Skip to content

Refining, Reading, Writing: Includes 2009 MLA update card, 1st Edition

By Dasgupta/Mei
Instructional Resources
Digital teaching aids may be available for this title. All instructor requests are reviewed by our team before the files are made accessible.
Soft Cover
352 pages
ISBN-10: 0176103538
ISBN-13: 9780176103538
Publisher: Top Hat
Edition: 1st

Refining Reading Writing, first edition is designed for students who are studying English composition and honing their skills. This book aims to refine their abilities in both reading and writing that are essential to success in their future careers as well as at school. The emphasis in this text is to encourage and cultivate life-long interest in critical reading and effective writing. Refining Reading Writing features many known, contemporary Canadian writers. Each reading is followed by Comprehension and Analysis questions that encourage the reader understand and reflect on what they have just read. This exciting new text has been designed with students in mind making the learning of reading and writing skills more enjoyable and enriching.

Features

  • Substantial Canadian content - 2/3 of the essays are Canadian and reflect Canadian cultural diversity
  • Approach is appropriate for classrooms with integrated ESL students
  • The authors downplay rhetorical modes and, instead, emphasize approaches to writing for an audience
  • Includes a chapter on research and documentation
  • Expanded grammar review includes ESL-specific problems

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Unit One: Reading the Writings: Active Reading--Reading from Context, Skimming, Scanning, and Purpose & Audience
  • Active reading
  • Reading from context
  • Skimming
  • Scanning
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Readings:
  • ?Murdering the Innocents? by Charles Dickens
  • Levels of Language: Word use, prefixes & suffixes
  • ?Your New Computer? by Bill Bryson
  • Levels of Language: Jargon
  • ?Prison Studies? by Malcolm X
  • Levels of Language: Slang
  • Unit Two: Writing from Readings: Responding to Readings: Summary and Critique
  • Responding in writing
  • Critique
  • ?The Real McCoy? by Ralph Nader
  • Point of View
  • Irony
  • Readings:
  • ?Smoking Is Good for My Business? by David Ginsburg
  • Rhetorical questions, Parallel Structure, Irony
  • ?The Virtues of Ambition? by Joseph Epstein
  • ?The Atoms Image Problem? by Jay Ingram
  • Unit Three: Organized Writing: Composing the Formula Five-Paragraph Essay
  • Step One: Generate Information
  • Step Two: Select & Arranging Information
  • Step Three: Presenting the Information
  • Student Sample Essay I: ?Effective Driving? by Marcelo Olenewa
  • Student Sample Essay II: ?My True Love Is Reading? by Rosemary Afriye
  • Student Sample Essay III: ?The Common Ston?e by Jeff Haas
  • Step Four: Editing the Information
  • Unity & Coherence
  • Exercises for Coherence
  • Readings:
  • ?What I Have Lived For? by Bertrand Russell
  • ?Writing and Its Rewards? by Richard Marius
  • ?How to Write with Style? by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Unit Four: Writing that Informs the Reader: Examples, Process Analysis, Comparison and Contrast, Classification, and Cause and Effect
  • Analyzing Patterns in Reading and Writing Exposition
  • Other Patterns of Development: Analogy & Definition
  • Essay of Example
  • Sample Student Essay: ?Thoughts of Winter? by Victoria Santiago
  • Readings:
  • ?The Great Communicator? by Margaret Atwood
  • ?Overpopulation Is Bad, But Overconsumption Is Worse? by David Suzuki
  • ?Remembrance? by Timothy Findley
  • ?In Praise of the Humble Comma? by Pico Iyer
  • Essay of Process Analysis
  • Student Sample Essay: ?How to Use Less Communication? by Stuart Johns
  • Readings:
  • ?Blue Jeans: Born to Last? by Leslie C. Smith
  • ?How to Mend a Broken Heart? by Nicola Bleasby
  • ?You Are a Contract Painkiller? by Maureen Littlejohn
  • ?Ten Steps to the Creation of a Modern Media Icon? by Mark Kingwell
  • Essay of Comparison and Contrast
  • Student Sample Essay: ?Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast?? by Sandra Stewart
  • Readings:
  • ?A Fable for Tomorrow? by Rachel Carson
  • ?Whats Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her? by Anne McIlroy
  • ?English, French: Why Not Both?? by Peggy Lampotang
  • ?The Insufficiency of Honesty? by Stephen L. Carter
  • Essay of Classification
  • Student Sample Essay: ?The Canadian Dream? by Julie-Ann Yoshikuni
  • Readings:
  • ?Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends? by Judith Viorst
  • ?Bird-Feeder Enlightenment? by Sean Twist
  • ?A Few Kind Words for Superstition? by Robertson Davies
  • Essay of Cause and Effect
  • Student Sample Essay: ?Illiterate like Me? by Dan Zollmann
  • Readings:
  • ?Im a Banana and Proud of It? by Wayson Choy
  • ?The New Apartheid? by Derek Cohen,
  • ?When Bright Girls Decide Math Is a Waste of Time? by Susan Jacoby
  • ?Deliberate Strangers? by Charlie Angus
  • Unit Five: Writing that Affects the Reader: Description, Narration, Argument/Persuasion
  • Essay of Description
  • Readings:
  • ?Pinball? by J. Anthony Lukas
  • ?Curtain Up? by Catherine George
  • ?Chasing Buzz? by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
  • ?The Shack? by Margaret Laurence
  • Essay of Narration
  • Readings:
  • ?The Minnie Mouse Kitchen? by Michael Dorris
  • ?Growing Up on Grace? by Rosie DiManno
  • ?The Fight? Maya Angelou
  • ?But a Watch in the Night: A Scientific Fable? by James C. Rettie
  • Essay of Argument & Persuasion
  • Student Sample Essay: ?Our Earthly Fate? by Sang Il Lee
  • Readings:
  • ?Playing Piano: Body, Embodiment and Gender? by Ruth Grogan
  • ?Rediscovering Christmas? by Almas Zakiuddin
  • ?Dont You Think Its Time to Start Thinking? Northrop Frye
  • ?The Case for Curling up with a Book? by Carol Shields
  • ?A World Not Neatly Divided? by Amritya Sen
  • Unit Six: Writing a Research Paper
  • The Research Paper: what? why? how?
  • How to Search and Research
  • How to Use Quotations in a Research Paper
  • Documentation
  • MLA Documentation Style
  • APA Documentation Style
  • Sample Research Paper
  • Outlining
  • Appendix: Reading your Own Writing
  • A1. Proofreading, Editing and Revision
  • ?Win the War against Typos? by Patty Martino Alspaugh
  • A2. Proofreading Checklist
  • A3. Using Transitions
  • A4. Recognizing Prefixes and Suffixes
  • A5. Grammar Review
  • A5.1 Verbs
  • A5.2 Sentence structure
  • A5.3 Pronouns
  • A5.4 Parallel structure
  • A5.5 Modifiers
  • A6. Punctuation
  • ?How to Punctuate? by Russell Baker
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Copyrights
  • Index