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Preface | |
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The Reading Process | |
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Get an Overview of the Selection | |
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Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | |
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Evaluate the Selection | |
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Ellen Goodman, Family Counterculture | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Prewrite | |
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Identify the Thesis | |
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Support the Thesis With Evidence | |
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Organize the Evidence | |
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Write the First Draft | |
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Revise the Essay | |
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Description | |
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What Is Description? | |
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How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay | |
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Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home | |
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Sister Flowers | |
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Once More to the Lake | |
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Narration | |
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What Is Narration? | |
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How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay | |
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The Chase | |
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Salvation | |
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So Tsi-Fai | |
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Exemplification | |
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What Is Exemplification? | |
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How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay | |
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The Values Wasteland | |
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Bombs Bursting in Air | |
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What I've Learned From Men | |
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Division-Classification | |
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What Is Division-Classification? | |
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How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay | |
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Doublespeak | |
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Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising | |
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But What Do You Mean? | |
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Process Analysis | |
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What Is Process Analysis? | |
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How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay | |
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Your New Computer | |
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Campus Racism 101 | |
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The Fine Art of Complaining | |
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Comparison-Contrast | |
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What Is Comparison-Contrast? | |
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How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay | |
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A Fable for Tomorrow | |
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Workers | |
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The Ugly Truth About Beauty | |
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Cause-Effect | |
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What Is Cause-Effect? | |
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How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay | |
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Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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The Lie Detector | |
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Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers? | |
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Definition | |
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What Is Definition? | |
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How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay | |
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Entropy | |
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Life as Type A | |
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The Handicap of Definition | |
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Argumentation-Persuasion | |
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What Is Argumentation-Persuasion? | |
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How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay | |
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In Praise of the "F" Word | |
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Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures | |
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Examining an Issue: Date Rape | |
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Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know | |
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Common Decency | |
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Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action | |
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Racism Has Its Privileges | |
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Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference | |
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Combining the Patterns | |
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The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process | |
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The Patterns in Action: In an Essay | |
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The Death of the Moth | |
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Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos? | |
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The Santa Ana | |
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A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources | |
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Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject | |
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Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject | |
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Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject | |
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Using the Internet to Research Your Subject | |
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Documenting Sources | |
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What to Document | |
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How to Document | |
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List of Works Cited | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |