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The Writer's Mindset

ISBN10: 1260526348 | ISBN13: 9781260526349

The Writer's Mindset
ISBN10: 1260526348
ISBN13: 9781260526349
By Lisa Hoeffner

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To become good writers, students must learn more than a writing process: they must develop a writer’s mindset—the rhetorical skills to read critically, analyze and synthesize sources, and write with their audiences in mind. How can we help students with the challenges involved in thinking like a writer? By using incremental steps that move from literal thinking to analytical and critical understanding, The Writer’s Mindset 1e makes the development of college-level writing capabilities possible for all students, whatever their level of preparedness. 

The Writer’s Mindset provides students with tools to transform the way they approach reading, writing, and arguing through five key pillars:

Rhetorical Focus
Incremental Approach
Embedded Support
Student Appeal
Instructor Support


PART 1 DEVELOPING A WRITER’S MINDSET 
1 What Is a Writer’s Mindset?
2 Reading with a Writer’s Mindset
3 Composing with a Writer’s Mindset 
4 Using Rhetorical Patterns as Tools

PART 2 WRITING PURPOSES
5 Writing to Reflect
6 Writing to Inform
7 Writing to Analyze
8 Writing to Evaluate
9 Writing to Persuade

PART 3 RESEARCH STRATEGIES
10 Conducting Research
11 Using Sources Accurately and Ethically
12 Documenting Sources in MLA and APA Style

PART 4 ARGUMENTS IN DEPTH
13 Recognizing Arguments
14 Analyzing an Argument’s Elements
15 Understanding an Argument’s Appeals
16 Recognizing Fallacies
17 Writing a Rhetorical Analysis
18 Classical, Rogerian, and Visual Arguments

PART 5 WRITING A RESEARCHED ARGUMENT
19 Planning an Argument
20 Selecting Evidence and Drafting Reasons
21 Drafting Counterarguments, Intro¬ductions, and Conclusions
22 Revising and Finishing Your Argument

PART 6 AN ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS

PART 7 HANDBOOK OF READING AND WRITING SKILLS
1 Improving Your Reading Skills
2 Improving Your Writing Skills

About the Author

Lisa Hoeffner

Lisa Hoeffner earned a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in rhetoric from the University of Houston. Since 1998, Dr. Hoeffner has served as both professor of English and professor of reading at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. In addition to her teaching roles, Dr. Hoeffner focuses on curricular redesign in developmental education. She serves as grant director for a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant awarded for work on improvement and innovation in developmental education. With the advent of integrated reading and writing in Texas, Dr. Hoeffner has provided leadership for colleges across the state that are creating integrated reading and writing (INRW) programs and has provided leadership to public school districts implementing INRW programs as college preparatory classes.

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