The Composition of Everyday Life
By John Mauk, John Metz
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Showing students that the act of writing is connected to their daily lives, Mauk/Metz's THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 7th EDITION, emphasizes invention to help students uncover meaning and rethink the world around them. The focused exploration of invention helps students generate sophisticated ideas, deep analyses and resonant arguments. The result is an unleashing of student confidence to become creative thinkers and self-aware writers. Chapters include step-by-step instruction, assignment-specific questions, collaborative workshops and student-generated models. Mauk and Metz emphasize how successful writers think -- how they create vibrant ideas, challenge their own assumptions and engage possibilities.
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Showing students that the act of writing is connected to their daily lives, Mauk/Metz's THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 7th EDITION, emphasizes invention to help students uncover meaning and rethink the world around them. The focused exploration of invention helps students generate sophisticated ideas, deep analyses and resonant arguments. The result is an unleashing of student confidence to become creative thinkers and self-aware writers. Chapters include step-by-step instruction, assignment-specific questions, collaborative workshops and student-generated models. Mauk and Metz emphasize how successful writers think -- how they create vibrant ideas, challenge their own assumptions and engage possibilities.
Unlike any other writing guide, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 7th EDITION, is focused on invention as a creative tool. Thirteen chapters on invention help students become inventive thinkers and writers.
This edition returns to a larger trim size and its previous two-page spread design, which presents main ideas on two facing pages to help students focus on one topic at a time.
Step-by-Step Invention Instruction includes Point of Contact sections that help students discover a topic from everyday life. Analysis sections launch them beyond initial thoughts and help them to explore all angles of a topic. Public Resonance sections help students extend their thinking outward to make their claims relevant to a community of readers. Thesis sections focus students' thinking and guide them toward revelatory claims. Rhetorical Tools sections help students support their claims with the most relevant strategies.
Thorough coverage of Revision and Editing includes Peer Review activities specific to each chapter to help students re-see all the dimensions of their drafts. Adding an intensive editing step to the invention process, Chapter 19 (Vitalizing Sentences) illustrates particular strategies for pruning, weeding, trimming and giving life to writing.
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