Thematic Contents | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xviii |
The Reading Process | p. 1 |
Get an Overview of the Selection | p. 2 |
First Reading: A Checklist | p. 2 |
Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | p. 3 |
Second Reading: A Checklist | p. 3 |
Evaluate the Selection | p. 4 |
Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist | p. 4 |
Family Counterculture | p. 6 |
The Writing Process | p. 12 |
Prewrite | p. 13 |
Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist | p. 17 |
Identify the Thesis | p. 27 |
Support the Thesis with Evidence | p. 31 |
Organize the Evidence | p. 39 |
Outlining: A Checklist | p. 43 |
Write the First Draft | p. 46 |
Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist | p. 47 |
Revise the Essay | p. 60 |
Student Essay | p. 65 |
Commentary | p. 68 |
Description | p. 71 |
What Is Description? | p. 71 |
How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 71 |
Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay | p. 74 |
Revision Strategies | p. 77 |
Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 77 |
Student Essay | p. 78 |
Commentary | p. 80 |
Activities: Description | p. 82 |
Flavio's Home | p. 84 |
The Storm this Time | p. 92 |
Sister Flowers | p. 100 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 107 |
Narration | p. 109 |
What Is Narration? | p. 109 |
How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 110 |
Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay | p. 111 |
Revision Strategies | p. 116 |
Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 116 |
Student Essay | p. 117 |
Commentary | p. 119 |
Activities: Narration | p. 121 |
Charity Display? | p. 123 |
Salvation | p. 127 |
The Price We Pay | p. 131 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 139 |
Exemplification | p. 141 |
What Is Exemplification | p. 141 |
How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 141 |
Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay | p. 144 |
Revision Strategies | p. 148 |
Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 149 |
Student Essay | p. 149 |
Commentary | p. 151 |
Activities: Exemplification | p. 154 |
Black Talk and Pop Culture | p. 156 |
Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen | p. 165 |
Bombs Bursting in Air | p. 172 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 178 |
Division-Classification | p. 180 |
What Is Division-Classification? | p. 180 |
How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 182 |
Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay | p. 184 |
Revision Strategies | p. 188 |
Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 188 |
Student Essay | p. 189 |
Commentary | p. 192 |
Activities: Division-Classification | p. 195 |
Psst! "Human Capital" | p. 197 |
Doublespeak | p. 201 |
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising | p. 208 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 216 |
Process Analysis | p. 218 |
What Is Process Analysis? | p. 218 |
How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 219 |
Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay | p. 221 |
Revision Strategies | p. 225 |
Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 225 |
Student Essay | p. 226 |
Commentary | p. 229 |
Activities: Process Analysis | p. 232 |
Talk About Editing | p. 234 |
Cyberschool | p. 239 |
The Fine Art of Complaining | p. 245 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 251 |
Comparison-Contrast | p. 253 |
What Is Comparison-Contrast? | p. 253 |
How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 254 |
Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay | p. 255 |
Revision Strategies | p. 260 |
Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 260 |
Student Essay | p. 261 |
Commentary | p. 263 |
Activities: Comparison-Contrast | p. 266 |
A Fable for Tomorrow | p. 268 |
And Then I Went to School | p. 272 |
The Ugly Truth About Beauty | p. 279 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 283 |
Cause-Effect | p. 285 |
What Is Cause-Effect? | p. 285 |
How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 286 |
Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay | p. 287 |
Revision Strategies | p. 293 |
Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 293 |
Student Essay | p. 294 |
Commentary | p. 296 |
Activities: Cause-Effect | p. 299 |
Why We Crave Horror Movies | p. 301 |
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self | p. 306 |
Innocents Afield | p. 315 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 321 |
Definition | p. 323 |
What Is Definition? | p. 323 |
How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 324 |
Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay | p. 325 |
Revision Strategies | p. 329 |
Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 329 |
Student Essay | p. 330 |
Commentary | p. 332 |
Activities: Definition | p. 334 |
Entropy | p. 336 |
The Cute Factor | p. 341 |
What is the Quarterlife Crisis? | p. 348 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 356 |
Argumentation-Persuasion | p. 358 |
What Is Argumentation-Persuasion? | p. 358 |
How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 359 |
Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay | p. 363 |
Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist | p. 368 |
Questions for Using Toulmin Logic: A Checklist | p. 378 |
Revision Strategies | p. 380 |
Argumentation-Persuasiont: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 380 |
Student Essay | p. 381 |
Commentary | p. 387 |
Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion | p. 391 |
Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures | p. 393 |
Free-Speech Follies | p. 398 |
Examining an Issue: Date Rape | |
Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know | p. 405 |
Common Decency | p. 411 |
Examining an Issue: Illegal Immigration | |
The Border on Our Backs | p. 416 |
Se Habla Entitlement | p. 421 |
Additional Writing Topics | p. 426 |
Combining the Patterns | p. 428 |
The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process | p. 428 |
The Patterns in Action: In an Essay | p. 429 |
Student Essay | p. 430 |
The Death of the Moth | p. 436 |
Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos? | p. 442 |
Marrying Absurd | p. 446 |
A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources | p. 449 |
Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject | p. 449 |
Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject | p. 452 |
Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject | p. 453 |
Using the Internet to Research Your Subject | p. 456 |
Focusing a Web Search: A Checklist | p. 461 |
Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist | p. 462 |
Documenting Sources | p. 462 |
What to Document | p. 463 |
How to Document | p. 463 |
Citing Sources: A Checklist | p. 466 |
List of Works Cited | p. 469 |
Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors | p. 476 |
Fragments | p. 477 |
Comma Splices and Run-ons | p. 478 |
Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 478 |
Faulty Pronoun Agreement | p. 480 |
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | p. 481 |
Faulty Parallelism | p. 483 |
Comma Misuse | p. 483 |
Apostrophe Misuse | p. 485 |
Confusing Homonyms | p. 486 |
Misuse of Italics and Underlining | p. 487 |
Glossary | p. 489 |
Acknowledgments | p. 503 |
Index | p. 506 |
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