Four in one : rhetoric, reader, research guide, and handbook / Edward A. Dornan, Robert Dees.

CONTENTS

PART I : EFFECTIVE THINKING
chapter 1: critical and creative thinking
chapter 2: critical thinking basics
chapter 3: critical thinking and reasoning

PART II : WRITING COLLEGE ESSAYS
chapter 4: preparing to write an essay
chapter 5: the composing process: prewriting and informal planning
chapter 6: writing a thesis statement and a formal plan
chapter 7: writing paragraphs for the rough draft
chapter 8: responses to a rough draft: instructor and peer comments
chapter 9: revising a rough draft: structure, paragraphs and sentences
chapter 10: preparing to submit an essay

PART III : DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS
chapter 11: description: rendering experience
chapter 12: narration: connecting events
chapter 13: examples: illustrating experience
chapter 14: comparison : showing similarities and differences
chapter 15: cause and effect: exploring reasons and results
chapter 16: process analysis: explaining step by step
chapter 17: classification and division : analyzing and arranging experience
chapter 18: Definition: Creating impressions
chapter 19: argumentation: convincing others

PART IV : THE RESEARCH ESSAY
chapter 20: finding and researching a topic
chapter 21: researching on the world wide web
chapter 22: writing the research essay
chapter 23: documenting sources in a research essay

PART V: WRITING FOR OTHER PURPOSES
chapter 24: writing about literature
chapter 25: writing about images
chapter 26: writing for an essay exam
chapter 27: writing for business: letters, resumes, memos, Faxes, and E-mail

PART VI : READING FOR WRITING
chapter 28: critical reading
contemporary essays for study
enduring essays for study

PART VII : WRITER'S HANDBOOK
sentence errors
punctuation
mechanics

Includes indexes p. 689- 710