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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Principles of Effective Writing in the Humanities | |
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| Types of Essays | |
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| Elements of the Humanities Disciplines | |
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| Literature | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Theater and Dance | |
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| Film | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Music | |
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| Planning Your Essay | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Choosing and Narrowing Your Topic | |
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| Posing a Research Question | |
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| Researching Your Topic and Taking Notes | |
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| Formulating Your Thesis | |
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| Identifying the Counterarguments | |
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| Asking the Proof Question | |
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| Designing Your Points of Proof | |
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| Outlining Your Essay | |
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| Drafting Your Essay | |
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| Writing the Introduction | |
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| Organizing the Evidence | |
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| Writing the Body Paragraphs | |
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| Writing the Conclusion | |
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| Citing Your Sources | |
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| Inventing a Title | |
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| Revising Your Essay | |
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| Guidelines for Peer Review | |
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| Editing and Proofreading Your Essay | |
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| Formatting Your Essay | |
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| Writing the Short Response | |
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| Responding Objectively | |
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| Paraphrase | |
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| Summarize | |
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| Responding Subjectively | |
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| React | |
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| Compare | |
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| Evaluate | |
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| "A Post-Cold War Response to Dr. Strangelove" | |
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| Infer | |
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| Writing the Analytical Essay | |
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| The Nature of Analysis | |
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| Drawing Inferences | |
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| Formal Analysis | |
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| Approaches to Analysis | |
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| Planning and Drafting Your Analytical Essay | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Posing a Research Question | |
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| Sample Research Questions | |
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| Formulating a Thesis | |
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| Formulating the Points of Proof | |
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| Constructing an Outline | |
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| "Odysseus: I Am Become a Name" | |
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| Organizing the Comparison-Contrast Essay | |
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| Templates for Organizing Your Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| "The Perfect Woman" | |
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| "Iago: Deception as Catalyst for Truth" | |
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| "Bach's Enduring Influence" | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Essay | |
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| Revision and Editing Checklist | |
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| Writing the Argument Essay | |
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| The Nature of Argument | |
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| Appeals of Argument | |
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| Types of Reasoning | |
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| Logical Fallacies | |
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| Planning and Drafting Your Argument Essay | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Topic Suggestions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Counterarguments | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Points of Proof | |
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| Templates for Organizing Your Essay | |
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| Body Paragraphs | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| "Torvald Isn't Such a Bad Guy" | |
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| "Claggart Was Just Doing His Job" | |
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| "On Walt Whitman, Bette Davis, and the Neglect of Poetry" | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Essay | |
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| Revision and Editing Checklist | |
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| Writing the Examination Essay | |
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| Preparing for the Examination | |
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| Study Checklists | |
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| Two-Column Notes | |
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| Flashcards | |
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| Strategies | |
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| Taking the Examination | |
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| Before You Begin Writing | |
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| Preparing to Answer the Essay Question | |
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| Writing the Essay | |
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| Student Examination Essay | |
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| "Tradition Busters" | |
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| Before Turning in the Examination | |
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| Writing the Review | |
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| Purpose and Audience | |
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| Tone | |
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| Style | |
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| Attending the Event | |
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| Aids to Appreciating the Event | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Capturing Your Impressions | |
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| Drafting the Introduction | |
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| Controlling Idea | |
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| Stating Your Thesis | |
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| Drafting the Body Paragraphs | |
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| Drafting the Conclusion | |
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| Inventing a Title | |
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| Professional Review | |
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| "Digitizing Dusseldorf" | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Review | |
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| Revision and Editing Checklist | |
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| Writing the Research Paper | |
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| Planning Your Research Paper | |
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| Choosing and Narrowing a Topic | |
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| Researching the Topic | |
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| Searching the Library | |
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| Searching the World Wide Web | |
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| Templates for Planning Your Research Paper | |
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| Drafting Your Research Paper | |
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| Paraphrasing versus Plagiarizing | |
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| Incorporating Quotations | |
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| Citing Sources | |
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| MLA Parenthetical Notes Documentation System | |
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| Student Research Paper, MLA Style | |
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| "The Elgin Marbles: Saved or Stolen?" | |
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| Chicago Manual of Style Numbered Notes Documentation System | |
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| Student Research Paper, CMS Style | |
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| "Femininity and Other Textually Transmitted Diseases: Displays of Female Power in the Film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Research Paper | |
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| Revision and Editing Checklist | |
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| Language of Humanities | |
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| Approaches to Criticism | |
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| Archetypal Criticism | |
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| Deconstructive Criticism | |
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| Diarist Art Criticism | |
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| Feminist Criticism | |
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| Formalist Art Criticism | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Criticism | |
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| Historical Criticism | |
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| Marxist Criticism | |
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| Multicultural Criticism | |
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| New Criticism | |
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| New Historicism | |
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| Postmodernist Criticism | |
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| Poststructuralist Criticism | |
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| Psychoanalytical Criticism | |
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| Reader-Response Criticism | |
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| Structuralist Criticism | |
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| Handbook | |
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| Choosing Words | |
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| Choosing Verbs | |
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| Choosing Pronouns | |
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| Wordiness | |
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| Nonsexist Language | |
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| Tone | |
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| Sentence Structures | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Run-On Sentences | |
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| Awkward Sentence Constructions | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Comma | |
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| Semicolon | |
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| Colon | |
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| Dash | |
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| Apostrophe | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |