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Colorado State University Upper Saddle River,New Jersey 07458 7 9- 3 6 8 0 6- 3 5 0- N: B S I The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reid,Stephen The Prentice Hall guide for college writers / Stephen Reid.— 8th ed. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-13-601698-4 1.English language—Rhetoric—Handbooks,manuals,etc.2.Report writing—Handbooks, manuals,etc.3.College readers.I.Title. 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Pearson Education,Canada,Ltd. Pearson Education Malaysia,Pte.Ltd. Pearson Education—Japan Pearson Education,Upper Saddle River,New Jersey Pearson Education Australia PTY,Limited 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 IS ISBN-13:978-0-13-601698-4 B N ISBN-10:0-13-601698-7 : 0 -5 3 6 -0 8 6 3 9 -7 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Brief Contents 1 Writing Myths and Rituals 3 2 Situations, Purposes, and Processes for Writing 17 3 Observing 51 4 Remembering 101 5 Reading 151 6 Analyzing and Designing Visuals 215 7 Investigating 279 8 Explaining 343 9 Evaluating 399 10 Problem Solving 455 11 Arguing 509 12 Responding to Literature 600 13 Writing a Research Paper 656 Appendix: Writing Under Pressure A-1 Handbook H-1 7 9- 3 6 iii 8 0 6- 3 5 0- N: B S I The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. IS B N : 0 -5 3 6 -0 8 6 3 9 -7 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Contents Thematic Contents xi Dimensions of the Writing Process 34 Preface xvii Collecting 34 Shaping 35 1 Drafting 35 Writing Myths and Rituals 3 Revising 35 The Whole Process 36 Writing Fitness: Rituals and Practice 5 Writing with a Computer 37 Place, Time, and Tools 6 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 38 Energy and Attitude 8 Keeping a Journal 9 A Writing Process at Work: Collecting and Shaping 40 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 12 “Athletes and Education” by Neil H. Petrie 40 “On Keeping a Journal” by Roy Hoffman 12 On Writing “Athletes and Education” by Neil Petrie 44 2 A Writing Process at Work: Drafting and Situations, Purposes, and Revising 47 Processes for Writing 17 From “The Declaration of Independence” 47 Rhetorical Situations 18 3 Review of the Rhetorical Situation 21 Why the Rhetorical Situation Is Important 21 Observing 51 Purposes for Writing 22 Techniques for Writing About Writer-Based Purposes 22 Observations 54 Subject- and Audience-Based Purposes 23 Observing People 55 Combinations of Purposes 23 Observing Places 56 Subject, Purpose, and Thesis 24 From “Sierra” by John Muir 56 Purpose and Audience 24 Observing Objects 57 Audience Analysis 25 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 58 Purpose, Audience, and Genre 27 “Take This Fish and Look at It” by Samuel H. Scudder 60 The Rhetorical Situation 28 “Observing Wolves” by Farley Mowat 66 Purpose, Audience, and Context in Two Essays 29 Observing: The Writing Process 75 “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” by Choosing a Subject 76 Elizabeth Wong 30 Collecting 77 “I’m OK, but You’re Not” by Robert Zoellner 31 Shaping 80 7 9- 3 6 v 8 0 6- 3 5 0- N: B S I The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. vi Contents Drafting 85 Summarizing and Responding to an Revising 86 Essay 157 Peer Response 87 “Teach Diversity—with a Smile” by Barbara Ehrenreich 158 Postscript on the Writing Process 89 Summarizing 161 “Permanent Tracings” by Jennifer Macke 90 Summary of “Teach Diversity—with a Smile” 162 “Empty Windows” by Stephen White 96 Responding 162 Response to “Teach Diversity—with a 4 Smile” 165 Remembering 101 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 166 “Letter to America” by Margaret Atwood 168 Techniques for Writing About “Vows” by Christopher Caldwell 171 Memories 102 Responses to the Intergovernmental Panel on Remembering People 105 Climate Change 176 Remembering Places 105 “The IPCC Fourth Assessment” by Jerald L. Remembering Events 106 Schnoor 177 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 108 “Planet Gore” by the Editor, National Review 179 “Lives on the Boundary” by Mike Rose 109 “On the Climate Change Beat, Doubt Gives Way to “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Certainty” by William K. Stevens 181 Alice Walker 117 “Global Warming and Hot Air” by Robert J. “César Chávez Saved My Life” by Daniel “Nene” Samuelson 184 Alejandrez 126 Reading and Writing Processes 189 Remembering: The Writing