Book Title: Elements of Writing

Author: Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel

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Contents

About This Book
Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel
Acknowledgements
Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
I. Chapter 2: Reading in Writing Class
1. 2.1 Why We Read
  Melanie Gagich and Charlotte Morgan
2. 2.2 How to Read Effectively
  Yvonne Bruce
3. 2.3 How to Read Rhetorically
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
4. 2.4 Responding to Texts
  Charlotte Morgan and Kim Rush
II. Chapter 3: The Writing Process, Composing, and Revising
1. 3.1 The Writing Process
  Sarah M. Lacy and Melanie Gagich
2. 3.2 Knowing Your Audience
  Melanie Gagich
3. 3.3 Understanding the Writing Assignment
  Robin Jeffrey and Emilie Zickel
4. 3.4 Creating the Thesis
  Yvonne Bruce and Emilie Zickel
5. 3.5 Revising Your Draft(s)
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
6. 3.6 Peer Review and Responding to Others’ Drafts
  Emilie Zickel
7. 3.7 Proof-Reading and Editing Your Final Draft
  Sarah M. Lacy and Emilie Zickel
8. 3.8 Grammar Overview
  Rachel Rickel
9. Deeper Reading: “What Is Academic Writing?”
  Lennie Irvin
III. Chapter 4: Structuring, Paragraphing, and Styling
1. 4.1 Basic Essay Structure
  Emilie Zickel and Charlotte Morgan
2. 4.2 Body Paragraphs: An Overview
  Amanda Lloyd
3. 4.3 Topic Sentences
  Amanda Lloyd
4. 4.4 Supporting Evidence
  Amanda Lloyd
5. 4.5 Explaining Evidence
  Amanda Lloyd
6. 4.6 Breaking, Combining, or Beginning New Paragraphs
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
7. 4.7 Transitions: Developing Relationships between Ideas
  Monique Babin; Carol Burnell; Susan Pesznecker; Nicole Rosevear; and Jaime Wood
8. 4.8 Tone, Voice, and Point of View
  Monique Babin; Carol Burnell; Susan Pesznecker; Nicole Rosevear; and Jaime Wood
9. 4.9 A review of the five-paragraph essay
  Julie A. Townsend
10. 4.10 Moving Beyond the five-paragraph format
  Julie A. Townsend
11. Deeper Reading: “I Need You to Say I”
  Kate McKinney Maddalena
IV. Chapter 5: Writing a Summary and Synthesizing
1. 5.1 Writing Summaries
  Melanie Gagich
2. 5.2 Synthesizing in Your Writing
  Yvonne Bruce; Melanie Gagich; and Svetlana Zhuravlova
3. 5.3 Make Connections When Synthesizing in Your Writing
  Svetlana Zhuravlova; Yvonne Bruce; and Melanie Gagich
4. 5.4 Informative vs. Argumentative Synthesis
  Svetlana Zhuravlova
5. 5.5 Synthesis and Literature Reviews
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
V. Chapter 6: Thinking and Analyzing Rhetorically
1. 6.1 What is Rhetoric?
  Melanie Gagich
2. 6.2 What is the Rhetorical Situation?
  Robin Jeffrey and Emilie Zickel
3. 6.3 What is Rhetorical Analysis?
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
4. 6.4 Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Defined
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
5. 6.5 Logical Fallacies
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
6. 6.6 What is self analysis?
  Emilie Zickel
7. 6.7 What is Critical Analysis
  Julie A. Townsend
VI. Chapter 9: The Research Process
1. 9.1 Developing a Research Question
  Emilie Zickel
2. 9.2 Coming Up With Research Strategies
  Rashida Mustafa and Emilie Zickel
3. 9.3 Basic Guidelines for Research in Academic Databases
  Emilie Zickel
4. 9.4 Using Effective Keywords in your Research
  Robin Jeffrey
5. 9.5 Keeping Track of Your Sources and Writing an Annotated Bibliography
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
VII. Chapter 10: Sources and Research
1. 10.1 Types of Sources: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
2. 10.2 Reading Popular Sources
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
3. 10.3 Reading Academic Sources
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
4. 10.4 A Deeper Look at Scholarly Sources
  Emilie Zickel
5. 10.5 Conducting Your Own Primary Research
  Melanie Gagich
6. Deeper Reading: “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources”
  Karen Rosenberg
VIII. Chapter 11: Ethical Source Integration: Citation, Quoting, and Paraphrasing
1. 11.1 Using Sources Ethically
  Yvonne Bruce
2. 11.2 Quoting
  Melanie Gagich
3. 11.3 Paraphrasing and Summarizing
  Robin Jeffrey
4. 11.4 Signal Phrases
  John Lanning and Amanda Lloyd
5. 11.5 Plagiarism Policy
  Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel
IX. Chapter 12: Documentation Styles: MLA and APA
1. 12.1 Formatting Your Paper in MLA
  Melanie Gagich
2. 12.2 MLA Citation: In-text Citations
  John Brentar and Emilie Zickel
3. 12.3 MLA Citation: Works Cited Entries
  John Brentar and Emilie Zickel
4. 12.4 MLA Citation: Works Cited Examples
  Emilie Zickel and John Brentar
5. 12.5 Formatting Your Paper in APA
  Melanie Gagich
6. 12.6 APA Citations: In-Text Citations
  Melanie Gagich
7. 12.7 APA Citations: References
  Melanie Gagich
X. Appendix
1. Appendix A: Troubleshooting: Body Paragraph Development
  John Lanning and Sarah M. Lacy
2. Appendix B: Additional Synthesis Examples
  Svetlana Zhuravlova
Works Cited
Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel

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