Download or read book The Curious Writer written by Bruce P. Ballenger and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Retail Description: " "The Curious Writer" by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing." & Written with a strong personal voice that respects students and the writing challenges they face." "The Curious Writer" is not like other textbooks on the market today. Where the tone of other books is usually dry and detached, "The Curious Writer" is familiar and inviting. The author shuns a pedantic writing style and instead reaches out to students on equal terms, invoking his own writing experiences and those of his students as a way of illustrating the process of becoming a better writer. The author's voice is one that teaches by example rather than rule. & & @BULLET = A strong emphasis on critical reading skills." "The Curious Writer" believes that writing and reading are complementary skills. The book also holds that in today's media saturated world the ability to read well extends beyond the printed word to visual messages. To support this philosophy, chapter 2 explores inquiry-based reading of texts and images. Each of the writing assignment chapters includes at least three professional models and one student model. "One Student's Response" provides samples of student responses to specific writing exercises throughout the book. "Seeing the Form" encourages students to think beyond the printed word when considering issues of genre. @BULLET = Treatment of research as an organic part of the writing process." The author believes that all writing involves research. Each of his writing assignment chapters includes integrated coverage of research,discussing it both as an invention strategy and as a tool for developing ideas more fully. On top of this coverage, the book also includes one chapter on writing the formal research essay (Ch. 11) and a second chapter on conducting rese