Process 130 Choosing a Subject 189 Choosing a Subject 131 “Teaching Tolerance in America” by Dudley Collecting 131 Erskine Devlin 190 Shaping 133 Collecting 193 Drafting 138 Shaping 194 Revising 139 Avoiding Plagiarism 194 Peer Response 140 Summary Shaping 195 Postscript on the Writing Process 141 Sample Summaries 197 “The Wind Catcher” by Todd Petry 142 Response Shaping 198 “The Red Chevy” by Juli Bovard 145 Outlines for Summary/Response Essays 200 Drafting 201 5 Revising 202 Reading 151 Peer Response 203 Postscript on the Writing Process 204 Techniques for Writing About Reading 153 “Letter to Margaret Atwood” by Dean C. Swift 204 Critical Reading Strategies 153 “Two Responses to Deborah Tannen” by Jennifer Guidelines for Class Discussion 157 Koester and Sonja H. Browe 208 IS B N : 0 -5 3 6 -0 8 6 3 9 -7 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Contents vii 6 Date Rape: Familiar Strangers 282 Analyzing and Designing “Gimme An A (I Insist!)” by Abigail Sullivan Moore 283 Visuals 215 Investigation Using Multiple Sources 284 Techniques for Analyzing Visuals 217 “That Parent-Child Conversation Is Becoming Instant, and Online” by John Schwartz 285 Analyzing Visuals 219 Profile of a Person 289 Analyzing Visuals in Text 222 “Rick Steves’s Not-So-Lonely Planet” by Sara Analyzing Visuals in Context 224 Corbett 289 “Progress or Not” by Jonathan Alter 225 Extended Interview 291 “Who’s a Looter?” by Tania Ralli 227 “Reading Statistical Tea Leaves” by Karen Analyzing the Genre of the Visual 229 Arenson 291 Rhetorical Appeals to the Audience 231 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 294 Designing Visuals 234 “Surfin’ the Louvre” by Elizabeth Larsen 296 Techniques for Designing Visuals 235 “Plotting a Net Gain” by Connie Koenenn 298 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 239 “The Homeless and Their Children” by Jonathan Kozol 304 Processes for Analyzing and Designing Visuals 252 Investigating: The Writing Process 312 Choosing a Subject 253 Choosing a Subject 313 Collecting 253 Collecting 314 Shaping 254 Community Service Learning 315 “Triple Self-Portrait” by Charles Rosen and Henri Research Tips 318 Zerner 255 Doing Field Research 320 “Out of the Picture on the Abortion Ban” by Ellen Shaping 323 Goodman 256 Drafting 325 “Coming Home” by Carolyn Kleiner Butler 259 Peer Response 326 Drafting 261 Revising 327 Peer Response 261 Postscript on the Writing Process 328 Revising 262 “The Hollywood Indian “ by Lauren Strain 328 Postscript on the Writing Process 263 “My Friend Michelle, an Alcoholic” by Bridgid “Some Don’t Like Their Blues at All” by Karyn M. Stone 338 Lewis 264 8 “Weight Loss 101 for the Adult Fitness Program” by Lawrence Fletcher 267 Explaining 343 7 Techniques for Explaining 345 Explaining What 346 Investigating 279 Explaining How 348 Techniques for Investigative Writing 280 Explaining Why 350 Summary of a Book or Article 281 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 352 7 9- 3 6 8 0 6- 3 5 0- N: B S I The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. viii Contents “Multiracialness” by LaMer Steptoe 353 Collecting 432 “How to Take Control of Your Credit Cards” by Shaping 434 Suze Orman 355 Research Tips 437 “How Male and Female Students Use Language Peer Response 438 Differently” by Deborah Tannen 361 Drafting 439 Explaining: The Writing Process 368 Revising 439 Choosing a Subject 369 Postscript on the Writing Process 440 Collecting 370 “Borrowers Can be Choosy” by Linda Research Tips 373 Meininger 441 Shaping 373 “The Big Chill” by Kent Y’Blood 451 Tips for Integrating Images 376 Drafting 382 10 Revising 382 Problem Solving 455 Peer Response 384 Postscript on the Writing Process 385 Techniques for Problem Solving 457 “English Only” by Christine Bishop 386 Demonstrating That a Problem Exists 458 “Anorexia Nervosa” by Nancie Brosseau 394 Proposing a Solution and Convincing Your Readers 459 9 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 461 Evaluating 399 “How to End Grade Inflation: A Modest Proposal” by Michael Bérubé 463 Techniques for Writing Evaluations 400 “One Thing to Do About Food” by Eric Schlosser, Evaluating Commercial Products or Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Troy Duster Services 403 and Elizabeth Ransom, Peter Singer, and Jim Hightower 465 “The Hybrid Grows Up,” Consumer Reports 404 “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen 474 Evaluating Works of Art 405 Evaluating Performances 408 