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Johnson, June. Companion Website: Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. Pearson, 2001. Seattle University.

Link: http://cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/ramage2_ab/

On the site, see the following:

"Writer's Toolbox for Building Arguments: An Introduction."

Links to reading strategies and writing strategies.

http://cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/ramage2_ab/chapter18/deluxe.html

"Companion Website: Introduction."

Introduced as "instructor resources" but provides links related to argumentative writing, including the Toulmin system of argument design.

http://cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/ramage2_ab/chapter0/deluxe.html

Companion Website for Sequence for Academic Writing.

Behrens, Laurence, Leonard J. Rosen, and bonnie Beedles. A Sequence for Academic Writing. 2nd ed. ABLongman, Pearson, 2010. 20 Aug. 2010.

Link: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_behrens_saw_2/23/5947/1522650.cw/index.html

The site's description of the text: " the hallmark writing sequence of the best-selling Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, this brief rhetoric focuses on the key academic writing strategies of summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique."

Chapters

Summary, Paraphrase and Quotation

Critical Reading and Critique

Writing as a Process

Explanatory Synthesis

Argument Synthesis

Analysis

Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources

Each chapter link includes exercises, resource links, and student models.

Strategies in essay writing include organizational strategies for writing and strategies for critical analysis.