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Writing As Inquiry | |
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Motives for Writing | |
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Beliefs About Writing | |
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EXERCISE 1.1 What Do You Believe? | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Bernice's Journal | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Journals | |
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Unlearning Unhelpful Beliefs | |
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The Beliefs of This Book | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Portfolios | |
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Writing Situations and Rhetorical Choices | |
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Habits of Mind | |
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Start with Questions, Not Answers | |
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Suspend Judgment | |
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Search for Surprise | |
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EXERCISE 1.2 A Roomful of Details | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Bernice's Journal | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Invention Strategies | |
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Writing as a Process | |
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EXERCISE 1.3 What Is Your Process? | |
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Thinking About Your Process | |
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EXERCISE 1.4 Literacy Narrative Collage | |
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Writing Creatively, Writing Critically: A Process of Writing | |
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EXERCISE 1.5 Alternating Currents of Thought: Generating and Judging Thinking and Writing Dialectically | |
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Opening Questions | |
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Questions, Creativity, and Critical Thinking: A Strategy for Inquiry | |
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EXERCISE 1.6 Writing with the Wrong Hand and Other Ways of Thinking About Yourself as a Writer | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: the Writing Literacy Memoir | |
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SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY Bernice Olivas, Writing a New Path | |
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EXERCISE 1.7 Taking a Reflective Turn | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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READING AS INQUIRY | |
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Motives for Reading | |
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Beliefs About Reading | |
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EXERCISE 2.1 What Do You Believe? | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Briana's Journal | |
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Reading Situations and Rhetorical Choices | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Briana's Journal | |
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EXERCISE 2.2 Reading Autobiography | |
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Reading as a Process | |
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Reading to Write | |
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Goal-Directed Reading | |
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EXERCISE 2.3 What Do You Know and When Did You Know It? | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Briana's Journal | |
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Inquiry Questions for Reading to Write | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Reading Perspectives | |
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Reading Dialectically | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Visual Literacy: Reading Photographs | |
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EXERCISE 2.4 Reading Creatively, Reading Critically | |
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READINGSBruce Ballenger, "The Importance of Writing Badly" | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Briana's Journal | |
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Read to Write and Write to Read | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: the Reading Literacy Memoir | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Briana Duquette-Shackley, Reading Literacy Memoir | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS The Double-Entry Journal | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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WRITING A PERSONAL ESSAY | |
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Writing About Experience | |
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Motives for Writing a Personal Essay | |
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The Personal Essay and Academic Writing | |
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Features of the Form | |
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READINGS | |
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PERSONAL ESSAY 1 Laura Zazulak, "Every Morning for Five Years" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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PERSONAL ESSAY 2 Judith Ortiz Cofer, "One More Lesson" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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SEEING THE FORM Nautilus Shell | |
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WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES The Personal Academic Essay | |
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WRITING IN YOUR LIFE Essaying "This I Believe" | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: Writing a Personal Essay | |
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Thinking About Subjects | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Margaret's Journal | |
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Listing Prompts | |
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Fastwriting Prompts | |
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Visual Prompts | |
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Research Prompts | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Clustering or Mapping | |
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Judging What You Have | |
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What's Promising Material and What Isn't? | |
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Questions About Purpose and Audience | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Writing the Sketch | |
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STUDENT SKETCH Amanda Stewart, "Earning a Sense of Place" | |
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Moving from Sketch to Draft | |
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Evaluating Your Own Sketch | |
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Questions for Peer Review | |
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Reflecting on What You've Learned | |
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Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information | |
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Composing the Draft | |
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Methods of Development | |
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Using Evidence | |
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Workshopping the Draft | |
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Reflecting on the Draft | |
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Questions for Readers | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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Polishing the Draft | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Julia C. Arredondo, "Beet Field Dreams" | |
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Evaluating the Essay | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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WRITING A REVIEW | |
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Writing That Evaluates | |
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Motives for Writing a Review | |
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The Review and Academic Writing | |
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WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES Evaluation Across the Disciplines | |
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Features of the Form | |
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READINGS | |
