TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Jessica
AU  - Evans,Jacqueline R.
TI  - Getting There: Tasks for Academic Writing 
SN  - 0030310962 (pbk)
AV  - PE1128 .W7258 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Fort Worth, TX
PB  - Harcourt College Publishers
KW  - English language
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
KW  - Academic writing
KW  - Report writing
KW  - Intermediate
N1  - "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; Vang Vang
; The Tequila Luck Club; Eduardo Jiminez; Dreaming in Estonian; 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; 
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