Rosenwasser, David <br/><br/>
Writing Analytically with Readings / 
David Rosenwasser, Jill Stephen and Doug Babington. 
 - 2nd Canadian ed. 
 - Toronto :  Nelson Education Ltd,  2013. 
 - xx, 460 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. +  1 access code card. 
<br/><br/> Accompanied by access code card affixed to cover. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS:<br/> Part I: Making Meaning: Essential Skills<br/> Chapter 1 Powers of Observation<br/>  A. Notice and Focus (Ranking)<br/>  B. Five-Step Analysis<br/>  Making Observation Systematic and Habitual<br/>  Looking for Pattern<br/>  Anomaly<br/>  Using Five-Step Analysis: An Example<br/>  C. Thinking Recursively<br/>  D. The Observational Bottom Line<br/> Chapter 2 Habitual Thinking<br/>  A. Banking<br/>  B. Generalizing<br/>  C. Judging<br/>  D. Debate-Style Argument<br/>  E. Either/Or Thinking (Binaries)<br/>  F. Opinions (Versus Ideas)<br/>  G. Ideas Across the Curriculum<br/>  H. Creative Analysis<br/> Chapter 3 Interpreting Your Data<br/>  A. Prompts: "Interesting" and "Strange"<br/>  B. Pushing Observations to Conclusions: Asking "So What?"<br/>  Moving from Description to Interpretation: An Example<br/>  C. The Making of Meaning<br/>  The Limits on Interpretation<br/>  Multiple Meanings and Interpretive Contexts<br/>  What About the Writer's Intentions?<br/>  "Hidden" Meanings: What "Reading Between the Lines" Really Means<br/>  The Fortune-Cookie School of Interpretation versus The Anything-Goes School<br/>  Implication and Inference: Hidden or Not?<br/>  Seems to Be About X but...<br/> Chapter 4 Reader's Writing<br/>  A. How to Read: Words Matter<br/>  Becoming Conversant Versus Reading for the Gist<br/>  Paraphrase x 3<br/>  Summary<br/>  Strategies for Making Summaries More Analytical<br/>  Passage-Based Focused Freewriting<br/>  B. What to Do with the Reading: Avoiding the Matching Exercise<br/>  Applying a Reader as a Lens<br/>  Comparing and Contrasting One Reading with Another<br/>  Uncovering the Assumptions in a Reading<br/>  Procedure for Uncovering Assumptions<br/>  A. Sample Essay: Having Ideas by Uncovering Assumptions<br/><br/>  C. Personalizing (Locating the "I")<br/>  D. The Ultimate Try This<br/>  Readings:<br/>  The Scavenger of Highway #3<br/>  My Life as a High School Dropout<br/>  What Sort of People Did This?<br/><br/>  Julian Assange: The End of Secrets?<br/>  A Matter of Will<br/>  Image World<br/> Part II: Writing the Thesis-Driven Paper<br/> Chapter 5 Linking Evidence and Claims: 1 on 10 versus 10 on 1<br/>  A. Developing a Thesis Is More Than Repeating an Idea ("1 on 10")<br/><br/>  What's Wrong with Five-Paragraph Form?<br/>  An Alternative to Five-Paragraph Form: The All-Purpose Organizational Scheme<br/>  B. Linking Evidence and Claims<br/><br/><br/>  Unsubstantiated Claims<br/>  Pointless Evidence<br/>  C. Analyzing Evidence in Depth: "10 on 1"<br/>  Pan, Track, and Zoom: The Film Analogy<br/>  Demonstrating the Representativeness of Your Example<br/>  10 on 1 and Disciplinary Conventions<br/>  A Template for Using 10 on 1<br/> Chapter 6 The Evolving Thesis<br/>  A. Re-Creating the Chain of Thought<br/>  The Reciprocal Relationship Between Thesis and Evidence: The Thesis as a Camera Lens<br/>  Moving Through a Series of Complications<br/>  B. Locating the Evolving Thesis in the Final Draft<br/>  The Evolving Thesis and Common Thought<br/>  Patterns: Deduction and Induction<br/>  The Evolving Thesis as Hypothesis and Conclusion in the Natural and Social Sciences<br/>  The Evolving Thesis and Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs<br/>  C. Putting It All Together<br/>  Description to Analysis: The Exploratory Draft<br/>  Interpretive Leaps and Complicating Evidence<br/>  Revising the Exploratory Draft<br/>  Testing the Adequacy of the Thesis<br/>  D. The Thesis-Builder's Bottom Line<br/> Chapter 7 Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements<br/>  A. Five Kinds of Weak Thesis and How to Fix Them<br/>  Weak Thesis Type 1: The Thesis Makes No Claim<br/>  Weak Thesis Type 2: The Thesis Is Obviously True or Is a Statement of Fact<br/>  Weak Thesis Type 3: The Thesis Restates Conventional Wisdom<br/>  Weak Thesis Type 4: The Thesis Offers Personal Conviction as the Basis for the Claim<br/>  Weak Thesis Type 5: The Thesis Makes an Overly Broad Claim<br/>  B. How to Rephrase Thesis Statements: Specify and Subordinate<br/>  Can a Thesis Be a Question?