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About This Book
Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel
1.1 College Writing
Melanie Gagich
1.2 Things to Know
1.3 Resources to Use
2.1 Why We Read
Melanie Gagich and Charlotte Morgan
2.2 How to Read Effectively
Yvonne Bruce
2.3 How to Read Rhetorically
2.4 Responding to Texts
Charlotte Morgan
3.1 The Writing Process
Sarah M. Lacy and Melanie Gagich
3.2 Knowing Your Audience
3.3 Understanding the Writing Assignment
Robin Jeffrey and Emilie Zickel
3.4 Creating the Thesis
Yvonne Bruce and Emilie Zickel
3.5 Revising Your Draft(s)
3.6 Peer Review and Responding to Others’ Drafts
Emilie Zickel
3.7 Proof-Reading and Editing Your Final Draft
Sarah M. Lacy and Emilie Zickel
3.8 Grammar Overview
Rachel Rickel
Deeper Reading: “What Is Academic Writing?”
Lennie Irvin
4.1 Basic Essay Structure
Emilie Zickel and Charlotte Morgan
4.2 Body Paragraphs: An Overview
Amanda Lloyd
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
Monique Babin; Carol Burnell; Susan Pesznecker; Nicole Rosevear; and Jaime Wood
4.8 Tone, Voice, and Point of View
Deeper Reading: “I Need You to Say I”
Kate McKinney Maddalena
5.1 Writing Summaries
5.2 Synthesizing in Your Writing
Yvonne Bruce; Melanie Gagich; and Svetlana Zhuravlova
5.3 Make Connections When Synthesizing in Your Writing
Svetlana Zhuravlova; Yvonne Bruce; and Melanie Gagich
5.4 Informative vs. Argumentative Synthesis
Svetlana Zhuravlova
5.5 Synthesis and Literature Reviews
5.6 Writing a Literature Review
Louise Lexis and Brianna Julien
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?
7.1 Reading Traditional and New Media
Johnny Cook
7.2 What is Multimodality?
8.1 Arguing
8.2 Basic Structure and Content of Argument
Amanda Lloyd and Emilie Zickel
8.3 Types of Evidence in Academic Arguments
Robin Jeffrey and Yvonne Bruce
8.4 Counterargument and Response
Robin Jeffrey
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”
Steven Krause
9.1 Developing a Research Question
9.2 Coming Up With Research Strategies
Rashida Mustafa and Emilie Zickel
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”
Karen Rosenberg
11.1 Using Sources Ethically
11.2 Quoting
11.3 Paraphrasing and Summarizing
11.4 Signal Phrases
John Lanning and Amanda Lloyd
11.5 Plagiarism Policy
12.1 Formatting Your Paper in MLA
12.2 MLA Citation: In-text Citations
John Brentar and Emilie Zickel
12.3 MLA Citation: Works Cited Entries
12.4 MLA Citation: Works Cited Examples
Emilie Zickel and John Brentar
12.5 Formatting Your Paper in APA
12.6 APA Citations: In-Text Citations
12.7 APA Citations: References
Appendix A: Troubleshooting: Body Paragraph Development
John Lanning and Sarah M. Lacy
Appendix B: Additional Synthesis Examples
Works Cited
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