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Back to the lake : a reader and guide / Thomas Cooley. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : W. W. Norton and Company, (c)2020.Edition: fourth editionDescription: xxxvi, 843 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393643572
  • 9780393420722
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1417.C774.B335 2020
Contents:
Good writers are good readers -- Putting in Your Oar -- Using the Methods in Academic Writing -- The Writing Process -- Writing and Editing Sentences -- Writing Paragraphs -- Narration -- Description -- Example -- Process Analysis -- Comparison and Contrast -- Classification -- Definition -- Cause and Effect -- Argument -- Combining the Methods -- Appendix : Using Sources in Your Writing.
Subject: "A new take on the traditional rhetorical modes, showing how they are used in the kinds of writing college students are most often assigned-arguments, analyses, reports, narratives, and more. Back to the lake fourth edition includes a new chapter on writing sentences-guiding students through common issues like sentence fragments, fused sentences, and the passive voice. A new section in Chapter 1 on evaluating online sources helps students distinguish facts from misinformation. New readings are on timely topics that will engage students. Templates and marginal notes that explicitly link the readings and the writing instruction help students apply the lessons in this book to their own writing"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Good writers are good readers -- Putting in Your Oar -- Using the Methods in Academic Writing -- The Writing Process -- Writing and Editing Sentences -- Writing Paragraphs -- Narration -- Description -- Example -- Process Analysis -- Comparison and Contrast -- Classification -- Definition -- Cause and Effect -- Argument -- Combining the Methods -- Appendix : Using Sources in Your Writing.

"A new take on the traditional rhetorical modes, showing how they are used in the kinds of writing college students are most often assigned-arguments, analyses, reports, narratives, and more. Back to the lake fourth edition includes a new chapter on writing sentences-guiding students through common issues like sentence fragments, fused sentences, and the passive voice. A new section in Chapter 1 on evaluating online sources helps students distinguish facts from misinformation. New readings are on timely topics that will engage students. Templates and marginal notes that explicitly link the readings and the writing instruction help students apply the lessons in this book to their own writing"--

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