A rhetoric that treats writing as thinking, WRITING ANALYTICALLY offers a sequence of specific prompts that teach students across the curriculum how to use writing to arrive at ideas.

Writing Analytically

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Rosenwasser, David

Stephen, Jill

Words, Language & Grammar

Wadsworth Publishing

Clarity of Purpose defines the new edition of Writing Analytically. A thoughtful re-ordering of material first focuses on the aims and methods of analysis. Next the student is challenged to analyze the evidence, build a better thesis statement, and finally, evolve the thesis- the conceptual core of Writing Analytically, Second Edition. These fundamental improvements provide a new edition that keeps its balanced process approach, critical thinking edge, and useful revision strategies.

Writing Analytically With Readings (Second Edition) combines the authors' best-selling writing guide, Writing Analytically (Sixth Edition), with a reader that teaches users how to have ideas and develop them in an academic setting and beyond. This "two-in-one" text offers a book-length treatment of analysis, a form of thinking and writing required in virtually all college courses but frequently overshadowed in writing texts by emphasis on argument, expressive writing, or the traditional rhetorical modes. The writing guide is accompanied by a thematically arranged collection of readings and images--material for writers to write about and to use as models and lenses in doing their own writing about the world.    About This Edition  New Features  The new, completely revised and updated "Part I: The Rhetoric" features a new introductory chapter. Chapter 1, "Introduction to this Book, to College Writing, and to Thinking About Thinking," shows users how they can take best advantage of the text and its features. For instance, the chapter includes a series of fifteen "Short Takes" that forecast the modular organization of the text and serve as a reference tool for locating extended topical discussions throughout the text. New "Toolkit" chapters. The extraordinary "Writing Analytically" heuristics are now divided into two "Toolkits of Analytical Methods" chapters. The first "Toolkit" chapter (Chapter 2) equips the student with foundational observation techniques, while the second (Chapter 4) provides activities that allow the student to extend and deepen his or her analysis. Chapter 3, "Analysis." This chapter focuses on the "Five Analytical Moves" and now also includes discussion of the counterproductive habits of mind that often supplant effective analysis. There is a new example of the application of the "Five Analytical Moves" to a Harvard University commencement speech. New "Try This" exercises are included in "Description," "Inferring Implications from Observations," and "Applying the Five Analytical Moves to a Speech." The chapter has new student writing examples from users of biology, history, and English, and a professional writing from Jane Jacobs's "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Revised and expanded chapter on reading. This chapter offers a more developed presentation of "How to Read" with a new "Try This" exercise called "Writing and Reading with Others." New examples of student writing in this chapter include responses to David Bartholomae's "Inventing the University" essay. The reading chapter now has a new section on analyzing an audience and specific application of "Uncovering Assumptions and Reformulating Binaries" heuristics to Christopher Borick's essay, "On Political Labels." The chapter also has a new "Voices from Across the Curriculum" section on critical reading, from a music professor's point of view. New Chapter 6, "Interpretation and Argument." Combining the previous edition's chapters on interpretation and argument, this single integrated chapter now illustrates how to make plausible claims and take reasonable positions. Expanded discussion of the thesis statement. The newly revised Unit II sequences two chapters on the thesis statement so that a student can study what makes a good thesis (Chapter 10) and then study a chapter about how to fix thesis statements (Chapter 11) that could be made more effective. These chapters also contain new examples of student writing. Integrated "Voices From Across the Curriculum" sections. These sections are now integrated throughout the text to more clearly illustrate the connections between writing and the various academic disciplines.   Additional Features  The text's practical focus emphasizes producing smarter, more perceptive academic writing, as well as shows users that the book's writing and thinking practices are useful in other kinds of writing users do in their lives. The authors' exceptional interdisciplinary coverage shows users that while many elements of effective analytical writing are common to all disciplines, there are instances where a discussion of disciplinary differences is clearly called for. Each of the six topically organized reading units has a brief introduction that funnels into an equally brief survey of the readings. Each of the individual readings features an introduction as well as a series of concluding thinking and writing tasks designed to encourage analysis ("Things to Do with the Reading"). The "Things to Do with the Reading" exercises encourage readers to tap into the Three Lives of a Reading: as an Object for Analysis (pursuing implication and complication), as a Lens for Viewing Other Material (epistemology: how we come to know things), and as a Model for Imitating (organization). Items listed in "Things to Do with the Reading" are sometimes labeled as "Applications" (which involve using the reading as a lens) or as "Links" (which overtly connect the reading to another reading in the same unit) or as "Links across Units." Unit-ending "For Further Research" sections provide a series of print and online leads for readers (and teachers) to pursue if they wish to extend the path of inquiry begun by the unit's reading selections. In addition, "Links" within the text connect users to other selections within the text that they may find helpful as they complete their assignments. The text emphasizes analytical writing as a habit of mind: a way of thinking that is reinforced by a series of specific, reviewer-praised heuristics that teach users to assume an exploratory stance toward ideas and evidence, to treat their ideas as hypotheses to be tested rather than self-evident truths, and to share their thought process with their readers. Engaging discussion of habits of mind illustrates how bad habits can get in the way of good writing and thinking without users even knowing, and how good habits can lead to informed inquiry. Each chapter features a variety of "Try This" exercises and "Assignments" that get users thinking about writing, testing their new skills with informal writing assignments, and generating ideas for their own papers. These assignments as well as the "Try This" exercises can be adapted to a wide range of course contents and types of assignments.    See Writing Analytically (Sixth Edition)

