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The Academic Writer's Handbook
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About the Book
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I. The Writing Process
Web Links
1.1 Writing in college vs. writing in high school
2.1 The writing process
2.3 How to read an assignment
2.5 Reasons for audience awareness
2.6 Tone and audience awareness
2.8 Common topics and aids to invention
2.11 Mind-mapping online
3.1 Guidance for writing a thesis
3.2 Questions to help generate a thesis
3.5 The body paragraphs of a first draft
3.6 Overcoming writer's block
3.8 Power tools: Finding, narrowing, outlining topics
3.10 From sketch to finished outline
4.1 Detailed view of revision
4.5 Editing and proofreading distinctions
4.6 Peer-editing guide
4.7 More on group work and collaborative writing
5.1 Paragraph writing and development
5.3 More transitions
5.6 Strategies for writing introductions
5.7 Strategies for writing conclusions
6.1 Typography tutorials
6.2 A study from Usability News
6.3 Using graphs and tables
Exercises
1.2 Exercise
2.2 Exercise
2.4 Exercise
2.7 Exercise
2.9 Exercise
2.10 Exercise
3.3 Exercise
3.4 Exercise
3.7 Exercise
3.9 Exercise
4.2 Exercise
4.3 Exercise
4.4 Exercise
5.2 Exercise
5.4 Exercise
5.5 Exercise
6.4 Exercise
Additional Resources
II. Working With Individual Sources
Web Links
7.1 The Center for Critical Thinking
7.2 Apply critical thinking skills to reading
7.3 Critical reading for structure
7.6 Distinguish fact from opinion
7.8 The Fallacy Files
7.10 Common weaknesses of statistics
7.11 A catalogue of emotional appeals
8.2 How the Internet infrastructure works
8.3 Finding and using digital images
9.1 Differences between paraphrasing and summarizing
9.2 Eleven tips for avoiding plagiarism
9.3 More verbs to introduce quotations
9.5 Using (and altering) quotations
9.6 Methods for altering quotations
10.1 Plagiarism defined
10.2 The reasons writers plagiarize
10.3 Turnitin.com: The anti-plagiarism Web site
Exercises
7.4 Exercise
7.5 Exercise
7.7 Exercise
7.9 Exercise
8.1 Exercise
8.4 Exercise
9.4 Exercise
9.7 Exercise
9.8 Exercise
10.4 Exercise
Additional Resources
III. Research: Locating and Synthesizing Multiple Sources
Web Links
11.6 Endnote: widely used software for formatting bibliographies
12.1 The Netiquette home page
12.2 Find listservs on selected topics
12.3 Introduction to MOO use
12.4 Askjeeves.com: A plain English search engine
12.6 Detailed explanation of how search engines work
12.7 Internet Detective
12.8 An introduction to Boolean logic
12.10 General research sites on the Web
12.11 Desktop references on the Web
12.12 Writing help in the Web
12.13 Humanities resources on the Web
General sites
Literature
History
Philosophy and religion
12.14 Social sciences resources on the Web
General sites
Anthropology
Economics
Education
Political science
Psychology
Sociology
12.15 Science resources on the Web
General sites
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Environmental studies
Physics
Exercises
11.1 Exercise
11.2 Exercise
11.3 Exercise
11.4 Exercise
11.5 Exercise
12.5 Exercise
12.9 Exercise
13.1 Exercise
13.2 Exercise
13.3 Exercise
13.4 Exercise
13.5 Exercise
Additional Resources
IV. MLA Documentation
Additional Resources
V. APA, CMS, CSE Documentation
Additional Resources
VI. Writing in the Disciplines
Web Links
16.3 Conventions in humanities papers
16.4 Arguing in the humanities
17.3 Writing guide for the social sciences
17.4 Introduction to the social sciences
18.3 Writing in the sciences
18.4 Writing in the biological sciences
18.5 Writing lab reports
19.1 Ten secrets of writing business letters
19.2 Guide to writing effective e-mail
19.3 "A Grown-Up's Guide to Instant Messaging" (PC World)
19.5 Online guide to writing résumés
19.6 Tips on giving oral presentations
Complementary Material
16.1 Reading primary sources
16.2 Reading secondary sources
16.5 Reference materials in the humanities
16.6 Internet sources in the humanities
General sites
Literature
History
Philosophy and religion
17.1 More on quantitative studies
17.2 More on qualitative studies
17.5 Reference materials in the social sciences
17.6 Internet sources in the social sciences
General sites
Anthropology
Economics
Education
Political science
Psychology
Sociology
18.1 Reading textbooks in the sciences
18.2 Reading journal articles in the sciences
18.6 Reference materials in the sciences
18.7 Internet resources in the sciences
General sites
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Environmental studies
