Essay Essentials with Readings (7th ed.) /
Rhonda Dynes, Sarah Norton, and Brian Green.
- 7th ed.
- Toronto : Nelson Education Ltd, 2018.
- xii, 508 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
From the summer of 2020, English as a Second Language titles from Nelson Education have been sold to the Top Hat publishing company.
Includes appendices and index.
"Over six editions, Essay Essentials with Readings has developed a loyal following because of its reputation for being straightforward and practical, providing students with the guidance and support they need to develop their written communication skills. With a clean layout, clear explanations, and opportunities to practise, Essay Essentials helps students to be better writers in their post-secondary studies and equips them with the skills they need to be successful in their career. Available to be bundled with the textbook, our online MindTap digital platform provides additional practice activities that are not found in the text, for those who want to provide their students with even more review opportunities. With Essay Essentials and MindTap, you can provide your students with an engaging and interactive learning experience and support their development of critical lifelong skills. New to this edition: A new part has been added: “Presenting Your Work” includes information about presentations, posters, and academic and workplace portfolios. Six new published readings have been included. Four student essays are included, providing students with a model of what they can create themselves. 25% of the exercises in the Workbook section are new to this edition. Chapter 1 has a new section, “The Academic Audience,” which addresses common expectations and writing guidelines in an academic setting. Chapter 2 has a new section, “Annotating Sources,” which introduces students to recording their understanding and interpretation of what they are reading. In Chapter 3 a new section provides an opportunity for students to practise writing a response to a reading. We include a new reading on child poverty and two sample student responses. The MLA documentation style, along with associated examples, has been updated." (xii, Preface) CONTENTS: PART 1. Understanding the Elements of Good Writing 1. Understanding the Audience, Understanding Yourself Addressing Your Readers Reflecting Yourself Levels of Standard English Writing 2. Understanding the Role of Reading as a Writing Component Start with Good Reading Skills Skimming Scanning A Note on Speed reading and Increasing Your Reading Speed Annotating Sources 3. Understanding the Role of Critical Thinking The Interpretive Critical Thinking Model Critical Thinking and Analysis Practice PART 2. Beginning the Writing Process 4. Organizing Your Work and Preparing for Writing Think about Your Subject Make Your Subject Significant Make Your Subject Single Make Your Subject Specific Make Your Subject Supportable Organizing Subject Ideas into Main Points Generating Main Points: Prewriting Techniques An Alternative Approach: Questioning Your Subject Testing Your Main Points 5. Developing the Main Points and Writing the Thesis Statement Organizing Your Main Points Writing the Thesis Statement Phrasing Your Main Idea Phrasing the Thesis Points Writing a More Advanced Thesis Statement Putting the Thesis Elsewhere in Your Paper 6. Writing an Outline Preparing the Outline Outline Format PART 3. Drafting Your Work 7. Understanding the Paragraph What Does a Paragraph Actually Look Like? How Does a Paragraph Function? How Long Should a Paragraph Be? Crafting the Topic Sentence Developing the Topic How Do You End a Paragraph? 8. Writing Introductions and Conclusions The Introductory Paragraph Getting and Holding Your Readers' Attention The Concluding Paragraph 9. Summarizing How to Write a Summary PART 4. Academic and Workplace Writing Styles 10. Academic and Workplace Writing Four Ideas to Consider as You Develop Your Writing Choosing an Overall Writing Strategy Differences between Workplace and Academic Writing 11. Analytical Writing: Process Analysis, Causal Analysis, and Classification and Division Analytical Writing Process Analysis Causal Analysis Classification and Division 12. Persuasive Writing: Description, Example, and Comparison and Contrast Description Example Putting Description and Example to Use Comparison and Contrast 13. Argumentation Choose Your Issue Carefully Consider Your Audience Identify Your Purpose Organize Your Ideas Tips for Writing Argumentation 14. Writing in the Workplace: Memos, Letters, and Short Reports Memos Letters Short Reports Part 5. Writing Research Papers 15. Preparing for Research and Choosing a Research Method Tips for Writing a Research Paper Ways of Doing Research 16. Formatting a Research Paper Taking Good Research Notes for Informative Writing Basic Formatting Guidelines Formatting an MLA-Style Research Paper Formatting an APA-Style Research Paper Research Paper Tips: Projecting an Image 17. Documenting Your Sources Introduction: The Two-Part Principle of Documentation The MLA Style The APA Style Part 6. Understanding the Revision Process 18. Choosing the Right Words The Writer's Toolkit The Seven Deadly Errors of Writing 19. Rewriting Your Work The Three Steps of Revision Step 1: Rewriting 20. Editing and Proofreading Your Work Step 2: Editing Step 3: Proofreading Working with Rubrics Part 7. Presenting Your Work 21. Academic Presentations Academic Presentations 22. Academic and Workplace Posters and Portfolios Posters Academic Portfolios Part 8. Readings Josh Dehaas "The College Advantage" Scott Barry Kaufman "The Creative Gifts of ADHD" Senator Grant Mitchell "It's Time to Enshrine the Rights and Protections of Transgender Canadians" Sara R. Howerth "The Gas-Electric Hybrid Demystified" Rebecca Boyle "Why Mars Is the Best Planet" Deenu Parmar, "Labouring the Walmart Way" Gabor Maté, "Embraced by the Needle" Rubi Garyfalakis, "No Sweat?" Trevor Jang "How Reporting on Indigenous Issues as an Indigenous Journalist Can Get Complicated" Maria Amuchastegui, "Farming It Out" Nancy Macdonald "A Deafening Silence on Aboriginal Issues" Sam McNerney, "Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking" Navneet Alang, "Online Freedom Will Depend on Deeper Forms of Web Literacy" Leah Brown "Using Technology to Fight Depression" B. Ferguson "No More Classes, No More Books: Online vs. Traditional Schooling" Syneba Mitchell "Mislabelled by Society" Emily Silbert "Dancing with Language: Don Quijote's Words and Consensual Reality" PART 9. WORKBOOK 23. A Review of the Basics How to Use This Workbook Cracking the Sentence Code Solving Sentence-Fragment Problems Solving Run-On Problems Solving Modifier Problems The Parallelism Principle Refining by Combining 24. Grammar Mastering Subject-Verb Agreement Using Verbs Effectively Solving Pronoun Problems 25. Punctuation The Comma The Semicolon The Colon Quotation Marks The Question Mark The Exclamation Mark Dashes and Parentheses 26. Spelling Hazardous Homonyms The Apostrophe The Hyphen Capital Letters Numbers Appendix A. List of Terms: A Vocabulary of Writing Appendix B. Answers for Selected Exercises Index
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