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| Fundamentals | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Prewriting | |
| Writing | |
| Rewriting | |
| Generating Ideas with Journal Writing | |
| Assembling a Portfolio | |
| Critical Thinking, Reading, and Seeing | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Critical Seeing | |
| Responding to a Work of Art | |
| Elements of the Essay | |
| Purpose | |
| Audience | |
| Strategy | |
| Comparison/Contrast | |
| Blending Rhetorical Patterns | |
| The Paragraph | |
| Uses of the Paragraph | |
| The Shape of the Paragraph | |
| Characteristics of the Paragraph | |
| Journalistic Paragraphs | |
| Transitions between Paragraphs | |
| Paragraphs without Transitions | |
| Using Varied Paragraph Transitions | |
| Beginning and Ending Paragraphs | |
| Rewriting Assignment | |
| Planning and Organizing the Essay Finding a Topic | |
| Prewriting Activities | |
| Writer's Block | |
| Finding the Thesis | |
| The Informal Outline | |
| The Formal Outline | |
| Use of the Outline | |
| Rewriting Assignment | |
| Drafting, Revising, and Style | |
| Pointers on Drafting | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revising the First Draft | |
| Achieving Style | |
| Editing the Second Draft | |
| Rewriting Assignment | |
| Writing the Essay | |
| Narration | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "The Code" | |
| Poem: "Richard Cory" | |
| How to Write a Narration | |
| Professional Model: "A Gift of Laughter" | |
| Student Model: "My Uncle Thom" | |
| Alternate Readings: Excerpt from Night | |
| "The Tell-tale Heart" | |
| Description | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "The Lament" | |
| Poem: "Coats" | |
| How to Write a Description | |
| Professional Model: "Mma Ramotswe Thinks about the Land" | |
| Student Model: "Children and Guns" | |
| Alternate Readings: "My Father" | |
| "Sister Flowers" | |
| Example | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "We're Poor" | |
| Poem: "Eleanor Rigby" | |
| How to Write with Examples | |
| Professional Model: "Are You All Right?" | |
| Student Model: "Poverty in Atlanta" | |
| Alternate Readings: "What I've Learned from Men" | |
| "The Word as Person: Eponyms" | |
| Definition | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "Arrangement in Black and White" | |
| Poem: "Incident" | |
| How to Write a Definition | |
| Professional Model: "People Aren't Born Prejudiced" | |
| Student Model: "Prejudice: Child of Ignorance" | |
| Alternate Readings: "Will Someone Please Hiccup My Pat?" | |
| "Jim Crow Days" | |
| Comparison/Contrast | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "Dream House" | |
| Poem: "The Twins" | |
| How to Write a Comparison/Contrast Paper | |
| Professional Model: "Diogenes and Alexander" | |
| Student Model: "Aben and James" | |
| Alternate Readings: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" | |
| "The Richer, The Poorer" | |
| Process | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank" | |
| Poem: "Tract" | |
| How to Write a Process Paper | |
| Professional Model: "Coming into Language" | |
| Student Model: "Driving to Preserve Your Car" | |
| Alternate Readings: "How My Grandmother Became a Concubine" | |
| "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words" | |
| Classification/Division | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "Harrison Bergeron" | |
| Poem: "All the World's a Stage" | |
| How to Write a Classification/Division Paper | |
| Professional Model: "The Plot against People" | |
| Student Essay: "Handicaps" by David Beckham | |
| Alternate Readings: "Three Types of Resistance to Oppression" | |
| "College Pressures" | |
| Causal Analysis | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" | |
| Poem: "Money" | |
| How to Write an Analysis of Cause | |
| Professional Model: "The Catastrophe of Success" | |
| Student Model: "The Coffee Virgin" | |
| Alternate Readings: "Why We Crave Horror Movies" | |
| "Nearing Ninety" | |
| Argumentation | |
| Reading for Ideas | |
| Story: "War" | |
| Poem: "Doolie is a Traitor" | |
| How to Write an Argument | |
| Professional Model: "The Case against Man" | |
| Student Model: "Online Role Playing: Waste of Time or Valuable Tool?" | |
| Alternate Readings: "I Want a Wife" | |
| "Playing God on No Sleep" | |
| The Essay Examination | |
| Preparing for the Essay examination | |
| How to Do Well on Essay Examinations | |
| Using Rhetorical Strategies in Essay Examinations | |
| The Research Paper | |
| Doing the Research | |
| Choosing a Topic | |
| Doing the Research | |
| Using the Internet to Research a Topic | |
| Compile a Bibliography | |
| Take Notes | |
| Formulating the Thesis, Outlining the Paper, and Writing the Abstract | |
| Writing and Documenting the Paper | |
| Plagiarism | |
| Documenting the Humanities Paper (MLA) | |
| Documenting the Social Sciences Paper (APA) | |
| Preparing the Final Copy (MLA) | |
| Preparing the Final Copy (APA) | |
| Handbook | |
| Grammar Fundamentals | |
| The Sentence | |
| The Clause and Phrase | |
| Sentence Types | |
| Parts of Speech | |
| Correcting Common Errors | |
| Errors with Sentences | |
| Errors in Agreement | |
| Errors in Point of View | |
| Errors in Reference | |
| Errors with Modifiers | |
| Errors in Parallelism | |
| Errors in Diction | |
| Combining Sentences | |
| Errors in Punctuation | |
| Errors in Capitalization | |
| Errors in Spelling | |
| Appendix: Answers to Self-Grading Exercises | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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