Synopses & Reviews
Evergreen takes another leap forward in the paragraph-to-essay-level Developmental Writing market. In this Eighth Edition, the author endeavors to take an exceptional book and make it even more motivating, helpful, and engaging. Susan Fawcett has thoroughly reviewed and updated the text, guided by the thoughtful suggestions of faculty across the country, and by the academic and workplace challenges students face in the twenty-first century.
With its new features and powerful WriteSpace online writing program, the Eighth Edition ensures that Evergreen continues to meet the needs of students and instructors in any classroom environment. Step-by-step instruction, a range of carefully paced practice exercises, engaging student and professional writing samples, and attention to critical thinking are the keys to this text's appeal.
- New Critical Viewing and more Critical Thinking assignments promote analysis and problem solving. Many images in the text are accompanied by Thinking and Writing Together tasks that help students apply the rhetorical strategies they learn to a problem, set of facts, or visual image.
- New Integrated ESL coverage provides guidance for instructors who work with multilingual students in their classes. ESL Tips in the Instructor's Annotated Edition and the new Evergreen Instructor's Guide to Teaching ESL Students provide grounding in ESL instruction specifically geared to teaching with Evergreen. In addition, anew ESL Appendix in the book focuses on areas of difficulty for ESL students, and more exercises and web links are available at the Evergreen Online Study Center.
- Exploring Online assignments throughout the text and at the end of every chapter give students the option of further online study, practice, or exploration. Provided as live links at the Online Study Center, these assignments can be accessed while students learn chapter concepts or take practice tests. Quality web sites also follow each Thinking and Writing Together activity and selected practices, so students can learn more about topics of interest for future papers.
- New New reading selections offer an even wider variety of essays, including "When Greed Gives Way to Giving, " by Ana Veciana-Suarez; "Dear Dads: Save Your Sons, " by Christopher N. Bacorn; and "Freedom's Just Another Word, " by Anna Quindlen.
- Sixty-five engaging new models and content-based practice sets are vital to Evergreen's effectiveness. Fresh subjects include the first female Navaho surgeon (to illustrate paragraph coherence), NASCAR safety devices (an example of illustration), and the expanding size of restaurant portions in America (an example of comparison and contrast).
- New A four-color design and 46 color images enliven Evergreen's pedagogy. Every image engages students and prompts them to view, reflect, and connect more deeply with material they read.
Synopsis
Evergreen takes another leap forward in the paragraph-to-essay-level Developmental Writing market. In this Eighth Edition, the author endeavors to take an exceptional book and make it even more motivating, helpful, and engaging. Susan Fawcett has thoroughly reviewed and updated the text, guided by the thoughtful suggestions of faculty across the country, and by the academic and workplace challenges students face in the twenty-first century.
With its new features and powerful WriteSpace online writing program, the Eighth Edition ensures that Evergreen continues to meet the needs of students and instructors in any classroom environment. Step-by-step instruction, a range of carefully paced practice exercises, engaging student and professional writing samples, and attention to critical thinking are the keys to this text's appeal.New Critical Viewing and more Critical Thinking assignments promote analysis and problem solving. Many images in the text are accompanied by Thinking and Writing Together tasks that help students apply the rhetorical strategies they learn to a problem, set of facts, or visual image.New Integrated ESL coverage provides guidance for instructors who work with multilingual students in their classes. ESL Tips in the Instructor's Annotated Edition and the new Evergreen Instructor's Guide to Teaching ESL Students provide grounding in ESL instruction specifically geared to teaching with Evergreen. In addition, a new ESL Appendix in the book focuses on areas of difficulty for ESL students, and more exercises and web links are available at the Evergreen Online Study Center.Exploring Online assignments throughout the text and at the end of everychapter give students the option of further online study, practice, or exploration. Provided as live links at the Online Study Center, these assignments can be accessed while students learn chapter concepts or take practice tests. Quality web sites also follow each Thinking and Writing Together activity and selected practices, so students can learn more about topics of interest for future papers.New New reading selections offer an even wider variety of essays, including When Greed Gives Way to Giving, by Ana Veciana-Suarez; Dear Dads: Save Your Sons, by Christopher N. Bacorn; and Freedom's Just Another Word, by Anna Quindlen.Sixty-five engaging new models and content-based practice sets are vital to Evergreen's effectiveness. Fresh subjects include the first female Navaho surgeon (to illustrate paragraph coherence), NASCAR safety devices (an example of illustration), and the expanding size of restaurant portions in America (an example of comparison and contrast).New A four-color design and 46 color images enliven Evergreen's pedagogy. Every image engages students and prompts them to view, reflect, and connect more deeply with material they read.
Synopsis
EVERGREEN combines carefully crafted instruction, high-interest readings and student models, and plentiful practice exercises, to provide the most effective paragraph-to-essay-level Developmental Writing text on the market. The Ninth Edition includes expanded and revised coverage of writing essays, including an additional essay chapter and numerous additional student models. Photos enhance high-interest readings and promote critical viewing as well as critical thinking and clear writing.
About the Author
Susan Fawcett is a former professor of English and director of the writing lab at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She is the author of two leading writing textbooks, EVERGREEN and GRASSROOTS. In 2000, EVERGREEN won the McGuffey Prize for sustained excellence in a language and literature text, awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association. Ms. Fawcett?s poetry and nonfiction articles on education, health, and the environment have appeared in such magazines as _The Nation_, _Poetry_, _Ms._, _Woman?s Day_, and _Ploughshares_. Her formal education took place at Ohio University, the University of London, and Columbia University, with the support of Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. Through presentations in the U.S. and South Africa, she has worked to improve college writing instruction, and recently, to promote textbook authorship of minority faculty.
Table of Contents
I. Getting Started 1. Exploring the Writing Process Part A. The Writing Process Part B. Subject, Audience, and Purpose 2. Prewriting to Generate Ideas Part A. Freewriting Part B. Brainstorming Part C. Clustering Part D. Asking Questions Part E. Keeping a Journal Unit 1 Writers' Workshop: Using Just One of Your Five Senses, Describe a Place II. Discovering the Paragraph 3. The Process of Writing Paragraphs Part A. Defining and Looking at the Paragraph Part B. Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence Part C. Generating Ideas for the Body Part D. Selecting and Dropping Ideas Part E. Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline Part F. Writing and Revising the Paragraph 4. Achieving Coherence Part A. Coherence Through Order Part B. Coherence Through Related Sentences Unit 2 Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures to Grow Up Fast III. Developing the Paragraph 5. Illustration Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing an Illustration Paragraph Suggested Topic Sentences for Illustration Paragraphs 6. Narration Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Narrative Paragraph Suggested Topics for Narrative Paragraphs 7. Description Thinking and Writing Together Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Descriptive Paragraph Suggested Topics for Descriptive Paragraphs 8. Process Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Process Paragraph Suggested Topics for Process Paragraphs 9. Definition Part A. Single-Sentence Definitions Part B. The Definition Paragraph Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Definition Paragraph Suggested Topics for Definition Paragraphs 10. Comparison and Contrast Part A. The Contrast and the Comparison Paragraphs Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Comparison or Contrast Paragraph Suggested Topics for Contrast or Comparison Paragraphs Part B. The Comparison or Contrast Paragraph Suggested Topics for Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs 11. Classification Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Classification Paragraph Suggested Topics for Classification Paragraphs 12. Cause and Effect Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph Suggested Topics for Cause and Effect Paragraphs 13. Persuasion Thinking and Writing Together Checklist: The Process of Writing a Persuasive Paragraph Suggested Topics for Persuasive Paragraphs Unit 3 Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers IV. Writing the Essay 14. The Process of Writing an Essay Part A. Looking at the Essay Part B. Writing the Thesis Statement Part C. Generating Ideas for the Body Part D. Organizing Ideas into an Outline Part E. Ordering and Linking Paragraphs in the Essay Part F. Writing and Revising Essays Checklist: The Process of Writing an Essay Suggested Topics for Essays 15. Types of Essays Part A. The Illustration Essay Suggested Topics: The Illustration Essay Part B. The Narrative Essay Suggested Topics: The Narrative Essay Part C. The Descriptive Essay Suggested Topics: The Descriptive Essay Part D. The Process Essay Suggested Topics: The Process Essay Part E. The Definition Essay Suggested Topics: The Definition Essay Part F. The Comparison or Contrast Essay Suggested Topics: The Comparison or Contrast Essay Part G. The Classification Essay Suggested Topics: The Classification Essay Part H. The Cause and Effect Essay Suggested Topics: The Cause and Effect Essay Part I. The Persuasive Essay Suggested Topics: The Persuasive Essay 16. The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title Part A. The Introduction Part B. The Conclusion Part C. The Title 17. Summarizing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism Part A. Avoiding Plagiarism Part B. Writing a Summary Checklist: The Process of Writing a Summary Part C. Using Direct and Indirect Quotation 18. Strengthening an Essay with Research Part A. Improving an Essay with Research Part B. Finding and Evaluating Outside Sources: Library and Internet Part C. Adding Sources to Your Essay and Documenting Them Correctly 19. Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination Part A. Budgeting Your Time Part B. Reading and Understanding the Essay Question Part C. Choosing the Correct Paragraph or Essay Pattern Part D. Writing the Topic Sentence or the Thesis Statement Checklist: The Process of Answering an Essay Question Unit 4 Writers' Workshop: Analyze a Social Problem V. Improving Your Writing 20. Revising for Consistency and Parallelism Part A. Consistent Tense Part B. Consistent Number and Person Part C. Parallelism 21. Revising for Sentence Variety Part A. Mix Long and Short Sentences Part B. Use a Question, a Command, or an Exclamation Part C. Vary the Beginnings of Sentences Part D. Vary Methods of Joining Ideas Part E. Avoid Misplaced and Confusing Modifiers Part F. Review and Practice 22. Revising for Language Awareness Part A. Exact