The Essentials of Academic Writing
ISBN: 9780547181332 | 0547181337
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 6/2/2009
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THE ESSENTIALS OF ACADEMIC WRITING, 2nd Edition, offers a complete overview of the process of writing academic essays for college courses. This text covers the writing process, including concise, nuts-and-bolts coverage of researching, planning, drafting, documenting, revising, and proofreading academic papers. A sample student essay serves as a case study throughout the text, illustrating each step of the writing process. An anthology of 13 academic essays, covering a variety of disciplines and topics, provides good models for student writing. This affordable and accessible text is a valuable rhetoric for freshman composition and is an important reference guide to students in all college disciplines.
| Alternative Rhetorical Contents | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction: The Writing Process | |
| Writing as a Recursive Process | |
| Reading Academic Writing | |
| The Process Of Writing An Academic Essay | |
| What Is an Academic Essay? | |
| Writing for the Social Sciences | |
| Writing for the Sciences | |
| Writing for the Humanities | |
| Writing for Business | |
| Writing for Technology | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Exercises | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Getting Started: Consider Topic, Audience, Purpose | |
| Reflect Upon Your Topic | |
| Freewriting | |
| W5 + 1H Questions | |
| Webbing | |
| Consider Your Reader | |
| Readers Influence Content | |
| Readers Influence Style | |
| Readers Judge Quality | |
| Establish Your Purpose | |
| Expository Mode | |
| Persuasive Mode | |
| Compose Your Thesis Statement | |
| Placement of the Thesis | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Exercises | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Research Your Topic | |
| Books | |
| Periodicals | |
| The Internet | |
| Interviews | |
| Questionnaires | |
| Incorporating Research | |
| Direct Quotes | |
| Summarizing | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Plagiarism | |
| Citing Sources | |
| Sample Essay with Sources Cited Using MLA Style | |
| "The Qualities of a Grade A Essay" | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Research Exercises | |
| Paraphrasing and Summarizing Exercise | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Make a Plan | |
| Planning an Expository Essay | |
| Planning a Compare/Contrast Essay | |
| Planning an Argument | |
| Aristotle: Logos, Ethos, Pathos | |
| Toulmin: Claim, Support, Warrant | |
| Rogerian Argument | |
| Audience and Purpose in Argument | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Exercises | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Write a Draft | |
| Write a Clear and Specific Opening | |
| Sample Introductory Paragraphs | |
| Write Complete Body Paragraphs | |
| Compose a Topic Sentence | |
| Develop Your Topic Sentence | |
| Maintain Paragraph Unity | |
| Sample Body Paragraphs | |
| Write An Explicit Conclusion | |
| Sample Concluding Paragraphs | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Exercises | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Revise Your Essay | |
| Structure | |
| Content | |
| Cohesive Ties | |
| Transition | |
| Repetition | |
| Substitution | |
| Style | |
| Subordination | |
| Parallelism | |
| Order | |
| Academic Voice | |
| Peer Review | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Exercises | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Edit Your Essay | |
| Edit for Grammar | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Pronoun Reference | |
| Pronoun Case | |
| Verb Tense and Mood | |
| Edit for Sentence Structure | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Run-On Sentences | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
| Faulty Parallelism | |
| Wordiness | |
| Edit for Punctuation | |
| Punctuation at the End of Sentences | |
| Punctuation Within Sentences | |
| Punctuation Within Words | |
| Edit for Diction | |
| Context | |
| Meaning | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Exercises | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Acknowledge Your Sources | |
| MLA Method of Parenthetical Citation | |
| Parenthetical Citations Within the Text of the Essay | |
| Works Cited List | |
| Sample MLA Works Cited Entries | |
| APA Method of Parenthetical Citation | |
| Parenthetical Citations Within the Text of the Essay | |
| References List at the End of the Essay | |
| Sample APA Reference List Entries | |
| Chicago Manual of Style Method of Citing Sources | |
| Footnotes/Endnotes | |
| Source List at the End of the Essay | |
| Sample CMS Bibliography Entries | |
| Conclusion | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Exercises | |
| Collaborative Activity | |
| Journal Prompt | |
| Sample Academic Essays With Instructional Notes And Commentary | |
| "What Predicts Adjustment Among College Students? | |
| A Longitudinal Panel Study." | |
| "Meeting Her Maker: Emily Dickinson's God." | |
| "Saving the Vancouver Island Marmot." | |
| "Is the United States Losing Its Productivity Advantage?" | |
| "Getting Inked: Tattoos and College Students.? | |
| An Anthology Of Academic Writing | |
| Reading Actively and Critically | |
| Visuals in Academic Writing | |
| Joel Grossbard, et al., "Are Drinking Games Sports? | |
| College Athlete Participation in Drinking Games and Alcohol-Related Problems." | |
| "Faculty and College Student Beliefs about the Frequency of Student Academic Misconduct." | |
| "From Sex to Sexuality: Exposing the Heterosexual Script on Primetime Network Television." | |
| "Resurrecting and Updating the Teen Slasher: The Case of Scream." | |
| "9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective." | |
| "Global Anti-Americanism and the Lessons of the "French Exception." | |
| "Fixing the Borders (Without a Wall)." | |
| "The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?" | |
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