In our Own Words Student Book: Student Writers at Work

, by Rebecca Mlynarczyk , Steven B. Haber

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ISBN: 9780521540285 | 0521540283
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Copyright: 4/4/2005

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In Our Own Words takes the unique approach of using student writing as a resource for writing instruction and idea development. This third edition features 15 new readings by student writers, 5 new readings by professional writers, updated writing topics, Internet activities to support the writing process, and contextualized revising and editing activities.

Introduction

To the Instructor

xiii

To the Student

xviii

Authors' Acknowledgements

xix

PART I STARTING OUT

(26)

Thinking of Yourself as a Writer

(24)

Forming a Classroom Community

(4)

Getting Acquainted

(1)

Looking at Similarities and Differences

(2)

Silent Conversations

(1)

Thinking About Writing

(3)

Attitudes Toward Writing

(1)

Past Experiences with Writing

(2)

Writing Without Worrying

(4)

Freewriting

(1)

Keeping a Journal

(1)

Interactive Writing

(1)

Writing Without a Dictionary

(1)

Coping with Writing Problems

(8)

Choosing a Topic

(1)

Adjusting to Different Purposes and Audiences

(1)

Dealing with Writer's Block

(2)

Doing Well on College Papers

(3)

A Note Before You Continue

(1)

Goals for This Course: A Beginning Survey

(3)

PART II PERSONAL WRITING

(98)

Experiences

(30)

Readings

(14)

Reading 1 Learning How to Cook

(2)

Florence Cheung

Reading 2 What Is It Like to Have an Empty Stomach?

(2)

Youssef Rami

Reading 3 A Teacher for a Day

(2)

Luisa Tiburcio

Reading 4 To Be Alive Again

(2)

Jian Feng (Jimmy) Ye

Reading 5 Exodus

(3)

Xiao Mei Sun

Reading 6 The Photograph

(3)

Sha Sha Chen

Techniques Writers Use

(5)

Memory Chain

(1)

Task 2.1 Analyze

(1)

Task 2.2 Practice

(1)

Time Chunks

(1)

Task 2.3 Analyze

(2)

Task 2.4 Practice

(1)

Internet Search

(1)

Expanding Your Knowledge Base

(1)

Task 2.5 Practice

(1)

Essay Assignment

(1)

Writing Tips

(1)

Writing Your First Draft

(1)

Revising Your Essay

(3)

What Is Revising?

(1)

Peer Response

(1)

Oral Peer Response

(1)

Writing Your Second Draft

(1)

Editing Your Essay

(5)

What Is Editing?

(1)

What Is Proofreading?

(1)

Grammar in Context: Using Verb Tenses Consistently

(1)

Task 2.6 Analyze

(1)

Task 2.7 Practice

(1)

Editing Checklist

(1)

People

(34)

Readings

(13)

Reading 1 My Grandmother

(2)

Hikaru Takahashi

Reading 2 My Mother

(2)

Eileen Peng

Reading 3 Rosita

(2)

Gloria Cortes

Reading 4 My Father

(2)

Intissar Haddiya

Reading 5 My Friend Nafiz

(2)

Syed R. Saeed

Reading 6 Teacher, It's Nice to Meet You, Too

(3)

Ruby Ibanez

Techniques Writers Use

(4)

People Watching

(1)

Task 3.1 Analyze

(1)

Task 3.2 Practice

(1)

Making Metaphors

(1)

Task 3.3 Analyze

(1)

Task 3.4 Practice

(1)

Internet Search

(1)

Locating Biographical Information

(1)

Task 3.5 Practice

(1)

Essay Assignment

(2)

Writing Tips

(1)

Writing Your First Draft

(1)

Revising Your Essay

(3)

Written Peer Response

(3)

Responding to Your Peers

(1)

Writing Your Second Draft

(1)

Editing Your Essay

(6)

Grammar in Context: Understanding Sentence Boundaries

(3)

Task 3.6 Analyze

(1)

Task 3.7 Practice

(2)

Editing Checklist

(1)

Practice Peer Response Form: Writing About People

(2)

Peer Response Form: Writing About People

(3)

Places

(32)