Physics
19.4 Writing newsletters
Additional Resources
VII. Library of Academic Writing
Web Links
20.1 Summary in college and beyond
25.1 More on writing essay exams
26.3 An HTML tutorial
26.4 The Ndebele Wallpainting Project
Exercises
20.3 Exercise
20.4 Exercise
21.3 Exercise
22.1 Exercise
22.5 Exercise
22.9 Exercise
23.2 Exercise
24.3 Exercise
25.2 Exercise
Complementary Material
20.2 Summarizing points from sources
20.5 More analysis of this paper
20.6 A third example of summary, in the sciences
21.1 Using images in explanations
21.2 Outlining your explanation
21.4 More analysis of this paper
21.5 A third example of explanation, in the humanities
22.2 An example of Rogerian argument
22.3 An example of academic argument
22.4 Choosing a topic for argument
22.6 More on writing proposals
Guidelines for writing proposals
An example proposal
Example Proposal in the Humanities
Example Proposal in the Social Sciences
Example Proposal in the Sciences
Guidelines for evaluating proposals
Planning and writing the proposal
A note on audience
22.7 An example of counterargument
22.8 Responding to a counterargument
22.10 More analysis of this paper
22.11 A third example of argument, in the social sciences
23.1 Analytical tools open and limit inquiry
23.3 More analysis of this paper
23.4 A third example of analysis, in the humanities
24.1 A research paper on volunteering that includes a critique
24.2 Evaluating assumptions
24.4 More analysis of this paper
24.5 A third example of critique, in the sciences
25.3 More analysis of this essay
25.4 A third exam essay, in the social sciences
26.1 Use brief units of thought
26.2 The messy process of building Web pages
Proposal Writing
Guidelines for writing proposals
An example proposal
Example Proposal in the Humanities
Example Proposal in the Social Sciences
Example Proposal in the Sciences
Guidelines for evaluating proposals
Planning and writing the proposal
A note on audience
Multi-Purpose Writing
Reading multi-purpose assignments
Writing multi-purpose papers
Notes on multi-purpose writing
VIII. Editing for Correctness
Exercises
27.1 Exercise
27.2 Exercise
27.3 Exercise
27.4 Exercise
27.5 Exercise
27.6 Exercise
27.7 Exercise
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27.10 Exercise
27.11 Exercise
28.1 Exercise
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29.1 Exercise
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30.1 Exercise
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31.1 Exercise
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32.1 Exercise
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33.1 Exercise
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34.1 Exercise
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35.1 Exercise
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35.5 Exercise
36.1 Exercise
36.2 Exercise
36.3 Exercise
36.4 Exercise
36.5 Exercise
36.6 Exercise
37.1 Exercise
37.2 Exercise
37.3 Exercise
IX. Editing for Clarity and Emphasis
Exercises
38.1 Exercise
38.2 Exercise
38.3 Exercise
38.4 Exercise
39.1 Exercise
39.2 Exercise
39.3 Exercise
39.4 Exercise
39.5 Exercise
40.1 Exercise
40.2 Exercise
40.3 Exercise
40.4 Exercise
40.5 Exercise
X. Punctuation
Exercises
41.1 Exercise
41.2 Exercise
41.3 Exercise
41.4 Exercise
42.1 Exercise
42.2 Exercise
42.3 Exercise
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42.5 Exercise
42.6 Exercise
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43.1 Exercise
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44.6 Exercise
45.1 Exercise
45.2 Exercise
45.3 Exercise
46.1 Exercise
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46.3 Exercise
46.4 Exercise
XI. Mechanics and Spelling
Exercises
47.1 Exercise
47.2 Exercise
48.1 Exercise
48.2 Exercise
49.1 Exercise
50.1 Exercise
50.2 Exercise
51.1 Exercise
51.2 Exercise
52.1 Exercise
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52.4 Exercise
52.5 Exercise
52.6 Exercise
XII. ESL Reference Guide
Web Links
53.1 Most common nouns in English
53.2 Self-quizzes for ESL students
53.3 The use and nonuse of articles
54.1 Guide to English verb structures
54.2 Verb tense chart
54.4 ESL language quizzes
54.5 Dave's ESL cafe
54.6 Modal auxiliary verbs
54.7 Two-part verbs
55.2 Grammar hotline: adverbs & adjectives
Exercises
54.3 Exercise
54.8 Exercise
55.1 Exercise
Multi-Purpose Writing
Reading multi-purpose assignments
Writing multi-purpose papers
Notes on multi-purpose writing
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