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| Contents | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface to Instructors | |
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| Letter to Students | |
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| Getting Started: from Response to Argument | |
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| The Writer as Reader | |
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| Reading and Responding | |
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| Ripe Figs,Kate Chopin | |
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| Reading as Re-Creation | |
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| Making Reasonable Inferences | |
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| Reading with Pen in Hand | |
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| Recording Your First Responses | |
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| Identifying Your Audience and Purpose | |
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| Your Turn: A Writing Assignment | |
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| Sample Essay by a Student: Ripening | |
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| The Argument Analyzed | |
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| Other Possibilities for Writing | |
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| The Reader as Writer | |
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| Developing a Thesis, Drafting and Writing an Argument | |
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| Pre-Writing: Getting Ideas | |
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| Annotating the Text | |
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| More About Getting Ideas: A Second Story by Kate Chopin | |
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| The Story of an Hour,Kate Chopin | |
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| Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing | |
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| Focused Free Writing | |
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| Listing | |
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| Asking Questions | |
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| Keeping a Journal | |
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| Arguing with Yourself: Critical Thinking | |
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| Arguing a Thesis | |
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| Drafting Your Argument | |
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| A Sample Draft by a Student:Ironies in an Hour | |
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| Revising an Argument | |
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| Outlining an Argument | |
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| Soliciting Peer Review | |
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| The Final Version of the Sample Essay:Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour.' | |
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| A Brief Overview of the Final Version | |
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| Writing with a Word Processor | |
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| Checklist: Writing with a Word Processor | |
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| Your Turn: Two Additional Stories by Kate Chopin | |
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| D�sir�e's Baby | |
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| The Storm | |
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| Note about Literary Evaluations | |
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| Reading Literature Closely: Explication | |
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| What Is Literature? Literature and Form | |
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| Form and Meaning | |
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| The Span of Life | |
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| Reading in Slow Motion | |
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| Explication | |
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| A Sample Explication:Harlem | |
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| Working Toward an Explication | |
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| Journal Entries | |
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| Sample Essay by a Student:Langston Hughes' `Harlem.' | |
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| Explication as Argument | |
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| Checklist: Drafting an Explication | |
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| Why Write? Purpose and Audience | |
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| Your Turn: Poems for Explication | |
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| Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold" ) | |
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| On My First Son | |
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| London | |
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| Spellbound | |
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| I Ask My Mother to Sing | |
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| In Just-,e.e. cummings | |
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| Mus�e des Beaux Arts | |
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| If We Die | |
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| Ulysses,Alfred | |
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| Reading Literature Closely: Analysis | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Analyzing a Story from the Hebrew Bible:The Judgment of Solomon | |
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| The Judgment of Solomon | |
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| Analyzing the Story | |
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| Other Possible Topics for Analysis | |
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| Analyzing a Story from the New Testament:The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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| AHEADS =The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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| Comparison: An Analytic Tool | |
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| Sample Essay by a Student:Two New Women | |
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| Looking at the Essay | |
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| Checklist: Revising a Comparison | |
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| Evaluation in Explication and Analysis | |
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| Choosing a Topic and Developing a Thesis in an Analytic Paper | |
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| Analyzing a Story | |
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| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | |
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| Working Toward a Thesis: Journal Entries | |
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| Developing the Thesis: List Notes | |
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| Sample Essay by a Student: Walter Mitty Is No Joke | |
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| Developing an Argument | |
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| Introductory Paragraphs | |
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| Middle Paragraphs | |
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| Concluding Paragraph | |