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A Guide to Rhetoric Genre and Success in First Year Writing - CSN Edition

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A Guide to Rhetoric Genre and Success in First Year Writing - CSN Edition

This is a textbook for second-semester college writing, with some elements tailored to the ENG 102/114 courses at the College of Southern Nevada. It includes material on reading methods, the writing process, rhetoric, multimodality, library research, working with sources, argument and synthesis, as well as updated guides to both MLA 9th edition and APA 7th edition formats.

Humanities
Author
Angela Spires, Brendan Shapiro, Geoffrey Kenmuir, Kimberly Kohl, and Linda Gannon
Publisher
College of Southern Nevada
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 89 sections
  1. 01: The Introduction
  2. 1.01: What is a College Writing Course
  3. 1.02: Things to Know
  4. 1.03: Resources to Use
  5. 02: Reading in Writing Class
  6. 2.01: Why We Read
  7. 2.02: How to Read Effectively
  8. 2.03: Responding to Texts
  9. 2.4: Responding to Texts
  10. 03: The Writing Process Composing and Revising
  11. 3.01: The Writing Process
  12. 3.02: Knowing Your Audience
  13. 3.03: Understanding the Writing Assignment
  14. 3.04: Creating the Thesis
  15. 3.05: Revising Your Draft(s)
  16. 3.06: Peer Review and Responding to Others' Drafts
  17. 3.07: Proof-Reading and Editing Your Final Draft
  18. 3.08: Grammar Overview
  19. 3.09: Deeper Reading- What Is Academic Writing
  20. 04: Structuring Paragraphing and Styling
  21. 4.01: Basic Essay Structure
  22. 4.02: Body Paragraphs- An Overview
  23. 4.03: Topic Sentences
  24. 4.04: Supporting Evidence
  25. 4.05: Explaining Evidence
  26. 4.06: Breaking Combining or Beginning New Paragraphs
  27. 4.07: Transitions- Developing Relationships between Ideas
  28. 4.08: Tone Voice and Point of View
  29. 4.09: A review of the five-paragraph essay
  30. 4.10: Moving Beyond the five-paragraph format
  31. 4.11: Deeper Reading- I Need You to Say I
  32. 05: Writing a Summary and Synthesizing
  33. 5.01: Writing Summaries
  34. 5.02: Synthesizing in Your Writing
  35. 5.03: Make Connections When Synthesizing in Your Writing
  36. 5.04: Informative vs. Argumentative Synthesis
  37. 5.05: Synthesis and Literature Reviews
  38. 5.06: Synthesis in Practice
  39. 06: Thinking and Analyzing Rhetorically
  40. 6.01: What is Rhetoric
  41. 6.02: What is the Rhetorical Situation
  42. 6.03: What is Rhetorical Analysis
  43. 6.04: Rhetorical Appeals- Logos Pathos and Ethos Defined
  44. 6.05: Logical Fallacies
  45. 6.06: What is self analysis
  46. 6.07: What is Critical Analysis
  47. 07: Multimodality and Non-Traditional Texts
  48. 7.01: Reading Traditional and New Media
  49. 7.02: What is Multimodality
  50. 7.03: Digital Composition and Multimodal Texts
  51. 08: Making Academic Arguments
  52. 8.01: Arguing
  53. 8.02: Basic Structure and Content of Argument
  54. 8.03: Types of Evidence in Academic Arguments
  55. 8.04: Counterargument and Response
  56. 8.05: Failures in Evidence- When Even Lots of Quotes Cant Save an Paper
  57. 8.06: Deeper Reading- Counterargument On the Other Hand- The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses
  58. 09: The Research Process
  59. 9.01: Developing a Research Question
  60. 9.02: Coming Up With Research Strategies
  61. 9.03: Basic Guidelines for Research in Academic Databases
  62. 9.04: Using Effective Keywords in your Research
  63. 9.05: Keeping Track of Your Sources and Writing an Annotated Bibliography
  64. 10: Sources and Research
  65. 10.01: Types of Sources- Primary Secondary Tertiary
  66. 10.02: Reading Popular Sources
  67. 10.03: Reading Academic Sources
  68. 10.04: A Deeper Look at Scholarly Sources
  69. 10.05: Conducting Your Own Primary Research
  70. 10.06: Deeper Reading- Reading Games- Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources
  71. 11: Ethical Source Integration- Citation Quoting and Paraphrasing
  72. 11.01: Using Sources Ethically
  73. 11.02: Quoting
  74. 11.03: Paraphrasing and Summarizing
  75. 11.04: Signal Phrases
  76. 11.05: Plagiarism Policy
  77. 12: Documentation Styles - MLA and APA
  78. 12.01: Formatting Your Paper in MLA
  79. 12.02: MLA Citation- In-text Citations
  80. 12.03: MLA Citation- Works Cited Entries
  81. 12.04: MLA Citation- Final Notes
  82. 12.05: Formatting Your Paper in APA
  83. 12.06: APA Citations- In-Text Citations
  84. 12.07: APA Citations- References
  85. 13: Additional Readings and Resources
  86. 13.01: Writing Spaces
  87. 14: Appendix
  88. 14.01: Appendix A - Troubleshooting- Body Paragraph Development
  89. 14.02: Appendix B - Additional Synthesis Examples