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| Detailed Contents | |
| Thematic Contents | |
| Review Checklists | |
| Preface to the Instructor | |
| Preface to the Student | |
| About the authors | |
| The Principles of Good Reading and Writing | |
| Getting Started | |
| Active Reading | |
| Reading for Best Results | |
| Review Checklist: Tips for Active Reading | ... MORE |
| George Orwell, "A Hanging" | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Reading Visual Images | |
| Active Writing | |
| Limiting Your Subject | |
| Examining an Advertisement | |
| Nestle, "Want a Lite Baby Ruth?" [Advertisement] | |
| Determining Your Purpose and Audience | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Writing a Thesis | |
| Prewriting | |
| Writing Drafts | |
| One Student Writing | |
| John Fousek, "My Roomate" | |
| Prewriting | |
| Writing Drafts | |
| First Draft | |
| Review Checklist: Tips for Getting Started | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Writing with a Computer | |
| Student Writing | |
| Clifford Wendell, "The Computer and I" | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Finding and Supporting a Thesis | |
| The Thesis | |
| Stating Your Thesis | |
| Supporting Your Thesis: Details | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Student Writing: Thesis and Details | |
| Thomas Healey, "You Must Be Crazy" [Student essay] | |
| Having Your Say | |
| Models of Writing | |
| Jeffrey Berman, "Crying in the Classroom" | |
| Anna Quindlen, "Women Are Just Better" | |
| Having Your Say | |
| Richard Rodriguez, "Complexion" | |
| Review Checklist: Stating a Thesis | |
| Planning a Paper: Outlining | |
| The Importance of Planning | |
| The Formal Outline | |
| The Formal Outline Format | |
| Topic and Sentence Outlines | |
| From Outline to Essay: One Student Writing | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" | |
| Alan Benjamin, "Enough Despair to go Around" [Student essay] | |
| Having Your Say | |
| Preparing Your Outline | |
| Review Checklist: Preparing an Outline | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Writing a Paper: An Overview of Parts | |
| The Introduction | |
| The Body | |
| Topic Sentences | |
| Student Writing: Topic Sentences | |
| Hugh Nicholes, "The Mechanics of Backyard Mechanics" [Student essay] | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Transitions | |
| Paragraph Development | |
| The Conclusion | |
| Revising and Editing Your Paper | |
| One Student Revising and Editing | |
| Learning from Other Students: Peer Review | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Intermediate Draft: John Fousek, "My Roommate" [Student essay] | |
| Learning from Your Instructors Comments | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| Review Checklist: Revising and Editing Your Drafts | |
| Proofreading | |
| Review Checklist: Pointers for Careful Proofreading | |
| A Brief Note on Style | |
| Methods of Development | |
| Description | |
| Writing Your Descriptive Paper | |
| Student Writing: Description | |
| Nick Fiscina, "Dads Disappointment" [Student essay] | |
| Rosemary J. Sexton, "The Near West Side Way Back When" [Student essay] | |
| Models of Writing | |
| Verlyn Klinkenburg, "Out of the Wild" | |
| Roger Angell, "On the Ball" | |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Grandmothers Room" | |
| Virginia Woolf, "The Death of the Moth" | |
| Readings for Writing | |
| Dick Feagler, "Willie" | |
| Annie Dillard, "Strangers to Darkness" | |
| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
| Mark Strand, "Black Spa" [Poem] | |
| Writing Topics | |
| Crosscurrents | |
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