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A core text designed specifically for the college market, The Empowered Writer gives students a detailed yet widely applicable and accessible guide for developing skills in writing and research, including personal and business communication.
List of Readings; From the Publisher; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Writing and Reading; 1 Basic Skills Development for Today’s Student: Writing and Reading; Thinking, Writing, and Reading: An Integrated Approach; - Writing and Thinking; - Exercise 1.1; - Writing and Reading; Thinking and Writing + Reading; The Composing Process; - The Traditional Linear Model; - Exercise 1.2; - Exercise 1.3; - Scanning versus Focused Reading; - Exercise 1.4; Critical Thinking; - What Is Critical Thinking?; - Applying Critical Thinking; - Exercise 1.5; - Reading and Critical Thinking; - Exercise 1.6; - Exercise 1.7; - Responding Critically and Analytically through Questions; - Exercise 1.8; - Exercise 1.9; C. Thompson: Sample Professional Essay: How More Information Leads to Less Knowledge; - Exercise 1.10; Word Meanings; - Exercise 1.11; - Improving Vocabulary; Jonathon Gatehouse: Sample Professional Essay: Almost Famous Canadian Olympians; Chapter Review Questions; 2 The Writing Situation; Writing Purpose; - Exercise 2.1; - Reader-based versus Writer-based Prose A Is for Audience; - Exercise 2.2; - Exercise 2.3; - Exercise 2.4; - Audience Factors; - Exercise 2.5; Alice Langholt: Sample Professional Essay: Ring! Your Intuition is Calling; - Writing for the Workplace; - Exercise 2.6; Stages in Essay-Writing; - Pre-writing; - Research; - Organization; - Exercise 2.7; - The Value of an Outline; - Composing: First Draft; - Revising: Final Draft; The Critical Response; Terry Glavin: Sample Professional Essay: An Enviro’s Case for Seal Hunt; Bryan Smith: Sample Student Essay: Response to ’An Enviro’s Case for Seal Hunt’; Chapter Review Questions; 3 Paragraph Essentials; Introducing the Paragraph; - Topic Sentence; - Paragraph Wrap as Conclusion; - Connecting Paragraphs by Using Transitions; - Exercise 3.1; - Paragraph Unity; - Exercise 3.2; - Paragraph Coherence; - Exercise 3.3; - Exercise 3.4; - Exercise 3.5; Greg D’Eloia and Melissa D’Eloia: Sample Professional Essay: 7 Ways to Re-Create Your Brain; Chapter Review Questions; 4 Paragraph Development; Developing Your Essay; Methods for Developing Paragraphs; - Analysis and Paragraph Development; - Definition - What Is It?; - Chronology - When Did It Occur?; - Description - What Does It Look Like?; - Narration - How Can It Be Told?; - Process - How Does It Work?; - Personal - Why Should It Affect Me?/How Does It Affect Me?; - Classification/Division - What Kinds Are There?; - Cause-Effect - What Is the Cause? What Is the Result?; - Question-Answer - What Is the Answer?; - Example/Illustration - How Can It Be Shown?; - Problem-Solution - How Can It Be (Re)Solved?; - Cost-Benefit - What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages?; - Analogy - How Is It Like Something Else?; - Comparison and Contrast - How Is It Like and/or Unlike Something Else?; - Exercise 4.1; - Exercise 4.2; Julia McKinnell: Sample Professional Essay: How to Retrain Your Rainy Brain; Chapter Review Questions; Part 2 Essays; 5 Kinds of Essays; Expository versus Argumentative Essays; Types of Essays; - The In-Class Essay or Examination Essay; - Exercise 5.1; Erik Sass: Sample Professional Essay: How To Find Sunken Treasure; Chapter Review Questions; 6 Essay Basics; The Essay’s Introduction; - Functions of the Introduction; - Exercise 6.1; - Exercise 6.2; - Exercise 6.3; - Exercise 6.4; - Exercise 6.5; - Exercise 6.6; The Essay’s Conclusion; - Functions of the Conclusion; - Two Kinds of Conclusion; - Exercise 6.7; - Exercise 6.8; Hillary Windsor: Sample Professional Essay: Alouette Anniversary; Chapter Review Questions; 7 The Design of an Essay; The Essay: An Analytical Model; - Kinds of Claims: Fact, Value, and Policy; - Support: Evidence and Credibility; - Connections among the Elements of the Analytical Model; - Exercise 7.1; - Exercise 7.2; - Exercise 7.3; Eric Michael Johnson: Sample Professional Essay: Punishing Cheaters Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation; Chapter Review Questions; 8 The Expository Essay; Expository Writing; Types of Expository Essays; - Exercise 8.1; Understanding Your Topic; The Process Analysis Essay; - Planning a Process Essay; - Writing a Process Essay; Vanessa Tilson: Sample Process Essay: Where Hot Is ’Cool’: The Stages of Bikram Yoga; The Definition