| Chapter 1 Practicing the Writing Process |
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| Chapter 2 Making the Most of Reading |
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| Chapter 3 Introducing the Paragraph |
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| Chapter 4 Revising Paragraphs |
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| Chapter 5 Picturing Places |
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| Chapter 6 Telling Your Own Story |
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| Chapter 7 Illustrating through Examples |
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| Chapter 8 Creating and Explaining Groups |
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| Chapter 9 Explaining Causes and Effects |
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| Chapter 10 Explaining Activities: Doing Them, Understanding Them |
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| Chapter 11 Explaining Similarities and Differences |
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| Chapter 12 Working with the Essay |
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| Chapter 13 Revising Essays |
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| Chapter 14 Expanding Paragraphs into Essays |
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| Chapter 15 Defining Ideas-Combining Patterns of Development |
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| Chapter 16 Writing Persuasively-Combining Patterns of Development |
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| Chapter 17 Taking Essay Exams |
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| Chapter 18 Creating Sentence Variety |
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| Chapter 19 Choosing the Most Effective Word |
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| Chapter 20 Working with Sentence Parts |
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| Chapter 21 Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism |
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| Chapter 22 Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments |
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| Chapter 23 Verbs: Form and Agreement |
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| Chapter 24 Pronouns: Reference and Agreement |
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| Chapter 25 Words that Describe |
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| Chapter 26 Commas and Other Punctuation |
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| Chapter 27 Spelling and Sound-Alike Words |
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| Chapter 28 ESL Concerns |
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| Additional Reading 29 "The Great Tide Pool", excerpt from Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck |
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| Additional Reading 30 "The Dare," by Roger Hoffman |
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| Additional Reading 31 "The Jacket" by Gary Soto |
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| Additional Reading 32 "Rambos of the Road" by Martin Gottfried |
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| Additional Reading 33 "The Ways of Meeting Oppression" by Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Additional Reading 34 "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends" by Judith Viorst |
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| Additional Reading 35 "Two by Two, We'll Fill the Planet," by Benjamin Zuckerman |
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| Additional Reading 36 "Black Men and Public Space" by Brent Straples |
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| Additional Reading 37 "The Fine Art of Complaining" by Caroline Rego |
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| Additional Reading 38 "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" by Bruce Catton |
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| Additional Reading 39 "A Nice Place to Visit," by Russell Baker |
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| Additional Reading 40 "They've Gotta Keep It: People Who Save Everything" by Lynda W. Warren and Jonnae C. Ostrom |
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| Additional Reading 41 "What is A Dad?" by Bob Brannan |
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| Additional Reading 42 "Abortion, Right and Wrong," by Rachel Richardson Smith |
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| Additional Reading 43 "What Is Biodiversity and Why Should We Care about It?" by Donella Meadows |
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