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| Preface | |
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| Reading the Writings | |
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| Active Reading--Reading from Context, Skimming, Scanning, and Purpose & Audience | |
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| Active reading | |
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| Reading from context | |
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| Skimming | |
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| Scanning | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Audience | |
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| Readings:�Murdering the Innocents� | |
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| Levels of Language: Word use, prefixes & suffixes | |
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| �Your New Computer� | |
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| Levels of Language: Jargon�Prison Studies� | |
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| Levels of Language: Slang | |
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| Writing from Readings | |
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| Responding to Readings | |
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| Summary and Critique | |
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| Responding in writing | |
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| Critique | |
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| �The Real McCoy� | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Irony | |
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| Readings:�Smoking Is Good for My Business� | |
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| Rhetorical questions, Parallel Structure, Irony | |
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| �The Virtues of Ambition� | |
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| �The Atoms Image Problem� | |
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| Organized Writing: Composing the Formula Five-Paragraph Essay | |
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| Generate Information | |
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| Select & Arranging Information | |
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| Presenting the Information | |
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| �Effective Driving� | |
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| �My True Love Is Reading� | |
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| �The Common Ston�e | |
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| Editing the Information | |
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| Unity & Coherence | |
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| Exercises for Coherence | |
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| Readings:�What I Have Lived For� | |
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| �Writing and Its Rewards� | |
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| �How to Write with Style� | |
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| Writing that Informs the Reader: Examples, Process Analysis, Comparison and Contrast, Classification, and Cause and Effect | |
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| Analyzing Patterns in Reading and Writing Exposition | |
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| Other Patterns of Development: Analogy & Definition | |
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| Essay of Example | |
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| Sample Student Essay: �Thoughts of Winter� | |
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| Readings:�The Great Communicator� | |
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| �Overpopulation Is Bad, But Overconsumption Is Worse� | |
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| �Remembrance� | |
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| �In Praise of the Humble Comma� | |
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| Essay of Process Analysis | |
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| Student Sample Essay: �How to Use Less Communication� | |
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| Readings:�Blue Jeans: Born to Last� | |
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| �How to Mend a Broken Heart� | |
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| �You Are a Contract Painkiller� | |
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| �Ten Steps to the Creation of a Modern Media Icon� | |
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| Essay of Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Student Sample Essay: �Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast?� | |
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| Readings:�A Fable for Tomorrow� | |
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| �Whats Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her� | |
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| �English, French: Why Not Both?� | |
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| �The Insufficiency of Honesty� | |
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| Essay of Classification | |
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| Student Sample Essay: �The Canadian Dream� | |
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| Readings:�Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends� | |
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| �Bird-Feeder Enlightenment� | |
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| �A Few Kind Words for Superstition� | |
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| Essay of Cause and Effect | |
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| Student Sample Essay: �Illiterate like Me� | |
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| Readings:�Im a Banana and Proud of It� | |
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| �The New Apartheid� | |
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| �When Bright Girls Decide Math Is a Waste of Time� | |
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| �Deliberate Strangers� | |
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| Writing that Affects the Reader: Description, Narration, Argument/Persuasion | |
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| Essay of Description | |
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| Readings: �Pinball� | |
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| �Curtain Up� | |
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| �Chasing Buzz� | |
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| �The Shack� | |
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| Essay of Narration | |
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| Readings:�The Minnie Mouse Kitchen� | |
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| �Growing Up on Grace� | |
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| �The Fight� | |
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| �But a Watch in the Night: A Scientific Fable� | |
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| Essay of Argument & Persuasion | |
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| Student Sample Essay: �Our Earthly Fate� | |
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| Readings:�Playing Piano: Body, Embodiment and Gender� | |
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| �Rediscovering Christmas� | |
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| �Dont You Think Its Time to Start Thinking� | |
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| �The Case for Curling up with a Book� | |
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| �A World Not Neatly Divided� | |
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| Writing a Research Paper | |
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| The Research Paper: w | |