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Introduction
Reading: "You Can Learn to Write in General"
Features of Academic Writing
College Composition: High School vs. College Writing
Reading: First-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing
Academic Writing as Conversation
1. Threshold Concepts for Writing
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2. Writing Studies and Threshold Concepts: An Introduction
3. Threshold Concept: Genre
4. Threshold Concept: Audience
5. Threshold Concept: Occasion
6. Exigence
7. Patterns of Organization
8. Critical Reading
9. Writing is Recursive
10. "I Need You to Say I"
Joining the Conversation
Understanding Argument: An Introduction
Understanding the Rhetorical Situation
Reading Rhetorically
Putting it all Together: Analyzing Arguments
Reading: America Is Facing a Literacy Crisis
Summary
Responding to Texts
The Writing Process
Writing Paragraphs
Formatting Your Essay in MLA Style
Integrating Sources
MLA Citation: Works Cited Entries
Providing Good Feedback
Using Feedback
Primary Resource: Vision Statement for FYC: Prince George's CC
Primary Resource: Maryland Statewide Standards
Primary Resource: Professional Organizations: Statements about FYC
Reading: The Five-Paragraph Essay Transmits Knowledge
Reading: The Five-Paragraph Essay is Rhetorically Sound
Reading: There Is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking
Reading: Teaching Grammar Improves Writing
Reading: Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Synthesis: Overview
Synthesis in Your Writing
Making Connections with Synthesis
11. Types of Synthesis Writing in College
Informative vs. Argumentative Synthesis
Integrating Quotations
Using Paraphrase
Using Signal Phrases Effectively
Avoiding Plagiarism
Thesis Statements and Organic Organization
Report vs. Research Essay
Reading: Research Starts with a Thesis Statement
Creating a Research Question
12. Reading: Failure Is Not an Option
Understanding Sources
Reading: Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills
PGCC Library Resources: Video Overviews
WRITE THIS::Using Stasis Theory for Inquiry
Reading: What is Post-Truth?
Reading: Our Shared Reality is Fraying
Reading: Navigating the Post-Truth Debate: Some Key Coordinates
13. Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Reading: Being More Media Savvy Won't Stop the Spread of 'Fake News'-Here's Why
Reading: Post-Truth Politics and Why the Antidote isn't Simply 'Fact-Checking' and Truth
Reading: A Nation of Echo Chambers
14. Reading: How Much of the Internet is Fake?
Reading: Fake News on Social Media
Reading: You Are the Product
Reading: Unbelievable news? Read it again and you might think it’s true
Reading: Formal Outlines Are Always Useful
Reading: Leave Yourself Out of Your Writing
Annoying Ways People Use Sources
15. Developing Relationships Between Ideas- Transitions
Appendix
Common Transitional Words and Phrases
MLA Citation: In-Text Citations
For Further Help
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/engl-101-rhetoric-composition-by-bay-college/view
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
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