The prose reader : essays for thinking, reading, and writing / Kim Flachmann, Michael Flachmann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Pearson, 2014.Edition: 10th edDescription: xxviii, 612 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780205891504
  • 0205891500
  • 9780321881083
  • 0321881087
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 808/.0427 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1417 .P847 2014
Contents:
Why learn how to think critically? -- What exactly is critical thinking? -- What do I need to know about reading and writing critically? -- Description: exploring through the senses -- Narration: telling a story -- Example: illustrating ideas -- Process analysis: explaining step by step -- Division/classification: finding categories -- Comparison/contrast: discovering similarities and differences -- Definition: limiting the frame of reference -- Cause/effect: tracing reasons and results -- Argument and persuasion: inciting people to thought or action -- Thinking, reading, and writing in different literary forms: combining rhetorical modes -- References: 1. Introducing the documented essay -- 2. Reading a documented essay -- 3. Preparing to write your own documented essay -- 4. Finding sources -- 5. Avoiding plagiarism -- 6. Staying organized -- 7. Writing a documented essay -- 8. Documenting -- 9. Revising and editing a documented essay.
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Why learn how to think critically? -- What exactly is critical thinking? -- What do I need to know about reading and writing critically? -- Description: exploring through the senses -- Narration: telling a story -- Example: illustrating ideas -- Process analysis: explaining step by step -- Division/classification: finding categories -- Comparison/contrast: discovering similarities and differences -- Definition: limiting the frame of reference -- Cause/effect: tracing reasons and results -- Argument and persuasion: inciting people to thought or action -- Thinking, reading, and writing in different literary forms: combining rhetorical modes -- References: 1. Introducing the documented essay -- 2. Reading a documented essay -- 3. Preparing to write your own documented essay -- 4. Finding sources -- 5. Avoiding plagiarism -- 6. Staying organized -- 7. Writing a documented essay -- 8. Documenting -- 9. Revising and editing a documented essay.

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