Readings

(13)

Reading 1 The Tree of My Secrets

(2)

Amalfi Richard

Reading 2 The Home of My Childhood

(2)

Volkan Cinozgumus

Reading 3 The Coldest Winter of Beijing

(2)

Jian Wei

Reading 4 Community Culture

100

(3)

Tatyana Sokolovskaya

Reading 5 A Village from the Past

103

(2)

Zhanna Kayumova

Reading 6 New Horizon of Beauty

105

(2)

Sumiko Masaki

Techniques Writers Use

107

(3)

Appealing to All the Senses

107

(1)

Task 4.1 Analyze

107

(1)

Task 4.2 Practice

108

(1)

Using Memories from the Past

108

(1)

Task 4.3 Analyze

108

(1)

Task 4.4 Practice

109

(1)

Internet Search

110

(1)

Finding Your Hometown on the World Wide Web

110

(1)

Task 4.5 Practice

110

(1)

Essay Assignment

111

(1)

Writing Tips

111

(1)

Writing Your First Draft

112

(1)

Revising Your Essay

112

(3)

Giving More Helpful Peer Response

112

(3)

Responding to Your Peers

115

(1)

Writing Your Second Draft

115

(1)

Editing Your Essay

115

(4)

Grammar in Context: Using the Plural Form of Nouns

115

(1)

Task 4.6 Analyze

116

(1)

Task 4.7 Practice

117

(1)

Editing Checklist

118

(1)

A Note Before You Continue

119

(1)

Peer Response Form: Writing About Places

120

(2)

Assessing Your Progress: A Midterm Survey

122

(3)

PART III MORE FORMAL WRITING

125

(132)

Oral History: Writing Based on Interviews

127

(40)

Readings

128

(18)

Reading 1 A Reward from Buddha

128

(3)

Zhong Chen

Reading 2 Unfinished Interview

131

(3)

Tatyana Dyachenko

Reading 3 My First Interview

134

(3)

Larisa Zubataya

Reading 4 Interview with Andrei

137

(2)

Young Ja Lee

Reading 5 One of Us

139

(3)

Ahmet Erdogan

Reading 6 An Immigrant's First Day on the Job

142

(4)

Saravanan Rangaswamy

Techniques Writers Use

146

(5)

Interviewing

146

(1)

Task 5.1 Analyze

146

(2)

Task 5.2 Practice

148

(1)

Formulating a Thesis Statement

148

(1)

Task 5.3 Analyze

149

(1)

Task 5.4 Practice

150

(1)

Clustering

150

(1)

Task 5.5 Analyze

151

(1)

Task 5.6 Practice

151

(1)

Internet Search

151

(2)

Option 1 Locating Background Information for a Life-History Interview

152

(1)

Option 2 Locating Background Information for a Topical Interview

152

(1)

Essay Assignment

153

(4)

Option 1 Life-History Interview

153

(1)

Option 2 Topical Interview

153

(1)

Generating Ideas

154

(1)

Organizing Ideas

155

(1)

Working Toward a Thesis Statement

155

(1)

Writing Tips

156

(1)

Writing Your First Draft

157

(1)

Revising Your Essay

157

(1)

Responding to Your Peers

157

(1)

Making a Plan for Revising

157

(1)

Writing Your Second Draft

158

(1)

Editing Your Essay

158

(4)

Grammar in Context: Using Direct and Indirect Quotations

158

(1)

Task 5.7 Analyze

159

(1)

Task 5.8 Practice

160

(1)

Editing Checklist

161

(1)

Peer Response Form: Writing Based on Interviews

162

(3)

Writer's Plan for Revising: Writing Based on Interviews

165

(2)

Families in Transition: Writing Based on Reading

167

(40)

Readings

168

(18)

Reading 1 Traditional vs. Modern Family

168

(2)

Wan L. Lam

Reading 2 The Family in Society

170

(1)

Isabella Kong

Reading 3 Traditional Family and Modern Society in Africa

171

(3)

Papa Aly Ndaw

Reading 4 Bean Paste vs. Miniskirts: Generation Gap Grows

174

(3)

