Comp by Verne Meyer

Comp by Verne Meyer

Created through a student-tested, faculty-approved review process, COMP, 2nd Edition, is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. Practical and concise, COMP helps writers focus on the seven traits of effective writing as they invent, draft, develop, and revise their writing. The second edition also helps writers develop their reading skills with expanded reading instruction in 14 chapters and 44 models of different forms of writing. Up-to-the-minute research coverage, complete MLA and APA sample papers, and new grammar activities ensure that every aspect of writing is fully supported by COMP.

Part I: Writing Process1. Understanding the Reading-Writing Connection. Learning Objectives: Use the SQ3R Reading Strategy. Read actively. Summarize a text. View and interpret images thoughtfully. Think critically through writing. 2. One Writer's Process. Learning Objectives: Initiate the process. Plan the writing. Write the first draft. Complete a first revision. Complete a second revision. Edit the writing for style. Edit the writing for correctness. Complete the final copy. Student Model: Clean Water is Everyone's Business by Angela Franco. 3. Starting. Learning Objectives: Discover your process. Recognize seven traits of effective writing. Analyze the situation. Understand the assignment. Select a topic. Gather details. 4. Planning. Learning Objectives: Take inventory of your thoughts. Form your thesis statement. Select a method of development. Develop a plan or an outline. 5. Drafting. Learning Objectives: Review the writing situation. Open with interest. Develop the middle. End with purpose. Use sources effectively. Student Models: Seeing the Light by David Zupp. The Production of Cement by Kevin Mass. Hypothermia by Laura Black. Four Temperaments by Jessica Radsma. My Obsession by Paula Treick. Entering the Green Room by Luke Sunukjian. Professional Models: Mall Security Immunity by Rob King. Writers Rule by Lester Smith. Grotesque by John Van Rys. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. 6. Revising. Learning Objectives: Address whole-paper issues. Revise your first draft. Revise for ideas and organization. Revise for voice. Address paragraph issues. Revise collaboratively. Use the writing center. 7. Editing. Learning Objectives: Review the overall style of your writing. Write effective sentences. Check your sentences for style and correctness. Replace imprecise, misleading, and biased words. Edit and proofread for conventions. 8. Publishing. Learning Objectives: Format your writing. Create a writing portfolio. Part II: Forms of Writing. 9. Narration, Description, and Reflection. Anecdote Models: Anecdote introducing a topic (from Deft or Daft). Anecdote illustrating a point (from Shades of Prejudice). Student Models: The Entomology of Village Life by Robert Minto. Spare Change by Teresa Zsuffa. Professional Models: When Dreams Take Flight by Elizabeth Fuller. The Muscle Mystique by Barbara Kingsolver. Guidelines. Analytical Writing. 10. Definition. Student Models: Economic Disparities Fuel Human Trafficking by Shon Bogar. The Gullible Family by Mary Beth Bruins. Professional Models: Deft or Daft by David Schelhaas. Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth by Simson L. Garfinkle. Guidelines. 11. Classification. Student Model: Latin American Music: A Diverse and Unifying Force by Kathleen Kropp. Professional Models: Four Sides to Every Story by Steward Brand. Four Ways to talk About Literature by John Van Rys. Guidelines. 12. Process. Student Model: Wayward Cells by Kerri Mertz. Professional Models: Love and Race by Nicholas D. Kristof. The End of Race as We Know It by Gerald L. Early. Instructions by Verne Meyer. Guidelines. 13. Comparison-Contrast. Student Model: Sethe in Beloved and Orleanna in Poisonwood Bible: Isolation, Children, and Getting Out by Rachel De Smith. Professional Models: Shrouded in Contradiction by Gelareh Asayesh. Shades of Prejudice by Shankar Vedantam. Guidelines. 14. Cause-Effect. Student Models: Adrenaline Junkies by Sarah Hanley. Dutch Discord by Brittany Korver. Professional Models: If You Let Me Play ... by Mary Brophy Marcus. Mind Over Mass Media by Steven Pinker. Guidelines. Persuasive Writing. 15. Strategies for Argumentation & Persuasion. Learning Objectives: Understand an argument. Recognize an argument's organization. Understand what makes a strong claim. Identify claims of truth, value, and policy. Assess the quality of the support. Recognize logical fallacies. Learn about additional strategies. Professional Model: Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha Anna Quindlen. 16. Taking a Position. Student Models: Ah, the Power of Women by Aleah Stenberg. Nuclear Is Not the Answer by Alyssa Woudstra. Professional Models: Animal, Vegetable, Miserable by Gary Steiner. Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too by Natalie Angier. Guidelines. 17. Persuading Readers to Act. Student Models: To Drill or Not To Drill by Rebecca Pasok. Our Wealth: Where Is It Taking Us? by Henry Veldboom. Professional Models: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King. In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face by Kofi A. Annan. Guidelines. 18. Proposing a Solution. Student Models: Dream Act May Help Local Student Fight for Residence by Renee Wielenga. Preparing for AgroTerror by Brian Ley. Professional Models: Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn. Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? by Barbara Ehrenreich. Guidelines. Report Writing. 19. Interview Report. Student Model: The Dead Business Benjamin Meyer. Professional Model: Arcade Fire, on fame and putting it to good use by Jonathon Gatehouse. Guidelines. 20. Lab, Experiment, and Field Reports. Student Models: Lab: Working with Hydrochloric Acid by Coby Williams. Experiment: The Effects of Temperature and Inhibitors on the Fermentation Process for Ethanol by Andrea Pizano. Professional Model: Field: Investigation of Cockroach Infestation at 5690 Cherryhill by Hue Nguyen. Guidelines. Special Forms of Writing. 21. Analyzing the Arts. Guidelines: Fiction, Poetry, and Film. Student Models: Fiction: 'Good Country People': Broken Body, Broken Soul by Anya Terekhina. Poem: 'Let Evening Come': An Invitation to the Inevitable by Sherry Van Egdom. Film: Terror on the Silver Screen: Who Are the Aliens? by David Schaap. 22. Workplace Writing. Learning Objective: Create correspondence. Models: E-Mail. Memo. Learning Objective: Correctly format a letter. Models: Letter of Invitation. Letter of Application. Recommendation Request. Learning Objective: Write an Application Essay. Model: Personal Statement. Learning Objective: Prepare a Resume. Models: Print Resume. Digital Resume. 23. Web Writing. Learning Objectives: Understand page elements. Develop a Web site. Consider sample sites. Understand other writing venues. Develop a blog. Contribute to a wiki. Models: The Museum of Flight home page. Southwest Sojourners home page. Academic: Space Nanotechnology Laboratory home page. Sample blog and sample wiki pages. 24. Assessment. Learning Objectives: Prepare for exams. Respond to essay questions. Understand objective questions. Research Writing. 25. Planning Your Research Project. Learning Objectives: Understand academic research. Initiate the process. Develop a research plan. Consider possible resources and sites. Understand sources. 26. Doing Your Research. Learning Objectives: Learn keyword searching. Conduct primary research. Do library research. Use books. Find periodical articles. Understand the Internet. Find reliable free-web information. 27. Working with Your Sources. Learning Objectives: Evaluate your sources. Create a working bibliography. Review note taking. Summarize, paraphrase, and quote. 28. Writing a Research Paper. Learning Objectives: Avoid plagiarism. Avoid other source abuses. Use sources well. Write your research paper. Follow a model. Professional Models: Some Stories Have to Be Told by Me: A Literary History of Alice Munro (Excerpt) by Marcela Valdes. Vehicle of Change (Excerpt) L.D. Burns, J.B. McCormick, C.E. Borroni-Bird. Student Model: 'I Did Not Get My Spaghetti-O's': Death Row Consumption in the Popular Media by Stevie Jeung. 29. MLA and APA Styles. Learning Objectives: Learn the basics of MLA & APA style. Understand in-text citations. List books and other nonperiodical documents. List print periodical articles. List online sources. List other sources: primary, personal, and multimedia. Update documentation strategies above as needed. MLA Model: 'I Did Not Get My Spaghetti-O's': Death Row Consumption in the Popular Media (see chapter 28). APA Model: Dutch Discord (see chapter 14). Part III: Handbook. 30. Grammar. Noun. Pronoun. Verb. Adjective. Adverb. Preposition. Conjunction. Interjection. 31. Sentences. Subjects and Predicates. Phrases. Clauses. Sentence Variety. 32. Sentence Errors. Subject-Verb Agreement. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. Shifts in Sentence Construction. Fragments. Comma Splices. Run-Ons. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. Ambiguous Wording. Nonstandard Language. 33. Punctuation. Period. Ellipsis. Comma. Semicolon. Colon. Hyphen. Dash. Question Mark. Quotation Marks. Italics (Underlining). Parentheses. Diagonal. Brackets. Exclamation Point. Apostrophe. 34. Mechanics. Capitalization. Plurals. Numbers. Abbreviations. Acronyms and Initialisms. Basic Spelling Rules. 35. Multilingual and ESL Guidelines. Parts of Speech. Sentence Basics. Sentence Problems. Numbers. Word Parts. Idioms.

