1: Steal, Steal, Steal: Learning to Read like a Writer
2: Craft Your “I”: Thinking of Yourself as a Character
3: Sex, Drugs, and Palestinian Statehood: Finding a Topic
4: Aboutness: An Essay Is Often About Something Other Than What It’s About
5: The Hole in the Donut: Writing About the Hardest Thing
6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words: The Short Answers
7: Shitty First Drafts: The Importance of Allowing Yourself to Write Badly
8: Seeing Again: Revision Means Re-Vision
9: Don’t Try to Hook the Reader like a Trout: The Opening Lines
10: Danger! Some Moves Not to Make
11: Semicolons Are like Loaded Guns: Mechanics Matter
12: My Little Bag of Writing Tricks: Some Tips
Conclusion: Getting It Done