Paragraphs and Essays - Softcover

Lee Brandon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113331001X ISBN 13: 9781133310013

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2012

Synopsis

PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS, 12E, International Edition is the higher-level companion to SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND BEYOND, International Edition in the popular two-book Brandon series. Written in an informal, engaging style, this easy-to-use text takes students through all the stages of the writing process as they transition from simple to complex writing assignments. Instruction in this book--comprehensive, flexible, relevant, contemporary, and stimulating--is predicated on the ideas that reading and writing are linked and that good writing is the product of thoughtful and systematic revision. Sample student paragraphs and essays with stages exemplify the patterns of writing, while clear reading instruction offers students the opportunity to analyze readings and to practice the reading-based writing required in academic environments. Students master common writing patterns while learning to use material from reading selections as a springboard for writing in the form of summary, reaction, or two-part response. Reading-based writing helps them transition to the next level of the English program. It has been especially successful in helping students move from the developmental English program to freshman composition and beyond. Supporting that approach are more than seventy high-interest readings that are integrated throughout the Twelfth Edition for analysis and as models of good writing. Clear, explicit writing prompts underpin each reading and provide reading-based, cross-curricular, career-related, and general topics for writing. In addition, the photo/art program promotes critical thinking, lively discussion, and analytical writing. The text is flexible in its format, allowing instructors to begin at any stage of instruction and to emphasize the paragraph or the essay, or to mix assignments.

About this title

About the Author:

Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Cengage Learning, including the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a best-selling musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced by a college drama department; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a high-security California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel, adventures, and whimsical experiences. Kelly Brandon is a partner in the father-son writing team for two best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings, as well as the At a Glance books. He is a tenured professor of English at Santa Ana College, where he has taught for twenty-four years. His B.A. is from the University of California at Los Angeles and his M.A. is from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For recreation he does bodybuilding, backpacks, plays the clarinet, drives his fully restored 1953 yellow and white Chevrolet Bel Air, listens to music, and reads eclectically and voraciously.

Review:

