Table of contents:
PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF THE WRITING PROCESS;
1: Getting Started;
PART TWO: WRITING FROM OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE;
Unit One: Getting the Draft;
2: Getting Ideas and Starting to Write;
3: Preparing for a Draft;
4: Writing a First Draft and Getting Feedback;
Unit Two: Working with a Draft;
5: Focusing on Main Ideas;
6: Developing and Shaping Ideas;
7: Beginning and Ending Drafts; Unit Three: Reworking the Draft;
8: Revising;
9: Polishing Revised Drafts;
PART THREE: APPLYING WRITING PROCESSES FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: ANALYZING, EVALUATING, ARGUING;
Unit Four: Using Published Sources;
10: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources;
11: Documenting Sources; Unit Five: Academic Writing Tasks;
12: Analyzing Issues;
13. Responding to Written Arguments;
14: Arguing from Written Material;
Unit Six: Essay Exams: Some Strategies;
15: Preparing for an Essay Exam;
16: Practing Taking Essay Exams; Postscript;
APPENDIXES;
A: Readings;
B: Editing Exercises;
C: Answers to Exercises.