Williams, Jessica 1957-
Getting There : Tasks for Academic Writing / Jessica Williams and Jacqueline R. Evans. - Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. - xvi, 280 p. ; ill. ; 28 cm.
"Getting There: Tasks for Academic Writing is an intermediate writing text designed for college or college-bound students with limited experience writing in any language. Getting There guides students through a process-based approach to writing, using classroom-tested activities and techniques to prepare students for academic writing tasks that involve collection, organization, and analysis of information.
FEATURES: Units designed around writing tasks. Skills become more challenging as the text progresses. Units designed around writing tasks. Skills become more challenging as the text progresses. Emphasis on learner autonomy. Students gradually do more for themselves with less guidance as they work through the text. High interest topics. Subject matter reflects students' own interests. Topics include prejudice and stereotypes, computers and change, advertising strategies, navigating the university, and attitudes across generations.
Models guide students through the writing process. Students learn from examples that model all phases of the writing process. Focus on peer response. By learning to critically read others' writing, students also learn to critique their own work. Sample drafts on student models. Students learn from examples that reflect their own problems and concerns. "Editing Focus" in each unit. Editing tips focus on increasing students' awareness of basic errors in their own writing. Learning logs help students track their own progress. The Learning Logs allow students to maintain control over the accuracy and the improvement of their writing." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS: TO THE INSTRUCTOR TO THE STUDENT UNIT ONE STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICE 1. Exploring Ideas
Readings
About the Readings in this Book Current Situation: Hate Crimes/ Black-Asian Tensions Blacks Can Be Racist, Too /
Mohammed Naseehu Ali Little Things Are Big / Jesus Colon Thinking about the Topic 2. GENERATING IDEAS AND DRAFTING About the Writing Process Writing Focus: Writing with a Point Choosing a Topic
Generating and Organizing Ideas Drafting: Writing Your Fist Draft 3. REVISING Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Expressing a Main Point Responding to a Peer's Writing Preparing for a Second Draft
Evaluating Your Own Work Preparing for a Conference Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING About the Editing Process
Editing Practice #1: Finding and Correcting Fragments Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft
UNIT TWO COMPUTERS AND CHANGE 1. EXPLORING IDEAS Readings
No Privacy on the Web /
Joshua Quittner
Japan's Newest Young Heartthrobs Are Sexy, Talented and Virtual /
Andrew Pollack
Minefields: MiningCo.com Is Digging for Online Gems So That You Don't Have To /
David Batstone
Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING Generating Ideas Preparing a Questionnaire Identifying Trends Writing Focus: Linking Body Paragraphs to the Main Point Drafting: Writing Your First Draft
3. REVISING
Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Making Claims and Providing Support in Body Paragraphs Analyzing a Revision Responding to a Peer's Writing Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING 4.1 Editing Practice #2: Comma Splices and run-on Sentences
4.2 Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft UNIT THREE STRATEGIES IN ADVERTISING
1. EXPLORING IDEAS
Readings 1. Advertising
2. Lotion Voyage / Michael Neill & John Maier Jr.
3. Three Advertisements Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING
Identifying Advertising Strategies Gathering Information Analyzing Data Drafting: Body Paragraphs
Drafting: Linking Body Paragraphs to the Main Point 3. REVISING Evaluating Essays
Writing Focus: Introductions and Conclusions
Responding to a Peer's Writing Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING Editing Practice #3: Using a learner dictionary About Learning Logs Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft UNIT FOUR NAVIGATING THE UNIVERSITY 1. EXPLORING IDEAS Readings Jean-Baptiste Shanti Application Packet: Office of Student Financial Aid Faculty and Student Perceptions of Irritating Behaviors in the College Classroom / Drew C. Appleby Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING
Gathering Information
Analyzing Your Text Drafting: Writing Your First Draft 3. REVISING
Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Body Paragraphs with Different Purposes Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING Editing Practice #4: Verbal adjectives Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft Learning from Your Final Draft UNIT FIVE ATTITUDES ACROSS GENERATIONS
1. EXPLORING IDEAS
Readings A Totally Alien Life Form: Teenagers /
Sydney Lewis Hardship and Dreams My Mother and I / The Tequila Luck Club / Dreaming in Estonian / Vang Vang
Eduardo Jiminez Romy Ruukel For Many Immigrants, a Cultural Reluctance to Spare the Rod / Celia W. Dugger Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING Preparing for an Interview Analyzing the Data Drafting: Writing Your First Draft 3. REVISING Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Taking Risks Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING Editing Practice #5: Present and past tense Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft
Learning from Your Final Draft EDITING PRACTICE #6: Working with sentence and clause boundaries #7: Agreement #8: Present perfect versus past tense #9: Embedded questions #10: Word form #11: Noncount nouns #12: Must and should Editing Abbreviation Chart Practice Exercises
ADDITIONAL READINGS
Unit One
English Spoken Here Sexism and Kids' Software Unit Two
Intimate Strangers E-mail Smiles and Other Basic Netiquette Unit Three Mediaspeak "Sunday Best" Becoming More of a Daily Ritual Unit Four Fresh Air Interview with Anne Matthews Excerpt: Lives on the Boundary Unit Five Excerpt: A Regular Revolution Excerpt: Dear Diane
CREDITS
0030310962 (pbk)
99067206
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
Academic writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Intermediate.
PE1128 / .W7258 2000
Getting There : Tasks for Academic Writing / Jessica Williams and Jacqueline R. Evans. - Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. - xvi, 280 p. ; ill. ; 28 cm.
