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Preliminary Contents | |
Note: Each chapter in the Student' Guide to Writing section begins with Guidelines and concludes with Assignments/Application | |
Each chapter in the Strategies and Models section begins with an Overview and concludes with Guidelines and Activities Student'S Guide To Writing | |
Reading, Thinking, and Writing | |
Critical Reading | |
Critical Thinking | |
The Writing Process | |
Getting Started Understand the Writing Assignment Explore Possible Topics Collect Information | |
Planning Find a Focus Develop a Plan or an Outline Choose a Method of Development | |
Drafting Generate an Opening Develop the Middle Shape a Closing Choose a Title | |
Revising Whole-Paper Issues | |
Paragraph Issues | |
Revise Collaboratively | |
Checklist: Revising | |
Editing and Proofreading | |
Edit for Style | |
Edit for Sentence | |
Effectiveness Edit for Word Choice | |
Proofread for Correctness | |
Checklist: Editing and Proofreading | |
Designing and Submitting Format Your Paper | |
Prepare a Final Copy | |
The College Essay | |
One Writer's Process | |
Getting Started | |
Planning | |
Drafting | |
Revising | |
Editing and Proofreading | |
Designing and Submitting Strategies And Models | |
Narrative and Descriptive Writing | |
Personal Narrative Student Models | |
"Dad," | |
"Mzee Owitti," | |
Professional Model | |
"One Remembers What One Loves," | |
Personal Essay Student Models | |
"Let's Kill Cute," | |
"Like a Girl," | |
"None of This Is Fair," | |
Description of a Person, a Place, or an Event Student Models | |
"He Knew," | |
"The Stream in the Ravine," | |
"Beyond the End of the Road," | |
"That Morning on the Prairie," | |
"Who Shot Johnny?" | |
Analytical Writing | |
Cause and Effect Student Models | |
"Life-Threatening Stress," | |
"Adrenaline Junkies," | |
"A New Vision for America," | |
Comparison and Contrast Student Models | |
"Seeing the Light," | |
"Beyond Control," | |
"A Fear Born of Sorrow" | |
"Like Mexicans," | |
Classification and Division Student Models | |
"Weight Lifting 101," | |
"Three Family Cancers," | |
"Four Ways to Talk About Literature," | |
Process Student Model | |
"Wayward Cells," | |
"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow," | |
"Code Blue--The Process," | |
Problem and Solution Student Models | |
"Responding to Dementia," | |
"Preparing for Agroterror," | |
"Ring Leader," | |
Definition Student Models | |
"The Gullible Family," | |
"A Few of My Favorite Things," | |
"Code Blue: The Story," | |
Persuasive Writing | |
Essay of Persuasion Student Models | |
"Second Language Education Must Start Early," | |
"If We Are What We Wear, What Are We?" | |
"Demystifying Multiculturalism," | |
"I Have a Dream," | |
Position Paper Student Models | |
"Evening the Odds," | |
"To Drill or Not to Drill," | |
"Tattling Stinks?" | |
"In Defense of Animals," | |
Essay of Argumentation Student Models | |
"Too Much of a Good Thing," | |
"An Apology for Ms. Barbie D. Doll," | |
"Soul of a Citizen," | |
Report Writing | |
Observation Report Student Models | |
"The Beach," | |
"Revelation in Santo Domingo," | |
"Scab," | |
Interview Report Student Models | |
"Lambie's Limousines," | |
"The Dead Business," | |
"Undercoating Safety Incident," | |
Experiment or Lab Report Student Models | |
"Analysis of Large and Medium Tree Populations," | |
"Biosynthesis of Ethanol," | |
"Investigation of Cockroach Infestation," | |
Special Forms of Writing | |
Writing About Literature and the Arts Student Models | |
"The Truth in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried,' (novel) | |
"Looking at The Darking Thrush," (poem) | |
"Sigur Ros, Agaetis Byrjun," (album) | |
"Wonder of Wonders: The Lord of Rings," | |
"Tragic Lessons," (novel) | |
Writing Across the Curriculum | |
Taking Essay Tests | |
Writing for the Workplace | |
Writing for the Web | |
Preparing Oral Presentations Research | |
Research and Writing | |
Writing the Research Paper Student Models | |
"UN Sanctions and the Suffering of Iraq's People," (MLA), Troy Schemper | |
Running on Empty," (APA), Thomas Delany | |
Managing a Research Project | |
Conducting Library and Internet Research | |
Documentation and Format Style | |
MLA Documentation Form | |
APA Documentation Form Handbook | |
Understanding Grammar | |
Marking Punctuation | |
Checking Mechanics | |
Using the Right Word | |
Constructing Sentences | |
Avoiding Sentence Errors | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
Shifts in Sentence Structure | |
Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-Ons | |
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
Ambiguous Wording Nonstandard Language | |
Special ESL Issues | |
Count and Noncount Nouns | |
Definite and Indefinite Articles | |
Omitted Subjects, Verbs, and Expletives | |
Repeated Subjects, Objects, and Adverbs | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
Placement of Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Present and Past Participles | |
Conditional Sentences Usage and Mixed Pairs | |
Idiomatic Expressions | |
Nonstandard Language Credits | |
Index | |
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