Nicholas D. Kristof

Reading 5 A Response to ``Bean Paste vs. Miniskirts''

177

(2)

Liana Salman

Reading 6 Gay Parents Find More Acceptance

179

(4)

Carlyle Murphy

Reading 7 The Problem of Gay Parenting

183

(1)

Pui Man Wong

Reading 8 A Positive View of Gay Parenting

184

(2)

Alana Vayntraub

Techniques Writers Use

186

(6)

Summarizing Information from Written Sources

186

(1)

Task 6.1 Analyze

186

(1)

Task 6.2 Practice

187

(1)

Paraphrasing Information from Written Sources

188

(2)

Task 6.3 Analyze

190

(1)

Task 6.4 Practice

191

(1)

Outlining

191

(1)

Task 6.5 Analyze

192

(1)

Task 6.6 Practice

192

(1)

Internet Search

192

(2)

Option 1 Changing Family Structures

193

(1)

Option 2 Gay Parents

193

(1)

Essay Assignment

194

(4)

Option 1 Changing Family Structures

194

(1)

Option 2 Gay Parents

194

(1)

Generating Ideas

195

(1)

Organizing Ideas

196

(1)

Working Toward a Thesis Statement

196

(1)

Writing Tips

197

(1)

Writing Your First Draft

197

(1)

Revising Your Essay

198

(1)

Benefiting from Teacher Comments

198

(1)

Responding to Your Peers

198

(1)

Writing Your Second Draft

199

(1)

Editing Your Essay

199

(3)

Grammar in Context: Using Modal Auxiliaries

199

(1)

Task 6.7 Analyze

199

(1)

Task 6.8 Practice

200

(1)

Editing Checklist

201

(1)

Peer Response Form: Writing Based on Reading

202

(3)

Writer's Plan for Revising: Writing Based on Reading

205

(2)

Issues of Identity: Writing Based on Research

207

(50)

Readings

208

(23)

Reading 1 An American Success Story

208

(2)

Samuel Nakasian

Reading 2 Response to ``An American Success Story''

210

(2)

Jowita Drazkowski

Reading 3 America 2050: Immigration and the Hourglass

212

(5)

Alejandro Portes

Reading 4 Identity

217

(3)

Shanan Marie Lynch

Reading 5 The Color of Love

220

(5)

Maria P. P. Root

Reading 6 Color or Real Love?

225

(3)

Yanqin Lan

Reading 7 Interracial Marriages

228

(3)

Igor Faynzil Bert

Techniques Writers Use

231

(8)

Supporting Ideas with Evidence

231

(1)

Task 7.1 Analyze

232

(1)

Task 7.2 Practice

232

(1)

Paraphrasing and Quoting to Add Support

232

(1)

Task 7.3 Analyze

233

(1)

Task 7.4 Practice

233

(1)

Giving Credit to Sources

234

(4)

Task 7.5 Analyze

238

(1)

Task 7.6 Practice

238

(1)

Internet Search

239

(1)

Option 1 Immigrants and Identity

239

(1)

Option 2 Interracial Marriage

239

(1)

Essay Assignment

240

(5)

Option 1 Immigrants and Identity

240

(1)

Option 2 Interracial Marriage

241

(1)

Generating Ideas

241

(2)

Organizing Ideas

243

(1)

Working Toward a Thesis Statement

244

(1)

Writing Tips

245

(1)

Writing Your First Draft

245

(1)

Revising Your Essay

245

(1)

When Does Revising End? A Word on Meeting Deadlines

245

(1)

Responding to Your Peers

246

(1)

Writing Your Second Draft

246

(1)

Editing Your Essay

246

(3)

Grammar in Context: Using the Active and Passive Voice of Verbs

246

(1)

Task 7.7 Analyze

247

(1)

Task 7.8 Practice

248

(1)

Editing Checklist

248

(1)

A Note As You Complete the Course

249

(1)

Parting Words from the Authors

249

(1)

Peer Response Form: Writing Based on Research

250

(3)

Writer's Plan for Revising: Writing Based on Research

253

(1)

Assessing Your Progress: A Closing Survey

254

(3)

Answer Key

257

(7)

Index

264

(4)

Credits

268

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