Thematic Contents. Preface. Student Overview. The Flow of Writing: Icon and Theme. Practice with Principles. Strategies for Self-Improvement. Writing Process Worksheet. PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS. 1. The Writing Process: Stage One. Exploring / Experimenting / Gathering Information. The Writing Process Defined. The Writing Process Worksheet. The Assignment. Your Audience. Stage One Strategies. Freewriting. Brainstorming. Clustering. Gathering Information. WRITER'S GUIDELINES . 2. The Writing Process: Stage Two. Writing the Controlling Idea / Organizing and Developing Support. Defining the Controlling Idea. Writing the Controlling Idea as a Topic Sentence or Thesis. Organizing Support. Listing. Clustering. Outlining. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. 3. The Writing Process: Stage Three. Writing / Revising / Editing. Writing the First Draft. The Brandon Guide for Revising and Editing. Revising with CLUESS (pronounced clues). Coherence. Language. Unity. Emphasis. Support. Sentences. Editing with CGPS (pronounced see GPS). Capitalization. Grammar. Punctuation. Spelling. Twenty-Five Common Errors in Editing with a Practice Exercise. Student Demonstration of All Stages of the Writing Process Using the Writing Process Worksheet. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Editing and Revising. 4. Writing the Paragraph. The Paragraph Defined. Basic Paragraph Patterns. The Writing Process and the Paragraph. Student Demonstration of All Stages of the Writing Process. Writing Process Worksheet. Brandon Guide to Editing and Revising : Exercise 1. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. 5. Writing the Essay. The Essay Defined in Relation to the Developmental Paragraph. Leah, "Razor Wire Sweat Lodge". Special Paragraphs Within the Essay. Introductions. Conclusions. Student Demonstration of All Stages of the Writing Process. Writing Process Worksheet. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. PART II: LINKING READING AND WRITING. 6. Reading for Thinking, Discussion, and Writing. Reading-Based Writing. The Writing Component. The Reading Component. Reading-Based Writing and Other Approaches in Writing. Reading Techniques. Underlining. Annotating Outlining. Taking Notes. Reading-Based Writing Forms. Writing a Summary [Including Student Examples Without Formal Documentation]. Writing a Reaction [Including Student Examples Without Formal Documentation]. Writing a Two-Part Response [Including Student Examples Without Formal Documentation]. Kinds of Support for Reading-Based Writing. Basic Formal Documentation in Reading-Based Writing. Citations. Works Cited. Examples of Student Reading-Based Writing. Student Paragraph with Documentation. Student Essay with Documentation. NEW: Michael Gamboa "A Reaction to 'Findings Give Some Support to Advocates of Spanking" by Erica Goode". Professional Essay with Applications. Elizabeth Wong, "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl". Journal Writing. Cross-Curricular and Career-Related Writing. Writer's Guidelines. PART III: WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS: INSTRUCTION, WITH INTEGRATED READING SELECTIONS. 7. Descriptive Narration: Moving Through Space and Time. Writing Descriptive Narration. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Narrative Patterns. Practicing Descriptive Patterns. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing. Paragraph. NEW: John Steinbeck, "Dark Day in the Dust Bowl," from The Grapes of Wrath Essays. NEW: Alex Espinoza, "An American in Mexico". NEW: Dr. James N. Dillard, "A Doctor's Dilemma". Gina Greenlee, "No Tears for Frankie". Student Paragraphs, Essay, and Report. Chantra Shastri, "Yearning for Love". Mike Kavanagh, "The Drag" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing. Career-Related Writing. NEW: Thomas Whiterock, "'My Navajo Home in Los Angeles': A Reaction to "Tuesday Morning" from Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon". Douglas Ross, "Incident Report of the Falling Shoppers". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Descriptive Narration. Reading-Based Writing Topics . General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topics. Career-Related Topics. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Descriptive Narration. 8. Exemplification: Writing with Examples. Writing Exemplification. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Exemplification. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing Paragraph. NEW: Pierre Berton, "Everything for a Price". Essays. Adair Lara, "Who's Cheap?". NEW: Elizabeth Bernstein, "Bonds/On Relationships: How Facebook Ruins Friendships". Eric Gall, "Little Brother Is Watching". Student Paragraph and Essays. Garabed Yegavian, "Traveling the World at Home". Lara Olivas, "Cheating Is Not Worth the Bother" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing. Mason Arnold, "Grading a Professor's Writing". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Exemplification. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topic. Career-Related Topics. Writer's Guidelines. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Exemplification. 9. Analysis by Division: Examining the Parts. Writing Analysis by Division. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Analysis by Division. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing Paragraphs. Jerry Bratcher, "Golden Oldies". Leonard Engel, "The Zones of the Sea". Essay and Restaurant Review. John Gray, "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus". Judith Ortiz Cofer, "More" Restaurant Review. NEW: Will Brock, "Pick Up the Phone at Hamburger King" Student Paragraph and Essays. Nancy Samuels, "More Than Ordinary" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing. Emmett Davis, "Elvis Presley, King of the Twentieth Century". Career-Related Writing. Roger Myers, "Air Traffic Control as a Career". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Analysis by Division. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topic. Career-Related Topics. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing Pattern: Analysis by Division. 10. Process Analysis: Writing About Doing. Writing Process Analysis. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Process Analysis. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing. Paragraphs. NEW: Del Turco, "Popping the Cork". Essays. NEW: Mike Anton, "About to do time? Meet your best pal; Real estate scammers and other first-timers get a crash course in prison survival from enterprising ex-cons." Garrison Keillor, "Attitude". Career-Related Writing. C. Edward Good and William Fitzpatrick, "A Successful Interview". Student Paragraph and Essay. Larry Gardner, "A Summary of 'How Low-Balling Works on Your Mind'". Tina Sergio, "Doing a Flame Hair Tattoo" [with stages]. Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Process Analysis . Reading-Based Writing Topics . General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topics. Career-Related Topic. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Process Analysis. 11. Cause and Effect: Determining Reasons and Outcomes. Writing Cause and Effect. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Cause and Effect. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing Paragraphs. Anne Roiphe, "Why Marriages Fail". Marian Wright Edelman, "Family Heroes and Role Models". Short Story. Irwin Shaw, "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses". Views on Violence. Francis Flaherty, "The Ghetto Made Me Do It". Judy Scheindlin and Josh Getlin, "Enough Is Enough". Student Essay. Shandra Bryson (pseudonym), "From 'Kick Me' to 'Kiss Me'". Student Paragraph and Essay. Richard Blaylock, "The Classroom and Beyond" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing: Short Story Review. Gloria Mendez, "The Use of Self-Analysis". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Cause and Effect. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topic. areer-Related Topics. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Cause and Effect. 12. Classification: Establishing Groups. Writing Classification. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Classification. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing Paragraph. William M. Pride, Robert J. Hughes, and Jack R. Kapoor, "Styles of Leadership". Essays. Robert J. Trotter, "How Do I Love Thee?" Avi Friedman, "Living Environments". Mary Ann Hogan, "Why We Carp and Harp". Student Paragraph and Essay. Boris Belinsky, "Doctors Have Their Symptoms, Too" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing. Joel Follette, "Community College Pressures". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Classification. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topic. Career-Related Topics. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Classification. 13. Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences. Writing Comparison and Contrast. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Comparison and Contrast. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing. Paragraphs. Sharon S. Brehm, "Blue as in Boy, Pink as in Girl". Richard Rodriguez, "Public and Private". Essays. Kathy Shaskan, "Chick Flicks vs. Macho Movies: Can You Tell the Difference?" Bharati Mukherjee, "Two Ways to Belong in America". Suzanne Britt, "Neat People vs. Sloppy People". Student Paragraph and Essays. Thung Tran, "Wives and Mothers in Vietnam and in America" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing. Lydia Hsiao, "Struggling Against Silence". Career-Related Writing: Business Comparison and Contrast. NEW: LaDonna Stallard, "Is Nursing or Physical Therapy the Better Career for Me? Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Comparison and Contrast. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topics. Cross-Curricular Topics. Career-Related Topics. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Comparison and Contrast. 14. Definition: Clarifying Terms. Writing Definition. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Definition. