Decisions: A Writer's Handbook

Decisions: A Writer's Handbook
ISBN-10
0205339352
ISBN-13
9780205339358
Series
Decisions
Category
English language
Pages
476
Language
English
Published
2001-08
Publisher
Longman Publishing Group
Author
Leonard J. Rosen

Description

This is a brief handbook that emphasizes writing as a decision-making process. No other handbook matches this text's coverage of critical thinking at the essay, paragraph, and sentence levels. Parts I, II, & III offer an introduction to effective critical thinking, reading, and writing as well as comprehensive coverage of the writing process and writing from sources. Parts IV through VII cover the decisions involved in basic sentence construction, style, punctuation, mechanics and spelling. In each chapter, critical decisions boxes guide students through analyses of key issues. One of these chapters introduces ways of thinking about the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, and introduces typical writing scenarios. Sample essays and strategies address each discipline area's ways of knowing or arguing. Another chapter on provides guidelines for using and citing CD-ROMs, online data bases, and the Internet, including suggestions for evaluating sources. An appendix on using the Internet gives additional tools and resources. Each chapter also contains boxes highlighting key points, and computer tips with advice on how to conduct research, compose, revise, and edit using the latest technologies.

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