NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Why write? -- Elements of rhetoric -- Reading and listening for writing -- Argument -- Writing ethics, responsibility, and accountability -- Analyze the assignment -- Plan : organizing the process -- Question : exploring issues -- Read : strategies for reading in research -- Invent : take note and create -- Arrange : prioritize, organize, outline -- Draft : introduction, body, conclusion -- Revise : strategies for re-seeing -- Review : by peers and experts -- Proofread and submit -- Rhetorical analysis : getting the message -- Narration : composing from personal experience -- Causation : making connections -- Definition : explaining the nature of something -- Evaluation : considering criteria -- Rebuttal : negotiating opposing viewpoints -- Proposal : advocating for change -- Multimodal composition -- Style -- Inclusive writing -- Design and delivery : print, digital, and oral presentations -- Working with published sources -- Working with human sources.

"Good Writing, a textbook for first-year writing courses, teaches writing as social action. We teach our students that "good writers" aim to persuade audiences to think and act differently based on the writer's presentation of facts, claims, evidence, and reasons. But many of us who teach writing are also committed to the idea that "good writing" is writing for the common good, writing that persuades others to think and act in ways that advance humanity. This textbook aims to develop good writers who produce good writing, by encouraging emerging writers to interrogate deeply their purpose and responsibility as writers. From the informative report that aims to persuade readers that its facts, observations, hypotheses, and conclusions are comprehensive, valid, and executed according to the ethics of its discipline, to the Op-Ed article laden with explicit claims and carefully selected support, writers make choices that ultimately determine the extent to which readers will accept, adopt, and act on their arguments. This textbook helps students learn to acknowledge and inventory the choices available to them as writers while emphasizing the ethical valence of those choices. Good Writing presents argument as a powerful tool that comes with great responsibility because it is the primary means by which people lead others to change minds - and, in doing so, change society"-- Provided by publisher.

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