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Preface | |
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The Reading Process. | |
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Stage 1: Get an Overview of the Selection | |
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First Reading: A Checklist | |
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Stage 2: Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | |
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Second Reading: A Checklist | |
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Stage 3: Evaluate the Selection | |
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Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist | |
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Ellen Goodman,Family Counterculture | |
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The Writing Process. | |
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Stage 1: Prewrite | |
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Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist | |
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Stage 2: Identify the Thesis | |
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Stage 3: Support the Thesis with Evidence | |
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Stage 4: Organize the Evidence | |
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Outlining: A Checklist | |
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Stage 5: Write the First Draft | |
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Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist | |
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Stage 6: Revise the Essay | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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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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Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Description | |
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Flavio's Home | |
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The Storm This Time | |
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Sister Flowers | |
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Once More to the Lake | |
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A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Narration | |
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The Fourth of July | |
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Shooting an Elephant | |
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Charity Display? | |
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Salvation | |
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The Price We Pay | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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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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Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Exemplification | |
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The "Values" Wasteland | |
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Black Talk and Pop Culture | |
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Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen | |
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Bombs Bursting in Air | |
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What I've Learned From Men | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Di | |