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Alternative Rhetorical Contents | |
Preface | |
Introduction: The Writing Process | |
Writing as a Recursive Process | |
Reading Academic Writing | |
The Process Of Writing An Academic Essay | |
What Is an Academic Essay? | |
Writing for the Social Sciences | |
Writing for the Sciences | |
Writing for the Humanities | |
Writing for Business | |
Writing for Technology | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignment | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Exercises | |
Journal Prompt | |
Getting Started: Consider Topic, Audience, Purpose | |
Reflect Upon Your Topic | |
Freewriting | |
W5 + 1H Questions | |
Webbing | |
Consider Your Reader | |
Readers Influence Content | |
Readers Influence Style | |
Readers Judge Quality | |
Establish Your Purpose | |
Expository Mode | |
Persuasive Mode | |
Compose Your Thesis Statement | |
Placement of the Thesis | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignment | |
Exercises | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Journal Prompt | |
Research Your Topic | |
Books | |
Periodicals | |
The Internet | |
Interviews | |
Questionnaires | |
Incorporating Research | |
Direct Quotes | |
Summarizing | |
Paraphrasing | |
Plagiarism | |
Citing Sources | |
Sample Essay with Sources Cited Using MLA Style | |
"The Qualities of a Grade A Essay" | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignment | |
Research Exercises | |
Paraphrasing and Summarizing Exercise | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Journal Prompt | |
Make a Plan | |
Planning an Expository Essay | |
Planning a Compare/Contrast Essay | |
Planning an Argument | |
Aristotle: Logos, Ethos, Pathos | |
Toulmin: Claim, Support, Warrant | |
Rogerian Argument | |
Audience and Purpose in Argument | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignment | |
Exercises | |
Journal Prompt | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Write a Draft | |
Write a Clear and Specific Opening | |
Sample Introductory Paragraphs | |
Write Complete Body Paragraphs | |
Compose a Topic Sentence | |
Develop Your Topic Sentence | |
Maintain Paragraph Unity | |
Sample Body Paragraphs | |
Write An Explicit Conclusion | |
Sample Concluding Paragraphs | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignments | |
Exercises | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Journal Prompt | |
Revise Your Essay | |
Structure | |
Content | |
Cohesive Ties | |
Transition | |
Repetition | |
Substitution | |
Style | |
Subordination | |
Parallelism | |
Order | |
Academic Voice | |
Peer Review | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignment | |
Exercises | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Journal Prompt | |
Edit Your Essay | |
Edit for Grammar | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
Pronoun Reference | |
Pronoun Case | |
Verb Tense and Mood | |
Edit for Sentence Structure | |
Sentence Fragments | |
Run-On Sentences | |
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
Faulty Parallelism | |
Wordiness | |
Edit for Punctuation | |
Punctuation at the End of Sentences | |
Punctuation Within Sentences | |
Punctuation Within Words | |
Edit for Diction | |
Context | |
Meaning | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignments | |
Exercises | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Journal Prompt | |
Acknowledge Your Sources | |
MLA Method of Parenthetical Citation | |
Parenthetical Citations Within the Text of the Essay | |
Works Cited List | |
Sample MLA Works Cited Entries | |
APA Method of Parenthetical Citation | |
Parenthetical Citations Within the Text of the Essay | |
References List at the End of the Essay | |
Sample APA Reference List Entries | |
Chicago Manual of Style Method of Citing Sources | |
Footnotes/Endnotes | |
Source List at the End of the Essay | |
Sample CMS Bibliography Entries | |
Conclusion | |
Writing Assignments | |
Exercises | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Journal Prompt | |
Sample Academic Essays With Instructional Notes And Commentary | |
"What Predicts Adjustment Among College Students? | |
A Longitudinal Panel Study." | |
"Meeting Her Maker: Emily Dickinson's God." | |
"Saving the Vancouver Island Marmot." | |
"Is the United States Losing Its Productivity Advantage?" | |
"Getting Inked: Tattoos and College Students.? | |
An Anthology Of Academic Writing | |
Reading Actively and Critically | |
Visuals in Academic Writing | |
Joel Grossbard, et al., "Are Drinking Games Sports? | |
College Athlete Participation in Drinking Games and Alcohol-Related Problems." | |
"Faculty and College Student Beliefs about the Frequency of Student Academic Misconduct." | |
"From Sex to Sexuality: Exposing the Heterosexual Script on Primetime Network Television." | |
"Resurrecting and Updating the Teen Slasher: The Case of Scream." | |
"9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective." | |
"Global Anti-Americanism and the Lessons of the "French Exception." | |
"Fixing the Borders (Without a Wall)." | |
"The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?" | |
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