Contents

  1. Creative Commons Licensing

  2. About this book

  3. Composing

    1. "What Is Academic Writing?"

    2. Understanding Assignments

    3. Basic Essay Structure

    4. Basic Paragraph Structure

    5. Transitions

    6. About Thesis Statements

    7. Constructing an Outline

    8. "I Need You to Say I"

    9. Introductions and Conclusions

  4. Revising

    1. Early Revisions : You Have So Much Room to Grow!

    2. Peer Review: Offer Perspectives, Not Directives

    3. Does Your Evidence Fit Your Claims?

    4. Late Revisions : Adding, Enhancing and Refining Content

    5. Final Editing

  5. The Research Process

    1. Brainstorm for Coming Up With a Topic

    2. Choosing a Topic

    3. From Topic to Research Question

    4. Coming Up With a Research Strategy: Using Wikipedia (!?)

    5. Coming Up with a Research Strategy: Types of Sources

    6. Types of Sources: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

    7. Types of Sources: Popular and Scholarly

    8. Keyword Searching: Do it Better!

    9. Keeping Track of Sources

  6. Scholarly Sources

    1. An Introduction to Academic Search Complete

    2. Basic Guidelines for Academic Research Database Searches

    3. A Deeper Look at Scholarly Sources

    4. "Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources"

  7. Reading and Evaluating Sources

    1. Analytical Reading of Your Sources

    2. Evaluating Newspaper and Magazine Articles

    3. Evaluating Websites

    4. Evaluating Scholarly Sources

    5. Annotated Bibliography

  8. Academic Argument

    1. Rhetorical Situation: The Context

    2. Basic Argument Components

    3. Rhetorical Strategies: Building Compelling Arguments

    4. Fallacies: Failures in Argument

    5. Types of Evidence in Academic Arguments

    6. Failures in Evidence: When Even "Lots of Quotes" Can't Save an Argument

    7. "On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses"

    8. Questions for Thinking about Counterarguments

  9. Synthesis

    1. Synthesis as a Conversation

    2. Synthesis and Literature Reviews

    3. Phrases that begin the work of synthesis

  10. Citation, Quoting, Works Cited

    1. What is MLA, APA, and CMS?

    2. Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing to Avoid Plagiarism

    3. MLA Signal Phrases