Essay; Andrew Fodor: Sample Definition Essay: What Is Leadership?; - Exercise 8.2; The Comparison and Contrast Essay; - Point-by-Point and Block Methods; Barclay Katt: Sample Comparison and Contrast Essay: Tail of Opposites; - Exercise 8.3; Points to Remember; - Exercise 8.4; - Pre-reading Questions; Mark van Vugt: Sample Professional Essay: The Origins of Leadership; Chapter Review Questions; 9 The Argumentative Essay; Emotional Versus Logical Arguments; - Exercise 9.1; - Argument, Opinion, and Facts; - Exercise 9.2; - Exercise 9.3; - Exercise 9.4; - Exercise 9.5; - Exercise 9.6; - Creating Your Argument by Claims and Support; - A Closer Look at Reason; - Exercise 9.7; - Case Study: Please Sign Our Petition; - Exercise 9.8; David Suzuki: Sample Professional Argumentative Essay: The Beauty of Wind Farms; Organizing an Outline for Argument; - Exercise 9.9; Jane Freiburger: Sample Student Argumentative Essay: Discrimination against Aboriginals in Canada: Bill C 45; Oral Presentations; - Creating a Presentation; - Delivering a Presentation; - Important Points to Consider When Making an Oral Presentation; Chapter Review Questions; 10 Summarizing Other Writers’ Work; What Is a Summary?; - Terms Related to Summarizing; - How to Write a Summary; - Exercise 10.1; - Exercise 10.2; - The Extended Summary; Extended Summary Samples; Jeffrey Simpson: Sample Professional Essay: Fighting Hockey Violence Will Give You a Concussion; Other Types of Summaries; - Paraphrase; - Exercise 10.3; - Abstract; - Exercise 10.4; - Annotated Bibliography; - Exercise 10.5; Summarizing at the Workplace; - Exercise 10.6; Tamsin McMahon: Sample Professional Essay: Is Local Food Bad for the Economy?; Chapter Review Questions; Part 3 Research; 11 Research; Developing Research Skills; - Research - Finding and Exploring; - Synthesis I - Integration; - Organization - Arranging; - Synthesis II - Composing; What Is Research?; Who Are These Experts - And Where Can You Find Them?; A Note about the Internet; Researching Your Topic; - Exploring; - Research Note-Taking; - Organizing Research Notes; - Cross-Referencing; - Some Useful Research Strategies; - Using Contradictory Evidence; Sources of Research Material; - Primary and Secondary Sources; - Start Your Research by Looking at Secondary Sources; - Internet Searches; - Notes on Library Research; - Alternative Information Sources; Chapter Review Questions; 12 Using Your Research; Outlines for Research Essays; Juan Manrique: Outline for Pandemic Crisis; Plagiarism; - What Is Plagiarism?; - To Cite or Not to Cite?; Integrating Secondary Sources; - Summary, Paraphrase, Direct Quotation, Mixed Format; - Signal Phrases, Ellipses, and Brackets; Documentation: Citations; - Necessary versus Unnecessary Citations; Juan Manrique: Sample Student Research Essay: Pandemic Crisis: The Role of Nurses; Simon Walter: Sample Student Research Essay: The Virtual Life: An Overview of the Effects of MMORPGs on Individuals and Countries; - Exercise 12.1; - Exercise 12.2; Chapter Review Questions; 13 APA and MLA Documentation Styles; Choosing Your Citation Style; The Major Documentation Styles; - APA Citation Style; Erin A. Walker: Sample Student Research Essay (APA): The Imperfection of Perfectionism: Perfectionism as a Maladaptive Personality Trait; - MLA Citation Style; - Exercise 13.1; Sarah M. Coyne, Laura Stockdale, Dean Busby, Bethany Iverson, and David M. Grant: Sample Academic Essay: ’I luv u :)!’: A Descriptive Study of the Media Use of Individuals in Romantic Relationships; Chapter Review Questions; Part 4 Grammar; 14 Sentence Essentials; Grammatical Groundwork; - Exercise 14.1; - Exercise 14.2; The Grammar of Reading and Writing; Introducing . . . the Parts of Speech; - The Parts of Speech at Work; - Nouns and Pronouns; - Verbs; - Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs; - Joiners: Prepositions and Conjunctions; - Exercise 14.3; - Exercise 14.4; Introducing . . . the Sentence; - What Is a Sentence?; - Exercise 14.5; - The Invisible-Subject Sentence; - Four Errors of Incompletion; - Exercise 14.6; - Exercise 14.7; - Exercise 14.8; - Exercise 14.9; Introducing . . . Phrases and Clauses; - Phrases; - Exercise 14.10; - Clauses; - Exercise 14.11; - Sentence Patterns; - Exercise 14.12; - Exercise 14.13; - Errors of Combining; - Exercise 14.14; - Exercise 14.15; - Exercise 14.16; Chapter Review Questions; 15 Commas and Other Forms of Punctuation; Do Commas Matter?; - Rule Category 1: Use Commas to Separate Items in a Series; - Rule Category 2: Use Commas to Separate Independent Clauses; - Rule Category 3: Use