Susan Fawcett, Evergreen 8/e

WHAT’S NEW IN EVERGREEN, EIGHTH EDITION

Overview of Changes in Evergreen

Evergreen with Readings, Eighth Edition, retains these features that have made it the most popular second-level developmental writing text in the country:

  • Clear, step-by-step lessons
  • Numerous high-interest practices that keep students involved
  • Flexible organization and flow of chapters
  • Engaging activities, assignments, and reading selections
  • Instructor’s Annotated Edition with answers to student exercises
  • Student answer key

In response to instructor and student feedback, the Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised with these exciting changes:

  • Dynamic four-color design with 48 full-color illustrations, each one linked to content
  • New critical viewing assignments based on photographs, ads, paintings, and cartoons
  • More focus on critical thinking (more third-person writing, collegiate topics, “Thinking and Writing Together” and other group tasks, problem-solving, and visuals to analyze)
  • More Exploring Online assignments, with web links for more practice, review, or exploration
  • More coverage of outlining in a new Part D, Chapter 14
  • New integrated ESL coverage
  • ESL tips and general teaching tips in the margins of every chapter of the Instructor’s Annotated Edition
  • An ESL manual for Evergreen instructors by Dr. Donald Weasonforth
  • New ESL appendix with practices in the Student Edition
  • Additional help and practice on both Evergreen’s Online Study Center and Online Teaching Center
  • Nearly 50% engaging new reading selections
  • 65 new or revised high-interest models and practices
  • New Web and computer resources surpassing all competitors:
  • New WriteSpace for Evergreen online—hundreds of additional exercises, tailored to every chapter and part of Evergreen
  • Expanded and improved Evergreen Test Bank—available online or on CD-Rom
  • 120 new PowerPoint slides to enhance instruction, available online
  • All newEvergreen Instructor Website with creative class ideas, ESL resources, professional links, links to interactive exercises, and more
  • All new Evergreen Student Website with grammar and writing exercises and links, ESL Corner, career and job-search resources, and more

Chapter by Chapter Changes in Evergreen, Eighth Edition

UNIT 1 GETTING STARTED

Chapter 1: Exploring the Writing Process

Updated! This chapter still provides students with an engaging introduction to the course. It has been updated with a new four-color advertisement for students to analyze and a new Exploring Online feature that is now included in every chapter. Teaching Tips and ESL Tips in the Instructor’s Edition offer course ideas and suggestions.

  • New visual, an anti-steroid public service announcement, is the focus of Practice 5, p. 7
  • New Exploring Online feature introduces students to sites with additional writing help, Purdue University’s OWL and the Evergreen student website, p. 7. A new website in the Exploring Online on p. 4 emphasizes the importance of writing as a job skill.
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 2: Prewriting to Generate Ideas

Revised and updated! This chapter retains its effective coverage of prewriting methods with plentiful practice exercises. Coverage of freewriting has been streamlined to concentrate on focused freewriting, the most common type. One of the models has been replaced with a new example. The new Exploring Online feature refers students to websites where they can find more information and practice with prewriting techniques. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • Revised, streamlined coverage of freewriting, pp. 8-10
  • New model for asking questions technique, p. 13
  • New Exploring Online feature provides websites for more information and practice with prewriting techniques, p. 17
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

UNIT 2 DISCOVERING THE PARAGRAPH

Chapter 3: The Process of Writing Paragraphs

Updated! Chapter 3 retains its clear explanations and illustrations for each step of the paragraph-writing process, but it has been updated with many new models and practice items. The new Exploring Online feature refers students to websites where they can find more information and practice with topic sentences and proofreading. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New practice content

Practice 1, new paragraph on cell phone trash, p. 23

Practice 2, new paragraphs on iPods and municipal pool, pp. 24-25

Practice 4, two new practice items, p. 29

Practice 6, new paragraph about digital photography, p. 31

Practice 12, new paragraph about poetry slams, p. 39

  • New model, paragraph about studying to illustrate revising for support, p. 36
  • New Exploring Online features

A new Exploring Online on p. 39 provides a poetry slam website

A new Exploring Online at the end of the chapter offers websites for more practice with topic sentences and proofreading, p. 44

