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| Preface | |
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| Strategies For The Writing Process | |
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| Why Write? | |
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| How Does Writing Happen? | |
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| Stages in the Writing Process | |
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| Writing and Reading | |
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| Computers and Writing | |
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| Invention: Finding Something to Say Finding Topics | |
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| Writing about an Assigned Topic Exploring Topics | |
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| Finding Information Sample Student Process Prewriting From Inventing to Drafting | |
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| Shaping an Essay Initial Shaping Strategies | |
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| Sample Student Process Discovery | |
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| Draft Developing an Essay's | |
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| Structure Elements of an Essay | |
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| Writing Strategy: Beating the Dreaded Writer's Block | |
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| Revising Revising Strategies Writer's Notebook: Responding to Readers' | |
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| Comments Editing Strategies | |
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| Writing a Self-Assessment Sample | |
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| Student Process Revision Marisol Vargas, Mirror Image | |
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| Responding to Readings Sample ReadingLee Abbott | |
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| The True Storyof Why I Do | |
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| What I Do Reading Strategies for Texts | |
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| Readings Strategies for Visuals Writers Notebook: Dialogue Notes | |
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| Writing Paraphrases and Summaries | |
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| Writing a Response | |
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| Sample Student Essay | |
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| Summary and Response | |
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| Christian Clark | |
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| An Analysis of Jaclyn Tablert's | |
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| "Justice For Those | |
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| Who Have Shown Us No Mercy" | |
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| Writing Occasions | |
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| Aims of Discourse | |
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| Modes of Discourse | |
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| Wedding Aim and Mode | |
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| Classifying Occasions | |
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| Personal Essays Sample Essays | |
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| Datus Proper, Dark Hollow Judith Ortiz Cofer | |
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| The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | |
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| Charles McNair, My Father's Cabin | |
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| The Rhetorical Triangle | |
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| Distinguishing Features of Personal Essays | |
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| Assignments and Guidelines for Writing | |
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| Sample Student Process Chris Miller, Gringos on Safari | |
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| Information Essays | |
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| Sample Essays | |
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| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On the Fear of Dying | |
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| Suzanne Smalley, The Perfect Crime | |
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| Jay Chiat,Illusions are Forever | |
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| Arthur Rosenfelf, Should Anyone Have to Live in Pain? | |
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| Gloria Naylor, Mommy | |
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| What Does "Nigger" Mean? | |
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| Michel Marriott, Rap's Embrace of "Nigger" Fires Bitter Debate | |
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| Kelly McGinley, Investing in Your Future | |
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| The Rhetorical Triangle | |
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| Subject | |
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| Writer | |
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| Reader | |
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| Distinguishing Features of Information Essays | |
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| Reader's Knowledge | |
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| Clarity | |
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| Assignment and Guidelines for Writing | |
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| Assignment | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Collecting Information | |
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| Focus Statement | |
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| Planning Your Essay's Structure | |
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| Meir Shalev, If Bosnian's Were Whales | |
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| Thesis Statement | |
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| Refining Your Writing | |
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| Sample Student Process | |
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| Michael Graham, All in a Day's Work: Generalizing | |
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| Profiling, and Stereotyping | |
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| Checklist: Critiquing an Information Essay | |
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| Essays About and From Literature | |
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| Sample Stories, Poems, and Nonfiction Prose | |
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| Joyce Carol Oates, Shopping | |
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| Antonya Nelson, In the Land of Men | |
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| Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour | |
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| Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something | |
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| Margaret Atwood, Spelling | |
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