Writing Analytically Level 1 (AP® Edition), 9th Student Edition

Authors : David Rosenwasser; Jill Stephen

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Helping students develop an inquiry-based, analytical frame of mind, Rosenwasser/Stephen's WRITING ANALYTICALLY, 9th edition, teaches reflective thinking and writing using a unique approach that places analysis first. All too often students jump straight to argument. This text equips students with s... more

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Every chapter delivers tools that help students develop an inquiry-based, analytical frame of mind. For example, cognitive strategies provided in Chapters 1 and 2 encourage students to dwell longer in the observation stage before becoming committed to claims. These chapters also discuss counterproductive habits of mind that enable students to identify and work through common problems such as the premature leap to generalizations and the judgment reflex.

One of the book's signature features is how it addresses the challenge of getting students to read more carefully and actively. For example, Chapter 2: "Reading Analytically" offers heuristics that empower students to take their reading comprehension beyond the perfunctory apprehension of "the gist".

Chapter 9: "Conversing with Sources" provides strategies for analyzing secondary sources as well as methods for avoiding plagiarism, integrating quotations and writing an abstract. The chapter teaches students ways of doing more than just agreeing or disagreeing with sources, or simply plugging them in as answers. Chapter 10: "Finding, Evaluating, and Citing Sources" presents strategies for getting started, finding quality on the web and citing sources -- all keyed to the most recent documentation styles from the MLA, APA, Chicago and CSE style guides.

Because many instructors find it challenging to help students break the mold of the five-paragraph essay, Chapter 6: "Reasoning from Evidence to Claims" presents organizational strategies that can act as alternatives to formats that inhibit in-depth analysis of evidence.

Chapter 7: "Finding and Evolving a Thesis" shows students how to use complicating evidence to refine and qualify their claims.

Chapter 4: "Responding to Traditional Writing Assignments More Analytically" presents ways to make common assignments -- such as summary, personal response, agree/disagree, compare/contrast and definition -- more analytical.

Writing exercises take two forms: end-of-chapter paper assignments and informal "Try This" exercises embedded within chapters near the introduction of new skills. While many of the "Try This" exercises can generate papers, most are more limited in scope, asking readers to experiment with various kinds of data gathering and analysis. In addition, "Discussion Activities" provide small group tasks for three or four students to work on collaboratively during class or online.

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While respecting the differences among the writing practices of the various disciplines, the 9th edition also illustrates that formats across the curriculum are surprisingly similar in their underlying structure -- despite surface dissimilarities. Chapter 8: "From Paragraphs to Paper" includes updat... more

Authors

David Rosenwasser

David Rosenwasser taught at the College of William and Mary prior to joining the faculty at Muhlenberg College, where he served the English department for 36 years. With scholarly interests in contemporary Irish literature, comic theory and writing studies, he has taught novel courses on both British and European fiction, modern and contemporary Irish writing, as well as ALICE IN WONDERLAND and its afterlife as cultural myth. In addition, he taught a first-year seminar on comic theory called Laughing to Death and a creative writing course called The Nature of Narrative. Dr. Rosenwasser's literary papers include studies of Edna O'Brien, William Trevor and Malcolm Lowry, and an analysis of the politics of Bruce Springsteen's albums, written with a political science professor. His current interests in literature include contemporary Irish fiction and drama, particularly Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. He completed his B.A. at Grinnell College and both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, specializing in the theory and history of the novel.

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Jill Stephen

Jill Stephen served on the Muhlenberg College faculty for 34 years. She has taught courses on writing and rhetoric, the history of the English language, Anglo-Saxon literature, Early Modern prose and poetry, Shakespeare, John Milton and a first-year seminar called Thinking Like a Writer. Especially interested in poetry as a form of thought, she also has taught courses on the connection between Romantic poetry and Early Modern religious poetry, courses on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and of Frank O'Hara and the New York School, and a creative writing course called Poetry and the Imaginative Process. Dr. Stephen's literary papers include a study of the fiction of Irish writer John McGahern and studies of the poetry and critical appropriation of Emily Dickinson. Before coming to Muhlenberg, she taught part time at New York University and at Hunter College (CUNY). She completed her B.A. at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and both her M.A. and Ph.D. at New York University, specializing in Early Modern literature and rhetorical theory.

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Table of Contents

Preface.
Unit I. THE ANALYTICAL FRAME OF MIND.
1. The Five Analytical Moves.
2. Reading Analytically.
3. Interpretation: Moving from Observation to Implication.
4. Responding to Traditional Writing Assignments More Analytically.
5. Thinking Like a Writer.
Unit II. WRITING ANALYTICAL PAPERS, ESSAYS, AND REPORTS.
6. Reasoning from Evidence to Claims.
7. Finding and Evolving a Thesis.
8. From Paragraphs to Paper: Forms and Formats Across the Curriculum.
Unit III. USING SOURCES: RESEARCH-BASED WRITING.
9. Conversing with Sources.
10. Finding, Evaluating, and Citing Sources.
Unit IV. GRAMMAR AND STYLE.
11. Style: Choosing Words, Shaping Sentences.
12. Nine Basic Writing Errors (BWEs) and How to Fix Them.
Appendix.
Index.

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