- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers; 3rd Revised edition edition (May 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0155058746
- ISBN-13: 978-0155058743
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,876,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The sections on binaries are VERY helpful, since so many of my students think and write in binary opposites. Wonderful examples and writing activities. Also, I LOVE the Method and Notice and Focus."
"I think Chapter 8 is the most useful chapter in WA. I use both the "bad" and "good" examples of an essay to help my students understand what's required of their own work. My students are not acquainted with writing anything other than a "report," so examples of writings that offer an extended analysis of ideas are crucial." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"I think Chapter 8 is the most useful chapter in WA. I use both the "bad" and "good" examples of an essay to help my students understand what's required of their own work. My students are not acquainted with writing anything other than a "report," so examples of writings that offer an extended analysis of ideas are crucial." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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.
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Excellent book for freshman comp,
By Ben Thompson (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Writing Analytically With Infotrac (Paperback)
This is one of the few rhetoric's that deals exclusively with how to think and write analytically. It is very methodical and it gives younger students concrete tools that they can use. It helps students break away from boring, static 5-paragraph themes that state the painfully obvious.I use the book as the only textbook in a college-level Rhetoric and Writing class. The book is honestly a revelation for most of my students, and it improves their writing and thinking exponentially. The book does suffer from tone problems, and it is occasionally condescending. It does indeed relate to the reader as a teen/novice, but then again that is who the book is for. It is also not the book for those who need help with style, basic clarity or grammar. Writing Analytically is intended for just that: learning the craft of academic analysis. I highly recommend it for any instructor who is struggling to help their students learn to think critically.
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analysis analyzed,
By mikecaplanis@lmo.com (arlington,, va United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Writing Analytically (Paperback)
rosenwasser's insight into the difference between criticism and analysis is of partiular interest to me. ''writing analytically'' explores the discipline that is the journalist's, the intellegence gathering professional's and the academic's with a lively, engaging style that resembles more the work of such popular non-fiction writer/academics as stephen jay gould and loren teshenti.
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Thinking, reading and writing crically and analytically = all three are integrated in this book,
By The Inquirer (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Writing Analytically (Paperback)
I teach at an online university in a course that requires considerable written work. This is an M.A. level course and yet I am constantly amazed at the lack of the ability of many students to write critically. What is painfully obvious in many essays is that even a sizable minority of graduate level students can neither read critically nor think critically, and as a result produce papers I would at best warrant a B- at the undergraduate level. I can't count the number of times students who have produced academic drivel complain about not getting an A.I always recommend this book to students; I doubt that many consult let alone apply the material unfortunately. That is a pity as this book is as much about critical thinking and critical reading as it is about writing analytically. The three are parts of the same whole. One can quibble that the authours use the concept of analysis too broadly. At the same time this book is heads and shoulders above any of close to 30 books I have purchase with most being donated to book sales. On a personal note, I have been writing for over 50 years as a student, professor and for work purposes. After immersing myself in a previous edition of this book over the last three years (the 4th ed). I cringe at some of my writing from even a few years ago. the effect on my writing has been significant. So the notion this is for 1st year university students misses the whole point. Almost everyone can improve their critical thinking, reading and writing with a determined application of the material in the book.
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