The Writer's Mindset: 2025 Release ISE

PART 1 DEVELOPING A WRITER’S MINDSET

1 What Is a Writer's Mindset?

2 Reading with a Writer's Mindset

3 Composing with a Writer's Mindset

4 Using Rhetorical Patterns as Tools

PART 2 WRITING PURPOSES

5 Writing to Reflect

6 Writing to Inform

7 Writing to Analyze

8 Writing to Evaluate

9 Writing to Persuade

PART 3 RESEARCH STRATEGIES

10 Conducting Research

11 Using Sources Accurately and Ethically

12 Documenting Sources in MLA and APA Style

PART 4 ARGUMENTS IN DEPTH

13 Recognizing Arguments

14 Analyzing an Argument's Elements

15 Understanding an Argument's Appeals

16 Recognizing Fallacies

17 Writing a Rhetorical Analysis

18 Classical, Rogerian, and Visual Arguments

PART 5 WRITING A RESEARCHED ARGUMENT

19 Planning an Argument

20 Selecting Evidence and Drafting Reasons

21 Drafting Counterarguments, Introductions, and Conclusions

22 Revising and Finishing Your Argument

PART 6 AN ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS

PART 7 HANDBOOK OF READING AND WRITING SKILLS

1 Improving Your Reading Skills

2 Improving Your Writing Skills

To become good writers, students must learn more than a writing process: they must develop a writer's mindset - the rhetorical skills to read critically, analyze and synthesize sources, and write with their audiences in mind. How can we help students with the challenges involved in thinking like a writer? By using incremental steps that move from literal thinking to analytical and critical understanding, The Writer's Mindset makes the development of college-level writing skills possible for all students, whatever their level of preparedness. The Writer's Mindset provides students with tools to transform the way they approach reading, writing, and arguing through five key pillars:

• Rhetorical Focus

• Incremental Approach

• Embedded Support

• Student Appeal

• Instructor Support