"Getting There: Tasks for Academic Writing is an intermediate writing text designed for college or college-bound students with limited experience writing in any language. Getting There guides students through a process-based approach to writing, using classroom-tested activities and techniques to prepare students for academic writing tasks that involve collection, organization, and analysis of information.
FEATURES: Units designed around writing tasks. Skills become more challenging as the text progresses. Units designed around writing tasks. Skills become more challenging as the text progresses. Emphasis on learner autonomy. Students gradually do more for themselves with less guidance as they work through the text. High interest topics. Subject matter reflects students' own interests. Topics include prejudice and stereotypes, computers and change, advertising strategies, navigating the university, and attitudes across generations.
Models guide students through the writing process. Students learn from examples that model all phases of the writing process. Focus on peer response. By learning to critically read others' writing, students also learn to critique their own work. Sample drafts on student models. Students learn from examples that reflect their own problems and concerns. "Editing Focus" in each unit. Editing tips focus on increasing students' awareness of basic errors in their own writing. Learning logs help students track their own progress. The Learning Logs allow students to maintain control over the accuracy and the improvement of their writing." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS: TO THE INSTRUCTOR TO THE STUDENT UNIT ONE STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICE 1. Exploring Ideas
Readings
About the Readings in this Book Current Situation: Hate Crimes/ Black-Asian Tensions Blacks Can Be Racist, Too /
Mohammed Naseehu Ali Little Things Are Big / Jesus Colon Thinking about the Topic 2. GENERATING IDEAS AND DRAFTING About the Writing Process Writing Focus: Writing with a Point Choosing a Topic
Generating and Organizing Ideas Drafting: Writing Your Fist Draft 3. REVISING Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Expressing a Main Point Responding to a Peer's Writing Preparing for a Second Draft
Evaluating Your Own Work Preparing for a Conference Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING About the Editing Process
Editing Practice #1: Finding and Correcting Fragments Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft
UNIT TWO COMPUTERS AND CHANGE 1. EXPLORING IDEAS Readings
No Privacy on the Web /
Joshua Quittner
Japan's Newest Young Heartthrobs Are Sexy, Talented and Virtual /
Andrew Pollack
Minefields: MiningCo.com Is Digging for Online Gems So That You Don't Have To /
David Batstone
Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING Generating Ideas Preparing a Questionnaire Identifying Trends Writing Focus: Linking Body Paragraphs to the Main Point Drafting: Writing Your First Draft
3. REVISING
Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Making Claims and Providing Support in Body Paragraphs Analyzing a Revision Responding to a Peer's Writing Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING 4.1 Editing Practice #2: Comma Splices and run-on Sentences
4.2 Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft UNIT THREE STRATEGIES IN ADVERTISING
1. EXPLORING IDEAS
Readings 1. Advertising
2. Lotion Voyage / Michael Neill & John Maier Jr.
3. Three Advertisements Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING
Identifying Advertising Strategies Gathering Information Analyzing Data Drafting: Body Paragraphs
Drafting: Linking Body Paragraphs to the Main Point 3. REVISING Evaluating Essays
Writing Focus: Introductions and Conclusions
Responding to a Peer's Writing Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING Editing Practice #3: Using a learner dictionary About Learning Logs Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft UNIT FOUR NAVIGATING THE UNIVERSITY 1. EXPLORING IDEAS Readings Jean-Baptiste Shanti Application Packet: Office of Student Financial Aid Faculty and Student Perceptions of Irritating Behaviors in the College Classroom / Drew C. Appleby Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING
Gathering Information
Analyzing Your Text Drafting: Writing Your First Draft 3. REVISING
Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Body Paragraphs with Different Purposes Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING Editing Practice #4: Verbal adjectives Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft Learning from Your Final Draft UNIT FIVE ATTITUDES ACROSS GENERATIONS
1. EXPLORING IDEAS
Readings A Totally Alien Life Form: Teenagers /
Sydney Lewis Hardship and Dreams My Mother and I / The Tequila Luck Club / Dreaming in Estonian / Vang Vang
Eduardo Jiminez Romy Ruukel For Many Immigrants, a Cultural Reluctance to Spare the Rod / Celia W. Dugger Thinking about the Topic 2. GATHERING INFORMATION AND DRAFTING Preparing for an Interview Analyzing the Data Drafting: Writing Your First Draft 3. REVISING Evaluating Essays Writing Focus: Taking Risks Evaluating Your Own Work Writing Your Second Draft 4. EDITING Editing Practice #5: Present and past tense Editing Your Own Work: The Final Draft
Learning from Your Final Draft EDITING PRACTICE #6: Working with sentence and clause boundaries #7: Agreement #8: Present perfect versus past tense #9: Embedded questions #10: Word form #11: Noncount nouns #12: Must and should Editing Abbreviation Chart Practice Exercises
ADDITIONAL READINGS
Unit One
English Spoken Here Sexism and Kids' Software Unit Two
Intimate Strangers E-mail Smiles and Other Basic Netiquette Unit Three Mediaspeak "Sunday Best" Becoming More of a Daily Ritual Unit Four Fresh Air Interview with Anne Matthews Excerpt: Lives on the Boundary Unit Five Excerpt: A Regular Revolution Excerpt: Dear Diane
CREDITS
0030310962 (pbk)
99067206
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
Academic writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Intermediate.
PE1128 / .W7258 2000