Writing Analytically treats writing as a tool of thought, offering prompts that lead you through the process of analysis and synthesis and help you to generate original, well-developed ideas. The authors of this brief, popular rhetoric believe that learning to write well requires learning to use your writing as a tool to think well. In the new edition, materials are better integrated, more contextualized, and--when possible--condensed.
Table of contents : CHAPTER 1 The Analytical Frame of Mind 1 CHAPTER 2 Reading Analytically 39 CHAPTER 3 Responding to Traditional Writing Assignments More Analytically 71 CHAPTER 4 Reasoning from Evidence to Claims 89 CHAPTER 5 Interpretation 119 CHAPTER 6 Finding and Evolving a Thesis 147 CHAPTER 7 Conversing with Sources: Writing the Researched Paper 181 CHAPTER 8 Finding, Evaluating, and Citing Sources 207 CHAPTER 9 From Paragraphs to Papers: Forms and Formats Across the Curriculum 229 CHAPTER 10 Style: Choosing Words, Shaping Sentences 263 CHAPTER 11 Nine Basic Writing Errors (BWEs) and How to Fix Them 305 APPENDIX 333