Writing Analytically with Readings

Education & Teaching

Babington, Doug

Higher & Continuing Education

Nelson Cengage Adapted

Product Description 
Learning to write well requires learning to use writing as a tool to think well--and this book shows you how. WRITING ANALYTICALLY leads you through the process of analysis and synthesis and helps you to generate original, well-developed ideas. Whether you're already a confident writer or someone who feels stranded amidst your notes and sources--waiting for the light bulb of inspiration to rescue you--this book will help you improve your skills. It's built on a series of tools for thinking that proceed step-by-step. Applying the tools will enable you to see more and arrive at better ideas about whatever you're analyzing. You'll learn to determine which details are important in your subject, how to go about figuring out why they are important, and most important, how to talk and write about what they mean. 
 About the Author 
David Rosenwasser teaches at Muhlenberg College, a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, where he has been since the late 1980s. He and Jill Stephen created and implemented the Writing Across the Curriculum program there through a series of faculty seminars. During these seminars, Dr. Rosenwasser and Dr. Stephen discovered that while content faculty from across the disciplines maintained disciplinary-specific writing protocols, they essentially wanted the same thing from student writing: analysis. From this premise, WRITING ANALYTICALLY was born. Dr. 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 as well as an analysis of the politics of Bruce Springsteen's albums during the Bush presidency, written collaboratively with a political science professor.\nJill Stephen teaches at Muhlenberg College, a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, where she�s been since the late 1980s. Along with David Rosenwasser, she created and implemented the Writing Across the Curriculum program there through a series of faculty seminars. In these seminars, they 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. Stephen worked in the expository writing program at New York University under Lil Brannon and Cy Knoblauch. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and received her Ph.D. from NYU on rhetorical theory as evidenced in Renaissance poetry and prose. Aside from her writing with Rosenwasser on composition and writing program administration, she writes on poetry, especially Renaissance lyrics. Her current interests include the poetry of Frank O�Hara, Emily Dickinson, and contemporary Irish women writers.

Writing Analytically (with 2019 APA Updates and MLA 2021 Update Card)

Cengage Learning'

Learning to write well requires learning to use writing as a tool to think well, and Rosenwasser/Stephen's WRITING ANALYTICALLY, 9th edition, shows you how. This reader-friendly book is built on step-by-step tools that expand your thinking and help you arrive at better ideas. You'll learn to determine which details are important in your subject, how to go about figuring out why they are important and how to talk and write about what they mean. Building your confidence, WRITING ANALYTICALLY helps you think of yourself as a writer and see writing as a way to better understand yourself and the world. Samples of student writing emphasize what makes the writing good rather than its shortcomings. Numerous applications and examples are tailored to those headed toward STEM majors. In addition, MindTap provides you with on-the-go digital learning solutions.