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REVIEW 1 Mark Kermode, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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REVIEW 2 Ezra Dyer, "A Ton (Just Barely) of Fun" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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SEEING THE FORM Choosing the Best Picture | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: Writing a Review | |
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Thinking About Subjects | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Listing Prompts | |
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Fastwriting Prompts | |
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Visual Prompts | |
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Research Prompts | |
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Judging What You Have | |
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WRITING IN YOUR LIFE Online Product Reviews | |
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What's Promising Material and What Isn't? | |
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Questions About Audience and Purpose | |
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EXERCISE 4.1 From Jury to Judgment | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Sam's Journal | |
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Thinking About Criteria | |
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Writing the Sketch | |
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STUDENT SKETCH Sam Battey, "River Birch: A Diamond in the Rough" | |
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Moving from Sketch to Draft | |
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Evaluating Your Own Sketch | |
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Questions for Peer Review | |
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Reflecting on What You've Learned | |
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Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information | |
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Re-Experience | |
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Interview | |
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Read | |
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Composing the Draft | |
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Methods of Development | |
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Using Evidence | |
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Workshopping the Draft | |
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Reflecting on the Draft | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Christy's Journal | |
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Questions for Readers | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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Polishing the Draft | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Sam Battey, "River Birch: A Diamond in the Rough" | |
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Evaluating the Essay | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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WRITING A PROPOSAL | |
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Writing About Problems and Solutions | |
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Problems of Consequence | |
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Problems of Scale | |
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Motives for Writing a Proposal | |
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The Proposal and Academic Writing | |
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Features of the Form | |
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READINGS | |
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PROPOSAL 1 David S. Johnston, "Housing and Our Military" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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PROPOSAL 2 UC Santa Cruz Dining Services, "Green Dining" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES Writing a Research Proposal | |
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SEEING THE FORM A Problem in Pictures | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: Writing a Proposal | |
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Thinking About Subjects | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Listing Prompts | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Caesar's Journal | |
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Fastwriting Prompts | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Gina's Journal | |
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Visual Prompts | |
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Research Prompts | |
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Judging What You Have | |
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What's Promising Material and What Isn't? | |
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Questions About Audience and Purpose | |
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Questions of Form | |
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Research Considerations | |
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Writing the Sketch | |
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STUDENT SKETCH Gina Sinisi, "Clothing Optional" | |
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Moving from Sketch to Draft | |
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Evaluating Your Own Sketch | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Gina's Journal | |
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Questions for Peer Review | |
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Reflecting on What You Learned | |
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Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information | |
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WRITING IN YOUR LIFE Grant Proposals and Group Ethos | |
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Composing the Draft | |
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Methods of Development | |
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Using Evidence | |
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Workshopping the Draft | |
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Reflecting on the Draft | |
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Questions for Readers | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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Polishing the Draft | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Gina Sinisi, "Clothing Optional" | |
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Evaluating the Essay | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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WRITING AN ARGUMENT | |
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Writing to Persuade People | |
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What Is Argument? | |
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Two Sides to Every Argument? | |
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Argument and Inquiry | |
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Suspending Judgment | |
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Making Judgments | |
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Analyzing Argument | |
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Using Toulmin | |
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Using Logical Fallacies | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Common Logical Fallacies | |
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Motives for Writing an Argument | |
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The Argument and Academic Writing | |
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Features of the Form | |
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WRITING IN YOUR LIFE Public Argument in a Digital Age | |
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READINGS | |
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ARGUMENT 1 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "The Language of War Is Killing" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Some Basic Argument Strategies | |
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ARGUMENT 2 Jeff Jacoby, "A Teacher with Faith and Reason" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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ARGUMENT 3 Loye Young, "Is Humiliation an Ethically Appropriate Response to Plagiarism?" | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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SEEING THE FORM The "Imagetext" as Argument | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: Writing a Public Argument | |
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Thinking About Subjects | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Listing Prompts | |
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Fastwriting Prompts | |
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Visual Prompts | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Ben's Journal | |
