Argument Now A Brief Rhetoric
by Alexander, Jonathan; Barber, Margaret-
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Summary
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Writing Orientations | |
| Writing Processes: A Review | |
| Approaching the Writing Situation: Purpose and Audience | |
| Thinking about Purpose | |
| Thinking about Audience | |
| Writing Spotlight: The YOUth & AIDS Web Site Project | |
| Capturing Your Ideas: Pre-Writing Strategies | |
| Pre-Writing about Reading | |
| Writing in a Journal | |
| Freewriting | |
| Listing | |
| Finding a Focus | |
| Organizing a Writing Project | |
| Choosing a Form or Genre | |
| Clarifying Your Thesis | |
| Developing an Outline | |
| Writing the First Draft | |
| Starting the Rough Drafthellip;At Last! | |
| Effective Introductions | |
| Effective Theses | |
| Effective Conclusions | |
| A Student Writer in Action-A Rough Draft | |
| More than Type, Click, Print: Rewriting and Revising | |
| Revising for Unity, Coherence, and Style | |
| Getting Help-Peer Review | |
| Tracking Changes | |
| Finishing Touches: Editing and Proofreading | |
| Spell-Checkers and Grammar-Checkers | |
| A Writer in Action: Galen Geer's Revised Draft | |
| Useful Links | |
| Additional Writing Activities | |
| Something to Talk About: Understanding Academic Writing | |
| What Makes Writing "Academic"? | |
| Academic Writing: Audience and Purpose | |
| Academic Writing and the Public | |
| Some Key Characteristics of Academic Writing | |
| Writing Spotlight: Popular Academic Writing | |
| Writing for an Academic Audience: Some Conventions and Expectations | |
| Academic readers read critically | |
| Informed academic readers expect outside sources and appropriate documentation | |
| Academic readers expect to see familiar genres | |
| 13 Academic readers look for the argument | |
| 13 Academic readers expect stylish and mechanically correct writing | |
| Strategies used in Academic Writing | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| Definition | |
| Analysis | |
| Useful Links | |
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