| |
| |
| |
| Reading And Writing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Guidelines for Critical Reading | |
| |
| |
| Kinds of Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hidden within Technology''s Empire, A Republic of Letters | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| What Is Rhetoric? Road Map to Rhetoric | |
| |
| |
| Grammar and Rhetoric | |
| |
| |
| Audience and Purpose | |
| |
| |
| The Internal Reader/Editor | |
| |
| |
| Levels of English | |
| |
| |
| Writing as a Process | |
| |
| |
| Writing about Visual Images Exercises | |
| |
| |
| Advice: What+and How+to Write When You Have No Time to Write | |
| |
| |
| |
| Examples: I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr | |
| |
| |
| Letter to Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln [New selection] | |
| |
| |
| Have a Cigar | |
| |
| |
| |
| Real Life Student Writing: E-mail from Samoa | |
| |
| |
| |
| What Is a Writer''s Voice? Road Map to Writer''s Voice | |
| |
| |
| Voice: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Vocabulary | |
| |
| |
| Syntax | |
| |
| |
| Attitude | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| Advice: How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words, Paul Roberts | |
| |
| |
| Examples: Tone: The Writer''s Voice in the Reader''s Mind, Mort Castle | |
| |
| |
| The Waltz, Dorothy Parker | |
| |
| |
| Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution, Bartolomeo Vanzetti | |
| |
| |
| Salvation, Langston Hughes | |
| |
| |
| A Grunt''s Prayer, Ken Noyle [New selection] | |
| |
| |
| Real Life Student Writing: A Thank-You Note to an Aunt | |
| |
| |
| |
| What Is a Thesis? Road Map to a Thesis | |
| |
| |
| Finding Your Thesis | |
| |
| |
| Key Words in the Thesis | |
| |
| |
| Characteristics of a Good Thesis | |
| |
| |
| Nine Errors to Avoid in Composing a Thesis | |
| |
| |
| The Explicit versus the Implicit Thesis | |
| |
| |
| Advice: Thesis, Sheridan Baker | |
| |
| |
| Examples: The Grieving Never Ends, Roxanne Roberts | |
| |
| |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O''Connor | |
| |
| |
| Spring, Edna St | |
| |
| |
| Vincent Millay | |
| |
| |
| Real Life Student Writing: A Eulogy to a Friend Killed in a Car Wreck | |
| |
| |
| |
| How Do I Organize? Road Map to Organizing | |
| |
| |
| Organizing the Short Essay | |
| |
| |
| Organizing the Long Essay | |
| |
| |
| Planning by Listing Supporting Materials | |
| |
| |
| Organizing with a Formal Outline | |
| |
| |
| Advice: Write to be Understood, Jim Staylor [New selection] | |
| |
| |
| Examples: My Wood, E.M. Forester | |
| |
| |
| Rules for Aging, Roger Rosenblatt | |
| |
| |
| The Catbird Seat, James Thurber | |
| |
| |
| That Time of Year (Sonnet 73) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Real Life Student Writing: Note from a Graduate Student to a Department Secretary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Developing Paragraphs | |
| |
| |
| Road Map to Developing Paragraphs | |
| |
| |
| Parts of the Paragraph | |
| |
| |
| Supporting Details | |
| |
| |
| Topic Sentence Developed over More Than One Paragraph | |
| |
| |
| Position of the Topic Sentence | |
| |
| |
| Paragraph Patterns | |
| |
| |
| Characteristics of a Well-Designed Paragraph | |
| |
| |
| Writing Your Own Paragraphs | |
| |
| |
| Advice: Writing Successful Paragraphs | |
| |
| |
| |
| Examples: Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the Beginning | |
| |
| |
| From the Lessons of the Past, Edith Hamilton. Pain | |
| |
| |
| |
| I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech), Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce | |
| |
| |
| Man against Darkness | |
| |
| |
| |
| What Is a Poet? | |
| |
| |
| |
| On Disease | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Flood | |
| |
| |
| |
| Real Life Student Writing: Letter of Application to an Honors Program | |
| |
| |
| |
| Patterns Of Development: The Rhetorical Modes | |
| |
| |
| |
| Narration | |
| |
| |
| Road Map to Narration | |
| |
| |
| What Narration Does | |
| |
| |
| When to Use Narration | |
| |
| |
| How to Write a Narrative | |
| |
| |
| Warming Up to Write a Narrative | |
| |
| |
| Examples: Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell | |
| |
| |
| My Name is Margaret, Maya Angelou | |
| |
| |
| Shame, Dick Gregory | |
| |
| |
| On Black Fathering, Cornel West [New selection] | |
| |
| |
| Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden | |
| |
| |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: What Does Islam Say about Terrorism? Abdullah Momin | |
| |
| |
| "Postscript" to Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen Bin Laden | |
| |
| |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Period | |
| |
| |
| Student Corner: The Right Moves against Terrorism, Sion Arakelian | |
| |
| |
| |
| Description | |
| |
| |
| Road Map to Description | |
| |
| |
| What Description Does | |
| |
| |
| When to Use Description | |
| |
| |
| How to Write a Description | |
| |
| |
| Warming Up to Write a Description | |
| |
| |
| Examples: The Libido for the Ugly | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Worn Path, Eudora Welty. Pigeon Woman | |
| |
| |
| |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Body Image, Cindy Maynard | |
| |
| |
| |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Comma. Student Corner: Body Modification+Think about It! Shelley Taylor [New selection] | |
| |
| |
| |
| Process Analysis. Road | |