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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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.
1 | Shaping Topics and Discovering Ideas | 3 |
2 | Structuring the Essay | 27 |
3 | From Ideas to Essay | 61 |
4 | Revising for Sentence Effectiveness | 95 |
5 | Description | 127 |
6 | Narration | 152 |
7 | Illustration | 179 |
8 | Process Analysis | 201 |
9 | Comparison-Contrast | 223 |
10 | Cause-and-Effect Analysis | 249 |
11 | Definition | 270 |
12 | Classification | 288 |
13 | Argumentation-Persuasion | 309 |
14 | Writing in Response to Reading | 336 |
15 | Research Writing | 366 |
16 | Editing for Word Choice | 403 |
17 | Editing for Sentence Fragments | 417 |
18 | Editing for Run-On-Sentences and Comma Splices | 421 |
19 | Editing for Subject-Verb Agreement and Tense Shift | 426 |
20 | Editing for Problems with Pronouns | 433 |
21 | Editing for Problems with Modifiers | 446 |
22 | Editing for Punctuation | 450 |
23 | Editing for Mechanics | 470 |
App. 1 | Solving Writing Problems | 477 |
App. 2 | A Student Essay in Progress | 481 |
Index | 489 |