Includes bibliography.

Lesson 1. The nature of reading and thinking -- Lesson 2. The different kinds of claims -- Lesson 3. Context, hypertext, and intertext -- Lesson 4. Assertions, claims, and their evidence in a text -- Lesson 5. Controversy in claims and counterclaims -- Lesson 6. Evaluating texts -- Lesson 7. Academic versus professional/technical writing -- Lesson 8. The properties of a well-written text -- Lesson 9. The definition, exemplification, and explanation text -- Lesson 10. The narration text -- Lesson 11. The descriptive text -- Lesson 12. The comparison and contrast text -- Lesson 13. The classification text -- Lesson 14. The cause-and-effect text -- Lesson 15. The process text -- Lesson 16. The problem-solution text -- Lesson 17. Persuasion text, the resume, and the application letter -- Lesson 18. The position paper -- Lesson 19. The project proposal and the cover letter -- Lesson 20. The review article -- Lesson 21. The research report -- Bibliography.