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Preface | |
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To the Student | |
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Rhetoric | |
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Writing: A First Look | |
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The Purposes of Writing | |
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The Audience for Your Writing | |
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The Qualities of Good Writing | |
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Writing and Ethics | |
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Strategies for Successful Reading | |
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Orienting Your Reading | |
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A First Reading | |
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Additional Readings | |
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Mastering Reading Problems | |
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Reading to Critique | |
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Reading As a Writer | |
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The Appeal of the Androgynous Man | |
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Writing About What You Read | |
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Planning and Drafting Your Paper | |
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Understanding the Assignment | |
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Zeroing In on a Topic | |
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Gathering Information | |
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Organizing the Information | |
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Developing a Thesis Statement | |
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Writing the First Draft | |
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Planning and Drafting with a Word Processor | |
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Revising and Editing Your Paper | |
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Preparing to Revise | |
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Considering the Whole Essay | |
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Strengthening Paragraph Structure and Development | |
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Sharpening Sentences and Words | |
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Proofreading Your Draft | |
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Writing the Introduction and Conclusion | |
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Selecting a Title | |
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Revising with a Computer | |
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Peer Evaluation of Drafts | |
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Collaborative Writing | |
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Maintaining and Reviewing a Portfolio | |
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Narration: Relating Events | |
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Purpose | |
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Action | |
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Conflict | |
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Point of View | |
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Key Events | |
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Dialogue | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing a Narrative | |
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Sample Student Essay of Narration: The Beach Bum | |
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CriticalEdge | |
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Description: Presenting Impressions | |
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Purpose | |
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Sensory Impressions | |
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Dominant Impression | |
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Vantage Point | |
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Selection of Details | |
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Arrangement of Details | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing a Description | |
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Sample Student Essay of Description: The Big One | |
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Critical Edge | |
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Process Analysis: Explaining How | |
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Kinds of Process Analysis Papers | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing a Process Analysis | |
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Sample Student Essay of Process Analysis: The ABCs of CPR | |
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Critical Edge | |
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Illustration: Making Yourself Clear | |
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Selecting Appropriate Examples | |
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Number of Examples | |
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Organizing the Examples | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing an Illustration | |
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Sample Student Essay of Illustration: If It Is Worth Doing | |
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Critical Edge | |
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Classification: Grouping into Categories | |
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Selecting Categories | |
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Number of Categories | |
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Developing Categories | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing a Classification | |
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Sample Student Essay of Classification: Undesirable Produce Market Customers | |
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Critical Edge | |
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Comparison: Showing Relationships | |
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Selecting Items for Comparison | |
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Developing a Comparison | |
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Organizing a Comparison | |
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Using Analogy | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing a Comparison | |
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Sample Student Essay of Comparison: Different Shifts, Different Actions | |
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Critical Edge | |
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Cause and Effect: Explaining Why | |
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Patterns in Causal Analysis | |
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Reasoning Errors in Causal Analysis | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Writing a Causal Analysis | |
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Sample Student Essay of Cause and Effect: Why Students Drop Out of College | |
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