Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition

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Models for Writers is a best-selling book with a simple yet effective combination that has worked for thousands of instructors and millions of students: short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. Models continues to offer thought-provoking readings organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical strategies that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective—trustworthy coverage you won’t find anywhere else. Also unique to Models is its versatility and flexibility: It works in a wide range of courses and at various levels. This edition offers new classroom activities for academic and professional writing that will get students to think critically about and practice the kinds of writing they will be doing in college and beyond. The new edition anticipates the needs of today’s students with helpful strategies for developing a strong thesis statement, expanded coverage of logical fallacies, entirely new coverage of APA documentation, and online multimodal readings and tutorials on critical reading and other essential topics. Cover Inside Cover Title Page Copyright Page Preface Contents Thematic Clusters Introduction for Students Part One: On Reading and Writing Well Chapter 1: The Writing Process Prewriting Understand Your Assignment Choose a Subject Area, and Focus on a Topic LearningCurve > Topics and Main Ideas Get Ideas and Collect Information Understand What a Thesis Is Develop 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 LearningCurve > Topic Sentences and Supporting Details Editing Run-ons: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices LearningCurve > Run-ons and Comma Splices; Commas Sentence Fragments LearningCurve > Fragments Subject-Verb Agreement LearningCurve > Subject-Verb Agreement Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Verb Tense Shifts Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Faulty Parallelism Weak Nouns and Verbs Academic Diction and Tone LearningCurve > Appropriate Language ESL Concerns (Articles and Nouns) Proofreading Writing an Expository Essay: A Student Essay in Progress Golf: A Character Builder: Jeffrey Olesky Tutorials > Digital Writing > Photo Editing Basics with GIMP Tutorials > Digital Writing > Audio Editing with Audacity Tutorials > Digital Writing > Presentations Tutorials > Digital Writing > Word Processing Tutorials > Digital Writing > Job Search/Personal Branding Chapter 2: From Reading to Writing Reading Critically Step 1: Prepare Yourself to Read the Selection Step 2: Read the Selection Step 3: Reread the Selection Step 4: Annotate the Text with Marginal Notes Step 5: Analyze and Evaluate the Text with Questions Intelligence: Isaac Asimov An Example: Annotating Isaac Asimov’s “Intelligence” Practice: Reading and Annotating Rachel Carson’s “Fable for Tomorrow” Fable for Tomorrow: Rachel Carson Tutorials > Critical Reading > Reading Visuals: Purpose Tutorials > Critical Reading > Reading Visuals: Audience Using Your Reading in the Writing Process Reading as a Writer Writing from Reading: Three Sample Student Essays A Narrative Essay A Response Essay An Argumentative Essay Part Two: The Elements of the Essay Chapter 3: Thesis The Most Important Day: Helen Keller Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt: Julie Zhuo Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name: James Lincoln Collier Chapter 4: Unity My Favorite Teacher: Thomas L. Friedman Our Vanishing Night: Verlyn Klinkenborg The Meanings of a Word: Gloria Naylor Chapter 5: Organization A View from the Bridge: Cherokee Paul McDonald The American Man: Age Ten: Susan Orlean Revolution on Eight Wheels: Diane “Lady Hulk” Williams Chapter 6: Beginnings and Endings White Lies: Erin Murphy The Case for Short Words: Richard Lederer Shame: Dick Gregory Chapter 7: Paragraphs Simplicity: William Zinsser That Lean and Hungry Look: Suzanne Britt The Home Place: Jimmy Carter Chapter 8: Transitions An Indian Father’s Plea: Robert G. Lake-Thom (Medicine Grizzly Bear) Becoming a Writer: Russell Baker The Magic of the Family Meal: Nancy Gibbs Chapter 9: Effective Sentences Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police: Martin Gansberg Salvation: Langston Hughes Disconnected Urbanism: Paul Goldberger Chapter 10: Writing with Sources The Case for Censoring Hate Speech: Sean McElwee The English-Only Movement: Can America Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience? Jake Jamieson The Clan of One-Breasted Women: Terry Tempest Williams Part Three: The Language of the Essay Chapter 11: Diction and Tone How Do Plants Know Which Way Is Up and Which Way Is Down? Robert Krulwich Me Talk Pretty One Day: David Sedaris Be Specific: Natalie Goldberg No, I Do Not Want to Pet Your Dog: Farhad Manjoo Chapter 12: Figurative Language The Barrio: Robert Ramirez The Flight of the Eagles: N. Scott Momaday Polaroids: Anne Lamott Part Four: Types of Essays Chapter 13: Illustration A Crime of Compassion: Barbara Huttmann The Blue Marble: Gregory Petsko Incivility Crisis of Politics Is Just a Symptom of Division: Cornell W. Clayton In Defense of Dangerous Ideas: Steven Pinker Chapter 14: Narration What’s in a Name? Henry Louis Gates Jr. Momma, the Dentist, and Me: Maya Angelou Listening to My Father: Michael Dirda The Story of an Hour: Kate Chopin Chapter 15: Description The Corner Store: Eudora Welty Unforgettable Miss Bessie: Carl T. Rowan My Rosetta: Judith Ortiz Cofer Hunting Your Own Dinner: Bill Heavey Chapter 16: Process Analysis The Principles of Poor Writing: Paul W. Merrill Guacamole Is a Cruel Mistress: Marion Winik Why Leaves Turn Colorin the Fall: Diane Ackerman Chapter 17: Definition What Is Crime? Lawrence M. Friedman The Company Man: Ellen Goodman What Happiness Is: Eduardo Porter Chapter 18: Division and Classification The Ways of Meeting Oppression: Martin Luther King Jr. Doubts about Doublespeak: William Lutz Mother Tongue: Amy Tan Chapter 19: Comparison and Contrast Two Ways of Seeing a River: Mark Twain Taking My Son to College, Where Technology Has Replaced Serendipity: Christina Baker Kline Two Ways to Belong in America: Bharati Mukherjee Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts: Bruce Catton Chapter 20: Cause and Effect Why We Crave Horror Movies: Stephen King Why and When We Speak Spanish in Public: Myriam Marquez Does Trying to Be Happy Make Us Unhappy? Adam Grant Black Men and Public Space: Brent Staples Chapter 21: Argument A Farm Boy Reflects: Nicholas D. Kristof In Praise of the F Word: Mary Sherry Lincoln’s Call to Service — and Ours: Stanley McChrystal The Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson Crime: Finding an Effective Punishment Condemn the Crime, Not the Person: June Tangney Shame Is Worth a Try: Dan M. Kahan The Problem with Public Shaming: Cole Stryker Slacktivism: Social Media Meets Activism “Slacktivism” Makes the World a Better Place from the Couch: Heidi Schlumpf Putting Action Back in Activism: Gabriella Corvese Changing the Face(book) of Social Activism: Mark Pfeifle Chapter 22: A Brief Guide to Writing a Research Paper Establishing a Realistic Schedule Finding and Using Sources Tutorials > Digital Writing > Online Research Conducting Keyword Searches Evaluating Your Print and Online Sources Analyzing Your Sources for Position and Bias Developing a Working Bibliography for Your Sources Taking Notes Documenting Sources MLA-Style Documentation An Argument for Corporate Responsibility APA-Style Documentation The Role of Spirituality and Religion in Mental Health Glossary of Useful Terms Acknowledgments Index Inside Back Cover Back Cover