Eight of the nine reading clusters in Section 2 present opposing and contrasting viewpoints on such controversial subjects as Internet privacy, media violence, and standardized testing. The ninth reading cluster features classic arguments, including Plato' s "Allegory of the Cave. Equips [readers] with the skills to construct meaningful and powerful arguments in various course areas. As it guides you through the process of writing effective arguments, the book covers critical reading strategies, writing, researching, and documenting a topic.
You'll find information on drafting and revising arguments, and a variety of composition strategies including freewriting, outlining, and shared reading -- from cover. Grounded in the art of writing, The Well-Crafted Sentence zeroes in on the building block of great prose: the sentence. With a friendly, approachable, and elegant tone, Nora Bacon shows the benefits of attention to style and offers a range of revision strategies that give students the tools to strengthen and develop their writing.
Giving students the opportunity to see successful rhetorical choices at work in writing they admire, the text includes a brief anthology of readings by ten accomplished stylists, five of them new to this edition. Examples throughout the text are drawn from these model pieces, as are integrated exercises that help students apply concepts to their own writing. Additionally, a new first chapter, Approaches to Style, introduces students to the concept of style.
Affordable and brief, The Well-Crafted Sentence works as a core classroom text or as a supplement. Northern Ireland is frequently characterised in terms of a two traditions paradigm, representing the conflict as being between two discrete cultures.
Demonstrating the reductionist nature of this argument, this book highlights the complexity of reality. Fred D. White's selection from Muir's writings, and his illuminating commentary, reveal the coherence and drama of a remarkable life: new readers will understand why Muir has become an American icon, and readers who are familiar with his work will be delighted with this fresh look.
Muir's fierce love of all of nature, from squirrels to glaciers but perhaps not sheep , continues to inspire us nearly a century after his death.
Many scientists and scientifically-minded philosophers are skeptical that free will exists. In clear, scientifically rigorous terms, Christian List explains that free will is like other real phenomena that emerge from physical laws but are autonomous from them—like an ecosystem or the economy—and are indispensable for explaining our world.
Aimed at students wishing to improve their writing skills, this guide deals with the key basics of grammar, punctuation and spelling while also showing students how to construct a sentence, how to build a paragraph and how to structure an essay.
This third edition includes an expanded 'Spot the Mistake' section. In pursuing this approach, Sarah Allen presents a version of subjectivity that enables productive debate in the essay, among essays, and beyond.
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism.
By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview.
Billings received a grant as a Fulbright Scholar to work with the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies on developing curriculum for online and blended both online and face-to-face delivery of writing classes. As a Fulbright Scholar, she also ran workshops on design of writing classes, written response to student papers, and writing program design for writing instructors of the Open Campus.
In Fall , she received the Dr. David E. Logothetti Teaching Award. Billings has presented numerous papers at the annual conventions of College Composition and Communication. Her research interests include 1 instructor commentary on and assessment of student writing and 2 various sites and manifestations of literacy. One of the BEST textbooks ever! By captain ahab This book is amazing; the topics are super-relevant and the strategies are current and presented in a structure that surpasses the hodgepodge nature of so many textbooks in this category.
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Billings Kindle. Posting Komentar. Jumat, 07 September [R The ninth reading cluster features classic arguments, including Plato' s "Allegory of the Cave. Equips [readers] with the skills to construct meaningful and powerful arguments in various course areas. As it guides you through the process of writing effective arguments, the book covers critical reading strategies, writing, researching, and documenting a topic.
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You could take the perks and share it likewise for your pals and also people around you. Billings profitably. What do you think for our concept right here? Built from the Rhetoric section in the Fourth Edition, this edition covers critical reading strategies as well as writing, researching, and documenting a topic, and includes a new chapter: "Argument Across the Disciplines.
Each chapter ends with a Summary, Checklist, and Writing Projects. In addition to guidance on drafting and revising arguments, the authors provide a variety of composition strategies, including freewriting, outlining, and shared reading. In-depth instruction, combined with real student writings and a focus on argumentation in the professional workplace, engages students and helps them discover their own voices, within and beyond the Composition classroom.
About the Author Fred D. White received his Ph. He has taught expository writing and literature courses at both the community college and university level. A professor of English emeritus at Santa Clara University, White offered courses in first-year composition, argumentation, nature writing, and an introduction to poetry.
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