  • New visual, a photograph of the winner of the 2006 Intercollegiate Poetry Slam, p. 39
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 4: Achieving Coherence

Updated! Within the proven structure of this chapter, a number of model paragraphs and practice items have been revised or replaced with fresh, contemporary content. Two new visuals and two new Exploring Online features have been added. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New and revised practice content

Practice 2, new item about security measures for the Declaration of Independence, p. 50

Practice 5, new paragraph about Navajo surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord, p. 58

New writing assignment on p. 51

Practice 6, revised paragraph about Christopher Reeve, p. 59

Practice 9, an all-new Thinking and Writing Together collaborative activity that focuses on birth order and personality

Practice 10, new paragraph about phishing, p. 66

  • New or revised model paragraphs

Layers of the rainforest, p. 49

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali, p. 52

Amber Alert, p. 55

Capoeira master Edna Lima, p. 55

Zoos (revised to focus on pandas), p. 61

  • New Exploring Online features

A new Exploring Online accompanies the paragraph about Salvador Dali, p. 52

A new Exploring Online offers more information and practice with coherence,

p. 67

  • Two new visuals, a public service announcement featuring Lori Arviso Alvord on p. 59 (with a critical thinking question) and a photograph of a panda cub on p. 62
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

UNIT 3 DEVELOPING THE PARAGRAPH

Chapter 5: Illustration

Updated! A few of the models and practices in this chapter have been refreshed with new and revised content. A new visual and Exploring Online feature have been added. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • Revised model, paragraph about athletes who work hard, p. 72
  • New and revised content in Practice 2: two new items about inventions by women and NASCAR safety measures, pp. 75-76, and a revision of the item about natural remedies, p. 77
  • New visual, a photograph of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wearing HANS safety device, p. 76
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about developing ideas with illustration, p. 80
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 6: Narration

Updated! Chapter 6 includes several fresh new models and practice items, including a new Thinking and Writing Together collaborative activity that focuses on analyzing a new photograph of an intriguing painting. A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more instruction and sample narratives. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New model, paragraph about how television journalist Diane Sawyer chose her career, p. 84
  • New practice content

Practice 2, three brand new items about singer Alicia Keys, Civil War soldiers, and the myth of Icarus, pp. 84-86

Practice 4, an all-new Thinking and Writing Together collaborative activity that focuses on analyzing a painting, p. 88

  • New visual, a photograph of the painting “Icarus,” p. 86
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about narratives, p. 90
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 7: Description

Updated! This chapter now includes a new photograph of the King Tut mummy, as well as a new Exploring Online feature that lists websites with more on descriptive writing. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New visual, a photograph of the King Tut mummy, p. 93
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about descriptive writing, p. 99
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 8: Process

Updated! This chapter retains its effective coverage of process paragraphs but now includes a new Exploring Online feature that directs students to additional written and visual examples of process. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information and examples of process, p. 110
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 9: Definition

Updated! A new photograph of tango dancers adds visual interest, and a new Exploring Online feature provides a list of websites with additional examples of definition. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New visual, a photograph of tango dancers, p. 113
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more examples of definitions, p. 122
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 10: Comparison and Contrast

Updated! Chapter 10 has been freshened with new practice content and a new photograph. A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more examples and tools for writing comparison and contrast paragraphs. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New practice content

Practice 2, new paragraph about the size of American restaurant portions, p. 129

Practice 7, a new passage about magazines vs. journals, p. 136

New topics for writing, p. 134

  • New visual, a photograph of popcorn to accompany Practice 2, p. 130
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about comparison and contrast, p. 138
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 11: Classification

Chapter 11 still provides excellent coverage of classification, with clear instruction and excellent practice activities. New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout the chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English.

