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Preface | |
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Alternative Table of Contents | |
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Introduction: Academic Thinking and the Loss of Common Sense | |
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Analysis, or the Pleasure of Disruption | |
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Argument: Aunt Anne's Predicatment and the Logic of Persuasion | |
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Assignment: By Definition Not A Task | |
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Assumptions, Or the World Before the Text | |
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Audience, Or the Listener as the Essay's Other | |
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Brainstorming, Or How the Other Half Thinks | |
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Citation, Or the Rolodex of the Academic World | |
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Claims: Territorial Defense or Promise of Exploration? | |
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Conclusions: The Horror of Ending | |
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Coordination-Subordination: The Rule of the Sentence | |
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Counter-Argument, or the Necessary Risk of Academic Thinking | |
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Dash-Disrupting Academic Prose | |
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Disciplineand Its Discontents | |
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Editing, or Who is Writing What? | |
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Essay: The Etymology of the College Paper | |
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Evaluation, or How Does One Handle a Rejection or Bad Grade? | |
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Evidence: Discovery and Proof | |
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Experimental Writing: Conformity and Rebellion | |
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Footnotes, or the Autobiographies of Texts | |
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Free-Writing, a Rather Forced Liberation | |
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Grammar: The Magic of a Writer's Craft | |
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Interpretation: When a Banana is Not Just a Banana | |
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Introductions: The Risk of Beginning | |
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Keyterms, The Main Characters of Essays | |
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Metaphor: Its Wonders and Dangers | |
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Paragraphs: the Unfolding Drama | |
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Parallelism: Grammar and Equality | |
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Plagiarism: The Politics of Common Good and Private Property | |
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Pronoun: Of the Sacred and the Profane | |
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Punctuation: An Art Within Reason | |
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Question: Affectation or Inquiry? | |
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Quotation: Show Me How You Quote, and I Tell You Who You Are | |
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Reading and revelation | |
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Research:Not On the Trail of the Assassins | |
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Revision: A Writer's Survival Guide | |
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Structure, or the Stories Essays Tell | |
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Subject-Verb, or Sentence Squeeze-Play | |
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Summary: Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli | |
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Syllabus: Social Contract, Utopian Vision, or Draft for the Future? | |
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Synthesis: The Alchemy of Interpretation | |
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Thesis: Discover by Design | |
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Titles, Why They Matter | |
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Transitions: Miracle Workers or Enforcers | |
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Voice: The Sight of Sound | |
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Workshop: Collaboration and Production | |
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Writer's Block: Lame Excuse or Real Condition? | |
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Works Cited, or Why This Entry Gets the Last Word | |