Writing Analytically treats writing as a tool of thought, offering prompts that lead you through the process of analysis and synthesis and help you to generate original, well-developed ideas.
The authors of this brief, popular rhetoric believe that learning to write well requires learning to use your writing as a tool to think well. In the new edition, materials are better integrated, more contextualized, and--when possible--condensed.
Table of contents :
CHAPTER 1 The Analytical Frame of Mind 1
CHAPTER 2 Reading Analytically 39
CHAPTER 3 Responding to Traditional Writing
Assignments More Analytically 71
CHAPTER 4 Reasoning from Evidence to Claims 89
CHAPTER 5 Interpretation 119
CHAPTER 6 Finding and Evolving a Thesis 147
CHAPTER 7 Conversing with Sources: Writing the Researched Paper 181
CHAPTER 8 Finding, Evaluating, and Citing Sources 207
CHAPTER 9 From Paragraphs to Papers: Forms and Formats
Across the Curriculum 229
CHAPTER 10 Style: Choosing Words, Shaping Sentences 263
CHAPTER 11 Nine Basic Writing Errors (BWEs) and
How to Fix Them 305
APPENDIX 333