Ultimate English Writer’s Guide -- Contents, Intro, etc.

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SECTION One--Getting Started

• The Rhetorical Situation



• Prewriting: Your Resources; Settling on a Topic: Defining Your Purpose; Exposition and Persuasion; Statement of Purpose and Thesis Statement; A Reminder; Building Content



• Writing: Writing and Rewriting; A Word About Style; Revising and Editing; A Checklist



• Self-Analysis and Evaluation



• --- For Analysis and For Writing (mixed in with above)

SECTION Two--Developing Papers

• Generalizations and Particulars: Generalizations; Examples; Details



• Describing-- Showing How It Looks: Selecting Details; Arranging Details; Dominant Impression



• Narrating--Telling What Happened: Point of View; Personal Narrative; Pace; The Process Paper



• Dividing: Finding the Parts: Purpose in Dividing; Dividing to Organize



• Comparing and Contrasting -- Finding Likenesses and Differences; Points of Comparison; Structuring a Comparison



• Classifying: Making Groups: Consistency; Completeness



• Analyzing Causes and Effects--Finding Out Why and What Then: Discovering Causes; Attributing Effects



• Defining--Telling What It Is: Extended Definitions The Center of the Definition



• --- For Analysis and For Writing (mixed in with above)

SECTION Three -- Organizing Papers

• Types of Order
  • Chronological or Spatial Order; Logical Order Support Structure
  
  
  
  • Discovery Structure Pro-and-Con, or Exploratory, Structure
  
  
  
  • Choosing a Structure Associational Order



• Strategies of Ordering
  • Announcing and Disclosing Choosing a Strategy
  
  
  
  • Parts and Paragraph Sequences



• Signals of Transition
  • Explicit Signals Implicit Signals



• Beginnings and Endings



• Proportion and Emphasis



• Aids to Organizing: Outlines
  • Types of Outlines Testing Organization



• -- For Analysis and Writing (mixed in with above)

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