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| Preface | |
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| Overview: The Writer and the Writing Process | |
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| Your Attitudes toward Writing | |
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| Shaping a Positive Attitude toward Writing | |
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| Passage: On Keeping a Diary | |
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| A Guide to Writing Paragraphs and Essays | |
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| Observations (Details) | |
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| Observe and Take Notes | |
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| Put Details into Complete Sentences | |
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| Create an Opening Sentence and Revise Your Descriptions | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Traffic Jam | |
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| In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | |
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| Belongings (Description) | |
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| Probe Your Topic | |
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| Draft a Descriptive Paragraph | |
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| Revise for Effective Organization | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: The Blond Guitar | |
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| Shaman | |
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| Places (Place Description) | |
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| Discover and Develop a Topic through Clustering | |
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| Draft a Place Description | |
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| Revise Your Place Description | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: River Street | |
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| A Goody Bag in a One-Room House | |
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| Virtues and Vices (Examples) | |
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| Develop Examples through Listing, Probing, and Clustering | |
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| Draft a Paragraph with Examples | |
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| Revise for Clear Organization | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Worrying Myself to Death | |
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| The Sentimentalist | |
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| Growing (Narration) | |
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| Freewrite | |
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| Draft a Paragraph That Tells a Story | |
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| Revise for Vivid Details and Clear Organization | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: A Sweet Magnolia Leaf Cut | |
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| Work (Objective Report) | |
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| Draft a Personal, Informal Job Description | |
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| Draft a Formal, Objective Job Description | |
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| Revise Your Formal Job Description for Clear Organization | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Teacher's Aide | |
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| On Waitressing | |
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| Complaints (Formal Letter) | |
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| Identify and Focus Your Complaint through Brainstorming | |
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| Draft a Complaint Paragraph | |
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| Draft a Letter of Complaint | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Complaint against Dr. Legree | |
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| Open Letter to the A.S.P.C.A. | |
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| Skills (Process Analysis) | |
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| Discover and Narrow a Topic | |
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| Prepare an Instructional Outline | |
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| Draft the Skills Paragraph | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: How to Catch Crabs | |
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| Making the Grades: How to Cram | |
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| Changes (Comparison) | |
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| Explore Your Topic and List Details | |
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| Draft Two Paragraphs: "Then" and "Now" | |
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| Draft a "Then" and "Now" Essay | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: From Mullett's to IGA | |
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| They Also Wait Who Stand and Serve Themselves | |
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| Modern Times (Evaluating Effects) | |
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| List and Illustrate Advantages and Disadvantages | |
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| Draft Several Short Paragraphs | |
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| Draft an Essay | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Learning at a Distance | |
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| Living with My VCR | |
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| Reasons (Causes) | |
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| Brainstorm | |
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| Draft Reason Paragraphs Developed with Explanations and Examples | |
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| Draft an Essay | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Learning to Hate Mathematics | |
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| Women and Science | |
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| Approaches (Classification) | |
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| List Approaches to an Activity | |
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| Explain and Describe Each Approach | |
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| Draft an Essay | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Shopping at the Pig | |
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| You Are How You Eat | |
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| Issues (Argument) | |
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| Explore Both Sides of the Issue | |
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| Draft Paragraphs in Support of Your Argument | |
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| Draft an Essay | |
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| Revise and Proofread | |
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| Passages: Time for an Anthem the Country Can Sing | |
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| Education--Less of It! | |
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| Additional Essays Assignments | |
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| Daily Log (Description and Narration) | |
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| Passage: A Day in the Homeless Life | |
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| Mementos (Description and Narration) | |
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| Passage: My Superman Suit | |
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| Experiences (Narration) | |
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| Passage: The Closet (Student's name withheld by request) | |
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| Rules (Explanations and Examples) | |
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| Passage: Gather Round, Collegians | |
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| Profiles (Descriptions, Examples, Narration) | |
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| Passage: The Tough Old Bird | |
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| Outsiders (Description, Narration, Examples) | |
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| Passage: The Playground Pariah | |
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| Neighborhood (Description, Explanations, Persuasion) | |
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| Passage: My Oakland | |
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| Rituals and Procedures (Process Analysis) | |
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| Passage: The Red Wedding Dress | |
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| Sales (Persuasion) | |
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| Passage: Tressel Toaster | |
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| Choices (Comparison) | |
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| Passage: Still Making a Spectacle Out of Yourself? | |
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| Problem Solving (Explanation and Argument) | |
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| Passage: Needed: A License to Drink | |
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| Values (Definition) | |
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| Passage: Compassion | |
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| Holidays (Explanation and Argument) | |
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| Passage: Blushing Monday | |
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| Reviews (Summary and Evaluation) | |
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| Passage: An Airhead Exercise in Aimless Activity | |
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| Responses (Critical Analysis and Evaluation) | |
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| Passage: The Lesson | |
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| A Guide to Writing Sentences | |
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| Basic Sentence Structures | |
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| Basic Sentence Parts | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses | |
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| Additional Sentence Structures | |
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| Adjective Clauses | |
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| Appositives | |
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| Adverb Clauses | |
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| Participle Phrases | |
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| Absolutes | |
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| Further Practice in Building Paragraphs | |
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| Clear, Complete Sentences | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Run-on Sentences | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| The Principle of Agreement | |
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| Rules of Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Making Have, Do, and Be Agree with Their Subjects | |
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| Words between the Subject and Verb | |
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| Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns as Subjects | |
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| Verb Tenses | |
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| Regular Verbs | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Using the Different Forms of Pronouns | |
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| Making Pronouns Agree with Their Antecedents | |
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| Making Pronouns Refer Clearly to Their Antecedents | |
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| Punctuation and Mechanics | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Mechanics | |
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| Words | |
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| Using the Dictionary | |
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| Correct Spelling | |
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| Choosing the Correct Word | |
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| Directness | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Testing Word and Sentence Skills (Diagnostic Tests) | |
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| Essay Examinations | |
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| The R�©sum�© and Letter of Applicatio | |