The Composition of Everyday Life, Brief (w/
By John Mauk, John Metz
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Showing students that the act of writing is connected to their daily lives, Mauk and Metz's THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Brief, emphasizes invention to help students rediscover concepts, uncover meaning and rethink the world around them. This proven text is noted for its fresh voice, colorful use of images and the soundness and timeliness of its pedagogical foundation. The sixth edition offers 13 chapters to help students invent ideas, more than any other text on the market. With more than 50 reading selections by professional and student writers, many responding to the chapter prompts, this book fully engages students in writing academic essays. And, with its emphasis on invention, The COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE gives students excellent preparation for the academic reading and writing activities they may encounter throughout their college experience and beyond.
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Showing students that the act of writing is connected to their daily lives, Mauk and Metz's THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Brief, emphasizes invention to help students rediscover concepts, uncover meaning and rethink the world around them. This proven text is noted for its fresh voice, colorful use of images and the soundness and timeliness of its pedagogical foundation. The sixth edition offers 13 chapters to help students invent ideas, more than any other text on the market. With more than 50 reading selections by professional and student writers, many responding to the chapter prompts, this book fully engages students in writing academic essays. And, with its emphasis on invention, The COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE gives students excellent preparation for the academic reading and writing activities they may encounter throughout their college experience and beyond.
Emphasis on Invention: Unlike any other writing guide, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Brief, offers 13 invention chapters that help students to be inventive thinkers and writers.
Step-by-Step Invention Instruction: Point of Contact sections in each invention chapter help students discover a topic from everyday life. Analysis sections launch them beyond initial thoughts and help them explore the topic. Public Resonance helps students extend the topic outward to make it relevant to a community of readers. Thesis sections focus students' thinking and guide them toward revelatory claims. Rhetorical Tools help students support their claims with a variety of common strategies.
Thorough Revision and Editing Coverage: Peer Review activities specific to each chapter help students to re-see all the dimensions of their drafts. Adding an intensive editing step to the invention process, Chapter 19, "Vitalizing Sentences," explains and illustrates particular strategies for pruning, weeding, trimming and giving life to writing.
Beyond the Final Draft:, The Reflection sections help students transfer their ideas to a range of genres by prompting them to theorize about their own language and intellectual moves. These activities also help students identify areas for revision toward a course portfolio.
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