Horse of a Different Color - English Composition & Rhetoric

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Part I: The Writing Process
  7. 0: Introduction to the Writing Process
  8. 0.1: Introduction
  9. 0.2: Five Evaluation Criteria
  10. 0.3: Stages of the Writing Process
  11. 1: Prewriting and Organizing
  12. 1.1: Introduction to Prewriting Strategies
  13. 1.2: What Are Some Other Ways to Get Ideas?
  14. 1.3: What Is Brainstorming?
  15. 1.4: What is Clustering?
  16. 1.5: What is Freewriting?
  17. 1.6: Starting with a Thesis Statement
  18. 1.7: How Do I Make an Outline?
  19. 2: Researching
  20. 2.1: Determine the Role of Research in Your Writing
  21. 2.2: Finding Scholarly Sources
  22. 2.3: Evaluating Sources
  23. 2.4: Consider Your Project
  24. 2.5: Consult Source Evaluation Criteria
  25. 2.6: Integrating Scholarly Sources
  26. 3: Drafting
  27. 3.1: Drafting: The Process
  28. 3.2: During the Drafting Process
  29. 3.3: Titling your Essay
  30. 3.4: Final Thoughts on Drafting
  31. 4: Revising and Editing
  32. 4.1: Revising and Editing: One and the Same?
  33. 4.2: Overview of Revising
  34. 4.3: Overview of Editing
  35. 4.4: Analyze Each Part of Your Paper
  36. 4.5: Why Discuss Style in a Section on Editing?
  37. 4.6: Before and After Revision Examples
  38. 5: Reviewing
  39. 5.1: Overview of Reviewing
  40. 5.2: Establishing Criteria
  41. 5.3: Writing Helpful Comments
  42. 5.4: Responding to Criticism
  43. 5.5: Peer Review Example
  44. 6: Effective Paragraphs and Their Elements
  45. 6.1: What Is a Paragraph?
  46. 6.2: Types of Paragraphs
  47. 7: Analyzing Assignments
  48. 7.1: Snowflakes, Fingerprints, and Assignments
  49. 7.2: Rhetorical Analysis
  50. 7.3: Summary and Response Paper
  51. 7.4: Finishing the Assignment
  52. 8: MLA
  53. 8.1: What is MLA?
  54. 8.2: Incorporating Sources and In-text Citations
  55. 8.3: Practice Exercises
  56. 8.4: Formatting the Works Cited Page
  57. 8.5: Exercise for Formatting Entries for a Works Cited page
  58. 8.6: Requirements for Parenthetical Citations
  59. Part II: Rhetorical Strategies for Essays
  60. 9: The Narrative Essay
  61. 9.1: Narration and Narrative
  62. 9.2: Why Write a Narrative Essay?
  63. 9.3: Description as a Rhetorical Strategy
  64. 9.4: Sample Student Essay
  65. 9.5: Tips on Writing the Narrative
  66. 10: The Comparison Essay
  67. 10.1: Why Write a Comparison Essay?
  68. 10.2: Prewriting Strategy
  69. 10.3: Basic Structure
  70. 10.4: Sample Student Essay
  71. 10.5: Tips for Writing the Comparison
  72. 11: The Definition Essay
  73. 11.1: Why Write a Definition Essay?
  74. 11.2: Basic Structure
  75. 11.3: Tips for Writing the Definition Essay
  76. 12: Illustration
  77. 12.1: Why Write an Illustration Essay?
  78. 12.2: Basic Structure
  79. 12.3: Tips for Writing the Illustration Essay
  80. 13: The Classification Essay
  81. 13.1: Why Write a Classification/Division Essay?
  82. 13.2: Basic Structure of the Classification Essay
  83. 13.3: Tips for Writing the Classification Essay
  84. 14: The Causal Analysis Essay
  85. 14.1: Why Write a Causal Analysis or Cause/Effect Essay?
  86. 14.2: Organizing the Causal Analysis Essay
  87. 14.3: Sample Student Essays
  88. 14.4: Tips for Writing the Causal Analysis
  89. 15: The Argument Essay
  90. 15.1: Why Write an Argument Essay?
  91. 15.2: Elements of Argument
  92. 15.3: The Fallacies of Argument
  93. 15.4: The Basics of Argument
  94. 15.5: How to Write an Argument Essay
  95. 15.6: Sample Professional Essays
  96. 15.7: Sample Student Essays
  97. 15.8: Tips for Writing the Argument Essay
  98. Part III: Grammar and Mechanics
  99. 16: Parts of Speech
  100. 16.1: Nouns
  101. 16.2: Verbs
  102. 16.3: Adjectives
  103. 16.4: Adverbs
  104. 16.5: Conjunctions
  105. 16.6: Prepositions
  106. 16.7: Interjections
  107. 17: Usage and Mechanics
  108. 17.1: Voice
  109. 17.2: Commas
  110. 17.3: Semicolons and Colons
  111. 17.4: Apostrophes
  112. 17.5: Quotation Marks
  113. 17.6: Hyphens and Dashes
  114. 17.7: Parentheses and Capitalization
  115. 17.8: Homonyms
  116. 17.9: Subject and Verb
  117. 17.10: Sentences
  118. 17.11: Modifiers
  119. Back Matter
  120. Index
  121. Glossary
  122. Detailed Licensing