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About This Book
Acknowledgements
1.1 College Writing
1.2 Things to Know
1.3 Resources to Use
2.1 Why We Read
2.2 How to Read Effectively
2.3 How to Read Rhetorically
2.4 Responding to Texts
3.1 The Writing Process
3.2 Knowing Your Audience
3.3 Understanding the Writing Assignment
3.4 Creating the Thesis
3.5 Revising Your Draft(s)
3.6 Peer Review and Responding to Others’ Drafts
3.7 Proof-Reading and Editing Your Final Draft
3.8 Grammar Overview
Deeper Reading: “What Is Academic Writing?”
4.1 Basic Essay Structure
4.2 Body Paragraphs: An Overview
4.3 Topic Sentences
4.4 Supporting Evidence
4.5 Explaining Evidence
4.6 Breaking, Combining, or Beginning New Paragraphs
4.7 Transitions: Developing Relationships between Ideas
4.8 Tone, Voice, and Point of View
4.9 A review of the five-paragraph essay
4.10 Moving Beyond the five-paragraph format
Deeper Reading: “I Need You to Say I”
5.1 Writing Summaries
5.2 Synthesizing in Your Writing
5.3 Make Connections When Synthesizing in Your Writing
5.4 Informative vs. Argumentative Synthesis
5.5 Synthesis and Literature Reviews
5.6 Synthesis in Practice
6.1 What is Rhetoric?
6.2 What is the Rhetorical Situation?
6.3 What is Rhetorical Analysis?
6.4 Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Defined
6.5 Logical Fallacies
6.6 What is self analysis?
6.7 What is Critical Analysis
7.1 Reading Traditional and New Media
7.2 What is Multimodality?
7.3 Digital Composition and Multimodal Texts
8.1 Arguing
8.2 Basic Structure and Content of Argument
8.3 Types of Evidence in Academic Arguments
8.4 Counterargument and Response
8.5 Failures in Evidence: When Even “Lots of Quotes” Can’t Save an Paper
Deeper Reading: Counterargument – “On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses”
9.1 Developing a Research Question
9.2 Coming Up With Research Strategies
9.3 Basic Guidelines for Research in Academic Databases
9.4 Using Effective Keywords in your Research
9.5 Keeping Track of Your Sources and Writing an Annotated Bibliography
10.1 Types of Sources: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
10.2 Reading Popular Sources
10.3 Reading Academic Sources
10.4 A Deeper Look at Scholarly Sources
10.5 Conducting Your Own Primary Research
Deeper Reading: “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources”
11.1 Using Sources Ethically
11.2 Quoting
11.3 Paraphrasing and Summarizing
11.4 Signal Phrases
11.5 Plagiarism Policy
12.1 Formatting Your Paper in MLA
12.2 MLA Citation: In-text Citations
12.3 MLA Citation: Works Cited Entries
12.4 MLA Citation: Final Notes
12.5 Formatting Your Paper in APA
12.6 APA Citations: In-Text Citations
12.7 APA Citations: References
13.1 Writing Spaces
Appendix A: Troubleshooting: Body Paragraph Development
Appendix B: Additional Synthesis Examples
Works Cited
Special thanks to CSN librarian Gracie McDonough for help with copyright concerns.
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