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| Preface | |
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| The Reading Process | |
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| Get an Overview of the Selection | |
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| Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | |
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| Evaluate the Selection | |
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| Ellen Goodman, Family Counterculture | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Prewrite | |
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| Identify the Thesis | |
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| Support the Thesis With Evidence | |
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| Organize the Evidence | |
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| Write the First Draft | |
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| Revise the Essay | |
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| Description | |
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| What Is Description? | |
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| How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay | |
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| Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home | |
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| Sister Flowers | |
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| Once More to the Lake | |
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| Narration | |
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| What Is Narration? | |
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| How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay | |
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| The Chase | |
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| Salvation | |
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| So Tsi-Fai | |
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| Exemplification | |
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| What Is Exemplification? | |
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| How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay | |
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| The Values Wasteland | |
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| Bombs Bursting in Air | |
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| What I've Learned From Men | |
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| Division-Classification | |
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| What Is Division-Classification? | |
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| How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay | |
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| Doublespeak | |
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| Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising | |
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| But What Do You Mean? | |
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| Process Analysis | |
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| What Is Process Analysis? | |
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| How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay | |
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| Your New Computer | |
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| Campus Racism 101 | |
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| The Fine Art of Complaining | |
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| Comparison-Contrast | |
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| What Is Comparison-Contrast? | |
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| How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay | |
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| A Fable for Tomorrow | |
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| Workers | |
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| The Ugly Truth About Beauty | |
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| Cause-Effect | |
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| What Is Cause-Effect? | |
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| How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay | |
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| Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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| The Lie Detector | |
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| Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers? | |
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| Definition | |
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| What Is Definition? | |
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| How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay | |
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| Entropy | |
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| Life as Type A | |
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| The Handicap of Definition | |
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| Argumentation-Persuasion | |
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| What Is Argumentation-Persuasion? | |
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| How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay | |
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| In Praise of the "F" Word | |
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| Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures | |
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| Examining an Issue: Date Rape | |
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| Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know | |
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| Common Decency | |
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| Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action | |
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| Racism Has Its Privileges | |
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| Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference | |
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| Combining the Patterns | |
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| The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process | |
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| The Patterns in Action: In an Essay | |
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| The Death of the Moth | |
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| Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos? | |
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| The Santa Ana | |
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| A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources | |
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| Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject | |
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| Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject | |
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| Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject | |
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| Using the Internet to Research Your Subject | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| What to Document | |
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| How to Document | |
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| List of Works Cited | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |