Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Getting Started -- 1. On the Writing of Essays -- 2. Audience: Your Projected Reader(s) -- 3. Prewriting and the Writing Process -- II. Features and Fundamentals of the Imaginative Argument -- 4. The Thesis -- 5. Developing an Argument -- 6. The Research - Based Argument in the Digital Age -- 7. Paragraph Design -- III. New Forms, Avant - Garde Strategies -- 8. Different Structures, Novel Organizational Principles -- 9. Saying Something New: Ways toward Creativity -- 10. Continuous Composing: Streamwriting -- IV. Revising and Reimagining -- 11. Rewriting and Revising -- 12. Figures and Fallacies, or Being Forceful but Not Cheating at Argument -- 13. The Argument of Style -- V. Creativity and Originality in the Epoch of the Post - Original -- 14. Technology and Writing: On Being Imaginative Now -- 15. Concluding a Manifesto: The Future of Writing -- A. Instructors' Guide: How to Use This Book in Class -- B. Sample Essays -- Works Cited -- Index