Problem Solving: The Writing Process 481 “Peter Jackson’s Sorcery” by Richard Choosing a Subject 482 Alleva 408 Collecting 483 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 412 Research Tips 487 “Evaluating a Website” by Robin Williams and Shaping 488 John Tollett 414 Drafting 490 All’s Not Well in Land of “The Lion King” by Peer Response 491 Margaret Lazarus 418 Revising 492 “Today’s Special” by David Sedaris 419 Postscript on the Writing Process 493 “Watching the Eyewitless News” by Elayne “No Parking” by Kristy Busch, Steve Krause, and Rapping 422 Keith Wright 494 Evaluating: The Writing Process 430 “New Regulations and You” by Jessica Choosing a Subject 431 Cook 500 IS B N : 0 -5 3 6 -0 8 6 3 9 -7 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Contents ix 11 Drafting 576 Arguing 509 Revising 577 Research Tips 576 Techniques for Writing: Argument 510 Peer Response 578 Claims for Written Argument 512 Postscript on the Writing Process 582 Appeals for Written Argument 516 “Welfare Is Still Necessary for Women and Rogerian Argument 521 Children in the U.S.” by Crystal The Toulmin Method of Argument 523 Sabatke 583 “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 525 Students?” by Eric Boese 591 Analyzing Statistics 526 “The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?” by 12 Cathleen A. Cleaver 527 Responding to Literature 600 “Death and Justice” by Edward I. Koch 534 Multigenre Casebook on Immigration Responding to a Short Story 604 Reform 540 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin 604 “Immigration Reform in America” by Dudley Responding to a Poem 607 Erskine Devlin 541 “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden 607 “Employers Have a Lot to Lose” by Barry Newman 545 Techniques for Responding to Literature 608 “Do Americans ReallyWant Jobs?” by Ruben Navarrette, Jr. 547 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 609 “The Problem with Immigrants” by Khalil Purposes for Responding to Literature 610 Bendib 550 Responding to Short Fiction 612 “Raid Leaves Families Fractured” by Bruce Finley 550 “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty 614 Responses to “Raid Leaves Families Fractured” “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara 623 Denverpost.com 553 Responding to Poetry 631 “Viewpoints: U.S. Illegal Immigration” BBC Five Contemporary Poems 633 News 555 Responding to Literature: The Writing “Who to Blame for Illegals” by Tom Biscoe 560 Process 640 “Immigration Forum” SpeakOut.com 560 Collecting 641 “IllegalAliens.US” 563 Shaping 644 United Food and Commercial Workers 564 Drafting 646 Photographs of Demonstrations 565 Revising 646 Arguing: The Writing Process 568 Postscript on the Writing Process 647 Choosing a Subject 569 “A Worn Path” by Julia MacMillan and Brett Collecting 570 MacFadden 648 Shaping 571 “Death: The Final Freedom” by Pat Russell 654 7 9- 3 6 8 0 6- 3 5 0- N: B S I The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. 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Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. x Contents 13 Postscript on the Writing Process 729 Writing a Research Paper 656 “Foreign Language Study: An American Necessity” by Kate McNerny 730 Techniques for Writing a Research Paper 659 Using Purpose, Audience, and Genre as Appendix: Writing Under Guides 660 Pressure A-1 Finding the Best Sources 661 Critically Evaluating Your Sources 662 Know Your Audience A-3 Using Sources to Make Your Point 662 Analyze Key Terms A-3 Documenting Your Sources 663 Make a Sketch Outline A-4 Preparing Yourself for the Research Know the Material A-6 Process 664 WARMING UP: Journal Exercises 665 Practice Writing A-7 Research Notebook 666 Proofread and Edit A-8 Research Timetable 670 Sample Essay Questions and Documentation Format: MLA and APA Responses A-8 Styles 671 Research Paper: The Writing Process 671 Handbook H-1 Choosing a Subject 672 Section 1—Review of Basic Sentence Collecting 675 Elements H-8 Basic Internet Glossary 684 Section 2—Sentence Structure and Evaluating Internet Sources 687 Grammar H-17 Avoiding Plagiarism 691 Section 3—Diction and Style H-34 Shaping 694 Section 4—Punctuation and Mechanics Shaping Strategies 695 H-48 Drafting 697 Using Graphics 698 Revising 706 Credits C-1 Documenting Sources 706 Index I-1 IS B N : 0 -5 3 6 -0 8 6 3 9 -7 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition, by Stephen Reid. 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