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| Writing Projects | |
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| Preface | |
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| Writing Projects | |
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| Thematic Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Rhetoric for Writers | |
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| Thinking Rhetorically About Good Writing | |
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| Good Writing Can Vary from Closed to Open Forms David Rockwood | |
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| A Letter to the Editor Thomas Merton | |
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| A Festival of Rain Distinctions between Closed and Open Forms of Writing Where to Place Your Writing Along the Continuum | |
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| Good Writers Pose Questions about Their Subject Matter Shared Problems Unite Writers and Readers Posing Your Own Subject-Matter Questions Brittany Tinker | |
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| Can the World Sustain an American Standard of Living? | |
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| Good Writers Write for a Purpose to an Audience within a Genre | |
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| How Writers Think about Purpose | |
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| How Writers Think about Audience | |
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| How Writers Think about Genre Chapter | |
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| Summary | |
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| Brief Writing Project 1: Posing a Good Subject-Matter Problem Brief Writing Project 2: Understanding Rhetorical Context | |
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| Thinking Rhetorically about Your Subject Matter | |
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| Professors Value Wallowing in Complexity | |
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| Learning to Wallow in Complexity Seeing Each Academic Discipline as a Field of Inquiry and Argument | |
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| Good Writers Use Exploratory Strategies to Think Critically about Subject Matter Problems | |
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| Freewriting Focused | |
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| Freewriting Idea | |
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| Mapping Dialectic Talk Playing the Believing and Doubting Game "Believing and Doubting Paul Theroux s Negative View of Sports | |
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| A Strong Thesis Surprises Readers with Something New or Challenging | |
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| Trying to Change Your Reader s View of Your Subject Giving Your Thesis | |
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| Tension through Surprising Reversal | |
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| Thesis Statements in Closed-Form Prose Are Supported Hierarchically with Points and Particulars | |
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| How Points Convert Information to Meaning | |
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| How Removing Particulars Creates a Summary | |
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| How to Use Points and Particulars | |
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| When You Revise Chapter | |
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| Summary | |
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| Brief Writing Project: Playing the Believing and Doubting Game | |
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| Thinking Rhetorically about How Messages Persuade | |
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| Messages Persuade through Their Angle of Vision | |
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| Recognizing the Angle of Vision in a Text | |
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| Analyzing Angle of Vision | |
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| Messages Persuade through Appeals to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos | |
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| Nonverbal Messages Persuade Through Visual Strategies That Can Be Analyzed Rhetorically | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| The Rhetoric of Clothing and Other Consumer Items | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Brief Writing Project: Analyzing Angle of Vision in Two Passages about Nuclear Energy | |
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| Thinking Rhetorically about Style and Document Design | |
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| Good Writers Make Purposeful Stylistic Choices | |
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| Factors That Affect Style | |
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| Abstract Versus Concrete Words: Moving Up or Down the Scale of Abstraction | |
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| Wordy Versus Streamlined Sentences: Cutting Deadwood to Highlight Your Ideas | |
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| Coordination Versus Subordination: Using Sentence Structure to Control Emphasis | |
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| Inflated Voice Versus a Natural Speaking Voice: Creating a Persona | |
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| Good Writers Make Purposeful Document Design Choices Using Type Using Space and Laying Out Documents Using Color Using Graphics and Images | |
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| Examples of Different Document Designs | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Brief Writing Project: Converting a Passage from Scientific to Popular Style | |
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| Writing Projects | |
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| Writing to Learn | |
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| Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Observer Explor | |