Community Of Writers - 3rd edition

Summary guidelines for MLA Documentation (inside cover)

Preface

Cover Letter (To the Student)

Introduction

WORKSHOPS

Part I: Getting Started

1. An Introduction to the Variety of Writing Processes

2. Collaborative Writing: Dialogues, Loop Writing and the Collage

Part II: From Drafting to Revision

3. Getting Experience Into Words

4. Drafting and Revising

5. Purpose and Audience

6. Voice

Part III: Texts and Contexts

7. From Private Writing to Public Writing

8. The Essay

9. Persuasion and Argument

10. Research

11. Listening, Reading, and Writing in the Disciplines

12. Interpretation as Response: Reading as the Creation of Meaning

13. Text Analysis through Examining Figurative Language

14. Writing in the World: An Interview about Writing

15. Autobiography and Portfolio

MINI-WORKSHOPS

More on Writing and Research

A. Writing Skills Questionnaire

B. Double-Entry or Dialectical Notebooks

C. The Difference between Grammatical Correctness and a Formal, Impersonal Voice

D. Midterm and End-term Responses to a Writing Course

E. Writing under Pressure: Midterms, Finals, and Other In-class Writing

F. Writing on the Web

G. Researching on the Web Editing

H. The Sentence and End-Stop Punctuation

I. Commas

J. Apostrophes

K. Quotation and the Punctuation of Reported Speech

L. Spelling

M. Copyediting and Proofreading

SHARING AND RESPONDING

Table of Contents

Cover Letter (To the Student)

Summary of Kinds of Responses

Procedures for Giving and Receiving Responses

Full Explanations of Kinds of Responses (with Samples)

1. Sharing: No Response

2. Pointing and Center of Gravity

3. Summary and Sayback

4. What Is Almost Said? What Do You Want to Hear More About?

5. Reply

6. Voice

7. Movies of the Reader's Mind

8. Metaphorical Descriptions

9. Believing and Doubting

10. Skeleton Feedback and Descriptive Outline

11. Criterion-Based Feedback

Sample Essays

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Guide to Kinds of Responding (inside back cover)