The popular, brief rhetoric that treats writing as thinking, WRITING
ANALYTICALLY, International Edition, offers a sequence of specific prompts that teach
students across the curriculum how the process of analysis and synthesis is a vehicle for
original and well-developed ideas.
The book’s governing premise is that learning to write well means learning to
use writing in order to think well. To that end, the strategies of this book describe
thinking skills that employ writing.
This book treats writing as a tool of thought--a means of undertaking sustained
acts of inquiry and reflection.
Table of Contents
Unit I: THE ANALYTICAL FRAME OF MIND.
1. Introduction to This Book, to College Writing, and to Thinking About Thinking.
2. Toolkit of Analytical Methods I: Seeing Better, Seeing More.
3. Analysis: What It Is and What It Does.
4. Toolkit of Analytical Methods II: Going Deeper.
5. Writing About Readings: Moves to Make with Written Texts.
6. Interpretation and Argument: How to Make Plausible Claims and Take Reasonable
Positions.
7. Making Common Topics More Analytical.
Unit II: WRITING ANALYTICAL PAPERS: HOW TO USE EVIDENCE, EVOLVE CLAIMS, AND
CONVERSE SOURCES.
8. What Evidence Is and How It Works.
9. Using Evidence to Build a Paper: 10 on 1.
10. Making a Thesis Evolve.
11. Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements.
12. Using Sources Analytically: The Conversation Model.
13. Finding, Citing, and Integrating Sources.
Unit III: MATTERS OF FORM: THE SHAPES THAT THOUGHT TAKES.
14. Forms and Formats Across the Curriculum.
15. Introductions and Conclusions Across the Curriculum.
16. Revising for Style: Word Choice.
17. Revising for Style: The Rhetoric of the Sentence.
18. “I was absent that day in fifth grade:” Another Chance to Understand Grammar and
Punctuation.
496 pages, Paperback