Dr. Verne Meyer is an educator and a businessperson. For nine years, he taught English in high schools in Michigan and Wisconsin; and for fifteen years, he taught dramatic literature, theatre history, and composition at Dordt College in Iowa. In 1977, with Pat Sebranek, Meyer cofounded Write Source Educational Publishing House, now a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental. A graduate of Calvin College (B.A.), Marquette University (M.A.), and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.), Dr. Meyer has coauthored a number of texts for college students, including THE COLLEGE WRITER, THE COLLEGE WRITER'S HANDBOOK, COMP, THE BUSINESS WRITER, and WRITE FOR WORK. For students in grades 8 through 12, he coauthored WRITERS INC, SCHOOL TO WORK, WRITE FOR COLLEGE, and a number of Write Source textbooks. For businesspeople, he coauthored WRITE FOR BUSINESS and EFFECTIVE EMAIL MADE EZ. Dr. Meyer is currently a contributing editor for Write Source and UpWrite Press. He is also a featured speaker in the School Improvement Network's instructional videos, Writing Across the Curriculum. Patrick Sebranek (M.A. University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse) taught English, speech, and multimedia classes for sixteen years at Union Grove High School in Wisconsin. During that time, he served as the English department chair and worked on several district-wide projects, including a writing-across-the-curriculum program and a K-12 writing sequence. He has studied the works of James Moffett, Ken Macrorie, Linda Reif, Nancie Atwell, and many other contemporary educators dealing with writing and learning. Mr. Sebranek is an author and editorial director for the Write Source Educational Publishing House and works closely with teachers and educators on all new and revised handbooks and sourcebooks. Randall VanderMey (Ph.D. University of Iowa, M.F.A. Iowa Writers' Workshop, M.A. University of Pennsylvania) is an associate professor in the Department of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He also has taught composition, literature, and technical writing at Iowa State University, Dordt College, and the University of Iowa. He is a contributing editor and creative consultant for Write Source. Dr. VanderMey has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards for his teaching and poetry. He has published two books of poems, GROWING SOUL: A SONG CYCLE, GOD TALK, and CHARM SCHOOL: FIVE WOMEN OF THE ODYSSEY, as well as a commissioned biography, MERIZON: THE GREAT JOURNEY. John Van Rys (Ph.D. Dalhousie University, M.A./B.A. University of Western Ontario) has taught composition, business writing, creative writing, and literature courses to college students for more than twenty-five years. After spending fifteen years at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, Dr. Van Rys has been teaching as a full professor in the English Department at Redeemer University College in Hamilton, Ontario, since 2005, where he also pursues scholarly work in Canadian literature. For over twenty years, he has worked on writing-across-the-curriculum theory and practice, on connections between workplace and academic writing, and on strategies for strengthening varied literacies in students (from reading to research to visual literacy). With Write Source Educational Publishing and Cengage Learning, he has coauthored writing handbooks for students from middle school to college. Dr. Van Rys also has coauthored an award-winning business-writing handbook for workplace professionals, WRITE FOR BUSINESS, with UpWrite Press.

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Title	Comp
Author	Verne Meyer
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Publisher	Wadsworth Publishing
Year published	2012-01-10
Number of pages	496
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