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Getting Started
How to Use This Book Making the Most of Your Reading Taking
Notes
Learning the Writing Process Writing an Outline Gathering Information
The Making of a Student Essay: From Prewriting to Proofreading
Section I Organization and Development
Chapter 1 The Central Idea Identifying the Central Idea Writing a Preliminary Topic Sentence or Thesis Statement
Some Tips on Writing
Topic Sentences and Thesis Statements
Controlling Unity and Development
Revising the Central Idea
Practice Writing Central Ideas
Four Paragraphs for Analysis "Still on the Point" George Bush
"Three Passions I Have Lived For" Bertrand Russell
"Echoes" Maria Cirilli (Student Essay)
Chapter 2 Unity and Coherence Creating
Unity Maintaining Coherence Visualizing
Unity and Coherence Revising to Improve
Unity and Coherence Practicing
Unity and Coherence From "Waste" Wendell Berry
"Writing and Its Rewards" Richard Marius
"Study Calculus!" William J. Bennett
"Is Justice Served?" Gina K. Louis-Ferdinand (Student Essay)
Chapter 3 Development Determining
How Much a Paragraph or Essay
Should Contain Choosing the Best Method of Development Deciding
How to Arrange the Ideas and Details in a Paragraph
Visualizing Paragraph Development
"The Last Safe Haven" Joannie Schrof
"Exile and Return" James Keller (Student Essay)
Chapter 4 Introductions and Conclusions Writing Introductions
Writing Conclusions Visualizing Ways to Write Introduction and Conclusions
Revising Introductions and Conclusions "How to Keep Air Clean" Sydney Harris
"I Was Just Wondering" Robert Fulghum
"A Prayer for the Days of Awe" Elie Wiesel
"The Transformation of Maria Fernandez" Anita DiPasquale (Student Essay)
Section II Word Choice and Sentence Patterns
Chapter 5 Word Choice: Using Concrete, Specific and Vivid Language
Making Your Writing Concrete
Making Your Writing Specific
Making Your Writing Vivid Visualizing Concrete, Specific, and Vivid Details
Revising to Include Concrete, Specific, and Vivid Language
"Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden
"The San Francisco Earthquake" Jack London
"Of Famine and Green Beer" John Leo
"The Mentally Ill and Human Experimentation: Perfect Together" Nancy J. Mundie
Chapter 6 Word Choice: Using Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Personification Visualizing
Figurative Language Revising to Include
Figurative Language Practicing Creating Simile, Metaphor, and Personification
"January Wind" Hal Borland
"Joy of an Immigrant, A Thanksgiving" and "Old Man Timochenko" Emanuel di Pasquale
"Back from the Brink" Daniel Zanoza
"The Gift" Li-Young Lee
"Music" Louis Gonzalez (Student Essay)
Chapter 7 Sentence Structure: Creating Emphasis and Variety Emphasis
Variety Visualizing Sentence Structure
Revising to Create Variety and Emphasis
Practicing Combining Sentences
"The Vices of Age" Malcom Cowley
"Why We Celebrate Father''s Day: Two Short Essays" Gary L. Bower and Steve Forbes
"A Longing" Alice Wnorowski (Student Essay)
"The Buried Sounds of Children Crying" Harrison Rainie
"The Band from Hell" Cal Thomas
Section III Description
Chapter 8 Describing Places and Things
Using Proper Nouns
Using Effective Verbs
Including Action and People in the Description of a Place
Visualizing Details that Describe Places and Things
Revising Descriptive Essays Practicing
Techniques that Describe Places and Things
"Watching the Reapers" Po Chu-i
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Ursula K. Le Guin
"Subway Station" Gilbert Highet
"If at First You Do Not See..." Jessie Sullivan (Student Essay) "A Deathly Call of the Wild" and Mary Ann Gwinn
Chapter 9 Describing People Describing Your Subject''s
Appearance and Speech Revealing
What You Know About Your Subject
Revealing What Others Say About Your Subject
Visualizing Details
That Describe People
Revising Descriptive
Essays Practicing Techniques
That Describe People
"Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year" Raymond Carver
"Mothers and Fathers" Phyllis Rose
"Two Gentlemen of the Pines" John McPhee
"Oma: Portrait of a Heroine" Maria Scamacca (Student Essay) "Charisma Fortified by ''Chutzpah''" and Barry Shlachter
Section IV Narration
Chapter 10 Personal Reflection and Autobiography
Visualizing Details and Techniques
Important to Personal Reflection and Autobiography
Revising Autobiographical Essays Practicing
Skills of Personal Reflection and Autobiography
"Cry: The Story of a Comfort Woman" Razel Ariz Florento (Student Poem) From "Spoon River Anthology"
Edgar Lee Masters
"The Day I Was Fat" Lois Diaz-Talty (Student Essay)
"Death of an Officer" Gaye Wagner and "Wanderlust" and Charles Kuralt
Chapter 11 Reporting Events
Visualizing Narrative Elements
Revising Narrative Skills
Practicing Narrative Skills
"Child of the Romans" Carl Sandburg
"What the Gossips Saw" Leo Romero
"The Colossus in the Kitchen"
Adrienne Schwartz (Student Essay)
From "Faith of the Father" Sam Pickering
"Frederick Douglass: The Path to Freedom" Carl Sagan
Chapter 12 The Short Story
Visualizing Narrative Elements in Fiction
"House Opposite" R.K. Narayan
"The Hammon and the Beans"
America Paredes
"The Son from America"
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"A Worn Path" Eudora Welty
Section V: Exposition and Persuasion
Explaining Through Illustration
Explaining Through Comparison and Contrast
Explaining Through Process Analysis Persuading
Chapter 13 Illustration
Specific Facts, Instances, or Occurrences Statistics
Specific People, Places, or Things Anecdotes Visualizing Examples
Revising Illustration Essays Practicing Illustration
"Why Not Real Awards for Real Achievements?" Ben Stein
"On the Home Front" Jim Carnes
"Wolf" Grace Lukawaska (Student Essay) "Growing Up in Rumania" and Irina Groza (Student Essay)
"The Death of Common Sense" Philip K. Howard
Chapter 14
Visualizing Methods of Comparison
Revising Comparison/Contrast Papers
Practicing Comparison and Contrast
"The Road from Ixopo" Alan Paton
"New Blood for Cities" Stephen Moore
"Temptations of Old Age" Malcolm Cowley
"The Militiaman, the Yuppie, and Me" Carolyn Swalina
"Columbus and the Moon" Tom Wolfe
Chapter 15 Process Analysis Organization, Purpose, and Thesis Clarity and Directness
Visualizing Process Analysis
Revising Process
Analysis Papers Practicing Process
Analysis "Drawing Electricity from Clouds" Benjamin Franklin
"How to Fight a Duel" Adam Goodheart
"The Measure of Eratosthenes" Carl Sagan
"How I Came Out to My Parents" Kenneth Kohler
Chapter 16 Persuasion Beginning with an Argument
Developing Ideas in an Argument Going Beyond Argument
Addressing Opposing Arguments
Visualizing Strategies for Persuasion
Revising Persuasion
Papers Practicing Strategies for Persuasion
"Desperate to Learn English" Alice Callaghan
"The Right to Be Let Alone" Barry Glazer
"The Media''s Image of Arabs" Jack G. Shaheen
"What''s Wrong with this Picture" Gloria Steinem
Glossary
Index