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All chapters conclude with Questions for Thought, Discussion, and Writing | |
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A Note to Students | |
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A Note to Instructors | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Writing and the College Community | |
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Discourse Communities | |
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Judgment and Writing | |
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This Book and You | |
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Purpose and Design | |
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Earned Conclusions | |
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Critical Reading | |
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How We Read | |
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A Case in Point | |
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Jackson Says Black English Isn't a Separate Language | |
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Oakland Unified School District, Synopsis of the Adopted Policy on Standard American English Language Development | |
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Reading and Belief | |
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Some Considerations for Critical Reading | |
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The Deep Structure of Reasoning | |
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On Dialectic | |
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The Interplay of Dualisms | |
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Asking Questions, Generating Ideas | |
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An Idea Worth Writing About | |
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Ideas in Context: Audience | |
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Stasis | |
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Stasis: Kinds of Questions at Issue | |
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Kinds of Inquiry | |
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What a Thesis Does | |
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The Need for Precision | |
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Generating Stasis Questions about Fiction | |
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Revising a Thesis | |
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Giving Reasons | |
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What a Reason Does | |
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The Enthymeme: Connecting Reasons and Conclusions | |
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Connecting the Enthymeme and Audience | |
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Informal Reasoning | |
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Exploring the Audience Connection | |
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Kinds of Appeal | |
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Relevance and Connectedness | |
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Relative Precision | |
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Circular Reasoning | |
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Developing Structures | |
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The Structural Enthymeme | |
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From Enthymeme to Structure | |
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From Structure to Essay: An Analysis | |
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Revising and Editing | |
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Revision and Style as Rethinking | |
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Obstacles to Revision | |
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Responding to Your Teacher's Comments | |
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Style and Attitudes | |
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Style and Clear Thinking | |
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Editing as Rethinking | |
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Proofreading | |
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Implications for Research | |
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Critical Reading and Research | |
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Asking Questions for Research | |
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Research and Reasons | |
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Structuring Research | |
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Readings for Analysis, Discussion, and Written Response | |
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Issues about the Limits of Civil Authority | |
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Plato, Crito | |
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Resistance to Civil Government | |
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A Call for Unity | |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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The Feminization of Earth First! | |
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Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy | |
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Seoor Payroll | |
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Section 2 | |
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On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students | |
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Revising Our College Education: Participation Is the Key | |
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The Truth about The Truth | |
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What Does a Woman Need to Know? | |
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At Miss Porter's, Girls Are Taking on a Winning (Gasp!) Attitude | |
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Internet Forum on Jock Culture | |
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The Jock Culture: Time to Debate the Questions | |
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Responses from jg1937, orchid, amiante, dickmorr, amianti, shuarl | |
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The New Tribalism | |
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The American Dream | |
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Issues about Language and Human Community | |
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The Four Idols | |
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Pol | |
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