Reading, Then Writing: From Source to Essay

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This combined rhetoric and thematic reader aims to provide everything needed for a freshman composition class orientated towards research writing. The initial section focuses on developing writing skills and critical thinking by concentrating on specific methods of textual analysis. The subsequent section is devoted to the research paper, which includes a sample paper. Finally, the third part is an anthology of over 50 essays, organized around specific themes, which provide sources for researched papers.

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STARTING UP HOW TO HANDLE YOUR SOURCES
1
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
11
Quoting
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Copyright

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