Bridges to Better Writing
[...]... CHAPTER 4 Writing Your Expository Paragraph, 73 Previewing Your Task, 75 Writing for College, 75 Writing in Your Profession, 75 Writing in Everyday Life, 76 Understanding the Expository Paragraph, 77 Expository Paragraph Structure, 78 The Topic Sentence, 78 The Support: Major and Minor, 82 The Conclusion, 86 Writing Your Expository Paragraph, 87 Prewriting, 88 Discovering and Limiting Your Topic: Freewriting... Attitudes and Myths about Writing, 7 Reconsidering Your Attitude about Writing, 8 Writing Your Papers, 9 Writing Your Descriptive Paragraph, 17 Writing Your Descriptive Narrative Essay, 42 Previewing Your Task, 19 Previewing Your Task, 44 Writing for College, 19 Writing in Your Profession, 20 Writing in Everyday Life, 20 Writing for College, 44 Writing in Your Profession, 45 Writing in Everyday Life,... blank CHAPTER 1 Let’s Talk about Writing YOUR GOALS Understanding That Writing Is Thinking 1 Recognize the connection between writing and critical thinking 2 Examine realities about writing 3 Judge your own attitudes about writing 4 Review and respond to writing myths Writing Your Papers 1 Preview prewriting techniques 2 Discover the value of following a writing process Writing is an exploration You... summaries of customer satisfaction, or analyses of a patient’s progress, and so on In your personal life you may write to record a significant event or trip, to explore your family history, to sympathize with a family member over a traumatic event, or to e-mail daily events to family members living at a distance If you think of writing as limited to the English classroom, you miss the opportunity to take the... the Integrated Essay, 346 Making Choices, 347 Reacting to Your World, 348 Previewing Your Task, 298 Writing Your Integrated Essay, 351 Writing for College, 299 Writing in Your Profession, 300 Writing in Everyday Life, 302 Prewriting, 354 Discovering and Limiting Your Topic, 354 Identifying Your Audience, Establishing Your Purpose, and Setting Your Tone, 361 Formulating Your Thesis, 363 Outlining Your... Using Words to Describe Emotions, 50 Using Verbs Effectively, 52 Using Dialogue, 53 Writing Your Descriptive Narrative Essay, 55 Prewriting, 56 Discovering and Limiting Your Topic, 56 Identifying Your Audience, 60 Establishing Your Purpose, 60 Setting Your Tone, 60 Formulating Your Thesis, 61 Outlining Your Ideas, 62 Drafting, 64 Paragraphing, 64 Writing Your Beginning, 65 Writing Your Middle, 66 Writing. .. for writing that works for a variety of situations, assignments, and readers? We hope that this text, your writing class, and your writing instructor provide you with an approach and system that works for you and that applies to all three major writing occasions: college, profesTetra Images/Jupiter Images Whether it’s our creativity, our ability to use words, our ideas, our style, our ability to spot... 105 Writing for College, 105 Writing in Your Profession, 106 Writing in Everyday Life, 108 Understanding Illustration, 109 Using Examples for Support, 110 Writing Your Illustration Essay, 111 Prewriting, 114 Discovering and Limiting Your Topic, 114 Identifying Your Audience, 117 Establishing Your Purpose, 117 Setting Your Tone, 117 Formulating Your Thesis, 119 Outlining Your Ideas, 123 Drafting, 125 Writing. .. Contributory Causes, 178 Immediate and Distant Causes, 178 Chains of Causes, 179 Effect Analysis, 180 Problems to Avoid in Cause/Effect Analysis, 181 Writing Your Cause/Effect Essay, 181 Prewriting, 183 Discovering and Limiting Your Topic, 183 Identifying Your Audience and Establishing Your Purpose, 185 Setting Your Tone, 185 Formulating Your Thesis, 187 Outlining Your Ideas, 188 Drafting, 190 Writing. .. L Doctorow ■ 4 Chapter 1 ■ Let’s Talk about Writing D o you feel dread and anxiety when you are asked to write a report, produce a research paper, or answer essay questions on a U.S history test? Do you avoid the task as long as possible? And then, when you do sit down to write, do you find your- self blanking out or rambling on just to get something on the empty page? How should you approach a writing . PM12/20/08 3:07:08 PM Bridges to Better Writing Luis A. Nazario, Deborah D. Borchers, William F. Lewis Publisher: Lyn Uhl Director of Developmental English: Annie Todd Development Editor: Marita Sermolins Assistant. energized by off ering instructors the power of choice. “Instructors have to be aware of their choices, and in Bridges to Better Writ- ing, they can pick and choose chapters to develop their syllabus. Nazario To my father, Prof. Edward H. Davidson, for my love of reading and writing; to my husband, Phil, for tutoring me through my fi rst year of teaching; to my son, Nat, who inspires me; and to