The Basics Of The Short Essay | |
Prewriting Getting Started Selecting a Subject | |
Finding Your Essays Purpose and Focus | |
Pump-Primer Techniques After Youve Found Your Focus | |
Discovering your Audience How to Identify Your Readers Keeping a Journal (Talking to Yourself Does Help) | |
Summary | |
The Thesis Statement What Is a Thesis? | |
What Does a "Working Thesis" Do? | |
Can a "Working Thesis" Change? | |
Guidelines for Writing a Good Thesis Avoiding Common Errors in Thesis Statements Using the Essay Map | |
Summary | |
The Body Paragraphs Planning the Body of Your Essay | |
Composing the Body Paragraphs | |
The Topic Sentence Paragraph | |
Development Paragraph | |
Length Paragraph | |
Unity Paragraph | |
Coherence Paragraph | |
Sequence Transitions between Paragraphs | |
Summary | |
Beginnings and Endings | |
How to Write a Good Lead-In Avoiding Errors in Lead-Ins | |
How to Write a Good Concluding Paragraph | |
Avoiding Errors in Conclusions How to Write a Good Title | |
Summary | |
Drafting and Revising: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking | |
What Is Revision? When Does Revision Occur? | |
Myths about Revision Preparing to Draft: Some Time-Saving Hints | |
A Revision Process for Your Drafts | |
What is Critical Thinking? | |
Thinking Critically as a Writer | |
A Final Checklist for Your Essay | |
Benefiting from Revision Workshops | |
Some Last Advise: How to Play with Your Mental Blocks | |
Summary | |
Effective Sentences | |
Developing a Clear Style | |
Developing a Concise Style | |
Developing a Lively Style | |
Developing an Emphatic Style | |
Summary | |
Word Logic Selecting the Correct Words Selecting the Best Words | |
Summary | |
The Reading-Writing Connection | |
How Can Reading Well Help Me Become a Better Writer? | |
How Can I Become an Analytical Reader? | |
Writing a Summary | |
Summary The Basics of the Short Essay: | |
Summary | |
Purposes, Modes, And Strategies | |
Exposition The Strategies of Exposition | |
Development by Example Professional Essay: "So Whats So Bad about Being So-So?" | |
Development by Process Analysis Professional Essays: "To Bid the World Farewell" & "How to Write a Personal Letter" | |
Development by Comparison and Contrast Essay Topics A Topic Proposal for Your Essay Professional Essays: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" & "Two Ways of Viewing the River" | |
Development by Definition Professional Essay: "The Munchausen Mystery" | |
Development by Division and Classification Professional Essay: "Mystery!" | |
Argumentation Developing Your Essay Common Logical Fallacies Pro/Con Professional Essays: "Grandparents Rights" Analyzing Advertisements | |
Description How to Write Effective Description Professional Essay: "Still Learning from My Mother" | |
Narration Writing the Effective Narrative Essay Professional Essay: "Sister Flowers" | |
Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies Professional Essay: "Dont Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgements" | |
Special Assignments | |
Writing a Paper Using Research | |
Focusing Your Topic Beginning Your Library Research | |
Preparing a Working Bibliography Choosing and Evaluating Your Sources | |
Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | |
Taking Notes Incorporating Your Source Material | |
Avoiding Plagiarism Choosing the Documentation Style for Your Essay MLA / APA Styles | |
Using Supplementary Notes | |
Writing about Literature Using Literature in the Composition Classroom | |
Suggestions for Close Reading of Literature Steps to Reading a Story Annotated Story: "The Story of an Hour" | |
Steps to Reading a Poem Annotated Poem "When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer" | |
Guidelines for Writing about Literature | |
Writing In-Class: Exams and "Response" Essays Steps to Writing Well Under Pressure Writing the Summary-and-Response Essay | |
Writing in the World of Work Composing Business Letters Sample Business Letter | |
Creating Memos Sending Professional E-Mail Designing R?sum?s Sample R?sum? | |
A Concise Handbook | |
Major Errors in Grammar Errors with Verbs Errors with Nouns Errors with Pronouns Errors with Adverbs and Adjectives Errors in Modifying Phrases Errors in Sentences | |
A Concise Guide to Punctuation | |
The Period | |
The Question Mark | |
The Exclamation Point | |
The Comma | |
The Semicolon | |
The Colon | |
The Apostrophe Quotation Marks Parentheses Brackets | |
The Dash | |
The Hyphen Underlining | |
The Ellipsis Mark | |
A Concise Guide to Mechanics Capitalization Abbreviations Numbers Spelling | |
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