Writing Analytically - David (Muhlenberg College) Rosenwasser

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
David Rosenwasser teaches at Muhlenberg College, a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, where he has been since the late 1980s. Along with Jill Stephen, he created and implemented the Writing Across the Curriculum program there through a series of faculty seminars. During these seminars, Rosenwasser and Stephen discovered that content faculty from across the disciplines, although they maintained disciplinary-specific writing protocols, essentially wanted the same thing from student writing: analysis. From this premise, their textbook, WRITING ANALYTICALLY, was born. Rosenwasser received his B.A. from Grinnell College and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in the theory and history of narrative. His current interests include contemporary Irish literature and comic theory. His most recent literary papers include a study of the contemporary Irish writer Edna O'Brien in relation to the work of Joyce and Yeats, and an analysis of the politics of Bruce Springsteen's albums during the Bush presidency, written collaboratively with a political science professor.

Sommaire:
Introduction: Fourteen Short Takes on Writing and the Writing Process. Unit I: DEVELOPING AN ANALYTICAL FRAME OF MIND. 1. Analysis: What It Is and What It Does. 2. Writing as a Way of Thinking. 3. Toolkit of Analytical Methods I: Seeing Better, Seeing More. 4. Toolkit of Analytical Methods II: Going Deeper. Unit 2: FINDING SOMETHING TO SAY. 5. 10 on 1: An Observation Strategy. 6. Writing about Reading: More Moves to Make with Written Texts. 7. Making Common Topics More Analytical. Unit 3: WRITING ANALYTICAL PAPERS. 8. Reasoning from Evidence to Claims. 9. Analyzing Arguments. 10. Essay Shapes: Two Kinds of Organization. 11. Using 10 on 1 to Build a Paper. 12. Making Interpretations Plausible. 13. Making a Thesis Evolve. 14. Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements. 15. Using Sources Analytically: The Conversation Model. 16. Finding, Citing, and Integrating Sources. Unit 4: MATTERS OF FORM: THE SHAPES THAT THOUGHT TAKES. 17. Forms and Formats Across the Curriculum. 18. Introductions and Conclusions Across the Curriculum. 19. Revising for Style: Word Choice. 20. Revising for Style: The Rhetoric of the Sentence. 21. Revising for Correctness: Grammar and Punctuation.