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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| A Text on Academic Writing | |
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| Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers | |
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| What Is Academic Writing? | |
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| Academic Writers Make Inquiries | |
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| Academic Writers Seek and Value Complexity | |
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| Academic Writers See Writing as a Conversation | |
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| Academic Writers Understand That Writing Is a Process | |
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| Becoming Academic: Two Narratives | |
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| "Scholarship Boy" | |
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| "Disliking Books" | |
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| From Reading as a Writer to Writing as a Reader | |
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| Reading as an Act of Composing: Annotating | |
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| Reading as a Writer: Analyzing a Text Rhetorically | |
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| "Preface to Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know" | |
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| "Hirsch's Desire for a National Curriculum" | |
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| Writing as a Reader: Composing a Rhetorical Analysis | |
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| "Agency" from Reading Autobiography | |
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| Cultural Baggage | |
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| From Identifying Claims to Analyzing Arguments | |
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| Identifying Types of Claims | |
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| "Hidden Lessons" | |
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| Analyzing Arguments | |
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| Analyze the Reasons Used to Support a Claim | |
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| Annotated Student Argument | |
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| The End of the World May Be Nigh, and It's the Kindle's Fault | |
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| Analyzing and Comparing Arguments | |
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| Grade Inflation Gone Wild | |
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| Doesn't Anyone Get a C Anymore? | |
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| From Identifying Issues to Forming Questions | |
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| Identifying Issues | |
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| Doing Nothing Is Something | |
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| Formulating Issue-Based Questions | |
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| An Academic Essay for Analysis | |
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| The End of Solitude | |
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| From Formulating to Developing a Thesis | |
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| Developing a Working Thesis: Three Models | |
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| Providing a Context for Stating a Thesis | |
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| Annotated Student Introduction: Providing a Context for a Thesis | |
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| "From Nuestra Clase: Making the Classroom a Welcoming Place for English Language Learners" | |
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| "Protean Shapes in Literacy Events: Ever-Shifting Oral and Literate Traditions" | |
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| Annotated Student Essay: Stating and Supporting a Thesis | |
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| "Texting and Literacy" (annotated student paper) | |
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| From Finding to Evaluating Sources | |
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| Identifying Sources | |
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| Developing Search Strategies | |
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| Evaluating Library Sources | |
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| Evaluating Internet Sources | |
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| From Summary to Synthesis: Using Sources to Build an Argument | |
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| Summaries, Paraphrases, and Quotations | |
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| Writing a Paraphrase | |
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| Writing a Summary | |
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| The New Literacy | |
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| Writing a Synthesis | |
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| The New Literacy: Stanford Study Finds Richness and Complexity in Student Writing | |
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| Studies Explore Whether Internet Makes Students Better Writers | |
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| Political Blogs: Teaching Us Lessons about Community | |
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| Don't Fear Twitter | |
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| You Tube: The Flattening of Politics | |
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| Integrating Quotations into Your Writing | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Annotated Student Researched Argument: Synthesizing Sources | |
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| A Greener Approach to Groceries: Community Based Agriculture in LaSalle Square | |
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| From Ethos to Logos: Appealing to Your Readers | |
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| Connecting with Readers: A Sample Argument | |
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| "The Land of Opportunity" | |
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| Appealing to Ethos | |
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| Appealing to Pathos | |
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| Appealing to Logos: Using Reason and Evidence to Fit the Situation | |
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| Recognizing Logical Fallacies | |
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| Community-Based Research Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities | |
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| Appealing to the Eye: Visual Rhetoric | |
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| "1 in 8" (advertisement) | |
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| Analyzing the Rhetoric of Advertisements | |
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| "You Have Your Best Ideas in the Shower" | |
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| Further Advertisements for Analysis | |
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| From Introductions to Conclusions: Drafting an Essay | |
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| Drafting Introductions | |
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| Developing Paragraphs | |
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| "Reinventing 'America': Call for a New National Identity | |
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| Drafting Conclusions | |
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| From Revising to Editing: Working with Peer Groups | |
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| Revising versus Editing | |
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| The Peer Editing Process | |
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| Peer Groups in Action: A Sample Session | |
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| Annotated Student Draft | |
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| Representing Poverty in Million Dollar Baby | |
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| Working with Early Drafts | |
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| (Student writer), Memory through Photography | |
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| Working with Later Drafts | |
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| Memory through Photography | |
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| Working with Final Drafts | |
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| Memory through Photography | |
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| Further Suggestions for Peer Editing Groups | |
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| Other Methods of Inquiry: Interviews and Focus Groups | |
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| Why Do Original Research? | |
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| Getting Started: Writing a Proposal | |
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| Annotated Student Proposal | |
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| Research Paper Proposal: A Case Study of One Homeless Child's Education and Lifestyle | |
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| Interviewing | |
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| Using Focus Groups | |
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| Assignment Sequences | |
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| Appendix: Citing and Documenting Sources | |
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| The Basics of MLA Style | |
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| The Basics of APA Style | |
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| Index of Authors, Titles, and Terms | |