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Research Prompts | |
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Judging What You Have | |
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What's Promising Material and What Isn't? | |
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Questions About Audience and Purpose | |
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Research Considerations | |
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Narrowing the Question | |
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Writing the Sketch | |
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STUDENT SKETCH Ben Bloom, "How to Really Rock the Vote" | |
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Moving from Sketch to Draft | |
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Evaluating Your Own Sketch | |
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Questions for Peer Review | |
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Reflecting on What You've Learned | |
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Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information | |
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Composing the Draft | |
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Methods of Development | |
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Using Evidence | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS What Evidence Can Do | |
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Workshopping the Draft | |
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Reflecting on the Draft | |
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Questions for Readers | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES Argument in Academic Disciplines | |
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Polishing the Draft | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Kelly Sundberg, "I Am Not a Savage" | |
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Evaluating the Essay | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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WRITING A CRITICAL ESSAY | |
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Writing About Literature | |
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Motives for Writing a Critical Essay | |
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The Critical Essay and Academic Writing | |
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Features of the Form | |
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READINGS | |
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SHORT STORY 1 Ursula Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | |
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Inquiring into the Story | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Bernice's Double-Entry Journal | |
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WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES Why Literary Theory Is Not a Sleep Aid | |
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ESSAY Sarah Vowell, "Shooting Dad" | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS How to Read Nonfiction | |
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Inquiring into the Essay | |
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SEEING THE FORM Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth | |
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THE WRITING PROCESS | |
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Inquiry Project: Writing a Critical Essay | |
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Thinking About Subjects | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Listing Prompts | |
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Fastwriting Prompts | |
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Visual Prompts | |
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Research Prompts | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Common Literary Devices | |
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Judging What You Have | |
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What's Promising Material and What Isn't? | |
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Questions About Audience and Purpose | |
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Writing the Sketch | |
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STUDENT SKETCH Bernice Olivas, "Who Are 'the Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'?" | |
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Moving from Sketch to Draft | |
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Evaluating Your Own Sketch | |
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Questions for Peer Review | |
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Reflecting on What You've Learned | |
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Research and Other Strategies: Gathering More Information | |
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Composing the Draft | |
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Methods of Development | |
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Using Evidence | |
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Workshopping the Draft | |
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WRITING IN YOUR LIFE Book Groups | |
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Reflecting on the Draft | |
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Questions for Readers | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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Polishing the Draft | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Bernice Olivas, "Can You Really Walk Away?" | |
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Evaluating the Essay | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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RESEARCH TECHNIQUES | |
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Methods of Collecting | |
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Research in the Electronic Age | |
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Magic Words That Open Doors | |
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Google Your Boole | |
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Developing Working Knowledge | |
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A Strategy for Developing Working Knowledge | |
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Developing Focused Knowledge | |
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A Strategy for Developing Focused Knowledge | |
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Library Research | |
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Web Research | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Methods of Recording Information | |
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Evaluating Library Sources | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS The Working Bibliography | |
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Evaluating Web Sources | |
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Writing in the Middle: Synthesizing Source Information and Your Own Ideas | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS How to Annotate a Book | |
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Double-Entry Journal | |
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Research Log | |
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Interviews | |
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Arranging Interviews | |
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Conducting the Interview | |
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Using the Interview in Your Writing | |
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Surveys | |
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Defining a Survey's Goals and Audience | |
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Types of Survey Questions | |
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Crafting Survey Questions | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Types of Survey Questions | |
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Conducting a Survey | |
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Using Survey Results in Your Writing | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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USING AND CITING SOURCES | |
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Controlling Information | |
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Using Sources | |
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Summarizing | |
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Paraphrasing | |
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Quoting | |
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Citing Sources | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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EXERCISE 9.1 The Accidental Plagiarist | |
