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About This Book
James Charles Devlin
How to use this Textbook
1.1 College and Writing
1.2 Deconstructing Plagiarism
1.3 Growing Presence of AI
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 Understanding Audience
2.4 Understanding the Writing Assignment
2.5 Annotations (And Downloading this Book)
3.1 Introduction to Information Literacy
3.2 A Fact Checking Habit
3.3 The SIFT Method
3.4 The CRAP Method
3.5 Guidelines for Using Information
4.1 Prewriting
4.2 Outlining
4.3 Drafting
4.4 Revising
4.5 Editing and Proofreading
5.1 Essay Basics
5.2 Titles, Introductions, and Thesis Statements
5.3 Body Paragraphs
5.4 Conclusions
5.5 Counterargument and Response
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 Peer Review
7.1 Writing Style
7.2 Clarity and Concision
7.3 Correctness and Mechanics
7.4 Common Mistakes in Writing
7.5 Editing Your Final Draft
8.1 Research Basics
8.2 Finding a Research Question
8.3 Conducting Research
8.4 Using Research
8.5 Annotated Bibliography
9.1 Types of Sources
9.2 Scholarly Sources
9.3 Reading Popular Sources
9.4 Legitimate and Reliable Sources
9.5 Failures in Evidence
10.1 Using Sources Ethically
10.2 Avoiding Plagiarism
10.3 Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrasing
10.4 Listening to Sources and Signal Phrases
10.5 MLA Format and Citations (and APA)
11.1 What is Rhetoric?
11.2 What is the Rhetorical Situation?
11.3 What is Rhetorical Analysis?
11.4 Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
11.5 Logical Fallacies
12.1 Summaries
12.2 Argumentative
12.3 Narrative
12.4 Compare and Contrast
12.5 Analysis
12.6 Synthesis
12.7 Research
12.8 Multimodal Texts
Appendix: Additional Readings and Resources
This chapter covers several common writing prompts that you might encounter.
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