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Preface | |
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Strategies For The Writing Process | |
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Why Write? | |
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How Does Writing Happen? | |
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Stages in the Writing Process | |
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Writing and Reading | |
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Computers and Writing | |
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Invention: Finding Something to Say Finding Topics | |
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Writing about an Assigned Topic Exploring Topics | |
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Finding Information Sample Student Process Prewriting From Inventing to Drafting | |
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Shaping an Essay Initial Shaping Strategies | |
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Sample Student Process Discovery | |
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Draft Developing an Essay's | |
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Structure Elements of an Essay | |
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Writing Strategy: Beating the Dreaded Writer's Block | |
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Revising Revising Strategies Writer's Notebook: Responding to Readers' | |
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Comments Editing Strategies | |
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Writing a Self-Assessment Sample | |
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Student Process Revision Marisol Vargas, Mirror Image | |
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Responding to Readings Sample ReadingLee Abbott | |
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The True Storyof Why I Do | |
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What I Do Reading Strategies for Texts | |
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Readings Strategies for Visuals Writers Notebook: Dialogue Notes | |
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Writing Paraphrases and Summaries | |
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Writing a Response | |
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Sample Student Essay | |
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Summary and Response | |
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Christian Clark | |
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An Analysis of Jaclyn Tablert's | |
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"Justice For Those | |
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Who Have Shown Us No Mercy" | |
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Writing Occasions | |
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Aims of Discourse | |
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Modes of Discourse | |
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Wedding Aim and Mode | |
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Classifying Occasions | |
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Personal Essays Sample Essays | |
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Datus Proper, Dark Hollow Judith Ortiz Cofer | |
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The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | |
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Charles McNair, My Father's Cabin | |
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The Rhetorical Triangle | |
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Distinguishing Features of Personal Essays | |
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Assignments and Guidelines for Writing | |
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Sample Student Process Chris Miller, Gringos on Safari | |
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Information Essays | |
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Sample Essays | |
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On the Fear of Dying | |
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Suzanne Smalley, The Perfect Crime | |
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Jay Chiat,Illusions are Forever | |
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Arthur Rosenfelf, Should Anyone Have to Live in Pain? | |
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Gloria Naylor, Mommy | |
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What Does "Nigger" Mean? | |
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Michel Marriott, Rap's Embrace of "Nigger" Fires Bitter Debate | |
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Kelly McGinley, Investing in Your Future | |
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The Rhetorical Triangle | |
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Subject | |
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Writer | |
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Reader | |
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Distinguishing Features of Information Essays | |
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Reader's Knowledge | |
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Clarity | |
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Assignment and Guidelines for Writing | |
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Assignment | |
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Choosing a Topic | |
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Collecting Information | |
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Focus Statement | |
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Planning Your Essay's Structure | |
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Meir Shalev, If Bosnian's Were Whales | |
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Thesis Statement | |
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Refining Your Writing | |
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Sample Student Process | |
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Michael Graham, All in a Day's Work: Generalizing | |
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Profiling, and Stereotyping | |
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Checklist: Critiquing an Information Essay | |
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Essays About and From Literature | |
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Sample Stories, Poems, and Nonfiction Prose | |
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Joyce Carol Oates, Shopping | |
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Antonya Nelson, In the Land of Men | |
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Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour | |
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Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something | |
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Margaret Atwood, Spelling | |
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She | |