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Part I. A rhetoric for writers |
1. Posing problems: the demands of college writing, reading, and critical thinking |
2. Exploring problems: making claims |
3. Thinking critically about rhetorical problems |
4. How messages persuade |
5. Thinking critically about document design, visual rhetoric, and multimodal massages |
Part II. Writing projects |
6. Reading rhetorically: the writer as strong reader |
7. Writing an autobiographical narrative |
8. Writing an exploratory essay or annotated bibliography |
9. Writing an informative (and surprising) essay or report |
10. Writing an image analysis essay |
11. Writing a literary analysis essay |
12. Writing a scientific research report |
13. Writing a synthesis of ideas essay |
14. Writing a classical argument |
15. Making an evaluation |
16. Proposing a solution |
Part III. A guide to composing and revising |
17. Writing as a problem-solving process |
18. Strategies for writing closed-form prose |
19. Strategies for writing open-form prose |
20. Strategies for composing multimodal texts |
Part IV. A rhetorical guide to research |
21. Asking questions, finding sources |
22. Evaluating sources |
23. Incorporating sources into your own writing |
24. Citing and documenting sources |
Part V. Writing for assessment |
25. Essay examinations |
26. Using reflective writing to promote and assess learning |
Part VI. A guide to editing |
1. Improving your editing skills |
2. Understanding sentence structure |
3. Punctuating boundaries of sentences, clauses, and phrases |
4. Editing for standard English usage |
5. Editing for style |
6. Editing for punctuation and mechanics