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Writing in College - From Competence to Excellence
Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence is designed for students who have largely mastered the conventions of high-school level writing and are now rising to meet more the advanced expectations of college. Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to think of themselves as full, self-motivated members of the academic community.
- Tác giả
- Amy Guptill
- Nhà xuất bản
- The College at Brockport, SUNY
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- LibreTexts
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- CC BY-NC-SA
- Ngôn ngữ
- EN
- Danh mục
- Tiếng Anh
Mục lục· 52 mục
- 1: Really Writing Again
- 1.1: Yes. Writing. Again.
- 1.2: The Origins of Higher Education
- 1.3: College Writing is Different
- 1.4: So What Do Professors Want
- 1.5: Exercises
- 2: What Does the Professor Want Understanding the Assignment
- 2.1: Writing for Whom Writing for What
- 2.2: The Prompt: What Does Analyze Mean Anyway
- 2.3: Rubrics as Road Maps
- 2.4: Whats Critical About Critical Thinking
- 2.5: Exercises
- 3: Constructing the Thesis and ArgumentFrom the Ground Up
- 3.1: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme
- 3.2: The Three-story Thesis: From the Ground Up
- 3.3: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument
- 3.4: Exercises
- 4: Secondary Sources in Their Natural Habitats
- 4.1: Ah the Research Paper
- 4.2: Some Sources are Better than Others
- 4.3: Origins and Anatomy of a Journal Article
- 4.4: Finding Tier 1 Sources: Article Databases
- 4.5: Library Research as Problem-solving
- 4.6: Exercises
- 5: Listening to Sources Talking to Sources
- 5.1: Theses and Sources
- 5.2: Incorporating Sources
- 5.3: Principles
- 5.4: Exercises
- 6: Back to Basics - The Perfect Paragraph
- 6.1: Paragraphs
- 6.2: Key Sentences (a.k.a. Topic Sentences)
- 6.3: Cohesion and Coherence
- 6.4: The Wind-up
- 6.5: Exercises
- 7: Intros and Outros
- 7.1: In Todays World
- 7.2: In Conclusion
- 7.3: Form and Function
- 7.4: Exercises
- 8: Clarity and Concision
- 8.1: Writing Like You Drive
- 8.2: Revising for Clarity: Who Did What to Whom
- 8.3: Concision and Grace
- 8.4: Reading with Concision and Grace in Mind
- 8.5: Grace
- 8.6: Exercises
- 9: Getting the Mechanics Right
- 9.1: Correctness in Writing
- 9.2: Elements of Punctuation and Language You Must Master
- 9.3: The Dilemma of Gendered Language in English
- 9.4: Exercises