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| All chapters conclude with Questions for Thought, Discussion, and Writing | |
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| A Note to Students | |
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| A Note to Instructors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Writing and the College Community | |
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| Discourse Communities | |
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| Judgment and Writing | |
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| This Book and You | |
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| Purpose and Design | |
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| Earned Conclusions | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| How We Read | |
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| A Case in Point | |
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| Jackson Says Black English Isn't a Separate Language | |
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| Oakland Unified School District, Synopsis of the Adopted Policy on Standard American English Language Development | |
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| Reading and Belief | |
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| Some Considerations for Critical Reading | |
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| The Deep Structure of Reasoning | |
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| On Dialectic | |
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| The Interplay of Dualisms | |
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| Asking Questions, Generating Ideas | |
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| An Idea Worth Writing About | |
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| Ideas in Context: Audience | |
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| Stasis | |
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| Stasis: Kinds of Questions at Issue | |
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| Kinds of Inquiry | |
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| What a Thesis Does | |
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| The Need for Precision | |
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| Generating Stasis Questions about Fiction | |
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| Revising a Thesis | |
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| Giving Reasons | |
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| What a Reason Does | |
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| The Enthymeme: Connecting Reasons and Conclusions | |
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| Connecting the Enthymeme and Audience | |
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| Informal Reasoning | |
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| Exploring the Audience Connection | |
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| Kinds of Appeal | |
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| Relevance and Connectedness | |
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| Relative Precision | |
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| Circular Reasoning | |
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| Developing Structures | |
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| The Structural Enthymeme | |
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| From Enthymeme to Structure | |
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| From Structure to Essay: An Analysis | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Revision and Style as Rethinking | |
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| Obstacles to Revision | |
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| Responding to Your Teacher's Comments | |
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| Style and Attitudes | |
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| Style and Clear Thinking | |
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| Editing as Rethinking | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Implications for Research | |
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| Critical Reading and Research | |
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| Asking Questions for Research | |
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| Research and Reasons | |
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| Structuring Research | |
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| Readings for Analysis, Discussion, and Written Response | |
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| Issues about the Limits of Civil Authority | |
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| Plato, Crito | |
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| Resistance to Civil Government | |
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| A Call for Unity | |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| The Feminization of Earth First! | |
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| Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy | |
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| Seoor Payroll | |
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| Section 2 | |
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| On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students | |
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| Revising Our College Education: Participation Is the Key | |
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| The Truth about The Truth | |
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| What Does a Woman Need to Know? | |
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| At Miss Porter's, Girls Are Taking on a Winning (Gasp!) Attitude | |
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| Internet Forum on Jock Culture | |
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| The Jock Culture: Time to Debate the Questions | |
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| Responses from jg1937, orchid, amiante, dickmorr, amianti, shuarl | |
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| The New Tribalism | |
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| The American Dream | |
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| Issues about Language and Human Community | |
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| The Four Idols | |
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| Pol | |
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