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| Reading and Writing: From Reading to Writing | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Kinds of Reading | |
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| Steps to Critical Reading | |
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| Read Actively | |
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| Demystify the Writer | |
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| Understand What You Read | |
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| Imagine an Opposing Point of View for All Opinions | |
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| Look for Biases and Hidden Assumptions | |
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| Separate Emotion from Fact | |
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| If the Issue Is New to You, Look up the Facts | |
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| Use Insights from One Subject to Illuminate or Correct Another | |
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| Evaluate the Evidence | |
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| Ponder the Values behind a Claim | |
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| Recognize Logical Fallacies | |
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| Don't Be Seduced by Bogus Claims | |
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| Annotate Your Reading | |
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| Finally, Be Sure You Understand the Writer's Opening Context | |
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| Answers to Critical Reading Questions on Andy Rooney | |
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| Hidden within Technology's Empire, a Republic of Letters / Saul Bellow | |
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| Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion | |
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| Road Map to Rhetoric | |
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| Grammar and Rhetoric | |
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| The Importance of Good Grammar | |
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| Letting the Habits of Literate Writers Be the Final Referee | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Importance of Rhetoric | |
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| Audience and Purpose | |
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| The Internal Reader/Editor | |
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| Levels of English | |
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| Writing as a Process | |
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| Writing about Visual Images | |
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| Advice | |
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| What--and How--to Write When You Have No Time to Write / Donald Murray | |
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| Examples | |
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| I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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| Letter to Horace Greeley / Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Have a Cigar / James Herriot | |
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| Chapter Writing Assignments | |
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| Pointer from a Pro: Write Often | |
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| Real-Life Student Writing | |
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| E-Mail from Samoa | |
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| Synthesis: Incorporating Outside Sources | |
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| Road Map to Synthesis | |
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| Building Blocks of Incorporating Outside Sources | |
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| Paraphrase | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Quotation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Guidelines for Effectively Synthesizing Outside Sources | |
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| Guidelines for Thinking and Reading Critically | |
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| Guidelines for Improving Your Writing | |
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| Writers at Work: Strategies for Incorporating Outside Sources | |
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| Writers at Work: Using Paraphrase and Summary | |
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| Writers at Work: Using Quotations | |
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| Chapter Writing Assignments: Writing a Synthesis Essay | |
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| Sources | |
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| The American Dream/Martin C. Jischke | |
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| The Death of Horatio Alger/Paul Krugman | |
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| By Our Own Bootstraps/ W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm | |
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| How the U.S | |
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| Stacks Up Against Other Wealthy, Industrialized Nations/Richard Wilkinson and Katie Pickett | |
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| Long Live the American Dream/Shikha Dalmia | |
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| Deer Hunting with Jesus/Joe Bageant | |
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| Worth and Net Worth/Richard Todd | |
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| Epilogue: The American Dream/James Truslow Adams | |
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| Essay Prompts | |
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| Suggestions for Additional Reading | |
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| The Writer's Voice | |
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| Road Map to Writer's Voice | |
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| Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Attitude | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advice | |
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| How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words / Paul Roberts | |
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| Examples | |
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| Tone: The Writer's Voice in the Reader's Mind / Mort Castle | |
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| The Waltz / Dorothy Parker | |
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| Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution / Bartolomeo Vanzetti | |
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| Salvation / Langston Hughes | |
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| A Grunt's Prayer / Ken Noyle | |
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| Chapter Writing Assignments | |
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| Real-Life Student Writing | |
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| A Thank-You Note to an Aunt | |
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| The Writer's Thesis | |
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| Road Map to Thesis | |
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| Finding Your Thesis | |
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| Key Words in the Thesis | |
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| Characteristics of a Good Thesis | |
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| Nine Errors to Avoid in Composing a Thesis | |
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| The Explicit Versus the Implicit Thesis | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advice | |
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| The Thesis / Sheridan Baker | |
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| Examples | |
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| The Grieving Never Ends / Roxanne Roberts | |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor | |
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| Spring / Edna St | |
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| Vincent Millay | |
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| Chapter Writing Assignments | |
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| Real-Life Student Writing | |
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| A Eulogy to a Friend Killed in a Car Wreck | |
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| Organizing Ideas | |
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| Road Map to Organizing | |
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| Organizing the Short Essay | |
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| Organizing the Long Essay | |
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| Planning by Listing Supporting Materials | |
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| Organizing with a Formal Outline | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advice | |
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| Write to Be Understood / Jim Staylor | |
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| Examples | |
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| My Wood / E. M. Forster | |
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| Rules for Aging / Roger Rosenblatt | |
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| The Catbird Seat / James Thurber | |
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| That Time of Year (Sonnet 73) / William Shakespeare | |
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| Chapter Writing Assignments | |
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| Real-Life Student Writing | |
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| Note from a Graduate Student to a Department Secretary | |
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| Developing Good Paragraphs | |
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| Road Map to Paragraphs | |
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| Parts of the Paragraph | |
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| Supporting Details | |