The Academic Writer's Handbook
ISBN: 9780321338310 | 0321338316
Edition: 1stFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum, The Academic Writerrs"s Handbook contains all the features of a traditional handbook combined with the tools students need in order to read, write, and conduct research in the disciplines.
| The Writing Process | |
| What Is Academic Writing? | |
| Preparing to Write | |
| Beginning with an Assignment | |
| Generating Ideas and Information | |
| Selecting, Organizing, and Expanding Information | |
| Writing a Working Thesis and a First Draft | |
| Writing a Working Thesis | |
| Writing a First Draft | |
| Sample Student Paper: First Draft | ... MORE|
| Revising the Paper | |
| Global Revision: Bringing your Main Ideas into Focus | |
| Section-Level Revision: Developing your Main Idea | |
| Sentence-Level Revision | |
| Responding to Editorial Advice from Peers and Instructors | |
| Sample Student Paper: Final Draft "Teenagers and Smoking: How Can We Stop the Cycle?" | |
| Focusing on Paragraphs | |
| Unity: Giving your Paragraph a Controlling Idea and Sticking to It | |
| Coherence: Moving from Sentence to Sentence with a Plan | |
| Developing the Content of Paragraphs | |
| Writing and Revising Introductions and Conclusions | |
| Document Design | |
| Text and Document Design | |
| Formatting Basics | |
| Images and Document Design | |
| The Importance of Document Design | |
| Working with Individual Sources | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Print Sources | |
| Understanding Print Sources | |
| Evaluating Print Sources | |
| Example Evaluation | |
| Reading Sources Carefully | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Web Sites and Images | |
| Understanding Web Sites | |
| Evaluating Web Sites | |
| Understanding Images | |
| Evaluating Images | |
| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources | |
| Referring to Sources | |
| Summarizing and Paraphrasing Sources | |
| Quoting Sources | |
| Altering Quotations | |
| Weaving Summaries, Paraphrases, and Quotations into your Paragraphs | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Citing Sources | |
| Causes of Plagiarism | |
| Rules for Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Determining Common Knowledge | |
| Plagiarism and the Internet | |
| Collaborating, Editing, and Plagiarism | |
| Research: Locating and Synthesizing Multiple Sources | |
| The Research Process | |
| Defining the Task: Topic, Purpose, and Audience | |
| Identifying Your Research Question | |
| Generating a Plan for Research | |
| Devising a Working Thesis and Writing a Draft | |
| Record Keeping | |
| Creating a Working Bibliography | |
| Locating Print and Electronic Sources | |
| Reviewing Sources for Preliminary Research and Reading | |
| Focusing Your Research: Print Sources and Interviews | |
| Locating Electronic Sources | |
| URLs for Researchers | |
| Bringing Your Research to an End | |
| Synthesizing Sources | |
| Understanding Your Purpose for Synthesizing Sources | |
| Creating an Index to Your Sources | |
| Building the Paper by Working with Your Index | |
| Demonstration Synthesis: Did Walt Disney Create a Monster on Main Street? | |
| Sources for the Paper | |
| Mla Documentation | |
| Using the MLA System of Documentation | |
| Quick Index-MLA Documentation Basics | |
| Parenthetical Text Citations | |
| Works Cited Models | |
| APA, CMS, CSE Documentation | |
| Using the APA, CMS, and CSE Systems of Documentation | |
| Using the APA System of Documentation | |
| Quick Index-APA Documentation Basics | |
| Parenthetical Text Citations | |
| References | |
| Using the CMS System of Documentation | |
| First and Subsequent References in CMS Notes | |
| CMS Note Style | |
| Using the CSE System of Documentation | |
| In-Text Citations in the CSE Format | |
| Entries in the CSE References List | |
| Writing in the Disciplines | |
| Writing in the Humanities | |
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