Writing analytically / David Rosenwasser, Jill Stephen.

Includes index.

THE ANALYTICAL FRAME OF MIND: INTRODUCTION TO ANAL YTICAL METHODS -- Analysis: What It Is and What It Does -- Counterproductive Habits of Mind -- A Toolkit of Analytical Methods -- Interpretation: What It Is, What It Isnt, and How to Do It -- Analyzing Arguments -- Topics and Modes of Analysis -- What Evidence Is and How It Works -- Using Evidence to Build a Paper: 10 on 1 versus 1 on 10 -- Making a Thesis Evolve -- Structuring the Paper: Forms and Formats -- Introductions and Conclusions -- Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements -- WRITING THE RESEARCHED PAPER -- Reading Analytically -- Using Sources Analytically: the Conversation Model -- Organizing and Revising the Research Paper: Two Sample Essays -- Finding, Citing, and Integrating Sources -- Style: Choosing Words for Precision, Accuracy, and Tone -- Style: Shaping Sentences for Precision and Emphasis -- Common Grammatical Errors and How to Fix Them.

he popular, brief rhetoric that treats writing as thinking, WRITING ANALYTICALLY, International Edition, offers a series of prompts that lead you through the process of analysis and synthesis and help you to generate original and well-developed ideas. The book's overall point is that learning to write well means learning to use writing as a way of thinking well. To that end, the strategies of this book describe thinking skills that employ writing. As you will see, this book treats writing as a tool of thought—a means of undertaking sustained acts of inquiry and reflection.

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