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.

Features and Benefits

• Every chapter of the book is aimed at helping students develop an analytical frame of mind. Chapters 1-2 offer a set of habits for entering this frame of mind so that students can learn to do what strong thinkers do when they are confronted with data. The chapters also discusses counterproductive habits of mind to help students identify and work through common problems such as the premature leap, the judgment reflex, and so on.

• Because the authors have heard from instructors that breaking the mold of the five-paragraph essay is particularly challenging, they present organizational strategies that can act as alternatives to the familiar five paragraphs and offer a full chapter, Chapter 3, on making common assignments (such as summary, personal response, agree/disagree, compare/contrast, and definition) more analytical.

• Because it is designed to be used in writing-intensive courses in a variety of subject areas, as well as in first-year composition courses, Writing Analytically takes care to address similarities and differences across the disciplines, perhaps most visibly through its Voices from Across the Curriculum boxes, which speak directly to students on stylistic, rhetorical, and epistemological differences across the curriculum.

• Sample readings (both brief and extended) represent a wide range of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, sociology, literary studies, political science, film studies, art history.

• While Chapter 7 offers six strategies for analyzing sources (such as "Put Your Sources into Conversation with One Another"), Chapter 8 presents methods for getting started, finding quality on the Web, avoiding plagiarism, integrating quotations, writing an abstract, and citing sources--all prepared by a university reference librarian. Documentation styles included are MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE.

• The writing exercises in Writing Analytically take two forms: end-of-chapter assignments that could produce papers, and informal writing exercises called “Try This” that are embedded inside the chapters near the particular skills being discussed. Many of the “Try This” exercises can generate papers, but usually they are more limited in scope, asking readers to experiment with various kinds of data-gathering and analysis.

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