Writing Analytically, Loose-leaf Version

Writing Analytically With Readings (Second Edition) combines the authors' best-selling writing guide, Writing Analytically (Sixth Edition), with a reader that teaches users how to have ideas and develop them in an academic setting and beyond. This "two-in-one" text offers a book-length treatment of analysis, a form of thinking and writing required in virtually all college courses but frequently overshadowed in writing texts by emphasis on argument, expressive writing, or the traditional rhetorical modes. The writing guide is accompanied by a thematically arranged collection of readings and images--material for writers to write about and to use as models and lenses in doing their own writing about the world. About This Edition New Features <ul>
<li>
The new, completely revised and updated "Part I: The Rhetoric" features a new introductory chapter. Chapter 1, "Introduction to this Book, to College Writing, and to Thinking About Thinking," shows users how they can take best advantage of the text and its features. For instance, the chapter includes a series of fifteen "Short Takes" that forecast the modular organization of the text and serve as a reference tool for locating extended topical discussions throughout the text.</li>
 <li>
New "Toolkit" chapters. The extraordinary "Writing Analytically" heuristics are now divided into two "Toolkits of Analytical Methods" chapters. The first "Toolkit" chapter (Chapter 2) equips the student with foundational observation techniques, while the second (Chapter 4) provides activities that allow the student to extend and deepen his or her analysis.</li>
 <li>
Chapter 3, "Analysis." This chapter focuses on the "Five Analytical Moves" and now also includes discussion of the counterproductive habits of mind that often supplant effective analysis. There is a new example of the application of the "Five Analytical Moves" to a Harvard University commencement speech. New "Try This" exercises are included in "Description," "Inferring Implications from Observations," and "Applying the Five Analytical Moves to a Speech." The chapter has new student writing examples from users of biology, history, and English, and a professional writing from Jane Jacobs's "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."</li>
 <li>
Revised and expanded chapter on reading. This chapter offers a more developed presentation of "How to Read" with a new "Try This" exercise called "Writing and Reading with Others." New examples of student writing in this chapter include responses to David Bartholomae's "Inventing the University" essay. The reading chapter now has a new section on analyzing an audience and specific application of "Uncovering Assumptions and Reformulating Binaries" heuristics to Christopher Borick's essay, "On Political Labels." The chapter also has a new "Voices from Across the Curriculum" section on critical reading, from a music professor's point of view.</li>
 <li>
New Chapter 6, "Interpretation and Argument." Combining the previous edition's chapters on interpretation and argument, this single integrated chapter now illustrates how to make plausible claims and take reasonable positions.</li>
 <li>
Expanded discussion of the thesis statement. The newly revised Unit II sequences two chapters on the thesis statement so that a student can study what makes a good thesis (Chapter 10) and then study a chapter about how to fix thesis statements (Chapter 11) that could be made more effective. These chapters also contain new examples of student writing.</li>
 <li>
Integrated "Voices From Across the Curriculum" sections. These sections are now integrated throughout the text to more clearly illustrate the connections between writing and the various academic disciplines.</li>
 
</ul>
 Additional Features <ul>
<li>The text's practical focus emphasizes producing smarter, more perceptive academic writing, as well as shows users that the book's writing and thinking practices are useful in other kinds of writing users do in their lives.</li>
 <li>The authors' exceptional interdisciplinary coverage shows users that while many elements of effective analytical writing are common to all disciplines, there are instances where a discussion of disciplinary differences is clearly called for.</li>
 <li>Each of the six topically organized reading units has a brief introduction that funnels into an equally brief survey of the readings. Each of the individual readings features an introduction as well as a series of concluding thinking and writing tasks designed to encourage analysis ("Things to Do with the Reading").</li>
 <li>The "Things to Do with the Reading" exercises encourage readers to tap into the Three Lives of a Reading: as an Object for Analysis (pursuing implication and complication), as a Lens for Viewing Other Material (epistemology: how we come to know things), and as a Model for Imitating (organization). Items listed in "Things to Do with the Reading" are sometimes labeled as "Applications" (which involve using the reading as a lens) or as "Links" (which overtly connect the reading to another reading in the same unit) or as "Links across Units."</li>
 <li>Unit-ending "For Further Research" sections provide a series of print and online leads for readers (and teachers) to pursue if they wish to extend the path of inquiry begun by the unit's reading selections. In addition, "Links" within the text connect users to other selections within the text that they may find helpful as they complete their assignments.</li>
 <li>The text emphasizes analytical writing as a habit of mind: a way of thinking that is reinforced by a series of specific, reviewer-praised heuristics that teach users to assume an exploratory stance toward ideas and evidence, to treat their ideas as hypotheses to be tested rather than self-evident truths, and to share their thought process with their readers. Engaging discussion of habits of mind illustrates how bad habits can get in the way of good writing and thinking without users even knowing, and how good habits can lead to informed inquiry.</li>
 <li>Each chapter features a variety of "Try This" exercises and "Assignments" that get users thinking about writing, testing their new skills with informal writing assignments, and generating ideas for their own papers. These assignments as well as the "Try This" exercises can be adapted to a wide range of course contents and types of assignments.</li>
 
</ul>
 See Writing Analytically (Sixth Edition)

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Clear, concise, and extremely practical, WRITING ANALYTICALLY WITH READINGS, 3E emphasizes producing smarter, more perceptive academic writing--skills that can be carried over into any kind of writing you do throughout college and your career. This brief rhetoric combines the authors' best-selling writing guide with cutting-edge readings. It delivers a methodical approach to what many consider to be the primary activity of academic discourse--careful analysis. The consistent focus on writing as a tool of thought and a vehicle for analysis remains a hallmark of the book as it provides careful focus on analysis and thesis and paper development. The exciting new Third Edition also now offers online integration with Enhanced InSite.

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.

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