Doug Hesse, Professor of English and Director of Writing at the University of Denver, previously held several positions at Illinois State University, including Director of the Honors and Writing Programs, and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Hesse earned his PhD from the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the University of Findlay, Miami University (as Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professor), and Michigan Tech. Dr. Hesse is a past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the nation’s largest professional association of college writing instructors. A past president, as well, of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), Dr. Hesse edited that organization’s journal, Writing Program Administration. He has been a member of the executive committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and chaired the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division on Teaching as a Profession. He is the author of over fifty articles and book chapters, in such journals as College Composition and Communication, College English, JAC, Rhetoric Review, and the Journal of Teaching Writing and in such books as Essays on the Essay; Writing Theory and Critical Theory; The Writing Program Administrator’s Sourcebook; Literary Nonfiction; The Private, the Public, and the Published; and Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. The writing program he directs at the University of Denver is only one of twenty five internationally to receive the CCCC Certificate of Excellence.
Thinking, Reading, and Writing Strategies
1 Thinking Like a Writer
2 Reading Critically
3 Viewing Images Critically
4 Sources for College Writing
5 Writing About Experiences
6 Writing About Observations
7 Writing to Respond to Readings
Writing Process
8 Planning and Shaping Writing
9 Drafting
10 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
11 Composing Paragraphs
12 Writing to Inform
13 Writing to Argue
Writing Across the Curriculum
14 An Overview of Writing Across the Curriculum
15 Writing in the Humanities
16 Writing About Literature
17 Writing in the Social Sciences
18 Writing in the Natural Sciences
19 Writing Under Pressure
20 Making Oral Presentations and Using Multimedia
21 Creating a Writing Portfolio
Writing to Connect with the World
22 Writing for Work
23 Public Writing
24 Designing Documents
25 Writing for the Web
26 Contributing to Blogs and Wikis
Research
27 Starting a Research Project
28 Developing a Research Strategy
29 Finding and Evaluating Library-Based Sources
30 Researching the Web Wisely
31 Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
32 Drafting and Revising a Research Paper
MLA Documentation
33 MLA In-text Citations
34 MLA Works Cited List
35 A Student’s MLA-Style Research Paper
APA, CM, and CSE Documentation
36 APA In-Text Citations
37 APA References List
38 A Student’s APA-Style Research Paper
39 CM-Style Documentation
CM-Style Directory
40 CSE-Style Documentation
CSE-Style Directory
Grammar Basics
41 Parts of Speech and Parts of Sentences
42 Verbs
43 Subject-Verb Agreement
44 Pronouns: Agreement, Reference, and Case
45 Adjectives and Adverbs
Sentences and Words
46 Sentence Fragments
47 Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
48 Problems with Sentence Shifts
49 Misplaced Modifiers
50 Conciseness
51 Coordination and Subordination
52 Sentence Style
53 Usage Glossary
54 Word Meanings and Word Impact
55 Using Inclusive Language
56 Spelling
Punctuation and Mechanics
57 Commas
58 Semicolons
59 Colons
60 Apostrophes
61 Quotation Marks
62 Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
63 Other Punctuation Marks
64 Hyphens
65 Capitals
66 Italics (Underlining)
67 Abbreviations
68 Numbers
Tips for Multilingual Writers
Message from Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse to Multilingual Writers
69 Singulars and Plurals
70 Articles
71 Word Order
72 Prepositions
73 Gerunds and Infinitives
74 Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Glossary and Indexes
Terms Glossary
Index
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