Thoughtful Writing
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 242
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 242
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Thoughtful Writing, through its advice and through its muscle-memory-developing exercises, teaches students how to succeed at any kind of investigative or argumentative writing. Its training in how to find and use telling details solves the mystifying problem of how to write enough words to fill your required number of pages.
This text demonstrates how to move from facts to inferences to a thesis and helps you write thesis statements that are genuinely thoughtful. It helps give warmth and life to your writing by making you conscious that you are writing for readers that you respect. It very specifically shows you how to conduct research – how to learn from people, from books, and from the vast resources on the internet.
Its chapters on organizing, paragraphing, revising, and punctuating help you achieve professional standards of presentation. It teaches English grammar in a more enjoyable and useful way than does any other writing textbook.
All in all, it helps you produce writing that is, in both the humane and the intellectual senses of the term, genuinely thoughtful.
**EBook Edition will not include the section What Every Girl Should Know on pp 201-205**
Chapter 1 Where Do We Start?
Critical Skills and Attitudes for a Writer
Assessing Your Current Writing Ability
Writing Priorities Survey
Chapter 2 Telling Details
Telling Details: The Basis of All Effective Writing
Recalling and Writing Telling Details
Qualities, Comparisons, Details
Coming Up with Telling Facts
Writing Telling Facts from Direct Observation
Taking Pains Not to Write without Details
Chapter 3 Facts, Inferences, and Theses
Inferences
Drawing Inferences from Observed Facts
Drawing Inferences from Statistics
Combining Inferences into a Thesis
Drawing Inferences and a Thesis from a Text
Fact-Inference Pairs as a Research Tool
Paragraphing with Facts and Inferences
The Vulnerability of Inferences
Qualifying Inferences
Substantiating Assertions
Chapter 4 Writing for a Reader
Developing an Honest and Recognizable Voice
Drawing Inferences about Writers
Timed Writing
Becoming Conscious of Our Readers
Readers and Overhearers
Sensing Your Reader as You Write
Becoming Your Own Reader
Respecting Readers
Chapter 5 Systematic Patterns of Thought
Organization: Our Choice or Theirs?
Choosing a Systematic Organization
The Common, Systematic Thought Patterns
Chronological Narration
Spatial Description
Classification
Comparing and Contrasting
Definition
Cause and Effect
Problem-Solution
Assertion with Examples
Assertion with Reasons
Building to a Climax
Writing and Recognizing the Common Thought Patterns
Writing Patterned Answers to Essay Questions
Chapter 6 Persuasion:Writing with Authority
Earning, and Then Using, Authority
Discriminating among Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
Fallacies
All Writing Needs Effective Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Chapter 7 Paragraphing, Introductions, and Conclusions
Paragraphing
Writing a Paragraph Outline
Choosing, and Giving Reasons for, Paragraph Breaks
Coherence
Introductions
Conclusions
Chapter 8 Revision
Giving Yourself the Power of Two
Self-Critique
Revision Checklist
Chapter 9 Sentence Sense: Making Grammar Your Ally
Self-Assessment: Common Punctuation Errors
Self-Assessment: Grammar and Punctuation Terms
What Is a Sentence?
Destroying a Sentence by Adding to It
Repairing a Sentence Fragment by Adding to It
Discovering an Independent Clause
Clauses
Adjectives and Adverbs
Enriching Sentences with Clauses
Enriching Sentences with Prepositional Phrases
Phrases
Participles
Past Participles
Gerunds
Infinitives: The Third Verbal
Parallel Structure
Punctuation
Common Problems in Punctuation
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Sentence Fragments
Punctuation with Connectors
Punctuation with And Interrupting Words, Phrases, and Clauses
Introducing a Quotation
The Apostrophe
Chapter 10 Research on the Internet and in the Library
Research: The Way We Find Raw Material for Our Papers
The Internet and its Databases
Libraries
Historical Exploring
The Research Process in a Nutshell
Research Paper Skills
Note Taking
Drawing Inferences from Your Research Sources
Keeping the Subject Covered to a Reasonable Size
Evaluating Your Sources
Ensuring That Your Work Is Your Own
Incorporating Quotations
Punctuating Quotations
Acknowledging Source
Putting Together Your Works Cited List
Checklist for Works Cited Format
Chapter 11 Research through Interviewing
Preparing Questions for an Interview
Practice Interview
Comparing Written and Video Interviews
Chapter 12 Research through Careful Reading
Drawing Inferences While Reading
(Reading between the Lines)
Drawing Readers’ Inferences
Drawing Inferences from a Writer’s Facts
Locating Assumptions While Reading
Thoughtful Reading
From Drawing Inferences to Evaluating
Rhetorical Analysis
Reading, and Writing about, Fiction
Drawing Inferences about Works of Fiction
Chapter 13 The Writing Process: An Overview
Reflections on the Writing Process
Your Writing Process
Stages of the Writing Process
Collecting and Selecting
Incubation (Waiting)
Ordering
Drafting
Revising (Making the Work Readable)
Publishing
Overview
Chapter 14 What Next?
Answers to Exercises Earlier in the Book
Taking Stock
Recommended Books
Strengthening Intuition
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index
**EBook Edition will not include the section What Every Girl Should Know on pp 201-205**