Quick Access, Reference for Writers (with MyCompLab NEW with E-Book Student Access Code Card)
by Troyka, Lynn Q.; Hesse, DougEdition: 5th
Format: Package
Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
Now in its fifth edition, Quick Access is written by trusted authors Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse. Quick Access is a brief, spiral-bound, tabbed (12 tabs) handbook, published in full color. Quick Access is also accompanied by a valuable supplements and media package, including an interactive eBook, a personal writing plan, tutoring, and tools on the Web. The Troyka/Hesse family of handbooks provides the most balanced coverage of writing process, grammar, research, and topics important to todayrs"s writers. Both respected teachers and authors, Troyka and Hesse give practical advice to writers about the writing they will do in composition courses, in other classes, and in the world beyond. Will answer any questions a writer has about grammar, the writing process, or research.The writing process, critical thinking, argumentative writing, style, grammar, mechanics, usage, the research process, how to document sources.Anyone who wants a reliable writing reference book.
Table of Contents
| Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically | |
| Thinking Like a Writer | |
| Why writing is important | |
| Thinking like a writer | |
| Situation, purpose, and audience | |
| Critical thinking | |
| Steps in critical thinking | |
| Reading Critically | |
| Critical reading | |
| Steps in critical reading Determining literal meaning Making inferences Making evaluations | |
| Close and active reading | |
| Systematic reading Preview Read Review | |
| Connecting critical reading to writing | |
| Distinguishing Between Summary and Synthesis | |
| Summarizing | |
| Synthesizing Synthesizing multiple sources Synthesizing one source | |
| Viewing Images Critically | |
| Viewing images with a critical eye | |
| Writing and Technology | |
| Computers and writers Creating documents Finding sources Managing your work Communicating with others | |
| Computers and forms of writing Writing Process | |
| Getting Started | |
| The writing process | |
| The purposes for writing Informing a reader Persuading a reader | |
| The writerrsquo;s "audience" | |
| Writing for a peer-response group | |
| Writing for an instructor | |
| Writing for a supervisor | |
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