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Writing in College - From Competence to Excellence

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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.

CompositionHumanities
Author
Amy Guptill
Publisher
The College at Brockport, SUNY
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 52 sections
  1. 1: Really Writing Again
  2. 1.1: Yes. Writing. Again.
  3. 1.2: The Origins of Higher Education
  4. 1.3: College Writing is Different
  5. 1.4: So What Do Professors Want
  6. 1.5: Exercises
  7. 2: What Does the Professor Want Understanding the Assignment
  8. 2.1: Writing for Whom Writing for What
  9. 2.2: The Prompt: What Does Analyze Mean Anyway
  10. 2.3: Rubrics as Road Maps
  11. 2.4: Whats Critical About Critical Thinking
  12. 2.5: Exercises
  13. 3: Constructing the Thesis and ArgumentFrom the Ground Up
  14. 3.1: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme
  15. 3.2: The Three-story Thesis: From the Ground Up
  16. 3.3: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument
  17. 3.4: Exercises
  18. 4: Secondary Sources in Their Natural Habitats
  19. 4.1: Ah the Research Paper
  20. 4.2: Some Sources are Better than Others
  21. 4.3: Origins and Anatomy of a Journal Article
  22. 4.4: Finding Tier 1 Sources: Article Databases
  23. 4.5: Library Research as Problem-solving
  24. 4.6: Exercises
  25. 5: Listening to Sources Talking to Sources
  26. 5.1: Theses and Sources
  27. 5.2: Incorporating Sources
  28. 5.3: Principles
  29. 5.4: Exercises
  30. 6: Back to Basics - The Perfect Paragraph
  31. 6.1: Paragraphs
  32. 6.2: Key Sentences (a.k.a. Topic Sentences)
  33. 6.3: Cohesion and Coherence
  34. 6.4: The Wind-up
  35. 6.5: Exercises
  36. 7: Intros and Outros
  37. 7.1: In Todays World
  38. 7.2: In Conclusion
  39. 7.3: Form and Function
  40. 7.4: Exercises
  41. 8: Clarity and Concision
  42. 8.1: Writing Like You Drive
  43. 8.2: Revising for Clarity: Who Did What to Whom
  44. 8.3: Concision and Grace
  45. 8.4: Reading with Concision and Grace in Mind
  46. 8.5: Grace
  47. 8.6: Exercises
  48. 9: Getting the Mechanics Right
  49. 9.1: Correctness in Writing
  50. 9.2: Elements of Punctuation and Language You Must Master
  51. 9.3: The Dilemma of Gendered Language in English
  52. 9.4: Exercises