The Writing Process

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• Eleven Ways to Begin 
• Practice with Brainstorming, Free-Writing and Clustering 
• Choosing a Research Topic 
• Steps to Writing a Research Paper 
• Emergency Rescue on a Research Paper
• The Value and Function of an Outline 
• Outlines: Topic versus Sentence 
• Basic Principles of Persuasive Writing 
• Ten Guidelines for Writing about Literature 
• Ten Guidelines for Writing about Short Fiction 
• Shaping What Comes: Six Ways to Explain 
• Comparison and Contrast 
• The Classification Paper 
• Writing a Summary 
• Synopsis 
• Thesis Statements 
• Thesis Statements for a Critical Paper 
• Developing Your Thesis 
• Developing Your Thesis (Short Version) 
• Transitions 
• Conclusions