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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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| First Reading: A Checklist | |
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| Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | |
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| Second Reading: A Checklist | |
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| Evaluate the Selection | |
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| Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist | |
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| Ellen Goodman, Family Counterculture | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Prewrite | |
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| Figure 2.1: Stages of the Writing Process | |
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| Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist | |
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| Activities: Prewrite | |
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| Identify the Thesis | |
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| Activities: Identify the Thesis | |
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| Support the Thesis with Evidence | |
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| Activities: Support the Thesis with Evidence | |
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| Organize the Evidence | |
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| Activities: Organize the Evidence | |
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| Outlining: A Checklist | |
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| Write the First Draft | |
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| Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist | |
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| Figure 2.2: Structure of an Essay | |
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| Activities: Write the First Draft | |
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| Revise the Essay | |
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| Edit and Proofread | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activity: 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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| Figure 3.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Description Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Description | |
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| Maya Angelou, Sister Flowers | |
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| Figure 3.2: Essay Structure Diagram: "Sister Flowers" by Maya Angelou | |
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| Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home | |
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| Gary Kamiya, Life, Death and Spring | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 4.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Narration Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Narration | |
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| Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July | |
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| Figure 4.2: Essay Structure Diagram: "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde | |
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| George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant | |
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| Joan Murray, Someone's Mother | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 5.1 Development Diagram: Writing an Exemplification Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Exemplification | |
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| Kay S. Hymowitz, Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen | |
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| Figure 5.2: Essay Structure Diagram: "Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen" by Kay S. Hymowitz | |
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| Leslie Savan, Black Talk and Pop Culture | |
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| Eric G. Wilson, The Miracle of Melancholia | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 6.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Division-Classification Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Division-Classification | |
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| Ann McClintock, Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising | |
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| Figure 6.2 Essay Structure Diagram: "Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising" by Ann McClintock | |
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| David Brooks, Psst! Human Capital | |
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| Marion Winik, What Are Friends For? | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 7.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Process Analysis Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Process Analysis | |
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| Clifford Stoll, Cyberschool | |
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| Figure 7.2: Essay Structure Diagram: "Cyberschool" by Clifford Stoll | |
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| David Shipley, Talk About Editing | |
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| Amy Sutherland, What Shamu Taught Me about a Happy Marriage | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 8.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Comparison-Contrast Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Comparison-Contrast | |
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| Eric Weiner, Euromail and Amerimail | |
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| Figure 8.2: Essay Structure Diagram:"Euromail and Amerimail" by Eric Weiner | |
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| Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow | |
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| Dave Barry, Beauty and the Beast | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 9.1 Development Diagram: Writing a Cause-Effect Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Cause-Effect | |
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| Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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| Figure 9.2: Essay Structure Diagram:"Why We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King | |
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| Kurt Kleiner, Beauty: When Manana is Too Soon | |
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| Buzz Bissinger, Innocents Afield | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 10.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Definition Essay | |
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| Revision Strategies | |
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| Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Definition | |
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| K.C. Cole, Entropy | |
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| Figure 10.2: Essay Structure Diagram: "ENTROPY" by K. C. Cole | |
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| Natalie Angier, The Cute Factor | |
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| Ann Hulbert, Beyond the Pleasure Principle | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Figure 11.1: Development Diagram: Writing an Argumentation-Persuasion Essay | |
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| Questions for Using Toulmin Strategy: A Checklist | |
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| Argumentation-Persuasion: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion | |
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| Stanley Fish, Free Speech Follies | |
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| Figure 11.2: Essay Structure Diagram:"Free-Speech Follies" by Stanley Fish | |
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| Anna Quindlen, Driving to the Funeral | |
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| Examining an Issue: Gender-Based Education | |
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| Gerry Garibaldi, How the Schools Shortchange Boys | |
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| Michael Kimmel, the War Against Boys | |
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| Examining an Issue: Illegal Immigration | |
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| Roberto Rodriguez, The Border on Our Backs | |
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| Star Parker, Se Habla Entitlement | |
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| Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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| Student Essay | |
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| Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos? | |
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| Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd | |
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| A Guide to Using Sources | |
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| Evaluating Source Materials | |
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| Evaluating Articles and Books: A Checklist | |
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| Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist | |
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| Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material | |
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| Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material: A Checklist | |
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| Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase Without Plagiarizing | |
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| Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase: A Checklist | |
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| Integrating Sources Into Your Writing | |
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| Integrating Sources Into Your Writing: A Checklist | |
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| Documenting Sources: MLA Style | |
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| How to Document: MLA In-Text References | |
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| Using MLA Parenthetical Reference: A Checklist | |
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| How to Document: MLA List of Works Cited | |
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| Citing Print Sources Books | |
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| Citing Print Sources Periodicals | |
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| Citing Sources Found on a Website | |
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| Citing Sources Found Through an Online Database or Scholarly Project | |
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| Citing Other Common Sources | |
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| Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors | |
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| Fragments | |
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| Comma Splices and Run-ons | |
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| Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Faulty Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Faulty Parallelism | |
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| Comma Misuse | |
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| Apostrophe Misuse | |
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| Confusing Homonyms | |
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| Misuse of Italics and Underlining | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |
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| New to this edition | |
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| Completely revised and updated | |