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| A Process For Composing | |
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| What is composing? | |
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| What is rhetoric? | |
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| Audience | |
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| Context | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Strategies | |
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| Rhetoric and a process for composing | |
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| Understanding your project or assignment | |
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| Finding Ideas | |
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| Composing to learn and composing to communicate | |
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| A research process | |
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| Getting started with research | |
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| Finding a topic | |
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| Narrowing a topic | |
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| How do you know when you have a narrowed topic? | |
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| Other strategies for narrowing a topic | |
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| Questions to guide research | |
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| Using research questions to develop a topic | |
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| Kinds of sources, kinds of research | |
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| Kinds of research | |
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| Determining where to research | |
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| Choosing sources | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Books | |
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| Webpages | |
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| Finding sources | |
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| Library research | |
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| Using library journal databases | |
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| Online research | |
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| Archives and special collections | |
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| Field research sources | |
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| What if you can't find anything on your topic? | |
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| Keeping track of sources | |
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| Starting a paper | |
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| Sample research questions | |
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| Analyzing Arguments And Evaluating Sources | |
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| What is analysis? | |
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| Understanding and analyzing texts | |
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| Developing a sense of the author | |
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| Understanding appeals to emotions | |
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| Understanding arrangement | |
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| Sample analysis essay | |
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| Analyzing arguments | |
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| Thesis statements | |
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| What counts as evidence | |
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| Further questions to guide critical reading | |
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| Critical reading | |
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| Sample annotated argument | |
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| Sample rhetorical analysis | |
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| Questions to guide critical looking | |
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| Sample analysis of a visual text | |
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| Evaluating sources | |
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| For relevance | |
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| For credibility print | |
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| For credibility online | |
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| Using analysis to develop a thesis statement | |
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| Sample thesis statements | |
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| Organizing And Shaping Texts | |
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| What is organization? | |
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| Conceptual frameworks and genres | |
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| Academic genres | |
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| Writing in the humanities | |
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| Writing in the sciences | |
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| Writing in the social sciences | |
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| Using a thesis statement to organize an academic paper | |
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| Sample thesis statement organizing a paper | |
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| Workplace genres | |
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| Resumes | |
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| Popular genres | |
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| Shaping paragraphs | |
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| Unified and coherent paragraphs | |
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| Paragraphs that develop | |
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| Visual organization | |
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| Organization for oral presentations | |
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| Drafting A Paper, Connecting With Audiences | |
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| Understanding your audience | |
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| Characteristics of your audience | |
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| Connections with the issue | |
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| Starting to write for an audience | |
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| How to write a statement of purpose | |
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| Sample statement of purpose | |
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| A rough draft | |
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| Sample rough draft | |
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| Receiving feedback to a draft | |
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| Responding to the writing of your peers | |
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| Sample peer response | |
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| Revising With Style | |
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| Revising your writing | |
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| Developing a revision plan | |
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| Sample revision plan | |
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| Revising, style and audience | |
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| Style in writing | |
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| Styles readers expect in different settings | |
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| Styling paragraphs | |
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| Concluding paragraphs | |
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| Introductory paragraphs | |
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| Transitions between paragraphs | |
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| Passive voice | |
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| Styling sentences | |
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| Academic sentences | |
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| Sentences that are easy to read | |
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| Using coordination and subordination | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Figurative language | |
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| Styling words | |
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| Dictionary definitions | |
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| Names | |
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| Action verbs | |
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| Concrete nouns | |
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| Clichÿs | |
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| Jargon | |
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| Wordiness | |
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| Style in visual texts | |
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| Typography | |
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| Color | |
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| Style in oral presentations | |
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| Writing For Diverse Audiences | |
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| Varieties of English | |
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| Academic English | |
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| English as a global language | |
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| Writing English when English is not your home language | |
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| Using inclusive language | |
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| Including all ethnicities | |
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| Including all genders | |
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| Including all abilities | |
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| Including all ages | |
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| Including all sexual orientations | |
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| Including all religions | |
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| Using an ESL dictionary | |
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| Documenting | |
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| Researching ethically | |
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| Why cite and document sources? | |
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| What is plagiarism? | |
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| Tips for avoiding plagiarism | |
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| Four facets of citing and documenting | |
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| Quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing | |
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| Quoting the words of others | |
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| Summarizing the words of others | |
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| Paraphrasing the words of others | |
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| Five kinds of sources | |
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| Collecting citation information for books | |
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| Collecting citation information for Part of a book | |
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| Collecting citation information for periodicals | |
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| Collecting citation information for webpages | |
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| MLA Documentation | |
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| A paper in MLA format | |
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| Sample research paper | |
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| For in-text citations | |
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| Variations on the pattern | |
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| For works cited | |
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| Sample works cited page | |
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| For periodicals | |
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| For articles from databases | |
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| For webpages | |
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| For books | |
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| For Parts of books | |
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| For other kinds of texts | |
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| Author's name | |
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| Titles | |
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| Periodical volume, issue, number, and date | |
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| Page numbers for articles from periodicals | |
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| Place of publication | |
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| Year of publication | |
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| Website titles | |
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| Additional information | |
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| For other kinds of texts | |
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| APA Documentation | |
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| A paper in APA format | |
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| Sample research paper | |
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| A reference list page in APA format | |
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| Sample references page | |
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| In-text citations | |
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| Reference list entries | |
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| CSE Documentation | |
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| In text | |
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| References | |
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| CMS Documentation | |
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| In text | |
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| References | |
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| Editing And Proofreading Your Work | |
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| Editing and proofreading | |
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| How to edit | |
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| How to proofread | |
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| Subject-verb agreement | |
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| Academic verb tenses | |
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| Shifts in verb tenses | |
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| Shifts in grammatical forms | |
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| Sentence fragments | |
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| Run-on sentences | |
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| Pronoun reference and agreement | |
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| Misplaced and dangling modifiers | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Parts of speech | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Articles | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Sentence functions | |
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| Sentence patterms | |
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| Simple sentences | |
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| Subjects and predicates | |
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| Independent clauses | |
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| Compound sentences | |
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| Complex sentences | |
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| Compound-complex sentences | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Commas | |
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| With numbers, place names, and dates | |
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| When you are quoting the words of others | |
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| To separate words in lists | |
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| To build sentences that contain multiple Parts | |
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| When not to use commas | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Colons | |
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| In conventional patterns | |
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| For information at the end of a sentence | |
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| To link two sentences | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Slashes | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Quotation marks | |
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| Periods | |
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| Question marks | |
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| Exclamation points | |
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| Mechanics | |
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| Using italics and underlining | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Capitalizing words | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Numbers | |
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| EXERCISES | |
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| Glossary of grammatical terms and usage | |
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| Index | |
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| Revision checklist | |
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| Revision symbols | |
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| Questions about research (inside back cover) | |
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| A writer's concerns (inside back cover) | |