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About This Book
James Charles Devlin
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1.1 Really? Writing? Again?
1.2 What Does the Professor Want? Understanding the Assignment
1.3 Deconstructing Plagiarism
1.4 My Most Asked Question...
1.5 Overcoming Writing Anxiety and Writer’s Block
2.1 How to Read Effectively
2.2 How to Read Rhetorically
2.3 Reading to Build Content Knowledge
2.4 Know Your Audience
2.5 Understanding the Writing Assignment
Deeper Reading: “What Is Academic Writing?”
3.1 Why is Information Literacy Important?
3.2 The SIFT Method
3.3 A Fact Checking Habit
3.4 The CRAP Method
3.5 Finding Quality Texts
3.6 Plagiarism and Guidelines for Using Information
4.1 Stages of the Writing Process
4.2 Prewriting
4.3 Outlining
4.4 Drafting
4.5 Revising
4.6 Editing and Proofreading
5.1 Essay Basics
5.2 Titles and Introductions
5.3 Thesis Statement
5.4 Body Paragraphs
5.5 Conclusions
5.6 Counterargument and Response
Deeper Reading: Counterargument – “On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses”
6.1 Revising Your Drafts
6.2 Strong Writers Still Need Revision
6.3 Revising the Thesis Statement
6.4 Improving the Five Paragraph Essay
6.5 Transitions: Developing Relationships between Ideas
6.6 Peer Review
6.7 There Is More Than One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking
Deeper Reading: Why Visit Your Campus Writing Center?
7.1 It's Not Just What You Say
7.2 Voice and Point of View
7.3 Clarity and Concision
7.4 “Correctness” in Writing
7.5 Getting Some Mechanics Right
7.6 Common Mistakes in Writing
7.7 Editing Your Final Draft
Deeper Reading: “I Need You to Say I”
8.1 Research Basics
8.2 Finding a Research Question
8.3 Research Proposal
8.4 Conducting Research
8.5 Using Research
8.6 Annotated Bibliography
9.1 Types of Evidence in Academic Arguments
9.2 Types of Sources
9.3 Legitimate and Reliable Sources
9.4 Reading Popular Sources
9.5 Scholarly Sources
9.6 Secondary Sources in Their Natural Habitats
9.7 Failures in Evidence
9.8 Primary Research
Deeper Reading: “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources”
10.1 Using Sources Ethically
10.2 Avoiding Plagiarism
10.3 Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrasing
10.4 Signal Phrases
10.5 Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources
11.1 Giving Credit Where It's Due
11.2 Formatting Your Paper in MLA (or APA)
11.3 MLA Citations (Or APA)
12.1 What is Rhetoric?
12.2 What is the Rhetorical Situation?
12.3 What is Rhetorical Analysis?
12.4 Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
12.5 Logical Fallacies
Deeper Reading: "Backpacks vs. Briefcases"
13.1 What are Multimodal Texts?
Deeper Reading: “An Introduction to and Strategies for Multimodal Composing”
14.1 Summaries
14.2 Argumentative
14.3 Narrative
14.4 Compare and Contrast
14.5 Analysis
14.6 Synthesis
15.1 Writing Spaces
15.2 Selections from The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Appendix
This chapter is about the ways to integrate sources into your essay.
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