The Human Condition

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An engaging journey from reading to personal and expository writing.
The Humán Condition: A Rhetoric with Thematic Readings helps writing students translate their personal experiences and their reactions to the works of other writers intő mature essays.
Each chapter is organized around the steps of the writing pro-cess—thinking, reading, discussing, writing, and rewriting. Readings are grouped thematically, with each chapter focusing on an attribute that has aliowed humán beings to survive, progress, and create. Love, the uniqueness of being humán, nature and humán beginnings, perspectives on education, and issues of conscience and belief are just a few themes represented. The readings offer a diverse blend of classic and modern pieces, including both familiar and not-often-anthologized works.
Always focusing on the connection between reading and writing, The Humán Condition: A Rhetoric with Thematic Readings
¦ Actively engages students in exploratory discussions that draw on... Tovább

Fülszöveg

An engaging journey from reading to personal and expository writing.
The Humán Condition: A Rhetoric with Thematic Readings helps writing students translate their personal experiences and their reactions to the works of other writers intő mature essays.
Each chapter is organized around the steps of the writing pro-cess—thinking, reading, discussing, writing, and rewriting. Readings are grouped thematically, with each chapter focusing on an attribute that has aliowed humán beings to survive, progress, and create. Love, the uniqueness of being humán, nature and humán beginnings, perspectives on education, and issues of conscience and belief are just a few themes represented. The readings offer a diverse blend of classic and modern pieces, including both familiar and not-often-anthologized works.
Always focusing on the connection between reading and writing, The Humán Condition: A Rhetoric with Thematic Readings
¦ Actively engages students in exploratory discussions that draw on their own experiences and encourage a variety of responses
¦ Contains a rangé of chapter writing assignments, from sponta-neous "Quickwrites" to more reflective "Topics for Critical Thinking and Writing," "Synthesis Questions," and collaborative "Writing Workshops"
¦ Provides techniques for invention and outlining; offers clear in-struction on organizing essay topics; expiains text-mapping and other strategies for summarizing; and includes a chapter on making abstractions concrete through vocabulary, images, and support for generalizations
Joan Young Gregg (lejt) and BethM. Pacheco, both of New York City Technical College ojthe City University ofNew York Vissza