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| Denotes new reading | |
| The Basics of The Short Essay | |
| Prewriting | |
| Getting Started (or Soup-Can Labels Can Be Fascinating) | |
| Selecting a Subject | |
| Finding Your Essay's Purpose and Focus | |
| Pump Primer Techniques | |
| After You've Found Your Focus | |
| Discovering Your Audience | |
| How to Identify Your Readers | |
| Keeping a Journal (Talking to Yourself Does Help) | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| What Is a Thesis? | |
| What Does a "Working Thesis" Do? | |
| Can a "Working Thesis" Change? | |
| Guidelines for Writing a Good Thesis | |
| Avoiding Common Errors in Thesis Statements | |
| Using the Essay Map | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| The Body Paragraphs | |
| Planning the Body of Your Essay | |
| Composing the Body Paragraphs | |
| The Topic Sentence | |
| Paragraph Development | |
| Paragraph Length | |
| Paragraph Unity | |
| Paragraph Coherence | |
| Paragraph Sequence | |
| Transitions between Paragraphs | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Beginnings and Endings | |
| How to Write a Good Lead-in | |
| Avoiding Errors in Lead-ins | |
| How to Write a Good Concluding Paragraph | |
| Avoiding Errors in Conclusions | |
| How to Write a Good Title | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Drafting and Revision: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking | |
| What Is Revision? | |
| When Does Revision Occur? | |
| Myths about Revision | |
| Can I Learn to Improve My Revision Skills? | |
| Preparing to Draft: Some Time-Saving Hints | |
| Writing Centers, Computer Labs, and Computer Classrooms | |
| A Revision Process for Your Drafts | |
| What Is Critical Thinking? | |
| Thinking Critically as a Writer | |
| Benefiting from Revision Workshops | |
| Some Last Advice: How to Play with Your Mental Blocks | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Effective Sentences | |
| Developing a Clear Style | |
| Developing a Concise Style | |
| Developing a Lively Style | |
| Developing an Emphatic Style | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Word Logic | |
| Selecting the Correct Words | |
| Selecting the Best Words | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| The Reading-Writing Connection | |
| How Can Reading Well Help Me Become a Better Writer? | |
| How Can I Become an Analytical Reader? | |
| Sample Annotated Essay: "Our Youth Should Serve" | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Benefiting from Class Discussions | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Part I Summary: The Basics of the Short Essay | |
| Purposes, Modes, and Strategies | |
| Exposition | |
| The Strategies of Exposition | |
| Development by Example | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "River Rafting Teaches Worthwhile Lessons." | |
| Professional Essay: "What's So Bad about Being So-So?" | |
| Development by Process Analysis | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "Catching Garage Sale Fever." | |
| Professional Essay: "To Bid the World Farewell" | |
| Professional Essay: "Preparing for the Job Interview: Know Thyself" | |
| Development by Comparison and Contrast | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: Point-by-Point Pattern: "Bringing Back the Joy of Market Day." | |
| Student Essay: Block Pattern: "Backyard: Old and New." | |
| Professional Essay: Point-by-Point Pattern: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" | |
| Professional Essay: Block Pattern: "Two Ways of Viewing the River" | |
| Development by Definition | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "Blind Paces." Professional Essay: "The Munchausen Mystery" | |
| Development by Division and Classification | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "The Native American Era at Mesa Verde." | |
| Professional Essay: "The Plot against People" | |
| Professional Essay: Division: "A Brush with Reality: Surprises in the Tube" | |
| Development by Causal Analysis | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "It's Simply Not Worth It." | |
| Professional Essay: "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line" | |
| Argumentation | |
| Developing Your Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Common Logical Fallacies | |
| Student Essay: "Students, Take Note!" | |
| Professional Pro/Con Essays: School Schedules | |
| "High Schools, Wake Up!" from USA Today | |
| "Reform No Child's Play" | |
| Conflicting Positions: Gun Control (ads) | |
| Competing Products: Energy Sources (ads) | |
| Popular Appeals: Spending Our Money (ads) | |
| Description | |
| How to write Effective Description | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "Treeclimbing." | |
| Professional Essay: Describing a Person: "Still Learning from My Mother" | |
| Narration | |
| Writing the Effective Narrative Essay | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "Never Underestimate the Little Things." | |
| Professional Essay: "Sister Flowers" | |
| Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies | |
| Choosing the Best Strategies | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "Pass the Broccoli--Please!" Professional Essay: | |
| "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments" | |
| Special Assignments | |
| Writing a Paper Using Research | |
| Focusing Your Topic | |
| Beginning Your Library Research | |
| Conducting Primary Research | |
| The Personal Interview | |
| The Questionnaire | |
| Preparing a Working Bibliography | |
| Choosing and Evaluating Your Sources | |
| Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | |
| Taking Notes | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Choosing the Documentation Style for Your Essay | |
| MLA Style | |
| APA Style | |
| Using Supplementary Notes | |
| Student Paper Using MLA Style: "A Possibility of Survival: The Mysterious Fate of Anastasia and Alexei." | |
| Student Sample Using APA Style | |
| Writing in Class: Exams and 'Response' Essays | |
| Steps to Writing Well under Pressure | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Writing the Summary-and-Response Essay | |
| Student Essay "Youth Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come." | |
| Writing about Literature | |
| Using Literature in the Composition Classroom | |
| Suggestions for Close Reading of Literature | |
| Steps to Reading a Story | |
| Annotated Fiction: "The Story of an Hour" | |
| Student Essay: "A Breath of Fresh Air." Steps to Reading a Poem | |
| Annotated Poetry: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" | |
| Student Essay: "Two Ways of Knowing." | |
| Fiction: "Gerald No Last Name" | |
| Fiction: "The Cask of Amontillado" | |
| Poetry: "Those Winter Sundays" | |
| Poetry: "The Road Not Taken" | |
| Writing about Visual Arts | |
| Using Visual Arts in the Composition Classroom | |
| Suggestions for Analyzing Paintings | |
| Additional Advice about Sculpture and Photography | |
| Guidelines for Writing about Art Works | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Annotated painting: Nighthawks | |
| Student Essay "Night in the City and Psyche." | |
| Writing about Film | |
| Using Film in the Composition Classroom | |
| Guidelines for Writing about Film | |
| Problems to Avoid | |
| Student Essay: "Catch the Black Bird." | |
| Professional Film Review: "Cat in the Hat Coughs Up Mayhem" | |
| Glossary of Film Terms | |
| Writing in the World of Work | |
| Composing Business Letters | |
| Sample Student Business Letter | |
| Creating Memos | |
| Sending Professional E-Mail | |
| Designing Resumes | |
| Sample Resume #1 | |
| Sample Resume #2 | |
| Preparing Interview Notes and Post-Interview Letters | |
| A Concise Handbook | |
| Major Errors in Grammar | |
| Verbs | |
| Nouns | |
| Pronouns | |
| Adverbs and Adjectives | |
| Modifying Phrases | |
| Sentences | |
| A Concise Guide to Punctuation | |
| Period | |
| Question Mark | |
| Exclamation Point | |
| Comma | |
| Semicolon | |
| Colon | |
| Apostrophe | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Parentheses | |
| Brackets | |
| Dash | |
| Hyphen | |
| Underlining | |
| Ellipsis Points | |
| A Concise Guide to Mechanics | |
| Capitalization | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Numbers | |
| Spelling | |
| "Grammar's Gremlins" from On Language by William Safire | |
| Additional Readings | |
| Exposition: Development by Example | |
| "Darkness at Noon" | |
| "Black Men and Public Space" | |
| "Why Don't We Complain?" | |
| Exposition: Process Analysis | |
| "The Jeaning of America" | |
| "Skiing Lessons: The Cold, Hard Facts" | |
| "Beauty and the Beef" | |
| Exposition: Comparison/Contrast | |
| "My Real Car" | |
| "Say Farewell to Pin Curls" | |
| "Once More to the Lake" | |
| Exposition: Definition | |
| "Celebrating Nerdiness" | |
| "O the Porch" | |
| "What Is Poverty?" | |
| Exposition: Division/Classification | |
| "Party Manners" | |
| "The Extendable Fork" | |
| "College Pressures" | |
| Exposition: Causal Analysis | |
| "The Teacher Who Changed My Life" | |
| "Spudding Out" | |
| "You Call This Progress?" | |
| Argumentation | |
| "A Scientist: 'I Am the Enemy'" | |
| "Rethinking the Voting Age" | |
| "Judging by the Cover" | |
| Description | |
| "A Day at the Theme Park" | |
| "Hush, Timmy--This Is Like a Church" | |
| "The Way to Rainy Mountain" | |
| Narration | |
| "38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police" | |
| "Crossing the Great Divide" | |
| "The Talkies" | |
| Essays for Further Analysis: Multiple Strategies and Styles | |
| "I Have a Dream" | |
| "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" | |
| "A Modest Proposal" | |
| Literature | |
| "Perhaps the World Ends Here" | |
| "Ozymandias" | |
| "Dulce et Decorum Est" | |
| "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" | |
| "A Jury of Her Peers" | |
| Writing and Language | |
| "How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life" | |
| "Notes on Punctuation" | |
| "Mother Tongue" | |
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