Chapter 12: Cause and Effect

Updated! In Chapter 12, a new Thinking and Writing Together collaborative activity asks students to consider the reasons why newspapers are losing readers. A new photograph of Latina entrepreneur Christy Haubegger adds visual appeal, and a new Exploring Online feature offers websites with more information about writing cause and effect paragraphs. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New content inPractice 5, a new Thinking and Writing Together collaborative activity on the reasons why newspapers are losing readers, p. 155
  • New visual, a photograph of Christy Haubegger to accompany Practice 5, p. 151
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about cause and effect, p. 157
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 13: Persuasion

Updated! This chapter retains its effective coverage of persuasion but now includes a new Exploring Online feature that offers websites with more information about persuasive writing. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information and practice with persuasion, p. 173
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

UNIT 4 WRITING THE ESSAY

Chapter 14: The Process of Writing an Essay

Revised! To help students better understand a challenging part of the writing process, the section on organizing and outlining has been expanded with more explanation and examples. Chapter 14 has also been freshened with the addition of new models, a new photograph, and new and revised practice content. The Exploring Online feature has been revised with new links to information about writing a thesis statement, revising, and proofreading. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • Expanded coverage of organizing and outlining, pp. 187-192
  • New models

New modelabout ways to reduce stress for organizing/outlining, p. 188

New model about hydrogen fuel cell cars for ordering paragraphs, p. 193

  • New and revised content in Practice 8: a new item about becoming a U.S. citizen and a revision of the item about job markets, p. 194
  • New visual, a photograph of a student car designer’s hydrogen car model, p. 193
  • A revised Exploring Online feature provides new websites with more information about writing essays, p. 206
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 15: Types of Essays

Updated! Chapter 15 includes a fresh new model and two new visuals, one of which is the basis of a new group activity. A new Exploring Online feature offers links to sample student papers and tips on writing essays. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New model, an illustration essay about new state-of-the-art libraries, p. 208
  • New visual, a photograph of the Seattle Central Library, p. 208
  • New content in Practice 9, a group activity now based on a cartoon about global warming, p. 230
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites where students can find sample student papers and tip about writing essays, p. 231
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 16: The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title

Updated! Chapter 16 now includes two new models and a new Exploring Online feature that directs students to online information about writing effective introductions and conclusions. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New models

New model of an introduction that begins with an illustration, p. 233

New model of a conclusion that ends with a question, p. 236

  • A new Exploring Online feature provides websites with more information about strong introductions and conclusions, p. 239
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 17: Summarizing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism

Updated! This chapter retains its clear and thorough coverage of summarizing and quoting outside sources. Practice 4 has been freshened with a new paragraph about TV commercials, and a brand new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more on how to avoid plagiarism. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New content in Practice 4, a paragraph about the TV commercial blitz, p. 248
  • A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about avoiding plagiarism by summarizing and quoting correctly, p. 250
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 18: Strengthening an Essay with Research

Updated! Chapter 18 has been freshened with updated models and practice content. A new Exploring Online feature lists websites with more information about writing research papers and using outside sources. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • Updated models

Updated model of a paragraph with facts from outside sources, p. 252

Updated bar graph on p. 252

Updated models of works cited entries, p. 259

  • Updated content in Practice 6, p. 261
  • New visual, a photograph of the Federal Trade Commission’s website, p. 257
  • A new Exploring Online feature provides websites with more information about writing research papers and using outside sources, p. 263
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 19: Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination

Updated! Chapter 11 still provides excellent instruction on taking essay exams, but a new Exploring Online feature now directs students to sites with more advice about test-taking. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • A new Exploring Online feature provides websites with more advice for test-takers, p. 273
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

UNIT 5 IMPROVING YOUR WRITING

Chapter 20: Revising for Consistency and Parallelism

Updated! This chapter has been updated with new practice content, a new visual, and a new Exploring Online feature that lists websites for more practice with consistency and parallelism. Teaching and ESL Tips are now provided in the Instructor’s Edition.

  • New content in Practice 4, a paragraph about the creation of Mary Shelley’s famous novel Frankenstein, p. 280
  • New visual, a photograph of Van Gogh’s Starry Night to accompany Practice 13, p. 292
  • A new Exploring Online feature provides websites offering additional practice with consistency and parallelism, p. 293
  • New Teaching Tips and ESL Tips throughout chapter offer suggestions to enhance the course or help non-native students of English

Chapter 21: Revising for Sentence Variety