Accompanied by access code card affixed to cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS:

Part I: Making Meaning: Essential Skills

Chapter 1 Powers of Observation
A. Notice and Focus (Ranking)
B. Five-Step Analysis
Making Observation Systematic and Habitual
Looking for Pattern
Anomaly
Using Five-Step Analysis: An Example
C. Thinking Recursively
D. The Observational Bottom Line

Chapter 2 Habitual Thinking
A. Banking
B. Generalizing
C. Judging
D. Debate-Style Argument
E. Either/Or Thinking (Binaries)
F. Opinions (Versus Ideas)
G. Ideas Across the Curriculum
H. Creative Analysis

Chapter 3 Interpreting Your Data
A. Prompts: "Interesting" and "Strange"
B. Pushing Observations to Conclusions: Asking "So What?"
Moving from Description to Interpretation: An Example
C. The Making of Meaning
The Limits on Interpretation
Multiple Meanings and Interpretive Contexts
What About the Writer's Intentions?
"Hidden" Meanings: What "Reading Between the Lines" Really Means
The Fortune-Cookie School of Interpretation versus The Anything-Goes School
Implication and Inference: Hidden or Not?
Seems to Be About X but...

Chapter 4 Reader's Writing
A. How to Read: Words Matter
Becoming Conversant Versus Reading for the Gist
Paraphrase x 3
Summary
Strategies for Making Summaries More Analytical
Passage-Based Focused Freewriting
B. What to Do with the Reading: Avoiding the Matching Exercise
Applying a Reader as a Lens
Comparing and Contrasting One Reading with Another
Uncovering the Assumptions in a Reading
Procedure for Uncovering Assumptions
A. Sample Essay: Having Ideas by Uncovering Assumptions

C. Personalizing (Locating the "I")
D. The Ultimate Try This
Readings:
The Scavenger of Highway #3
My Life as a High School Dropout
What Sort of People Did This?

Julian Assange: The End of Secrets?
A Matter of Will
Image World

Part II: Writing the Thesis-Driven Paper

Chapter 5 Linking Evidence and Claims: 1 on 10 versus 10 on 1
A. Developing a Thesis Is More Than Repeating an Idea ("1 on 10")

What's Wrong with Five-Paragraph Form?
An Alternative to Five-Paragraph Form: The All-Purpose Organizational Scheme
B. Linking Evidence and Claims


Unsubstantiated Claims
Pointless Evidence
C. Analyzing Evidence in Depth: "10 on 1"
Pan, Track, and Zoom: The Film Analogy
Demonstrating the Representativeness of Your Example
10 on 1 and Disciplinary Conventions
A Template for Using 10 on 1

Chapter 6 The Evolving Thesis
A. Re-Creating the Chain of Thought
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Thesis and Evidence: The Thesis as a Camera Lens
Moving Through a Series of Complications
B. Locating the Evolving Thesis in the Final Draft
The Evolving Thesis and Common Thought
Patterns: Deduction and Induction
The Evolving Thesis as Hypothesis and Conclusion in the Natural and Social Sciences
The Evolving Thesis and Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
C. Putting It All Together
Description to Analysis: The Exploratory Draft
Interpretive Leaps and Complicating Evidence
Revising the Exploratory Draft
Testing the Adequacy of the Thesis
D. The Thesis-Builder's Bottom Line

Chapter 7 Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements
A. Five Kinds of Weak Thesis and How to Fix Them
Weak Thesis Type 1: The Thesis Makes No Claim
Weak Thesis Type 2: The Thesis Is Obviously True or Is a Statement of Fact
Weak Thesis Type 3: The Thesis Restates Conventional Wisdom
Weak Thesis Type 4: The Thesis Offers Personal Conviction as the Basis for the Claim
Weak Thesis Type 5: The Thesis Makes an Overly Broad Claim
B. How to Rephrase Thesis Statements: Specify and Subordinate
Can a Thesis Be a Question?
C. Common Logical Errors in Constructing a Thesis

