"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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