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing. Paragraph. Gregory Moorhead and Ricky W. Griffin, "Burnout". Essays. NEW: Charles Barkley, "I Am Not a Role Model". Rose Del Castillo Guilbault, "Americanization Is Tough on 'Macho'". Christopher Grant, "Graffiti: Taking a Closer Look". Student Paragraph and Essay. Linda Wong, "Going Too Far" [with stages]. Reading-Based Writing. Vincent Sheahan, "My-graines". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Definition. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topic. Cross-Curricular Topic. Career-Related Topics. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Definition. 15. Argument: Writing to Persuade. Writing Argument. Finding Patterns in Photos. Practicing Patterns of Argument. Readings for Critical Thinking, Discussion, and Writing. Essays. Meghan Daum, "Shouldn't Men Have 'Choice' Too?" NEW: Jessica Pauline Ogilvie-Yes, and James C. Fell--No for Pro-Con: Should Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered to 18? No: James C. Fell. NEW: Anita Garland, "Let's Really Reform Our Schools". Student Paragraph, Essay, and Proposal. Reading-Based Writing. NEW: Virginia Wilson, "A Two-Part Response to 'Why We Need a Draft' by CPL. Mark Finelli". Career-Related Writing: Proposal. Roberto Bentancourt, "Mandatory Tipping at BoBo's". Suggested Topics and Prompts for Writing Argument. Reading-Based Writing Topics. General Topic. Cross-Curricular Topic. Career-Related Topic. WRITER'S GUIDELINES. Practicing the Brandon Guide for Revision and Editing. Pattern: Argument. PART IV: USING SOURCES. 16. Writing the Research Paper. The Research Paper Defined. Ten Steps to Writing a Research Paper. Step 1: Select a Topic. Step 2: Find Sources. Step 3: List Sources. Step 4: Take Notes. Step 5: Refine Your Thesis and Outline. Step 6: Write Your First Draft. Step 7: Revise Your First Draft. Step 8: Prepare Your Works Cited Section. Step 9: Write Your Final Draft. Step 10: Submit Required Materials. Student Essay. Michael Chung, "Zoos-An Endangered Species?" WRITER'S GUIDELINES PART V: HANDBOOK. 17. Handbook: Writing Effective Sentences. Twenty-Five Common Errors in Editing: CGPS. Nine Exercises: A to I. Parts of Speech. Nouns. Pronouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Adverbs. Prepositions. Conjunctions . Interjections. Subjects and Verbs. Subjects. Verbs. Location of Subjects and Verbs. Kinds of Sentences. Clauses. Types of Sentences. Combining Sentences. Coordination: The Compound Sentence. Subordination: The Complex Sentence. Coordination and Subordination: The Compound-Complex Sentence. Other Ways to Combine Ideas. Omissions. Variety in Sentence Types, Order, Length, Beginnings. Correcting Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-Ons. Fragments. Comma Splices and Run-Ons. Techniques for Spotting Problem Sentences. Verbs. Regular and Irregular Verbs. The Twelve Verb Tenses. Subject-Verb Agreement. Consistency in Tense. Active and Passive Voice. Strong Verbs. Subjunctive Mood. Pronouns. Pronoun Case. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. Pronoun Reference. Adjectives and Adverbs. Selecting Adjectives and Adverbs. Comparative and Superlative Forms. Using Adjectives and Adverbs Correctly. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers. Balancing Sentence Parts. Basic Principles of Parallelism. Signal Words. Combination Signal Words. Punctuation and Capitalization. End Punctuation. Commas. Semicolons. Quotation Marks. Punctuation with Quotation Marks. Italics. Dashes. Colons. Parentheses. Brackets. Apostrophes. Hyphens. Capitalization. Spelling. Spelling Tips. Frequently Misspelled Words. Confused Spelling and Confusing Words. Your Spell Checker. Avoiding Wordy Phrases. Brief Guide for ESL Students. Using Articles in Relation to Nouns. Sentence Patterns. Verb Endings. Idioms. More Suggestions for ESL Writers. Text Credits. Author/ Title Index. Subject Index. THEMATIC CONTENTS. Especially for Combining Writing Patterns and Integrating Reading Selections. SIZE UP BULLIES. "No Tears for Frankie". "Little Brother Is Watching". "The Ghetto Made Me Do It". "Enough Is Enough". "From 'Kick Me' to 'Kiss Me'". "Why We Carp and Harp". CHECK OUT GENDER. "Who's Cheap?" "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus". "Americanization Is Tough on 'Macho'". "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses". "Blue as in Boy, Pink as in Girl". "Chick Flicks vs. Macho Movies: Can You Tell the Difference?" "Shouldn't Men Have 'Choice' Too?" CONSIDER LOVE AND MARRIAGE. "Yearning for Love". "Why Marriages Fail". "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses". "How Do I Love Thee?" "Wives and Mothers in Vietnam and in America". GO TO WORK. "Air Traffic Control as a Career". "A Successful Interview". "How Low-Balling Works on Your Mind". "Doing a Flame Hair Tattoo". "The Classroom and Beyond". "Styles of Leadership". "Doctors Have Their Symptoms, Too". "Burnout". BE YOURSELF. "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl". "More". "Yearning for Love". "Americanization Is Tough on 'Macho'". "Elvis Presley, King of the Twentieth Century". "Attitude". "Family Heroes and Role Models". "Living Environments". "Public and Private". "Two Ways to Belong in America".

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 113331001X
• ISBN 13: 9781133310013
• Binding: Paperback