Prentice Hall Guide For College Writers Brief
Description Focusing on purpose, situation, techniques, and processes in each self-contained chapter, The Prentice Hall Guide guides students step by step through their assignments. Organized by writers’ purposes (to explain, to evaluate, to argue, etc.), The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers foregrounds rhetorical awareness and asks students to consider their purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. In each “writing project” chapter, they are also walked through the process of inventing, researching, drafting, peer reviewing and revising. And in each project chapter, techniques and rhetorical modes particularly useful in accomplishing the writer’s purpose are suggested.
This consistent and detailed guidance supports students throughout each of their major course projects and provides all instruction in one place so that they never need to flip between chapters. Its rhetorical emphasis, practical step-by-step approach, and usable structure make this guide highly teachable and a favorite of large writing programs for over 25 years.
The logical progression of purpose-based chapters move from remembering and observing to critical reading, rhetorical analysis, visual analysis, and investigation before culminating in exposition and argumentation (explaining, evaluating, problem solving, and arguing). Each purpose-based chapteris self-contained and comprehensive, walking students through the multiple stages of the writing process and suggesting rhetorical patterns and other strategies most useful for each purpose. Techniques for writing for a specific purpose open every assignment chapter, laying out for students a concrete game plan and helping them understand what elements they need to consider as they plan and draft their paper. Peer Response guidelines in each chapter help student writers give and receive constructive feedback, whether via an in-class workshop, a take home review, or an electronic exchange of drafts. Sixteen full-length student essays and ten essays with sample prewriting materials, rough draft peer response sheets, and/or postscripts provide students with models for their own work and sample materials for analytical class discussions. Professional reading selections, always followed with Questions for Writing and Discussion, encourage students to explore and respond to rich, relevant topics such as Web 2.0 literacies, technology, literacy and language, educational issues, social issues, environmental issues, and more. Research tips in each project chapter suggest to students research strategies particularly appropriate to each type of assignment, providing instruction on research that’s particularly tailored to their immediate task at hand.
Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, The: Brief Edition, Books a la Carte Plus MyLab Writing with eText -- Access Card Package, 10th Edition. Focusing on purpose, process, patterns, and situation in each self-contained chapter, this perpetually fresh writing guide stands alone in ease of use and.
Quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and others personalize for less experienced writers a larger community that still struggles with challenges similar to those student writers face. The Ebook offers increased flexibility for students who prefer to study online. Reading Critically, Analyzing Rhetorically, an expanded chapter on working with texts, provides instruction for two writing assignments: a critical response paper and a new rhetorical analysis essay. Analyzing and evaluating ethos, logos, and pathos early in the text helps students develop critical and rhetorical reading skills right from the beginning of the course.
A research proposal and an annotated bibliography, two new writing assignments in Chapter 12, give students practice in applying research planning, searching, and evaluating skills. Increased coverage of plagiarism–what it is, how to avoid it, why it is important in academic writing–now appears in multiple chapters. A new essay, “Plagiarism in America,” with sample critical reading responses, encourages students to participate in the conversation and learn the best academic practices. A new and comprehensive Chapter 3, Observing and Remembering, shows students how description and narration work together in the personal narrative essay. Teachers no longer have to assign sections from two chapters to help students write their experience- and observation-based essays. Two new visual features highlight key content and processes for students: Shaping Strategies charts help students identify rhetorical strategies that can help them achieve their purpose for writing.
Shaping Your Points diagrams show students how to organize different types of papers. New media enhancements in the eText link students to videos, animations, model documents, and chapter quizzes to create a rich, interactive learning experience. Online resources that extend the instructional content and examples let students access additional help as needed and support students with different learning styles.
New learning objectives frame each chapter’s content so students know what they will accomplish by working through a chapter. New images and essays related to the Occupy movement and the events at the University of California at Davis encourage students to analyze and reflect on how contemporary events are represented through various texts and social media.
A new mini-casebook of readings on education in Chapter 9, Problem Solving,invites students to engage in the national debate about the costs of higher education, the quality of their education, the importance of writing, and their opportunities after graduation. Expanded coverage of research now includes two chapters: Ch. 12 on research planning (from a rhetorical perspective), finding sources, and evaluating sources for credibility and appropriateness, and Ch. 13 on incorporating sources without letting them take over a paper. The new student example on the Rwandan genocide runs through both chapters, modeling how to find reliable sources, draft a research proposal, compile an annotated bibliography, shape, draft, and document a source-based essay, and then repurpose research to produce another genre.
Prentice Hall Guide For College
Nineteen new professional essays and many new images stimulate student discussion on the Internet, social media, cyberbullying, and censorship on Facebook. Featured professional writers in the tenth edition include Jennifer Holladay, Nicholas Carr, Nathan Brown, Deborah Soloman, Eliza Griswold, Caterina Fake, David Sirota, Manohla Dargis, Jane Bodnar, Richard Arum, Lynn O’Shaughnessy, James Surowiecki, David Leonhardt, and Gregory Petsko.