Chapter 8 Writing the Researched Paper
A. Source Anxiety and What to Do About It
The Conversation Analogy
B. Six Strategies for Analyzing Sources
Strategy 1: Make Your Sources Speak
Strategy 2: Use Your Sources to Ask Questions, Not Just to Provide Answers
Strategy 3: Put Your Sources into Conversation with One Another
Strategy 4: Find Your Own Role in the Conversation
Strategy 5: Analyze Sources Along the Way (Don't Wait Until the End)
Strategy 6: Watch Your Language When You Paraphrase or Quote
C. Making the Research Paper More Analytical: A Sample Essay
D. Strategies for Writing and Revising Research Papers
E. A Canadian Research Paper: Assessing the Conversation
Writing the Researched Paper: A Final Checklist of Strategies for Success

Chapter 9 Finding and Citing Sources
A. Getting Started
B. Selecting the Most Reliable and Helpful Sources
A Closer Look at Indexes
Keyword Searches
Searching the Internet
Web Page Evaluation
C. Plagiarism and the Logic of Citation
Why Does Plagiarism Matter?
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Plagiarism
How to Cite Sources
How to Integrate Quotations into Your Paper
D. How to Prepare an Abstract
E. The Ultimate Try This
F. The Final Step in the Sequence: Synthesis
Readings:
Japan's Long Nuclear Disaster Film
Karla Homolka Has a Right to Study at Queen's
The Mirror Stage: Infinite Reflections on the Public Good
Idols of the Tribe
Gendering Risk at What Cost: Negotiations of Gender and Risk in Canadian Women's Prisons
Memory in Canadian Courts of Law

Part III Organization and Style

Chapter 10 Everything in Order
A. Harmonized Paragraphs
The Shaping Force of Transitions
B. Prescribed Formats
The Two Functions of Formats: Product and Process
The Relation Between Writing and Genre
Using Formats Heuristically: An Example
C. Introductions and Conclusions
D. The Function of Introductions
Putting an Issue or Question in Context
Using Procedural Openings

E. How Much to Introduce Up Front
Typical Problems That Are Symptoms of Doing Too Much
Opening Gambits: Five Good Ways to Begin
Gambit 1: Challenge a Commonly Held View
Gambit 2: Begin with a Definition
Gambit 3: Offer a Working Hypothesis
Gambit 4: Lead with Your Second-Best Example
Gambit 5: Exemplify the Topic with a Narrative
G. The Function of Conclusions
Ways of Concluding
Three Strategies for Writing Effective Conclusions
H. Solving Typical Problems in Conclusions
Redundancy
Raising a Totally New Point
Overstatement
Anticlimax
I. Scientific Format: Introductions and Conclusions
Introductions of Reports in the Sciences
Discussion Sections of Reports in the Sciences
Assignment: Inferring the Format of a Published Article

Ch.11 The Language of Clarity
A. Selecting and Arranging Words
B. Attitude and Pace
C. Levels of Style: How Formal is Too Formal?
Managing Personal Pronouns
D. Shades of Meaning: Choosing the Best Word

What's Bad About "Good" and "Bad" (and Other Broad, Judgmental Terms)
Controlling Verbal Cotton Wool
Latinate Diction


The Politics of Language
Assignment: Style Analysis

Chapter 12: Shaping Up Your Sentences
A. The Essential Ingredients of Effective Sentences
B. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis
Coordination
Reversing the Order of Coordinate Clauses
Subordination
Reversing Main and Subordinate Clauses
Parallel Structure
C. Periodic and Cumulative Sentences

The Periodic Sentence: Snapping Shut
The Cumulative Sentence: Starting Fast
D. Cutting the Fat
Expletive Constructions
Static (Intransitive) Versus Active (Transitive) Verbs: "To Be" or "Not to Be"
Active and Passive Voices: Doing and Being Done To
E. Experiment!
Assignments: Stylistic and Grammatical Analysis

Chapter 13: Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them
A. How Much Does "Correctness" Matter?
B. The Concept of Basic Writing Errors (BWEs)
What Punctuation Marks Signify: A Short Guide
Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them
C. The Ultimate Try This
D. Glossary of Grammatical Terms
E. Revising for Correctness: The Bottom Line
Assignment: Grammar and Style Quiz

Chapter 13 Appendix: Answer Key (with Discussion) Grammar and Style Quiz Answers
Readings:
The Wrong Incentive
MSN Spoken Here

Female Eavesdropping on Male Song Contests in Songbirds
"What Colour Is Your English?"

The Grief Industry