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GET WRITING: PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS helps developmental students learn to think and plan before they write, and evaluate their own and others' writing, with a focus on critical thinking through features called "Critical Thinking: What Are You Trying to Say?" and "Revision: What Have You Written?" The text helps those who are struggling with writing requirements, including recent high school graduates, returning students, or those for whom English is a second language. Integrated exercises enable them to practice what they have just learned, and student papers in annotated first and revised drafts provide realistic models. Sample professional writing demonstrates how writers understand the context of their writing, utilize writing strategies, and make language choices.

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• Part 1 Getting Started
• 1 Why Write?
• "Put It in Writing."
• Using Get Writing
• Working Together
• What Is Good Writing?
• The Writing Context
• What Is Your Goal?
• Who Are the Readers?
• What Is the Discipline or Situation?
• What Is Expected in the Document?
• The College Writing Context
• Avoid Plagiarism
• Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism
• 2 The Writing Process
• Step 1
• Prewriting Techniques
• Step 2
• Moving from Topic to Thesis
• Elements of a Thesis Statement
• Organizing Support
• Developing an Outline
• Step 3
• Step 4
• Step 5
• Using Peer Review
• Step 6
• Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Exam
• Part 2 Developing Paragraphs
• 3 Developing Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas
• What Is a Paragraph?
• Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas
• Writing Topic Sentences
• Paragraphs Without Topic Sentences
• Revising Paragraphs
• Using Paragraph Breaks in Dialogue
• 4 Supporting Topic Sentences with Details
• What Are Supporting Details?
• Steps to Building Effective Paragraphs
• Start with a Clear Topic Sentence and Focused Controlling Idea
• Distinguish Between Supporting Detail and Restating Topic Sentences
• Support Topic Sentences with Adequate and Relevant Details
• Types of Support
• Personal Observations and Experiences
• Examples
• Facts and Opinions
• Statistics
• Testimony (Quotations)
• Blending Support
• 5 Developing Paragraphs Using Description
• What Is Description?
• Creating Dominant Impressions
• Improving Dominant Impressions and Supporting Details
• Writing at Work: Description
• Student Paragraphs
• Description of a Person
• Description of a Place
• Description of a Concept
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Selecting Topics
• 6 Developing Paragraphs Using Narration
• What Is Narration?
• Writing Narration: Making a Point
• Writing Narration: Using Transitions
• Writing Narration: Using Dialogue
• Writing at Work: Narration
• Student Paragraphs
• Subjective Narrative
• Personal Narrative
• Objective Narrative in a History Paper
• Objective Narrative in an Earth Science Research Paper
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Selecting Topics
• 7 Developing Paragraphs Using Example
• What Is an Example?
• Writing Example Paragraphs
• Types of Examples
• Using Hypothetical Examples
• Writing Example: Using Transitions
• Writing at Work: Example
• Student Paragraphs
• Single, Extended Example
• Multiple Examples
• Hypothetical Examples
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Selecting Topics
• 8 Developing Paragraphs Using Definition
• What is Definition?
• Writing Definition: Establishing Meaning
• Methods of Definition
• The Purpose of Definition
• Writing at Work: Definition
• Student Paragraphs
• Standard Definition
• Qualifying Definition
• Invented Definition
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Selecting Topics
• 9 Developing Paragraphs Using Comparison and Contrast
• What Are Comparison and Contrast?
• The Purposes of Comparison and Contrast
• Organizing Comparison Paragraphs
• Subject by Subject
• Point by Point
• Writing at Work: Comparison
• Student Paragraphs
• Subject by Subject
• Point by Point
• Point by Point
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Selecting Topics
• Planning and Writing Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs
• 10 Developing Paragraphs Using Division and Classification
• What Are Division and Classification?
• Writing Division Paragraphs
• Official and Personal Divisions
• Writing Classification Paragraphs
• Official and Personal Classifications
• Writing at Work: Division and Classification
• Student Paragraphs
• Division
• Classification
• Division and Classification
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Selecting Topics
• 11 Developing Paragraphs Using Process
• What Is Process? Explaining How Things Work
• Giving Directions
• Writing Paragraphs That Explain
• Writing Paragraphs That Give Directions
• Writing at Work: Process
• Student Paragraphs
• Explaining How Something Works
• Givi