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| Preface | |
| A Rhetoric for College Writers | |
| Posing Problems: The Demands of College Writing | |
| Why Take a Writing Course? | |
| Subject-Matter Problems: The Starting Point of Writing | |
| Shared Problems Unite Writers and Readers | |
| The Writer as Problematizer | |
| Posing a Problem: A Case Study of a Beginning | |
| College Writer | |
| P... MORE | |
| Characteristics of Good Subject-Matter Questions | |
| Rhetorical Problems: Reaching Readers Effectively | |
| An Example of a Rhetorical Problem: When to Choose Closed Versus | |
| Open Forms | |
| Readings | |
| David Rockwood, ldquo;A Letter to the Editorrdquo | |
| Thomas Merton, ldquo;A Festival of Rainrdquo | |
| Distinctions between Closed and Open Forms of Writing | |
| Where to Place Your Writing along the Continuum | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project | |
| Readings | |
| Noel Gaudette (student), ldquo;Questions about Genetically Modified Foods?rdquo | |
| Brittany Tinker (student), ldquo;Will the Development of Third World Countries Destroy Our Environment?rdquo | |
| Showing Why Your Question Is Problematic and Significant (for Option 2) | |
| Showing Why Your Question Is Significant | |
| Planning Your Essay | |
| Exploring Problems, Making Claims | |
| What Does a Professor Want? | |
| Learning to Wallow in Complexity | |
| Seeing Each Academic Discipline as a Field of Inquiry and Argument | |
| Posing an Engaging Question | |
| How a Prototypical Introduction Poses a Question and Proposes an Answer | |
| Seeking a Surprising Thesis | |
| Try to Change Your Readerrsquo;s Views of Your Subject | |
| Give Your Thesis Tension | |
| Supporting Your Thesis with Points and Particulars | |
| How Points Convert Information to Meaning | |
| How Removing Particulars Creates a Summary | |
| How to Use Points and Particulars When You Revise | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project | |
| Playing the Believing and Doubting Game | |
| Reading | |
| Anonymous (student), ldquo;Believing and Doubting Paul Theroux& | |
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