This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed. For first-year courses in Composition/Rhetoric. Successful strategies for civil writing With ample material for a full-year composition course, Strategies for Successful Writing, 12th Edition supports students as they learn to compose in the rhetorical modes. Diverse examples demonstrate writing concepts and strategies, so students can recognize them more easily in the longer reading selections and apply them in their own compositions. Instruction is brief and to the point, allowing students to spend more time writing and less time reading about writing. The authors' conversational yet concise approach invites students into the book, reducing their apprehensions about writing and providing a model for their own prose. The 12th Edition stresses the importance and characteristics of civil writing - addressing the growing cultural challenges posed by social media and the increasingly hostile discourse in many media. This edition also increases emphasis on visual rhetoric and multimedia approaches to writing and texts.
RHETORIC Brief Contents:
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1. Writing: A First Look
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2. Strategies for Successful and Critical Reading
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3. Planning and Drafting Your Paper: Exploration
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4. Revising and Editing Your Paper: Courageous Transformations
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5. Paragraphs
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6. Effective Sentences
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7. Achieving Effective Style and Tone Through Word Choice
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8. Narration: Telling Life's Stories
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9. Description: Capturing Your World
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10. Process Analysis: Explaining How
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11. Illustration: Showing and Telling
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12. Classification: Grouping into Categories
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13. Comparison: Showing Relationships
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14. Cause and Effect: Explaining Why
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15. Definition: Establishing Boundaries
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16. Argument: Convincing Others
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17. The Essay Examination
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18. Writing About Literature, Movies, and Television Shows EXPLORE, RESEARCH, WRITE GUIDE
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19. The Research Paper
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20. Documenting Sources: MLA Style
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21. Documenting Sources: APA Style
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22. Additional Research Strategies: Interviews, Questionnaires, Direct Observations READER Narration "The Perfect Picture" by James Alexander Thom "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters" by Diane Glancy "The Cigarette" from Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Description "When the Full Moon Shines Its Magic over Monument Valley" by John V. Young "Seaside Safari" by Kessler Burnett "What It Feels Like to Lie Face Down and Let a Wildfire Burn Over You" by Brian Mockenhaupt Process Analysis "Ground-Source-Heat-Pumps: Mother Earth Will Wrap You in Warmth" by Perfect Home HVAC design.com "Let's Get Vertical!" by Beth Wald "Julie Mehretu Reaches for New Heights" by Hillary M. Sheets Illustration "Accidental Discoveries" by Lexi Krock "If You're Happy and You Know It, Must I Know, Too?" by Judith Newman "A Pain Pill Among Friends: The Quick and Quiet Way Young People Are Getting Hooked on Opiods" by Elizabeth Millard Classification "A Tale of Four Learners" by Bernice McCarthy "7 Types of Employees to Weed Out" by Jeff Schmitt "What Kind of Procrastinator Are You?" by Alina Vrabie Comparison "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" by Bruce Catton "What's the Key to Turning Around Rust Belt Cities?" by Alana Semuels "Are Video Games Now More Sophisticated than Cinema?" by Jane Graham Cause and Effect "For Cops, Citizen Videos Bring Increased Scrutiny. Are Incidents Caught on Tape Hindering Officers?" by Kevin Johnson "Your Addiction to Social Media Is No Accident" by Julian Morgans "Why We Keep Stuff: If You Want to Understand People, Take a Look at What They Hang on To" by Caroline Knapp Definition "The Blended Economy" by Marc Zwelling "Krumping" by Marti Bercaw "From E. B. White to Colin Kaepernick: What Does Democracy Mean Today?" by Rick Hampson Argument "Going Nuclear" by Patrick Moore "Ten Reasons Why New Nuclear Was a Mistake-Even Before Fukushima" by Alexis Rowell "Freedom of Speech on Campus Is an Essential Part of College" by Elliot Hirshman "Why Colleges Have a Right to Reject Hateful Speakers Like Ann Coulter" by Aaron R. Hanlon "No One Is Prepared to Stop the Robot Onslaught. So What Will We Do When It Arrives?" by Steve LeVine "Workers Refuse to Rage Against the Machine: Some Employees Embrace Automation, and Keep Their Job" by Nathan Bomey HANDBOOK I. Sentence Elements II. Editing to Correct Sentence Errors III. Editing to Correct Faulty Punctuation
James A. Reinking Jim Reinking received his BA and his MA from the University of Iowa. He started teaching at Ferris State University in 1968 and specialized in teaching first-year writing courses until his retirement several years ago. He originated Strategies for Successful Writing with Andy Hart, with whom he also authored The Handbook of Technical Communication based on his extensive experience in the classroom. Though retired, he still contributes significantly to the ongoing success of Strategies for Successful Writing, suggesting selections for the Reader and offering much-needed editorial advice. If there are any errors in the text, those errors are not in any way Jim's responsibility. Now retired, Jim continues to live in Michigan, a state he loves, and has more time to spend with family. He values careful craftsmanship and hard work. Robert von der Osten "A student once told me that he imagined that teachers only taught and after class vanished into their offices. I, like many teachers, have a complex history. Much of my boyhood was spent in Westchester County, New York, in the foothills of the Catskills, where I hiked in the woods, explored caves, caught frogs, bicycled around the neighborhood, built treehouses, and once even set a river briefly on fire with an experimental Molotov cocktail. Now I am a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. I love kayaking in remote spots like the bays of Newfoundland; seeing a whale or iceberg up close is a thrill. I enjoy all the arts and play piano every day, share poetry with colleagues, follow science avidly, and enjoy aerobic exercise and weight training. "I tell my advisees that we can survive change. I started college as a music major who loved to write music (and I still do). I changed colleges to Western Michigan University, where I majored in philosophy and English and minored in the academic study of religion because I was driven to understand our world. I thought briefly about teaching high school or selling insurance but ended up studying philosophy at SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, where I earned an MA in philosophy. I went on to earn a PhD from New York University in composition theory with an emphasis on linguistics and cognitive theory. "In New York, I worked in the children's section of a 5th Avenue bookstore, trained insurance raters, consulted with businesses on communication problems, and (in a job I loved) trained for jobs the homeless, gang kids, and other struggling New Yorkers. I started teaching at Ferris State University in Michigan, a great state for kayakers, in 1986 and have taught there ever since. "Over the years I have taught basic writing, first-year composition, advanced composition for pharmacists, advanced business communication, linguistics, justice and literature, literary theory, and science fiction. Much of that teaching has been online or made massive use of Web resources. I am a great fan of science fiction and fantasy, which is where I have focused my scholarship, presentations, and publications. I have also been privileged to serve the university in a number of positions, including the head of a committee reviewing the university's fiscal restructuring, general education coordinator, assessment coordinator, and leader of a university planning committee. Those experiences have helped me appreciate writing in real situations, which is a guiding principle of this text. What my life this has taught me most of all is the importance of adapting, rising to challenges, and figuring out what really matters."
