Table of Contents

• Begin Here

  • Introduction to Writing
  • Your Role as a Learner
  • What is an Essay?

• Critical Reading – How You Should Read For Your College Classes

  • How to Write an Annotation
  • Reading and Writing Strategies
  • Critical Thinking
  • Making Inferences
  • Making Connections
  • Reading Critically

• The Writing Process

  • Defining the Writing Process
  • Editing and Proofreading
  • Matters of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
  • Effective Thesis Statements
  • Videos: Prewriting Techniques
  • Organizing an Essay
  • Paragraphs
  • Creating Paragraphs
  • Audience
  • Conclusions
  • Revising
  • Peer Review Checklist
  • Comparative Chart of Writing Strategies
  • Compare/Contrast Essays
  • How to Write a Thesis Statement
  • Introductions and Conclusions
  • The Perfect Paragraph

• Intentional Writing

  • Writing an Argument
  • Pathos
  • Logos
  • Ethos
  • Consider Your Voice, Tone, and Persona
  • Consider Your Media
  • Consider Your Context
  • Consider Your Purpose
  • Audience
  • What to Think about When Writing for a Particular Audience
  • Audience Awareness
  • Think Rhetorically
  • Purpose, Audience, Tone, and Content

• How We Edit

  • Matters of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
  • Editing and Proofreading
  • Revising Within in a Writing Community
  • Making a Final Overview
  • Reviewing for Purpose
  • Revising

• Student Sample Writing

• Using Sources

  • Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism
  • How to Write a Summary

• How We Research

  • Video: The Danger of a Single Story
  • Creating an Annotated Bibliography
  • Questions to Evaluate the Authority of the Researcher’s Methods
  • Research Writing as Conversation
  • Synthesizing Your Research Findings
  • Using Sources Blending Source Material with Your Own Work
  • Think, Then Write: Writing Preparation
  • Using Sources Creatively
  • Integrating Sources
  • The Seven Steps of the Research Process
  • Making Ethical and Effective Choices
  • Taking Notes
  • Managing Information
  • Evaluating Sources in Relation to a Writing Assignment
  • Conducting Research
  • Finding Print, Online, and Field Sources
  • Choosing Search Terms
  • Organizing Research Plans
  • Evidence
  • Researching
  • Why Is Research Important?

• How We Document

  • Summarizing an Article
  • Using Other Formats
  • Developing a List of Sources
  • Formatting In-Text References
  • Assessment: Signalling/Paraphrasing/Quoting
  • Discussion: Practice Paraphrasing
  • When to Quote & When to Paraphrase
  • Assessment: Practice Quoting
  • Quotations
  • Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
  • Quotation Marks
  • Choosing a Documentation Format
  • How to Cite YouTube
  • Formatting the Works Cited Page (MLA)
  • When & How To Use MLA In-Text Citation
  • MLA Format
  • Citing and Referencing Techniques
  • Assessment: MLA & APA Game Response
  • Intellectual Property
  • Read: Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Basic Guidelines For Citing Resources

• Grammar/Mechanics Mini-lessons

  • Grammar/Mechanics Mini-lessons
  • Mini-lesson: Subjects and Verbs, Irregular Verbs, Subject Verb Agreement
  • Mini-lesson: Sentence Types
  • Mini-lesson: Fragments I
  • Mini-lesson: Run-ons and Comma Splices I
  • Mini-lesson: Comma Usage
  • Mini-lesson: Parallelism
  • Mini-lesson: The Apostrophe
  • Mini-lesson: Capital Letters
  • Grammar Practice – Interactive Quizzes
  • De Copia – Demonstration of the Variety of Language
  • Style Exercise: Voice

• Susanna’s Textbook

• Compare/Contrast Essay

• Cause and Effect Essay

• Argument Essay

• How to Use This Book

• Instructor Resources

• Instructor Resources

• Unit 4: Types of Writing

• Unit 8: Mastering Argumentative and Persuasive Writing

• Definition Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Illustration/Example Essay

• Unit 1: What Writing Is

• About This Course