<br/>  C. Common Logical Errors in Constructing a Thesis<br/> Chapter 8 Writing the Researched Paper<br/>  A. Source Anxiety and What to Do About It<br/>  The Conversation Analogy<br/>  B. Six Strategies for Analyzing Sources<br/>  Strategy 1: Make Your Sources Speak<br/>  Strategy 2: Use Your Sources to Ask Questions, Not Just to Provide Answers<br/>  Strategy 3: Put Your Sources into Conversation with One Another<br/>  Strategy 4: Find Your Own Role in the Conversation<br/>  Strategy 5: Analyze Sources Along the Way (Don't Wait Until the End)<br/>  Strategy 6: Watch Your Language When You Paraphrase or Quote<br/>  C. Making the Research Paper More Analytical: A Sample Essay<br/>  D. Strategies for Writing and Revising Research Papers<br/>  E. A Canadian Research Paper: Assessing the Conversation<br/>  Writing the Researched Paper: A Final Checklist of Strategies for Success<br/> Chapter 9 Finding and Citing Sources<br/>  A. Getting Started<br/>  B. Selecting the Most Reliable and Helpful Sources<br/>  A Closer Look at Indexes<br/>  Keyword Searches<br/>  Searching the Internet<br/>  Web Page Evaluation<br/>  C. Plagiarism and the Logic of Citation<br/>  Why Does Plagiarism Matter?<br/>  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Plagiarism<br/>  How to Cite Sources<br/>  How to Integrate Quotations into Your Paper<br/>  D. How to Prepare an Abstract<br/>  E. The Ultimate Try This<br/>  F. The Final Step in the Sequence: Synthesis<br/>  Readings:<br/>  Japan's Long Nuclear Disaster Film<br/>  Karla Homolka Has a Right to Study at Queen's<br/>  The Mirror Stage: Infinite Reflections on the Public Good<br/>  Idols of the Tribe<br/>  Gendering Risk at What Cost: Negotiations of Gender and Risk in Canadian Women's Prisons<br/>  Memory in Canadian Courts of Law<br/> Part III Organization and Style<br/> Chapter 10 Everything in Order<br/>  A. Harmonized Paragraphs<br/>  The Shaping Force of Transitions<br/>  B. Prescribed Formats<br/>  The Two Functions of Formats: Product and Process<br/>  The Relation Between Writing and Genre<br/>  Using Formats Heuristically: An Example<br/>  C. Introductions and Conclusions<br/>  D. The Function of Introductions<br/>  Putting an Issue or Question in Context<br/>  Using Procedural Openings<br/><br/>  E. How Much to Introduce Up Front<br/>  Typical Problems That Are Symptoms of Doing Too Much<br/>  Opening Gambits: Five Good Ways to Begin<br/>  Gambit 1: Challenge a Commonly Held View<br/>  Gambit 2: Begin with a Definition<br/>  Gambit 3: Offer a Working Hypothesis<br/>  Gambit 4: Lead with Your Second-Best Example<br/>  Gambit 5: Exemplify the Topic with a Narrative<br/>  G. The Function of Conclusions<br/>  Ways of Concluding<br/>  Three Strategies for Writing Effective Conclusions<br/>  H. Solving Typical Problems in Conclusions<br/>  Redundancy<br/>  Raising a Totally New Point<br/>  Overstatement<br/>  Anticlimax<br/>  I. Scientific Format: Introductions and Conclusions<br/>  Introductions of Reports in the Sciences<br/>  Discussion Sections of Reports in the Sciences<br/>  Assignment: Inferring the Format of a Published Article<br/> Ch.11 The Language of Clarity<br/>  A. Selecting and Arranging Words<br/>  B. Attitude and Pace<br/>  C. Levels of Style: How Formal is Too Formal?<br/>  Managing Personal Pronouns<br/>  D. Shades of Meaning: Choosing the Best Word<br/><br/>  What's Bad About "Good" and "Bad" (and Other Broad, Judgmental Terms)<br/>  Controlling Verbal Cotton Wool<br/>  Latinate Diction<br/><br/><br/>  The Politics of Language<br/>  Assignment: Style Analysis<br/> Chapter 12: Shaping Up Your Sentences<br/>  A. The Essential Ingredients of Effective Sentences<br/>  B. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis<br/>  Coordination<br/>  Reversing the Order of Coordinate Clauses<br/>  Subordination<br/>  Reversing Main and Subordinate Clauses<br/>  Parallel Structure<br/>  C. Periodic and Cumulative Sentences<br/><br/>  The Periodic Sentence: Snapping Shut<br/>  The Cumulative Sentence: Starting Fast<br/>  D. Cutting the Fat<br/>  Expletive Constructions<br/>  Static (Intransitive) Versus Active (Transitive) Verbs: "To Be" or "Not to Be"<br/>  Active and Passive Voices: Doing and Being Done To<br/>  E. Experiment!<br/>  Assignments: Stylistic and Grammatical Analysis<br/> Chapter 13: Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them<br/>  A. How Much Does "Correctness" Matter?<br/>  B. The Concept of Basic Writing Errors (BWEs)<br/>  What Punctuation Marks Signify: A Short Guide<br/>  Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them<br/>  C. The Ultimate Try This<br/>  D. Glossary of Grammatical Terms<br/>  E. Revising for Correctness: The Bottom Line<br/>  Assignment: Grammar and Style Quiz<br/> Chapter 13 Appendix: Answer Key (with Discussion)  Grammar and Style Quiz Answers<br/>  Readings:<br/>  The Wrong Incentive<br/>  MSN Spoken Here<br/><br/>  Female Eavesdropping on Male Song Contests in Songbirds<br/>  "What Colour Is Your English?"<br/><br/>  The Grief Industry<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780176504465 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Rhetoric.<br/>Academic writing.<br/>Critical thinking.