Part 1 The Writing Process
Chapter 1 Becoming a Confident Writer
Chapter 2 Using Prewriting Strategies
Chapter 3 Improving Your Paragraph Skills
Chapter 4 Stating Your Thesis
Chapter 5 Supporting Your Thesis
Chapter 6 Revising and Editing Your Essays
Chapter 7 Researching for Writing
Part 2 Patterns as Options
Chapter 8 Narrating and Describing
Chapter 9 Explaining a Process
Chapter 10 Choosing Classification or Division
Chapter 11 Comparing and Contrasting
Chapter 12 Explaining Causes and Effects
Chapter 13 Using Definition
Chapter 14 Arguing Persuasively
Part 3 More Choices:A Collection of Peadings
1.My Name is Margaret, MAYA ANGELOU
2.Open the Door Wide for Leaders of Tomorrow, DAVID PORTER
3.The Perpetual Adolescent, JOSEPH EPSTEIN
4.Leave Your Name at the Border, MANUEL MUNOZ
5.Yes, I Follow Islam, But I'm Not a Terrorist, NADA EL SAWY
6.The Real Media Divide, MARKUS PRIOR
7.Where to Now? WILLIAM RASPBERRY
8.Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha, ANNA QUINDLEN
9.A Present for Popo, ELIZABETH WONG
10.The Ways of Meeting Oppression, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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