Two Commas to Separate Parenthetical Information; - Rule Category 4: Conventional and Comma Sense Uses; - Exercise 15.1; - Exercise 15.2; - Exercise 15.3; Other Forms of Punctuation; - Semicolons; - Exercise 15.4; - Colons; - Dashes and Parentheses; - Exercise 15.5; - Exercise 15.6; Punctuation Prohibitions; - No-Comma Rules; - No-Semicolon Rules; Apostrophes; 1. Apostrophes for Possession in Nouns; 2. Contractions; - Exercise 15.7; - Exercise 15.8; Chapter Review Questions; 16 Agreement, Pronoun, and Sentence Structure Errors; Agreement; - Subject-Verb Agreement; Pronouns at Work; - Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement; - Problematic Pronouns: Inclusive Language; - Exercise 16.1; - Exercise 16.2; - Exercise 16.3; Other Problems with Pronouns; - Pronoun Reference; - Exercise 16.4; - Exercise 16.5; - Exercise 16.6; - Exercise 16.7; - Pronoun Case; - Exercise 16.8; - Pronoun Consistency; - Exercise 16.9; Sentence Construction Errors; - Misplaced Modifiers; - Dangling Modifiers; - Exercise 16.10; - Exercise 16.11; - The Parallelism Principle; - Exercise 16.12; - Exercise 16.13; - Passive Constructions; - Exercise 16.14; - Exercise 16.15; - Exercise 16.16; - Exercise 16.17; - Exercise 16.18; Chapter Review Questions; 17 Achieving Clarity and Depth in Your Writing; Effective Style: Clarity; - Exercise 17.1; - Exercise 17.2; - Cutting for Conciseness; - Exercise 17.3; - Writing Directly; - Exercise 17.4; - Exercise 17.5; - Exercise 17.6; - Working Toward Precision: Wise Word Choices; - Exercise 17.7; - Exercise 17.8; - Exercise 17.9; - Exercise 17.10; - Exercise 17.11; Common Words That Confuse; - Exercise 17.12; Providing Depth: Variety and Emphasis; - Sentence Variety; - Exercise 17.13; - Exercise 17.14; - Creating Emphasis; Proofreading: Perfection Is Possible; Proofreading Methods; Guidelines for Proofreading; Common Errors; Essay Presentation; Chapter Review Questions; Appendices; A: Tense Encounter with Verbs: A Summary; B: A Checklist for EAL Writers; C: Peer Edit Forms; D: Exercise Answer Key: Chapters 14, 15, 16; E: Glossary; Index; List of Readings; 1 Sample Professional Essay: C. Thompson, How more information leads to less knowledge, Wired, January 2009.; Sample Professional Essay: J. Gatehouse, Almost-Famous Canadians, Maclean’s, July 2012. (NEW); 2 Sample Professional Essay: A. Langholt, Ring! Your Intuition Is Calling, Brain World, July 2012. (NEW); Sample Professional Essay: T. Glavin, An Enviro’s Case for Seal Hunt, The Tyee, March 2007.; Sample Student Essay: B. Smith, Response to ’An Enviro’s Case for Seal Hunt.’; 3 Sample Professional Essay: G. D’Eloia and M. D’Eloia, 7 Ways to Re-Create Your Brain, Brain World, July 2012. (NEW); 4 Sample Professional Essay: J. McKinnell, How to Retrain Your Rainy Brain, Maclean’s, August 2012. (NEW); 5 Sample Student Essay: Anonymous, Response to the question Explain what internet piracy is and describe the ramifications of it to society in general. (NEW); Sample Professional Essay: E. Sass, How to Find Sunken Treasure, Mental Floss, September 2012. (NEW); 6 Sample Professional Essay: H. Windsor, Alouette Anniversary, Canadian Geographic, July/August 2012. (NEW); 7 Sample Professional Essay: E.M. Johnson, Punishing Cheaters Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation, Scientific American, August 2012. (NEW); 8 Sample Student Essay: V. Tilson, Where Hot Is Cool: The Stages of Bikram Yoga.; Sample Student Essay: A. Fodor, What Is Leadership?; Sample Student Essay: B. Katt, Tail of Opposites.; Sample Professional Essay: M. van Vugt, The Origins of Leadership, New Scientist, 2008.; 9 Sample Professional Essay: D. Suzuki, The Beauty of Wind Farms, New Scientist, 2005.; Sample Student Essay: J. Freiburger, Discrimination against Aboriginals in Canada: Bill C 45. (NEW); 10 Sample Professional Essay: J. Simpson, Fighting Hockey Violence Will Give You a Concussion, Globe and Mail, February 2009.; Sample Professional Essay: T. McMahon, Is Local Food Bad for the Economy? Maclean’s, July 2012. (NEW); 12 Sample Student Outline: J. Manrique, Outline for Pandemic Crisis: The Role of Nurses. (NEW); Sample Student Research Essay: J. Manrique, Pandemic Crisis: The Role of Nurses. (NEW); Sample Student Research Essay: S. Walter, The Virtual Life.; 13 Sample Student Essay: E.A. Walker, The Imperfection of Perfectionism.; Sample Professional (Academic) Essay: S.M. Coyne et al., ’I luv u J!’: A Descriptive Study of the Media Use of Individuals in Romantic Relationships, Family Relations, April 2011. (NEW)
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