ABOUT BOOK

1: Chapter 1 Reading Skills1.1: Use Pre-reading Strategies1.2: Annotate and Take Notes1.3: The Reading-Writing Connection1.4: Critical Reading and Rhetorical Context1.5: Reading Strategies - Previewing1.5.1: 3.4 Annotation Basics1.6: Questioning Strategies1.7: Inferences1.8: Vocabulary1.9: Reading Strategies - Taking Notes1.10: Main Ideas and Supporting Details1.11: Paraphrazing and Summarizing1.12: How to Read Like a Writer1.13: Key Takeaways2: Chapter 2 Writing Process2.1: Apply Prewriting Models2.1.1: Outlining2.1.2: Outlining2.1.3: Drafting2.2: The Writing Process - How Do I Begin? (Exercises)2.3: The Reading-Writing Process2.4: Steps in the Reading-Writing Process2.5: The College Essay Assignment- Analysis, Rubrics, and Critical Thinking2.6: Argument2.7: Purpose, Tone, Audience, Content in an Assignment2.8: Prewriting Strategies2.9: Outlining2.10: Key Takeaways2.11: Revising and Editing2.12: Chapter 4 Revising2.12.1: Revising and Editing3: Chapter 3 Essay Essentials3.1: Writing a Thesis3.2: Working Thesis3.3: Elements of a thesis3.4: Where is the thesis?3.5: Tips for writing a thesis statement3.6: Resources4: Chapter 4 Writing Basics4.1: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme4.1.1: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up4.2: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up4.3: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument4.4: Exercises4.5: Verb tense4.6: Passive and active voice4.7: Run-ons, fragments, comma splices5: Sentence Clarity5.1: Chapter 5 Sentence Clarity5.1.1: Sentence Variety5.1.2: Coordination and Subordination5.1.3: Parallelism5.1.4: Writing Introductions5.1.5: Writing Conclusions5.1.6: Writing Summaries5.1.7: Paraphrasing5.1.8: Quoting