Thinking on paper

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Contents Introduction HOW TO USE THIS BOOK PART I: WRITING FOR THINKING CHAPTER 1 Writing Is Thinking WRITER'S ANGST THINKING IN WRITING: THREE PROPOSITIONS THE COMMUNICATION FETISH DON'T WAIT FOR THE MUSE CHAPTER2 From First to last Draft: Generating, Composing, and Expressing Ideas COMPOSING IDEAS The Topical Draft The Sequential Draft EXPRESSING IDEAS CHAPTER 3 The Essay: A Framework for Thinking in Writing TIIE FUNCTION OF FORMATS TIIE BAD NEWS ABOUT LOOKING TOO GOOD THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE ESSAY FORMULATING TIIE THESIS WRlTING THE INTRODUCTION Barging into the topic Bungling into the Topic WRITING IBE BODY MAKING CONNECTIONS WRITING THE CONCLUSION PART II: THINKING FOR WRITING CHAPTER4 Making Sense: Reasoning for Discovery INTRODUCTION HOW DO WE MAKE SENSE? REASONING AS PROBING PLAUSIBIU1Y REASONING BY QUESTIONING INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION REASONING CHECKLIST CHAPTER 5 Writing Sense: Reasoning for Presentation ANALYZING REASONING'S RAW MATERIAIS Arguments Pro Versus Arguments Con Strong Versus Weak Arguments Persuasive Versus Unpersuasive Arguments IMPACT CHECKLIST Thesis Versus Antithesis REASONING AND PERSUADING TifREE SORTS OF QUESTIONS CONCLUSION: THE RANGE OF REASONING CHAPTER6 A User's Guide to Grammar and Punctuation TRIM OR TECHNIQUE? PUNCTUATION The Period The Comma The Semicolon The Dash The Exclamation Mark Quotation Marks GRAMMAR DOING TifE CHORES ON TifE WORD FARM APPEND1xA Deductive and Inductive Reasoning APPENDixB Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading on Punctuation and Grammar List of References Index About the Authors