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 1: GETTING STARTED.
1. Exploring the Writing Process.
2. Prewriting to Generate Ideas.
Unit 1 Writers' Workshop: Using One or Two of Your Five Senses, Describe a
Place.
AI Toolbox Tip #1: Know your instructor's policy.
Unit 2: DISCOVERING THE PARAGRAPH.
3. The Process of Writing Paragraphs.
4. Achieving Coherence.
Unit 2 Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures of Living in Two Worlds.
AI Toolbox Tip #2: Use AI with integrity.
Unit 3: DEVELOPING THE PARAGRAPH.
5. Illustration.
6. Narration.
7. Description.
8. Process.
9. Definition.
10. Comparison and Contrast.
11. Classification.
12. Cause and Effect.
13. Persuasion.
Unit 3 Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers.
AI Toolbox Tip #3: Use AI to prompt your thinking, not do your thinking.
Unit 4: WRITING THE ESSAY.
14. The Process of Writing an Essay.
15. The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title.
16. Types of Essays, Part
1.
17. Types of Essays, Part
2.
18. Summarizing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism.
19. Strengthening an Essay with Research.
20. Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination.
Unit 4 Writers' Workshop: Analyze a Social Problem.
AI Toolbox Tip #4: Know the limits of AI (or AI makes things up).
Unit 5: IMPROVING YOUR WRITING.
21. Revising for Consistency and Parallelism.
22. Revising for Sentence Variety.
23. Revising for Language Awareness.
24. Putting Your Revision Skills to Work.
Unit 5 Writers' Workshop: Examine Something That Isn't What It Appears to
Be.
AI Toolbox Tip #5: It's all about the search terms.
Unit 6: REVIEWING THE BASICS.
25. Proofreading to Correct Your Personal Error Patterns.
26. The Simple Sentence.
27. Coordination and Subordination.
28. Avoiding Sentence Errors.
29. Present Tense (Agreement).
30. Past Tense.
31. The Past Participle.
32. Nouns.
33. Pronouns.
34. Prepositions.
35. Adjectives and Adverbs.
36. The Apostrophe.
37. The Comma.
38. Mechanics.
39. Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work.
Unit 6 Writers' Workshop: Adopt a New Point of View.
AI Toolbox Tip #6: Adopt a new point of view.
Unit 7: STRENGTHENING YOUR SPELLING.
40. Spelling.
41. Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes.
Unit 7 Writers' Workshop: Discuss a Time When You Felt Blessed.
AI Toolbox Tip #7: Tackle procrastination with an assist from AI.
Unit 8: READING STRATEGIES AND SELECTIONS.
42. Reading Strategies for Writers.
43. Reading Selections.
Zadie Smith, Sweet Charity.
Emma Seppälä, Two Types of Happiness.
Kai Reimer and Sandra Peter, How TikTok Is Changing the Music Industry.
Ellen Goodman, Multitasking or Mass ADD?
Dave Barry, Driving While Stupid.
Yvette Cabrera, In the Bag: Why Being Green Comes Naturally to U.S. Latinos.
Marisa G. Franco, The Secret to Making Friends as an Adult.
Leander Schaerlaeckens, How the Quick High of Fast-Food Gambling Ensnared
Young Men.
Jennifer Wright, Please Break Off Your AI Romance!
Clifford Johnson, Black Panthers Secret Superpower: Scientist Role Models.
Karen Castellucci Cox, Four Types of Courage, Revised and Updated.
Ana Veciana-Suarez, When Greed Gives Way to Giving.
Hayes Patton, NIL Deals are Ruining College Athletics.
Hyejune Park and Cosette Joyner Martinez, Secondhand Clothing Boom.
Virginia Thomas, Solitude is Not Loneliness.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fear of Nature.
Ali S. Khan, Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse.
Christine Harrington, Motivation
AI Toolbox Tip #8: Don't ask a machine to read and think for you.
ESL/ELL Appendix: Additional Help and Practice for ESL/ELL Students.
Index.
Thematic Index of the Reading Selections.
Rhetorical Index.
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.
