Fawcetts EVERGREEN: A GUIDE TO WRITING WITH READINGS, 12th Edition, is the perfect resource for mastering paragraph and essay writing. It uses the author's effective MAP (Model-Analysis-Practice) approach, which includes clear examples and lots of practice to help you improve. The book features nine different writing styles, each illustrated with two sample student essays (one in third person and one in first person), plus a handy graphic organizer. The latest edition also offers new tips on crafting strong thesis statements and includes updated readings from diverse authors on topics that matter to todays students. Its designed to boost your confidence and help you succeed in your writing assignments.
Unit I: GETTING STARTED.
1. Exploring the Writing Process.
The Writing Process. Subject, Audience, and Purpose.
2. Prewriting to Generate Ideas.
Freewriting. Brainstorming. Clustering. Asking Questions. Keeping a Journal.
Unit I Writers' Workshop: Using One or Two of Your Five Senses, Describe a
Place.
Unit II: DISCOVERING THE PARAGRAPH.
3. The Process of Writing Paragraphs.
Defining and Looking at the Paragraph. Narrowing the Topic and Writing the
Topic Sentence. Generating Ideas for the Body. Selecting and Dropping Ideas.
Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline. Writing and Revising the Paragraph.
4. Achieving Coherence.
Coherence Through Order. Coherence Through Related Sentences. Unit II
Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures of Living in Two Worlds.
Unit III: DEVELOPING THE PARAGRAPHS.
5. Illustration.
Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing an
Illustration Paragraph. Suggested Topic Sentences for Illustration
Paragraphs.
6. Narration.
Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Narrative
Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Narrative Paragraphs.
7. Description.
Critical Viewing and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Descriptive
Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Descriptive Paragraphs.
8. Process.
Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Process
Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Process Paragraphs.
9. Definition.
Single-Sentence Definitions. The Definition Paragraph. Critical Thinking and
Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Definition Paragraph. Suggested
Topics for Definition Paragraphs.
10. Comparison and Contrast.
The Contrast and the Comparison Paragraphs. Critical Thinking and Writing.
Checklist: The Process of Writing a Comparison or Contrast Paragraph.
Suggested Topics for Contrast or Comparison Paragraphs. The Comparison and
Contrast Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs.
11. Classification.
Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a
Classification Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Classification Paragraphs.
12. Cause and Effect.
Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Cause and
Effect Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Cause and Effect Paragraphs.
13. Persuasion.
Critical Viewing and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Persuasive
Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Persuasive Paragraphs. Unit III Writers'
Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers.
Unit IV: WRITING THE ESSAY.
14. The Process of Writing an Essay.
Looking at the Essay. Writing the Thesis Statement. Generating Ideas for the
Body. Organizing Ideas into an Outline. Ordering and Linking Paragraphs in
the Essay. Writing and Revising Essays. Checklist: The Process of Writing an
Essay. Suggested Topics for Essays.
15. The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title.
The Introduction. The Conclusion. The Title.
16. Types of Essays I.
The Illustration Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing:
Illustration. Planning and Writing the Illustration Essay. The Narrative
Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing: Narrative. Planning and
Writing the Narrative Essay. The Descriptive Essay. Student Essays. Critical
Viewing and Writing: Description. Planning and Writing the Descriptive Essay.
The Process Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing: Process.
Planning and Writing the Process Essay. The Definition Essay. Student Essays.
Critical Viewing and Writing: Definition. Planning and Writing the Definition
Essay.
17. Types of Essays II.
The Comparison and the Contrast Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and
Writing: Comparison Contrast. Planning and Writing the Comparison and the
Contrast Essay. The Classification Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing
and Writing: Classification. Planning and Writing the Classification Essay.
The Cause and Effect Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing:
Cause and Effect. Planning and Writing the Cause and Effect Essay. The
Susan Fawcett is the author of two market-leading college composition textbooks: EVERGREEN: A GUIDE TO WRITING (11th Edition) and GRASSROOTS: THE WRITER'S WORKBOOK (12th Edition). Both texts have won the peer-juried McGuffey Award for sustained excellence, presented by the Text & Academic Authors Association. With degrees in English literature from Ohio University and Columbia University, New York, Ms. Fawcetts honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Birkbeck College, University of London and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She found her calling as a professor of English and Director of the Writing Lab at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, where, dismayed that existing textbooks didnt help her students learn, she began creating her own worksheets that soon became GRASSROOTS. Ms. Fawcett gave up her tenure to write fulltime -- textbooks, poetry and articles on education and health. She has led faculty workshops throughout the United States and in South Africa.
