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| Writing from the Top Down | |
| Practice in developing the ability to read critically and to summarize; learning the fundamentals of the academic writing process through writing a short report; shaping texts and sentences | |
| The Writing Process. Reading Actively and Efficiently. Writing Summaries | |
| Steps in Writing a Summary | |
| An Experienced Writer Writes a Summary | |
| Analyzing and Evaluating Your Information | |
| Organizing and Finding Your Point | |
| Writing a Report | |
| The Idea Draft | |
| Later Drafts | |
| Using Quotations | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Sentence Combining | |
| Shaping Sentences | |
| Recognizing Verb Forms for Writing and Sentence Combining | |
| Shaping Sentences with Adjectives and Verb Forms | |
| Shaping Sentences with Prepositional Phrases | |
| The Shape Of Texts | |
| Introduction and Thesis Statements | |
| Students at Work: Introductions | |
| Paragraphs: Proving Your Points | |
| Topic Sentences and the Organization Process | |
| Students at Work: Paragraphs | |
| Conclusions | |
| Discovering and Writing | |
| Cases for reading and writing: pre-reading and post-reading; prewriting and drafting; sentence combining and proofreading | |
| Learning By Sorting It Out | |
| An Important Thinking Tool: Making Inferences | |
| Inferences and Guesses | |
| Good inferences and bad inferences | |
| Classifying to Discover | |
| Assignments and Readings | |
| Analyzing Television for Children | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| What Are TV Ads Selling to Children? | |
| Females and Minorities in TV Ads in 1987 Saturday Children''s Programs | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Analyzing the Job Market | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| U.S. Income Inequality Keeps on Rising | |
| *Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Tomorrow''s Jobs | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Learning What Our Magazines Tell About Us | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Help Or Hindrance? | |
| Women''s Magazines Offer Readers Little but Fear, Failure | |
| Susan Dudash, Student, We''ve Come a Long Way, But Magazines Stayed Behind | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| How Do Advertisers Try to Manipulate Us? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Advertising''s Fifteen Basic Appeals | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| The Writer''s Checklist | |
| Sentence Combining | |
| Joining Ideas to Show Basic Logical Relationships | |
| Subordination Conjunction | |
| Tradition words | |
| Learning by Comparing | |
| Comparing and Contrasting to Discover | |
| Organizing Essays Based on Comparison and Contrast | |
| Assignments and Readings | |
| Changing Tastes in Television: 1970 and Today | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Network Prime-Time Programming | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Comparing American Families in the Past and Present | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| The Social Order in Colonial New England | |
| The Role of Men and Women in Colonial New England | |
| The Role of Children in Colonial New England | |
| Men Assuming Bigger Share at Home, New Survey Shows | |
| For First Time, Nuclear Families Drop Below 25% of Households | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Examining American and Asian Educational Methods | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| New Math-Science Study Rates U.S. Students Mediocre at Best | |
| Why are U.S. Kids Poor in Math? | |
| Japan''s School System | |
| We Should Cherish Our Children''s Freedom to Think | |
| Strengths, Weaknesses, and Lessons of Japanese Education | |
| Student Essay, School Here in the United States and There in Vietnam | |
| Some Public Schools Don''t Make the Grade | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| The Health-Care Crisis: Examining Two Approaches to National Health | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| U.S. Spends Most on Health, But France No. 1 in Treatment | |
| A Hard Lesson About Socialized Medicine | |
| Why the U.S. Needs a Single Payer Health System | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| The Writer''s Checklist | |
| Sentence Combining | |
| Joining Ideas to Show Contrast and Concession | |
| What is Concession? | |
| Summary of Comparison/Contrast Words | |
| Using Joining Words to Show Emphasis | |
| Arguing | |
| Facts and Opinions | |
| Evaluating Evidence and Shaping Your Argument | |
| Assignments and Readings | |
| Deciding Carmen Herrera''s Future | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Various Comments on Carmen''s Dilemma, her counselor, parents, boyfriend, employer, friend, sister, brother | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Should High School Students Work? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Part-Time Work Ethic: Should Teens Go for It? | |
| Ben Wildavsky | |
| Why Fast-Food Joints Don''t Serve Up Good Jobs for Kids | |
| Why Not Ask the Students? | |
| Urban Teenagers Make the Case for Working | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Should People Keep Handguns at Home? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution | |
| Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High-and Upper-Middle-Income Countries | |
| Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities | |
| Crime is the Basic Problem, Not Guns | |
| Should You Carry a Gun? | |
| A New Study Argues for Concealed Weapons | |
| Taking Another Look at Right to Bear Arms | |
| Why I Bought a Gun Man Shoots Own Son | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Censorship of High School Newspapers | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Pregnancy at Hazelwood High | |
| Divorce''s Impact on Kids May Have Lifelong Effects | |
| A Limit on the Student Press | |
| High School Papers Grow Up | |
| High Court Gives A Civic Lesson | |
| Censorship: A Fact of Life Students Are Forced to Face | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Should English be the Official Language of the United States? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| William Orozco and Stanley Diamond, Argument in Favor of Proposition 63 | |
| Official English and English Plus: An Update | |
| Liberty and Language for All | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| The Writer''s Checklist | |
| Sentence Combining | |
| Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Appositives | |
| Punctuating Noun Phrases in Sentences | |
| Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Adjective Clauses | |
| Special Rules | |
| Discussing | |
| Argument and Discussion in School and on the Job | |
| Writing Discussion Essays | |
| Assignments and Readings | |
| Who Should Care for the Children? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Who''s Taking Care of the Children? | |
| Home Day Care Providers Face Increasing Demand | |
| High Staff Turnover Imperils Child Care, Researcher Says An Interview with Mary S | |
| Canada Takes Steps Toward Universal Child Care | |
| Child Care Sacred as France Cuts Back the Welfare State | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Rating the Movies | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| The Motion Picture Production Code *NC-17 Replaces X in Movie Ratings | |
| The Big Chill | |
| Avoiding the Censors | |
| The Rating Game | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Is Hate Speech Free Speech? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| The First Amendment to the United States Constitution | |
| The Debate Over Placing Limits on Racist Speech Must Not Ignore the Damage It Does to Its Victims | |
| Free Speech on the Campus | |
| Hate Speech on Campus | |
| Rethinking Campus Speech Codes | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| Should College Athletics be Reformed? | |
| Reading Assignment | |
| Helping Top Athletes Meet Minimum Standards | |
| NCAA Stirs Debate? | |
| Are SATs Racist? | |
| Cheers to John Thompson''s Empty Chair | |
| A Kinder, Gentler Racism | |
| The Ivy League at 30: A Model for College Athletics or an Outmoded Antique? | |
| Essay Assignment | |
| The Writer''s Checklist | |
| Sentence Combining | |
| Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Verbal Phrases | |
| Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Parallelism | |
| Writing the In-Class Essay | |
| The Essay Exam | |
| The Writing Test | |
| Planning Your Time | |
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