| The Basics Of The Short Essay | |
| Prewriting Getting Started Selecting a Subject | |
| Finding Your Essays Purpose and Focus | |
| Pump-Primer Techniques After Youve Found Your Focus | |
| Discovering your Audience How to Identify Your Readers Keeping a Journal (Talking to Yourself Does Help) | |
| Summary | |
| The Thesis Statement What Is a Thesis? | |
| What Does a "Working Thesis" Do? | |
| Can a "Working Thesis" Change? | |
| Guidelines for Writing a Good Thesis Avoiding Common Errors in Thesis Statements Using the Essay Map | |
| Summary | |
| The Body Paragraphs Planning the Body of Your Essay | |
| Composing the Body Paragraphs | |
| The Topic Sentence Paragraph | |
| Development Paragraph | |
| Length Paragraph | |
| Unity Paragraph | |
| Coherence Paragraph | |
| Sequence Transitions between Paragraphs | |
| Summary | |
| Beginnings and Endings | |
| How to Write a Good Lead-In Avoiding Errors in Lead-Ins | |
| How to Write a Good Concluding Paragraph | |
| Avoiding Errors in Conclusions How to Write a Good Title | |
| Summary | |
| Drafting and Revising: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking | |
| What Is Revision? When Does Revision Occur? | |
| Myths about Revision Preparing to Draft: Some Time-Saving Hints | |
| A Revision Process for Your Drafts | |
| What is Critical Thinking? | |
| Thinking Critically as a Writer | |
| A Final Checklist for Your Essay | |
| Benefiting from Revision Workshops | |
| Some Last Advise: How to Play with Your Mental Blocks | |
| Summary | |
| Effective Sentences | |
| Developing a Clear Style | |
| Developing a Concise Style | |
| Developing a Lively Style | |
| Developing an Emphatic Style | |
| Summary | |
| Word Logic Selecting the Correct Words Selecting the Best Words | |
| Summary | |
| The Reading-Writing Connection | |
| How Can Reading Well Help Me Become a Better Writer? | |
| How Can I Become an Analytical Reader? | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Summary The Basics of the Short Essay: | |
| Summary | |
| Purposes, Modes, And Strategies | |
| Exposition The Strategies of Exposition | |
| Development by Example Professional Essay: "So Whats So Bad about Being So-So?" | |
| Development by Process Analysis Professional Essays: "To Bid the World Farewell" & "How to Write a Personal Letter" | |
| Development by Comparison and Contrast Essay Topics A Topic Proposal for Your Essay Professional Essays: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" & "Two Ways of Viewing the River" | |
| Development by Definition Professional Essay: "The Munchausen Mystery" | |
| Development by Division and Classification Professional Essay: "Mystery!" | |
| Argumentation Developing Your Essay Common Logical Fallacies Pro/Con Professional Essays: "Grandparents Rights" Analyzing Advertisements | |
| Description How to Write Effective Description Professional Essay: "Still Learning from My Mother" | |
| Narration Writing the Effective Narrative Essay Professional Essay: "Sister Flowers" | |
| Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies Professional Essay: "Dont Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgements" | |
| Special Assignments | |
| Writing a Paper Using Research | |
| Focusing Your Topic Beginning Your Library Research | |
| Preparing a Working Bibliography Choosing and Evaluating Your Sources | |
| Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | |
| Taking Notes Incorporating Your Source Material | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism Choosing the Documentation Style for Your Essay MLA / APA Styles | |
| Using Supplementary Notes | |
| Writing about Literature Using Literature in the Composition Classroom | |
| Suggestions for Close Reading of Literature Steps to Reading a Story Annotated Story: "The Story of an Hour" | |
| Steps to Reading a Poem Annotated Poem "When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer" | |
| Guidelines for Writing about Literature | |
| Writing In-Class: Exams and "Response" Essays Steps to Writing Well Under Pressure Writing the Summary-and-Response Essay | |
| Writing in the World of Work Composing Business Letters Sample Business Letter | |
| Creating Memos Sending Professional E-Mail Designing R?sum?s Sample R?sum? | |
| A Concise Handbook | |
| Major Errors in Grammar Errors with Verbs Errors with Nouns Errors with Pronouns Errors with Adverbs and Adjectives Errors in Modifying Phrases Errors in Sentences | |
| A Concise Guide to Punctuation | |
| The Period | |
| The Question Mark | |
| The Exclamation Point | |
| The Comma | |
| The Semicolon | |
| The Colon | |
| The Apostrophe Quotation Marks Parentheses Brackets | |
| The Dash | |
| The Hyphen Underlining | |
| The Ellipsis Mark | |
| A Concise Guide to Mechanics Capitalization Abbreviations Numbers Spelling | |
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