY ESSAY AND REVIEW
14. RESEARCH: WRITTEN WITH CHRISTOPHER OTERO-PIERSANTE
15. A COLLECTION OF STUDENT ESSAYS
Journals
Richard L
Shields
Tina Thompson
Narrative/Descriptive Essays
Carol Nobles, Paâ€™s Secret
Revised Narrative Essay
Miguel Martinez, Bastard
Michael Y
Rodgers, Midnight Diner
Christina Kennison, Daddy Dearest
Adam Stevens, A Night in the Life of a Bartender
Informative Essays
Informative Contrast Essay
Yeou-jih Yang, Food for Thought
Informative Process Essay
Gregory F
Matula, The Autopsy
Career Research Paper: Using the Interview and MLA-Style Documentation
Rob Banwar, Career in Imagination
First Draft, Comments and Revised Informative Process Essay
Gwen Gardner, How to Get Back Your Family
The Professional Persuasive Letter
Craig Lammes, Letter to Brad A
Walker
Timothy C
Dewart, Letter to Senator Perry
Tina Maenza, Letter to Shirl Bonaldi
Willie F
Nelson, Letter to John Goodman
The Personal Persuasive Letter
Britni Bellwood, Dear Greg
Persuasive Essay
Raymond Santiago, A Voice against Needle Exchange
Tina C
Maenza, Review: Dance Rhythmics
Literary Research Paper Using Comparison
John Barzelay, Responsibility and the Odyssey
16. HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH
17. TWELVE MILLION SOURCES: INFOTRAC ACCESS
APPENDIX
The Real Rules
INDEX

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