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MLA Documentation Guidelines | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS The Common Knowledge Exception | |
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Citing Sources | |
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Where to Put Citations | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Citations That Go with the Flow | |
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When You Mention the Author's Name | |
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When There Is No Author | |
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Works by the Same Author | |
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When One Source Quotes Another | |
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Personal Interviews | |
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Several Sources in a Single Citation | |
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Sample Parenthetical References for Other Sources | |
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Format | |
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The Layout | |
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Preparing the Works Cited Page | |
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Format | |
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Citing Books | |
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Sample Book Citations | |
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Citing Periodicals | |
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Sample Periodical Citations | |
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Citing Nonprint and Other Sources | |
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A Sample Paper in MLA Style | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Amy Garret, "We Need the Sun" | |
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APA Documentation Guidelines | |
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How the Essay Should Look | |
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Page Format | |
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Title Page | |
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Abstract | |
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Body of the Paper | |
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References Page | |
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Appendix | |
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Notes | |
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Tables and Figures | |
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Language and Style | |
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Citing Sources in Your Essay | |
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When the Author Is Mentioned in the Text | |
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When the Author Isn't Mentioned in the Text | |
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When to Cite Page Numbers | |
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A Single Work by Two or More Authors | |
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A Work with No Author | |
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Two or More Works by the Same Author | |
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An Institutional Author | |
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Multiple Works in the Same Parentheses | |
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Interviews, E-Mail, and Letters | |
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New Editions of Old Works | |
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A Web Site | |
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Preparing the References List | |
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Order of Sources | |
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Order of Information | |
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Sample References: Articles | |
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Sample References: Books | |
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Sample References: Other | |
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A Sample Paper in APA Style | |
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STUDENT ESSAY Amy Garrett, "The Happy Cow" | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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REVISION STRATEGIES | |
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Re-seeing Your Topic | |
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Divorcing the Draft | |
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Strategies for Divorcing the Draft | |
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Photography as a Metaphor for Revision | |
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Five Categories of Revision | |
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Problems with Purpose | |
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Revision Strategy 10.1: the Motive Statement | |
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Revision Strategy 10.2: What Do You Want to Know About What You Learned? | |
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ONE STUDENT's RESPONSE Julia's Draft | |
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Revision Strategy 10.3: Finding the Focusing Question | |
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Revision Strategy 10.4: What's the Relationship? | |
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Problems with Meaning | |
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Where Does Meaning Come From? | |
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Methods for Discovering Your Thesis | |
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Revision Strategy 10.5: Find the "Instructive Line" | |
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Revision Strategy 10.6: Looping Toward a Thesis | |
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Revision Strategy 10.7: Reclaiming Your Topic | |
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Revision Strategy 10.8: Believing and Doubting | |
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Methods for Refining Your Thesis | |
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Revision Strategy 10.9: Questions as Knives | |
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Revision Strategy 10.10: Qualifying Your Claim | |
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Problems with Information | |
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Revision Strategy 10.11: Explode a Moment | |
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Revision Strategy 10.12: Beyond Examples | |
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Revision Strategy 10.13: Research | |
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Revision Strategy 10.14: Backing Up Your Assumptions | |
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Problems with Structure | |
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Formal Academic Structures | |
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Revision Strategy 10.15: Beginnings, Middles, Ends, and the Work They Do | |
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Revision Strategy 10.16: Reorganizing Around Thesis and Support | |
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Revision Strategy 10.17: Multiple Leads | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Types of Leads | |
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Revision Strategy 10.18: the Frankenstein Draft | |
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Problems with Clarity and Style | |
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Solving Problems of Clarity | |
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Revision Strategy 10.19: the Three Most Important Sentences | |
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The First Sentence | |
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The Last Line of the First Paragraph | |
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The Last Line of the Essay | |
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Revision Strategy 10.20: Untangling Paragraphs | |
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Revision Strategy 10.21: Cutting Clutter | |
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INQUIRING INTO THE DETAILS Transition Flags | |
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Revision Strategy 10.22: the Actor and the Action Next Door Improving Style | |
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Revision Strategy 10.23: Actors and Actions | |
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Revision Strategy 10.24: Smoothing the Choppiness | |
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Revision Strategy 10.25: Fresh Ways to Say Things | |
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Using What You Have Learned | |
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Index | |