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The Blair Handbook
Second Edition
by Toby Fulwiler and Alan R. Hayakawa
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In college, whether you are enrolled in a writing course or any other course, you'll be asked to write critical essays, research reports, position papers, book reviews, essay exams, laboratory reports, and sometimes, you might be asked to keep a journal.
You might have tackled similar writing assignments in high school, so you've had practice. Now, because college is designed to challenge you, that practice will be put to the test.
One aspect of college writing that might challenge you is the concept of reading and writing critically. Reading critically means being able to analyze the distinctions,interpretations, and conclusions of others and make sense of them. Writing critically means making distinctions, developing interpretatations, and rendering conclusions in your own writing, that stand up to the thoughtful scrutiny of others. Becoming a critical thinker means exercising judgment in both reading and writing.
In order to create these examples of critical writing, The Blair Handbook, Second Edition
encourages you to go through "the writing process." This handbook details how writers write--from the time they select something to write about, through their efforts at drafting, revising, and editing--until they send their writing out into the world.
If you're interested in improving your writing, examine your own writing process closely: describe how you do it and identify what works and what doesn't. Then, study the ideas and strategies that work for others.
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