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| Preface for Instructors | |
| Thematic Table of Contents | |
| Introduction | |
| Reading, Writing, and Research | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Reading an Essay | |
| Nancy Mairs, Disability | |
| Thinking Critically about Visual Images | |
| Visual Image: A Deployed Soldier and His Daughter, photograph by Erik S. Lesser | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Analyzing the Writing Situation | |
| Discovering Ideas | |
| Focusing on the Thesis and the Thesis Statement | |
| Drafting | |
| *Revising | |
| *Editing | |
| Collaborating | |
| An Essay-in-Progress | |
| Mental Illness on Television | |
| Academic Writing | |
| Responding to a Text | |
| Integrating Source Material | |
| Writing from Research | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Source Citation Using MLA Style | |
| Sample Research Paper | |
| Rosie Anaya, The Best Kept Secret On Campus | |
| The Methods | |
| Narration: Telling a Story | |
| Visual Image: How Joe's Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame, advertisement for | |
| Charles Atlas | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Narration in Paragraphs | |
| Narration in a Case Study | |
| Paired Selections: Difference | |
| Champion of the World | |
| Maya Angelou on Writing | |
| Fish Cheeks | |
| Amy Tan on Writing | |
| The Chase | |
| Annie Dillard on Writing | |
| Good | |
| *Bradley Philbert on Writing | |
| *Mary Ellen's Story | |
| The Lottery | |
| Shirley Jackson on Writing | |
| Description: Writing with Your Senses | |
| Visual Image: Doug and Mizan's House, East River, photograph by Margaret Morton | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Description in Paragraphs | |
| Description in a Field Observation | |
| Paired Selections: Fathers | |
| Arm Wrestling with My Father | |
| Brad Manning on Writing | |
| Shooting Dad | |
| Sarah Vowell on Writing | |
| *The Best Pizza in the World | |
| *Dance of the Hobs | |
| *William Least Heat-Moon on Writing | |
| *Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 | |
| *Joyce Carol Oates on Writing | |
| Example: Pointing to Instances | |
| Visual Image: Low-Energy Drinks, cartoon by Glen LeLievre | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Example in Paragraphs | |
| Example in a Job Application Letter | |
| Paired Selections: Homelessness | |
| On Compassion | |
| Barbara Lazear Ascher on Writing | |
| Homeless | |
| Anna Quindlen on Writing | |
| *The Adored, Buzzing Around Us | |
| *Sharman Apt Russell on Writing | |
| Black Men and Public Space | |
| Brent Staples on Writing | |
| *This Is Water | |
| *David Foster Wallace on Writing | |
| Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side by Side | |
| Visual Image: American Gothic, painting by Grant Wood; Rural Rehabilitation Client, photograph by Ben Shahn | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Comparison and Contrast in Paragraphs | |
| Comparison and Contrast in a Review | |
| Paired Selections: Personalities | |
| Neat People vs. Sloppy People | |
| Suzanne Britt on Writing | |
| Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out | |
| Dave Barry on Writing | |
| Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts | |
| Bruce Catton on Writing | |
| *Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa | |
| *David Sedaris on Writing | |
| Size 6: The Western Woman's Harem | |
| The Legacy of Antigay Discrimination | |
| Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step | |
| Visual Image: Workers Making Dollsphotograph by Wally McNamee | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Process Analysis in Paragraphs | |
| Process Analysis in a Lab Report | |
| Paired Selections: The Environment | |
| How to Poison the Earth | |
| Linnea Saukko on Writing | |
| Chronicles of Ice | |
| Gretel Ehrlich on Writing | |
| *Sweet, Sour, and Resentful | |
| *Firoozeh Dumas on Writing | |
| Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain | |
| Jessica Mitford on Writing | |
| *Corn Walking | |
| *Michael Pollan on Writing | |
| Division or Analysis: Slicing into Parts | |
| Visual Image: Deconstructing Lunch, cartoon by Roz Chast | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Division or Analysis in Paragraphs | |
| Division or Analysis in an Annotated Bibliography | |
| Paired Selections: Women and Men | |
| I Want a Wife | |
| *Judy Brady on Writing | |
| *Men-It's in Their Nature | |
| *Christina Hoff Sommers on Writing | |
| *Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Vampires Never Die | |
| *Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan on Writing | |
| The Myth of Doomed Kids | |
| Bella DePaulo on Writing | |
| The Capricious Camera | |
| Visual Image: Mounted Nazi Troops on the Lookout for Likely Polish Children, photograph | |
| Classification: Sorting into Kinds | |
| *Visual Image: Maple Ridge Curbside Recycling, illustrated chart by Ridge Meadows Recycling Society | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Classification in Paragraphs | |
| Classification in a Résumé | |
| Paired Selections: Telling Lies | |
| The Ways We Lie | |
| Stephanie Ericsson on Writing | |
| The World of Doublespeak | |
| William Lutz on Writing | |
| The Plot Against People | |
| Russell Baker on Writing | |
| But What Do You Mean? | |
| Deborah Tannen on Writing | |
| *A Vocabulary of Smiles | |
| Cause and Effect: Asking Why | |
| *Visual Image: Im txtng while drvng, cartoon by Mike Luckovich | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Cause and Effect in Paragraphs | |
| Cause and Effect in a Letter to the Editor | |
| Paired Selections: Globalization | |
| Live Free and Starve | |
| Chitra Divakaruni on Writing | |
| Plato o Plomo: Silver or Lead | |
| Marie Javdani on Writing | |
| The New Witch Doctors: How Belief Can Kill | |
| *The Squeeze | |
| *Charles Fishman on Writing | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Hit | |
| Chris Anderson on Writing | |
| Definition: Tracing Boundaries | |
| *Visual Image: Army Strong, advertisement for the U.S. Army | |
| The Method | |
| The Process | |
| Definition in Paragraphs | |
| Definition in an Essay Exam | |
| Paired Selections: Hurtful Words | |
| The Meanings of a Word | |
| Gloria Naylor on Writing | |
| Being a Chink | |
| Christine Leong on Writing | |
| âÇ£NeedsâÇ | |
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