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Contents: Reading critically: Critical reading -- Strategies for critical reading -- Summarizing -- Synthesizing -- Reading selections -- Planning an essay: Considering your writing context -- Generating ideas -- Developing a thesis -- Ordering ideas -- Reading selections -- Writing and rewriting: Tips for writing your first draft -- Essay structure -- Visualizing an essay -- Revising your draft -- Editing the draft -- Proofreading the final copy -- Reading selections -- Discription: The Pattern --The Purposes of description -- Selecting discriptive details -- Objective and expresive details -- Organizing details -- Strategies for writing description -- Narration: The Pattern -- The Purposes of narration -- Supporting details -- Organizing details -- Strategies for writing narration -- Exemplification: The Pattern -- The Purposes of exemplification -- Process anlysis: The Pattern -- The Purposes of process analysis -- Supporting details -- Organizing details -- Strategies for writing a process analysis -- Comparison-contrast: The Pattern -- The Purposes of comparison-contrast -- Choosing subjects -- Supporting details -- Organizing details -- Strategies for writing comparison-contrasts -- Cause and effective analysis: The Pattern -- The Purposes of cause-and-effective analysis -- Supporting details -- Organzing details -- Strategies for writing cause-and-effect analysis -- Classification and division: The Pattern -- The Purpose of classification and division -- Supporting details -- Organizing details -- Strategies for writing classification and division -- Definition: The Pattern -- The Purpose of definition -- Supporting details -- Strategies for writing definition -- The Law and society: A casebook for argumentation-persuasion: The Difference between argumentation and persuasion -- Purpose and audience -- Supporting details -- Raising and countering objections -- The Touilmin model -- Inductive and deductive reasoning -- Organizing argumention-persuasion -- Strategies for writing argumention-persuasion -- Locating, evaluating, and drawing on sources: Locating sources -- Evaluating print and internet sources -- Drawing on sources: paraphrasing -- Drawing on sources: quoting -- Intergrating paraphrases and quotations -- Avoiding plagiarism -- Documenting sources.