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| The Writing Process | |
| Getting Started and Finding a Focus | |
| Reading, thinking, writing | |
| Purpose and audience | |
| Explorations | |
| Topic and focus | |
| Thesis or claim | |
| Outlines | |
| Writer's block | |
| Collaborative writing | |
| Six tips for writing drafts | |
| Developing Paragraphs and Essays | |
| Paragraph basics | |
| Unified paragraphs | |
| Developing ideas | |
| Transitions and links for coherence | |
| Introductions and conclusions | |
| Revising, Editing, and Formatting | |
| Strategies for revising and managing drafts | |
| Giving and getting feedback | |
| Title | |
| Editing, proofreading, and using computer tools | |
| Sample student revision | |
| Formatting a college essay | |
| Writing an Argument | |
| Features of a good argument | |
| Choice of topic | |
| Thinking critically | |
| The claim (thesis) | |
| Reasons and evidence | |
| Audience: Appeals and common ground | |
| Opposing views | |
| Toulmin's four questions | |
| Deductive and inductive reasoning | |
| Flaws in logic | |
| Structures for an argument essay | |
| Visual arguments | |
| Sample argument essay | |
| Writing in All Your Courses | |
| Essay exams and short-answer tests | |
| Writing about literature | |
| Writing about community service | |
| Lab reports | |
| Writing in the disciplines | |
| tDoing Research/ Evaluating Sources | |
| Beginning a Research Project | |
| Guide to writing a research paper | |
| Schedule | |
| Research question | |
| Primary and secondary sources | |
| A working thesis | |
| Purpose statement, proposal, and outline | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Basic reference works | |
| Indexes and databases | |
| Online searching: keywords and search engines | |
| Print sources: books and periodical articles | |
| Online sources | |
| A student's search | |
| Sources in 27 subject areas | |
| Evaluating Sources | |
| Reading critically | |
| Recognizing a scholarly article | |
| Evaluating works originating in print | |
| Evaluating Internet sources | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| What is plagiarism? | |
| How to avoid even the suspicion of plagiarism | |
| Keeping track of sources | |
| Setting up a working bibliography | |
| Annotating and taking notes | |
| Summarizing and paraphrasing | |
| What to cite | |
| Indicating the boundaries of a citation | |
| Writing the Research Paper | |
| Guidelines for writing drafts | |
| Getting mileage out of your sources | |
| Putting yourself in your paper and synthesizing | |
| Driving the organization with ideas, not sources | |
| Introducing and integrating source material | |
| Quoting | |
| Researching across the curriculum | |
| tMLA Documentation | |
| Citing Sources, MLA Style | |
| Two basic MLA features | |
| FAQs about MLA in-text citations | |
| Sample author/page citations | |
| Explanatory footnotes and endnotes | |
| MLA List of Works Cited | |
| List format and organization | |
| Guidelines for listing entries | |
| Print books and parts of books | |
| Print articles in periodicals | |
| Internet and other electronic sources | |
| Miscellaneous sources | |
| Sample Documented Paper, MLA Style | |
| Documentation: APA, CBE/CSE, Chicago, and CGOS Styles | |
| Citing Sources, APA Style | |
| Two basic APA features | |
| Author/year in-text citations | |
| Notes, tables, and figures | |
| APA List of References | |
| List format and organization | |
| Guidelines for listing authors | |
| Print books and parts of books | |
| Print articles in periodicals | |
| Internet and other electronic sources | |
| Miscellaneous sources | |
| Sample Documented Paper, APA Style | |
| CBE/CSE Style of Documentation | |
| Two basic CBE/CSE features | |
| In-text citations | |
| Guidelines for listing CBE/CSE references | |
| Examples of entries in list | |
| Chicago Manual of Style: Endnotes, Footnotes, and Bibliography | |
| Two basic features | |
| In-text citations, notes, and bibliography | |
| Guidelines for notes | |
| Print books and parts of books | |
| Print articles in periodicals | |
| Internet and electronic sources | |
| Miscellaneous sources | |
| Chicago bibliography guidelines and sample | |
| CGOS Style for Online Sources | |
| Two basic features: CGOS humanities style | |
| Sample entries: humanities style | |
| Two basic features: CGOS scientific style | |
| Sample entries: scientific style V. Document Design/ Online and Workplace | |
| Design Tools, Design Features | |
| Basic design functions in Word | |
| Typefaces | |
| Color | |
| Headings | |
| Lists | |
| Columns | |
| Visuals | |
| Tables | |
| Graphs and charts | |
| Illustrations, clip art, Web downloads, and copyright issues | |
| Online Communication | |
| E-mail style and mechanics | |
| E-mail discussion lists, bulletin boards, and discussion boards | |
| Newsgroups, blogs, and synchronous communication | |
| Web Site Design | |
| Planning and organizing a Web site | |
| Tips for Web site design | |
| Useful resources | |
| Sample student Web site | |
| Academic Writing Online | |
| Hypertext | |
| HTML | |
| Guidelines for posting academic writing online | |
| Flyers, Brochures, and Newsletters | |
| Design principles for flyers, brochures, newsletters | |
| Sample community brochure | |
| Reacute;sumeacute;s and Letters of Application | |
| How to write a reacute;sumeacute; | |
| Sample print or Web page reacute;sumeacute; | |
| An electronic reacute;sumeacute; | |
| Sample electronic reacute;sumeacute; | |
| Cover letter and sample | |
| Business Letters and Memos | |
| Features of a business letter | |
| Sample business letter | |
| Technical requirements of a business letter | |
| Basic features of a memo | |
| Sample memo | |
| Oral and Multimedia Presentations | |
| Preparing an oral presentation | |
| Speaking from notes or manuscript | |
| Practicing and presenting | |
| Using presentation aids and multimedia | |
| Using PowerPoint | |
| A student's PowerPoint slides | |
| Style The Five C's of Style | |
| The First C: Cut | |
| Repetition and wordiness | |
| Formulaic phrases | |
| References to your intentions | |
| Redundancy | |
| The Second C: Check for Action | |
| Who's doing what? | |
| Sentences beginning with there or it | |
| Unnecessary passive voice | |
| The Third C: Connect | |
| Consistent subjects and topic chains | |
| Old/new information and emphasis | |
| Options: coordination, subordination, and transitions | |
| Beginning a sentence with and or but | |
| Paragraph connections | |
| The Fourth Cut: Commit | |
| Personal presence | |
| Appropriate and consistent tone | |
| Confident stance | |
| The Fifth C: Choose Your Words | |
| Word choice checklist | |
| Dictionary and thesaurus | |
| Exact words and connotations | |
| Language of speech, region, and workplace | |
| Figurative language | |
| Avoiding biased and exclusionary language | |
| Avoiding clicheacute;s and pretentious language Style in Action | |
| Sentence Variety | |
| Sentence length | |
| Statements, questions, commands, and exclamations | |
| Types of sentences | |
| Inverted word order | |
| Sentence beginnings | |
| Revising for Style: A Student's Drafts | |
| Style Tips | |
| tCommon Sentence Problems | |
| Troublespots and Terms | |
| Students' frequently asked questions | |
| Teachers' top ten sentence problems | |
| Standard English | |
| Terms for the parts of a sentence | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Phrases | |
| Dependent clauses | |
| Missing verb | |
| Missing subject | |
| Intentional use | |
| Run-ons and Comma Splices | |
| Identifying | |
| Correcting | |
| Transitions | |
| Sentence Snarls | |
| Fu | |
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