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Horse of a Different Color - English Composition & Rhetoric

Composition Humanities

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License: CC BY-NC-SA
Language: EN
Category: English

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Contents· 113 sections

Part I: The Writing Process
0: Introduction to the Writing Process
0.1: Introduction
0.2: Five Evaluation Criteria
0.3: Stages of the Writing Process
1: Prewriting and Organizing
1.1: Introduction to Prewriting Strategies
1.2: What Are Some Other Ways to Get Ideas
1.3: What Is Brainstorming
1.4: What is Clustering
1.5: What is Freewriting
1.6: Starting with a Thesis Statement
1.7: How Do I Make an Outline
2: Researching
2.1: Introduction to Research
2.2: Finding Scholarly Sources
2.3: Evaluating Sources
2.4: Consider Your Project
2.5: Consult Source Evaluation Criteria
2.6: Integrating Scholarly Sources
3: Drafting
3.1: Drafting: The Process
3.2: During the Drafting Process
3.3: Titling your Essay
3.4: Final Thoughts on Drafting
4: Revising and Editing
4.1: Revising and Editing: One and the Same
4.2: Overview of Revising
4.3: Overview of Editing
4.4: Analyze Each Part of Your Paper
4.5: Why Discuss Style in a Section on Editing
4.6: Before and After Revision Examples
5: Reviewing
5.1: Overview of Reviewing
5.2: Establishing Criteria
5.3: Writing Helpful Comments
5.4: Responding to Criticism
5.5: Peer Review Example
6: Effective Paragraphs and Their Elements
6.1: What Is a Paragraph
6.2: Types of Paragraphs
7: Analyzing Assignments
7.1: Snowflakes Fingerprints and Assignments
7.2: Rhetorical Analysis
7.3: Summary and Response Paper
7.4: Finishing the Assignment
8: MLA
8.1: What is MLA
8.2: Incorporating Sources and In-text Citations
8.3: Practice Exercises
8.4: Formatting the Works Cited Page
8.5: Exercise for Formatting Entries for a Works Cited page
8.6: Requirements for Parenthetical Citations
Part II: Rhetorical Strategies for Essays
09: The Narrative Essay
9.1: Narration and Narrative
9.2: Why Write a Narrative Essay
9.3: Description as a Rhetorical Strategy
9.4: Sample Student Essay
9.5: Tips on Writing the Narrative
10: The Comparison Essay
10.1: Why Write a Comparison Essay
10.2: Prewriting Strategy
10.3: Basic Structure
10.4: Sample Student Essay
10.5: Tips for Writing the Comparison
11: The Definition Essay
11.1: Why Write a Definition Essay
11.2: Basic Structure
11.3: Tips for Writing the Definition Essay
12: Illustration
12.1: Why Write an Illustration Essay
12.2: Basic Structure
12.3: Tips for Writing the Illustration Essay
13: The Classification Essay
13.1: Why Write a Classification Division Essay
13.2: Basic Structure of the Classification Essay
13.3: Tips for Writing the Classification Essay
14: The Causal Analysis Essay
14.1: Why Write a Causal Analysis or Cause Effect Essay
14.2: Organizing the Causal Analysis Essay
14.3: Sample Student Essays
14.4: Tips for Writing the Causal Analysis
15: The Argument Essay
15.1: Why Write an Argument Essay
15.2: Elements of Argument
15.3: The Fallacies of Argument
15.4: The Basics of Argument
15.5: How to Write an Argument Essay
15.6: Sample Professional Essays
15.7: Sample Student Essays
15.8: Tips for Writing the Argument Essay
Part III: Grammar and Mechanics
16: Parts of Speech
16.1: Nouns
16.2: Verbs
16.3: Adjectives
16.4: Adverbs
16.5: Conjunctions
16.6: Prepositions
16.7: Interjections
17: Usage and Mechanics
17.01: Voice
17.02: Commas
17.03: Semicolons and Colons
17.04: Apostrophes
17.05: Quotation Marks
17.06: Hyphens and Dashes
17.07: Parentheses and Capitalization
17.08: Homonyms
17.09: Subject and Verb
17.10: Sentences
17.11: Modifiers