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WHY WRITING IS IMPORTANT 3 basic beliefs. Writing an evaluation requires that you think about what you val- ue and how your values compare to those of others. Perhaps most important, becoming an author confers authority on you; it gives you confidence to assert your own ideas and feelings. In a very real sense, the […]

Writing Fosters Personal Development In addition to influencing the ways you think and learn, writing can help you grow as an individual. Writing leads you to reflect on your experience, for exam- ple, when you write to understand the significance of a particular life event. Writing about a controversial issue can make you examine some

Writing Helps You Learn Writing contributes to learning by helping you remember what you are studying, by leading you to analyze and connect information and ideas from different sources, and by inspiring new insights and understanding. Writing as you read — taking notes, annotating the text, and responding in writing to the text’s assumptions and

  INTRODUCTION: THINKING ABOUT WRITING you generate ideas and connect these ideas in systematic ways. By combining words into phrases and sentences with conjunctions, you create complex new ideas: for example, and brings out similarities, but emphasizes differences, and because supports general ideas with specific reasons, facts, and examples. By writing essays for different purposes

  Beyond the Traditional Essay: Remembering an Event 38 Guide to Writing 40 The Writing Assignment 40 Starting Points: Remembering an Event 41 Invention and Research 42 Choosing an Event to Write About 42 Ways In: Constructing a Well-Told Story 44 Creating a Dominant Impression Testing Your Choice A Collaborative Activity: Testing Your Choice Exploring

Critical Thinking Strategies  Thinking about Writing 1 PART 1 Writing Activities 2 Remembering an Event 14 3 Writing Profiles 64 4 Explaining a Concept 126 5 Finding Common Ground 184 6 Arguing a Position 264 7 Proposing a Solution 320 8 Justifying an Evaluation 384 9 Speculating about Causes 446 10 Analyzing Stories 504 PART

REMEMBERING AN EVENTGUIDE TO WRITING In writing assignment chapters, the left-hand page will tell you what major part of the chapter you’re in, what page you’re on, and the chapter title . . . PLANNING AND DRAFTING 51 GUIDE TO WRITING . . . and the right-hand page will tell you the title of the

The APA System of Documentation Citations in Text AUTHOR INDICATED IN PARENTHESES The APA author-year system calls for the last name of the author and the year of pub- lication of the original work in the citation. If the cited material is a quotation, you also need to include the page number(s) of the original.

A WORK WITH MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR To cite a source by two or three authors, include all the authors’ last names; for works with more than three authors, use all the authors’ names or just the first author’s name followed by et al., meaning “and others,” in regular type (not italicized or underlined). Dyal,

A WORK WITH A SINGLE AUTHOR The MLA author-page system generally requires that in-text citations include the author’s last name and the page number of the passage being cited. There is no punctuation between author and page. The parenthetical citation should follow the quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material as closely as possible without dis- rupting