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| Alternative Rhetorical Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Writing Process | |
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| Writing as a Recursive Process | |
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| Reading Academic Writing | |
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| The Process Of Writing An Academic Essay | |
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| What Is an Academic Essay? | |
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| Writing for the Social Sciences | |
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| Writing for the Sciences | |
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| Writing for the Humanities | |
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| Writing for Business | |
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| Writing for Technology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignment | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Getting Started: Consider Topic, Audience, Purpose | |
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| Reflect Upon Your Topic | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| W5 + 1H Questions | |
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| Webbing | |
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| Consider Your Reader | |
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| Readers Influence Content | |
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| Readers Influence Style | |
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| Readers Judge Quality | |
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| Establish Your Purpose | |
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| Expository Mode | |
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| Persuasive Mode | |
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| Compose Your Thesis Statement | |
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| Placement of the Thesis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignment | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Research Your Topic | |
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| Books | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Questionnaires | |
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| Incorporating Research | |
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| Direct Quotes | |
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| Summarizing | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Plagiarism | |
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| Citing Sources | |
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| Sample Essay with Sources Cited Using MLA Style | |
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| "The Qualities of a Grade A Essay" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignment | |
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| Research Exercises | |
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| Paraphrasing and Summarizing Exercise | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Make a Plan | |
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| Planning an Expository Essay | |
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| Planning a Compare/Contrast Essay | |
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| Planning an Argument | |
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| Aristotle: Logos, Ethos, Pathos | |
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| Toulmin: Claim, Support, Warrant | |
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| Rogerian Argument | |
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| Audience and Purpose in Argument | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignment | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Write a Draft | |
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| Write a Clear and Specific Opening | |
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| Sample Introductory Paragraphs | |
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| Write Complete Body Paragraphs | |
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| Compose a Topic Sentence | |
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| Develop Your Topic Sentence | |
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| Maintain Paragraph Unity | |
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| Sample Body Paragraphs | |
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| Write An Explicit Conclusion | |
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| Sample Concluding Paragraphs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignments | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Revise Your Essay | |
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| Structure | |
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| Content | |
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| Cohesive Ties | |
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| Transition | |
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| Repetition | |
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| Substitution | |
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| Style | |
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| Subordination | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Order | |
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| Academic Voice | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignment | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Edit Your Essay | |
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| Edit for Grammar | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Pronoun Reference | |
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| Pronoun Case | |
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| Verb Tense and Mood | |
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| Edit for Sentence Structure | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Run-On Sentences | |
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| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Faulty Parallelism | |
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| Wordiness | |
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| Edit for Punctuation | |
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| Punctuation at the End of Sentences | |
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| Punctuation Within Sentences | |
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| Punctuation Within Words | |
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| Edit for Diction | |
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| Context | |
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| Meaning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignments | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Acknowledge Your Sources | |
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| MLA Method of Parenthetical Citation | |
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| Parenthetical Citations Within the Text of the Essay | |
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| Works Cited List | |
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| Sample MLA Works Cited Entries | |
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| APA Method of Parenthetical Citation | |
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| Parenthetical Citations Within the Text of the Essay | |
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| References List at the End of the Essay | |
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| Sample APA Reference List Entries | |
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| Chicago Manual of Style Method of Citing Sources | |
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| Footnotes/Endnotes | |
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| Source List at the End of the Essay | |
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| Sample CMS Bibliography Entries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing Assignments | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Collaborative Activity | |
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| Journal Prompt | |
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| Sample Academic Essays With Instructional Notes And Commentary | |
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| "What Predicts Adjustment Among College Students? | |
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| A Longitudinal Panel Study." | |
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| "Meeting Her Maker: Emily Dickinson's God." | |
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| "Saving the Vancouver Island Marmot." | |
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| "Is the United States Losing Its Productivity Advantage?" | |
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| "Getting Inked: Tattoos and College Students.? | |
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| An Anthology Of Academic Writing | |
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| Reading Actively and Critically | |
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| Visuals in Academic Writing | |
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| Joel Grossbard, et al., "Are Drinking Games Sports? | |
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| College Athlete Participation in Drinking Games and Alcohol-Related Problems." | |
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| "Faculty and College Student Beliefs about the Frequency of Student Academic Misconduct." | |
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| "From Sex to Sexuality: Exposing the Heterosexual Script on Primetime Network Television." | |
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| "Resurrecting and Updating the Teen Slasher: The Case of Scream." | |
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| "9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective." | |
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| "Global Anti-Americanism and the Lessons of the "French Exception." | |
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| "Fixing the Borders (Without a Wall)." | |
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| "The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?" | |