These writing prompts give you a practical way to apply the handbook’s advice to your own writing and thinking.

Writing practice: Reading actively

Writing practice: Drafting and revising an analytical thesis

Writing practice: Analyzing a written text

Writing practice: Developing an analysis of a written text

Writing practice: Reading images and multimodal texts actively

Writing practice: Analyzing an image or a multimodal text

Writing practice: Drafting and revising an analytical thesis for an image or a multimodal text

Writing practice: Learning about analytical writing from other writers

Writing practice: Evaluating ads for logic and fairness

Writing practice: Identifying appeals

Writing practice: Evaluating an argument

Writing practice: Joining a conversation

Writing practice: Appealing to your readers

Writing practice: Drafting your central claim and supporting claims

Writing practice: Practicing counterargument

Writing practice: Examining the writing in a particular field

Writing practice: Examining a writing assignment from one of your courses

Writing practice: Revising a presentation

Writing practice: Focusing on your delivery

Writing practice: Remixing a paper as an oral presentation

Writing practice: Learning from another speaker