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It's a simple, best-selling combination that has worked for over 20 years -- short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking selections organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective.Product Identifiers
PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's
ISBN-100312531133
ISBN-139780312531133
eBay Product ID (ePID)102828348
Product Key Features
Number of Pages672 Pages
Publication NameModels for Writers : Short Essays for Composition
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRhetoric, Readers
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorPaul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number10
Dewey Edition23
Target AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Decimal808/.0427
Table of ContentPreface Introduction for Students Part One: On Reading and Writing Well 1 The Writing Process Prewriting Understand Your Argument Choose a Subject Area, and Focus on a Topic Get Ideas and Collect Information Establish Your Thesis Know Your Audience Determine Your Method of Development Map Your Organization Writing the First Draft Create a Title Focus on Beginnings and Endings Revising Editing Run-ons: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices Sentence Fragments Subject-Verb Agreement Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Verb Tense Shifts Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Faulty Parallelism Weak Nouns and Verbs Academic Diction and Tone ESL Concerns (Articles and Nouns) Proofreading Writing an Expository Essay: A Student Essay in Progress Jeffrey Olesky,Golf: A Character Builder(student essay) 2 From Reading to Writing Getting the Most Out of Your Reading Step 1: Prepare Yourself to Read the Selection Step 2: The Selection Step 3: Reread Step 4: Annotate the Text with Marginal Notes Step 5: Analyze the Text with Questions An Example: Annotating Isaac Asimov's "Intelligence" Rachel Carson,Fable for Tomorrow Using Your Reading in the Writing Process Reading as a Writer Writing from Reading: Three Sample Student Essays A Narrative Essay: Lisa V. Driver,The Strong Arm of a Sixth-Grade Teacher (student essay) A Response Essay: Zoe Ockenga,The Excuse "Not To"(student essay) An Analytical Essay: Susan Francis,The Disgrace of Man(student essay) Part Two: The Elements of the Essay 3 Thesis Helen Keller,The Most Important Day James Lincoln Collier,Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name * Buzz Bissinger,Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer 4 Unity Sandra Cisneros,My Name * Malcolm Gladwell,No Mer