Writing From Life: Collecting and Connecting

By Phyllis Ballata

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559345551
• ISBN13: 9781559345552
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 6.4"

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In Writing From Life: Collecting and Connecting, quotations, essays, and a few poems inspire students to explore and communicate their own ideas through writing. Part One offers a hundred writing projects -- most of them, in fact, comprise of several possible assignments -- based on quotiations from an impressive array of contemporary and historical writers. Part Two is a thermatically arranged collection of fifty-four readings that are referred to and related to the projects in Part One. At the end of each reading, provocative quotations from that reading provide possible starting points for the student's own writing. Part Three is an introduction to the major organizational patterns used in writing. An Appendix traces the progress of an essay from its conception through the final formatting.