A Writer's Resource, Fifth Edition by Elaine Maimon — Table of Contents

TAB 1 - Writing Today

START SMART: ADDRESSING THE WRITING SITUATION

1. Writing across the Curriculum and beyond College

2. Writing Situations

• a. Approaching writing via the situation
• b. Using multimodal elements and genre
• c. Choosing the best medium
• d. The persuasive power of images
• e. Online tools for learning

3. Audience and Academic English

• a. Becoming aware of audience
• b. Using reading, writing, and speaking to learn about English
• c. Tools for multilingual students

TAB 2 - Writing and Designing Texts

4. Reading and Writing: The Critical Connection

• a. Reading critically
• b. Writing critically

5. Planning and Shaping

• a. Approaching assignments
• b. Exploring ideas
• c. Developing a working thesis
• d. Planning a structure
• e. Considering visuals and multimodal elements

6. Drafting Text and Visuals

• a. Using electronic tools for drafting
• b. Patterns of organization and visuals
• c. Writing paragraphs
• d Integrating visuals and multimodal elements

7. Revising and Editing

• a. Getting comments
• b. Using electronic tools for revising
• c. Focusing on the situation
• d. Testing your thesis
• e. Reviewing structure
• f. Revising paragraphs
• g. Revising visuals and multimodal elements
• h. Editing sentences
• i. Proofreading carefully
• j. Using campus, Internet, community resources
• k. One student’s revisions

STUDENT REFLECTIVE TEXT

8. Designing Academic Texts and Portfolios

• a. Considering audience and purpose
• b. Using computer tools
• c. Thinking intentionally about design
• d. Compiling a print or electronic portfolio

TAB 3 - Common Assignments

9. Informative Reports

STUDENT SAMPLE

10.  Interpretive Analyses and Writing about Literature

STUDENT SAMPLE

11. Arguments

STUDENT SAMPLE

12. Other Kinds of Assignments

• a. Personal essays
• b. Lab reports
• c. Case studies
• d. Essay exams
• e. Coauthored projects

13. Oral Presentations

14. Multimodal Writing

• a. Tools for creating multimodal texts
• b. Analyzing images
• c. Web sites
• d. Blogs and wikis

TAB 4 - Writing Beyond College

15. Service Learning and Community-Service Writing

16. Letters to Raise Awareness and Share Concern

• a. Writing about a public issue
• b. Writing as a consumer

17. Writing to Get and Keep a Job

• a. Internships
• b. Résumés
• c. Job application letters
• d. Job interviews
• e. Writing on the job

TAB 5 - Researching

18. Understanding Research

• a. Primary and secondary research
• b. Research and college writing
• c. Understanding theresearch assignment
• d. Choosing a research question
• e. Creating a research plan

19. Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources

• a. Using the library
• b. Kinds of sources
• c. Printed and online reference works
• d. Keyword searches
• e. Print indexes and online databases
• f. Search engines and subject directories
• g. Using the library’s catalog to find books
• h. Government documents
• i. Online communication

20. Finding and Creating Effective Visuals, Audio Clips, and Videos

• a. Finding and displaying quantitative data
• b. Searching for images
• c. Searching for or creating audio clips or videos

21. Evaluating Sources

• a. Print sources
• b. Internet sources
• c. Evaluating a source’s arguments

22. Doing Research in the Archive, Field, and Lab

• a. Ethics
• b. Archival research
• c. Field research
• d. Lab research

23. Plagiarism, Copyright, and Intellectual Property

• a. Some definitions
• b. Avoiding plagiarism
• c. Fair use

24. Working with Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

• a. Working bibliographies
• b. Annotated bibliographies
• c. Taking notes
• d. Paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, synthesizing
• e. Integrating quotations, paraphrases, summaries

TAB 6 - MLA Documentation Style

FINDING SOURCE INFORMATIONAND DOCUMENTING SOURCES IN MLA STYLE

• MLA Style: In-Text Citations
• MLA Style: List of Works Cited
• MLA Style: Explanatory Notes and Acknowledgments
• MLA Style: Format
• SAMPLE RESEARCH PROJECT IN MLA STYLE

TAB 7 - APA Documentation Style

FINDING SOURCE INFORMATION AND IDENTIFYING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES IN APA STYLE

• APA Style: In-Text Citations
• APA Style: References
• APA Style: Format
• SAMPLE RESEARCH PROJECT IN APA STYLE

TAB 8 - Chicago and CSE Documentation Styles

• Chicago Documentation Style: Elements
• SAMPLE FROM A STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECT IN CHICAGO STYLE
• CSE Documentation Style

TAB 9 - Editing for Clarity

IDENTIFYING AND EDITING COMMON PROBLEMS AND QUICK REFERENCE FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS

• Wordy Sentences
• Missing Words
• Mixed Constructions
• Confusing Shifts
• Faulty Parallelism
• Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers
• Coordination and Subordination
• Sentence Variety
• Active Verbs
• Appropriate Language
• Exact Language
• The Dictionary and the Thesaurus
• Glossary of Usage

TAB 10 - Editing for Grammar Conventions

• 51 Sentence Fragments
• Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Problems with Verbs
• Problems with Pronouns
• Problems with Adjectives and Adverbs

TAB 11 - Editing for Correctness: Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling

• Commas
• Semicolons
• Colons
• Apostrophes
• Quotation Marks
• Other Punctuation Marks
• Capitalization
• Abbreviations and Symbols
• Numbers
• Italics (Underlining)
• Hyphens
• Spelling

TAB 12 - Basic Grammar Review with Tips for Multilingual Writers

• Parts of Speech
• Parts of Sentences
• Phrases and Dependent Clauses
• Types of Sentences

TAB 13 - Further Resources for Learning

• Selected Terms from across the Curriculum
• Discipline-Specific Resources
• Index
• Index for Multilingual Writers
• Quick Guide to Key Resources
• Abbreviations and Symbols for Editing and Proofreading

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