The Essentials of Academic Writingis a brief rhetoric that focuses on the process of writing academic essays for college courses. The text provides a complete overview of the writing process, with concise, nuts-and-bolts coverage of researching, planning, drafting, documenting, revising, and proofreading academic papers. A sample student essay serves as a case study to illustrate each part of the process and an anthology of 19 academic essays covering a variety of disciplines and topics provides good models for student writing. As part of the English Essentials Series, this affordable title is a valuable and cost-effective rhetoric for freshman composition students and reference for students writing in all their college disciplines. A student case study follows one student through the entire writing process, from pre-writing to final draft, showing her draft at each stage of the process and providing a real-life example for composition students. Two anthologies of readings at the end of the text include works from student and professional writers (both contemporary and classic), giving students models for writing as well as topics for thought and classroom discussion. Writing Assignments, Collaborative Activities,andJournal Promptsat the end of each chapter give students a chance to practice their skills, write and revise in groups, or reflect on what they've learned.

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Preface

xvii

Introduction: The Writing Process

1

(1)

Writing as a Recursive Process

2

(2)

Reading Academic Writing

4

(1)

PART ONE The Process of Writing an Academic Essay

5

(330)

What Is an Academic Essay?

6

(12)

Writing for the Social Sciences

8

(1)

Writing for the Sciences

9

(3)

Writing for the Humanities

12

(1)

Writing for Business

13

(1)

Writing for Technology

14

(2)

Conclusion

16

(2)

Writing Assignment

16

(1)

Exercises

17

(1)

Collaborative Activity

17

(1)

Journal Prompt

17

(1)

Getting Started: Consider Topic, Audience, Purpose

18

(19)

Reflect Upon Your Topic

18

(4)

Freewriting

19

(1)

W5 + 1H Questions

20

(1)

Webbing

20

(2)

Consider Your Reader

22

(3)

Readers Influence Content

22

(1)

Readers Influence Style

23

(1)

Readers Judge Quality

24

(1)

Establish Your Purpose

25

(6)

Expository Mode

25

(3)

Persuasive Mode

28

(3)

Compose Your Thesis Statement

31

(4)

Placement of the Thesis

34

(1)

Conclusion

35

(2)

Writing Assignment

36

(1)

Exercises

36

(1)

Collaborative Activity

36

(1)

Journal Prompt

36

(1)

Research Your Topic

37

(21)

Books

38

(1)

Periodicals

39

(1)

The Internet

40

(2)

Interviews

42

(1)

Questionnaires

43

(3)

Incorporating Research

46

(6)

Direct Quotes

46

(1)

Summarizing

47

(1)

Paraphrasing

48

(2)

Plagiarism

50

(1)

Citing Sources

50

(2)

Sample Essay with Sources Cited Using MLA Style: ``The Enron Legacy'' by Grace Lehen

52

(3)

Conclusion

55

(3)

Writing Assignment

55

(1)

Research Exercises

56

(1)

Paraphrasing and Summarizing Exercise

56

(1)

Collaborative Activity

57

(1)

Journal Prompt

57

(1)

Make a Plan

58

(19)

Planning an Expository Essay

59

(3)

Planning a Compare/Contrast Essay

62

(2)

Planning an Argument

64

(9)

Aristotle: Logos, Ethos, Pathos

67

(3)

Toulmin: Claim, Support, Warrant

70

(1)

Rogerian Argument

71

(2)

Audience and Purpose in Argument

73

(1)

Conclusion

74

(3)

Writing Assignment

75

(1)

Exercises

76

(1)

Collaborative Activity

76

(1)

Journal Prompt

76

(1)

Write a Draft

77

(19)

Write a Clear and Specific Opening

77

(4)

Sample Introductory Paragraphs

78

(3)

Write Complete Body Paragraphs

81

(6)

Compose a Topic Sentence

81

(1)

Develop Your Topic Sentence

82

(1)

Maintain Paragraph Unity

83

(1)

Sample Body Paragraphs

84

(3)

Write An Explicit Conclusion

87

(3)

Sample Concluding Paragraphs

87

(3)

Conclusion

90

(6)

Writing Assignments

93

(1)

Exercises

93

(2)

Collaborative Activity

95

(1)

Journal Prompt

95

(1)

Revise Your Essay

96

(19)

Structure

96

(1)

Content

97

(1)

Cohesive Ties

98

(2)

Transition

98

(1)

Repetition

99

(1)

Substitution

100

(1)

Style

100

(10)

Subordination

101

(1)

Parallelism

102

(2)

Order

104

(4)

Academic Voice

108

(2)

Peer Review

110

(1)

Conclusion

111

(4)

Writing Assignment

112

(1)

Exercises

112

(2)

Collaborative Activity

114

(1)

Journal Prompt

114

(1)

Edit Your Essay

115

(220)

Edit for Grammar

116

(187)

Subject-Verb Agreement

116

(2)

Pronoun Reference

118

(3)

Pronoun Case

121

(3)

Verb Tense and Mood

124

(179)

Susan Willis / ``Disney World: Public Use/Private State''

303

(13)

Deborah Tannen / ``Rapport-Talk and Report-Talk''

316

(10)

Edwin P. Christmann and John L. Badgett / ``The Comparative Effectiveness of CAI on Collegiate Academic Performance''

326

(9)

Acknowledgments

335

(2)

Index

337

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