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The Student Writer: Editor and Critic » (8th Edition)

Book cover image of The Student Writer: Editor and Critic by Barbara Fine Clouse

Authors: Barbara Fine Clouse
ISBN-13: 9780073383804, ISBN-10: 0073383805
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: July 2009
Edition: 8th Edition

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Author Biography: Barbara Fine Clouse

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Book Synopsis

This eighth edition of The Student Writer: Editor and Critic strengthens the text’s commitment to helping students become better writers by helping them develop their own successful writing processes and by helping them become reliable critics and editors of their own texts. It also maintains the text’s commitment to demonstrating the importance of writing across the curriculum, in the workplace, and in students’ private lives.

Table of Contents

1Shaping Topics and Discovering Ideas3
2Structuring the Essay27
3From Ideas to Essay61
4Revising for Sentence Effectiveness95
5Description127
6Narration152
7Illustration179
8Process Analysis201
9Comparison-Contrast223
10Cause-and-Effect Analysis249
11Definition270
12Classification288
13Argumentation-Persuasion309
14Writing in Response to Reading336
15Research Writing366
16Editing for Word Choice403
17Editing for Sentence Fragments417
18Editing for Run-On-Sentences and Comma Splices421
19Editing for Subject-Verb Agreement and Tense Shift426
20Editing for Problems with Pronouns433
21Editing for Problems with Modifiers446
22Editing for Punctuation450
23Editing for Mechanics470
App. 1Solving Writing Problems477
App. 2A Student Essay in Progress481
Index489

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