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Chapter A1.
How I
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Chapter A3.
First
Drafts
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Chapter K2.
Story
Examples
DESCRIBE

Chapter P1.
News
Article
DESCRIBE

Chapter O-1.
Project
Report
DESCRIBE

Chapter J2.
Literary
Analysis

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Section H.
Revising

 

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R. BASIC & HIGH SCHOOL WRITING

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Section I.
Editing

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ARGUE

Chapter B1.
Way of
Argument

 ARGUE

Chapter B2.
Thesis Essay

ARGUE

Chapter O-3.
Prof.
Proposal

  READ & WRITE
Chapter E2.
Reading a
Textbook

READ & WRITE


Chapter C3.
Opposing
a Reading
READ & WRITE
 Chapter C4.
Analyzing
a Reading

     

Fix the page-view display.

          

Students: If you go to a chapter and then want to return to this "Basics" page, here's how:  

  1. click on the back/return arrow above a few times, until you have returned; or  

  2. (a) in the upper-right corner, click on "Home Page" or the picture of someone seated at a computer,
    (b) and then click on "High School Writing."

Instructors: Please start all basic and high school writers on this Web book's  "Home Page"; then ask them to click on "High School Writing."

         

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            Welcome!  If you are a high school writer or basic college writer, this section is for you.  A "basic college writer" is a person taking writing at the high school level of writing--usually just before first-year college composition.  You may be starting college but are not yet ready for college composition, or you may still be in high school.  Either way, this section can help.  It offers a collection of important basic/beginning/high school-level chapters from other parts of this Web site.  

     

        If you are starting college and you've been placed in a basic writing course, don't worry about it.  This happens, for example, to 25-30% or more of U.S. students entering public two-year colleges.  You probably just haven't had as much practice of writing as other college students.  And research shows your basic writing course will help.  Students who pass basic writing go on to get better grades in regular college writing.  They even get better grades, on average, than students who are placed directly in college writing!  So relax, write as much as you can, and have fun.  

     

        And if you are still in high school, using this Web site can help.  Taking several high school courses with a heavy emphasis on writing (especially a high school "composition" course) will especially prepare you for college writing.  

     

        Good luck with your new writing experiences!  

              

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Most recent update: 2 July 2006
    

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First publication: 1 Jan. 2004 (unless stated otherwise above).

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