The Norton field guide to writing /

Bullock, Richard H. (Richard Harvey)

The Norton field guide to writing / Richard Bullock. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. - xxix, 514 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetorical situations. Purpose -- Audience -- Genre -- Stance -- Media/Design -- Genres. Writing a literacy narrative -- Analyzing a text -- Reporting information -- Arguing a position -- Abstracts -- Annotated bibliographies -- Evaluations -- Lab reports -- Literary analyses -- Memoirs -- Profiles -- Proposals -- Reflections -- Reviews of scholarly literature -- Resumes and application letters -- Processes. Collaborating -- Generating ideas and text -- Drafting -- Assessing your own writing -- Getting response and revising -- Editing and proofreading -- Compiling a portfolio.
Strategies. Beginning and ending -- Guiding your reader -- Analyzing causes and effects -- Classifying and dividing - - Comparing and contrasting -- Defining -- Describing -- Dialogue -- Explaining processes -- Narrating -- Reading strategies -- Doing research. Developing a research plan - - Finding sources -- Evaluating sources -- Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing -- Acknowledging sources, avoiding plagiarism -- Documentation -- MLA Style -- APA Style -- Media/Design. Print text -- Spoken text -- Electronic text.

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Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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PE1408 / .B88 2006