Part I
1. Overview: The Writing Process
1.1 Overview
1.2 Five Evaluation Criteria
2. How do I pick a topic?
3. What are Some Other Ways to Get Ideas?
3.1 What is a Brainstorm?
3.2 What is Clustering?
3.3 What is Freewriting?
4. How Do I make an Outline?
5. Researching
5.1 Introduction to Research
5.2 Determine the Role of Research in Your Writing
5.3 Finding Scholarly Sources
5.4 Evaluating Scholarly Sources
5.5 Evaluating Non-Scholarly Sources
5.6 Evaluating Web Sources
5.7 Consider Your Project
5.8 Integrating Scholarly Sources
5.9 Cite Sources to Avoid Plagiarism
6. Drafting
6.1 Overview of Drafting
6.2 Drafting: The Process
6.3 During the Drafting Process
6.4 Final Thoughts on Drafting
6.5 Dealing with Writer’s Block
6.6 Meeting the Minimum Word Count
6.7 Title of Your Essay
6.8 Final Thoughts on Drafting
7. Editing
7.1 Editing and Revising: One and the Same?
7.2 Sentence Structure
7.3 Editing Tips
7.4 Perspectives on Style
8. Reviewing
8.1 Overview of Reviewing
8.2 Establishing Criteria
8.3 Writing Helpful Comments
8.4 Responding to Criticism
8.5 Peer Review Sample 1
8.6 Peer Review Sample 2
9. Revising
9.1 Overview of Revising
9.2 Differences Between Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
9.3 A Change for the Better
9.4 Analyze Each Part of Your Paper
9.5 Before and After Revision Examples
Part II
10. Reading Analytically
10.1 Reading with a Purpose
10.2 Reading Analytically
10.3 Summary and Response
10.4 Reading Activities
Part III
11. From Reading to Writing
11.1 The Case for Critical Writers
11.2 Rhetorical Situations
11.3 Writing as a Process
11.4 Chapter Vocabulary
12. What is Exposition in Writing
12.1 Types of Exposition
12.2 Find a Topic, Read, Discuss, and Research
12.3 Structure of an Analytical/Expository Essay
12.4 Sample Exposition Assignments
12.5 Sample Papers
12.6 Analytical Essay Checklist Exercise
13 What is Evaluative Writing?
13.1 Establishing Evaluative Criteria
13.2 How to Evaluate
13.3 Structure of the Evaluative Essay
13.4 Sample Assignments
14 A Brief Guide to the Art of Persuasion and Argument
14.1 Basic Argument Essay Structure
14.2 Strengthening Your Argument
14.3 Sample Essay
15 How to use this Book—Pedagogical Background for Students and Teachers
15.1 Student-Centered Writing and Learning Communities
15.2 Rhetorical Situations
15.3 Assignments and Activities
15.4 Student-Centered Writing and Learning Communities
15.5 Rhetorical Situations Applications
15.6 Writing as Process
15.7Introductory/Pedagogical Vocabulary
16 Introduction: Description, Narration, and Reflection
16.1 Description & Narration Vocabulary
16.2 Techniques
16.3 Descriptive Section Vocabulary
16.4 Imagery and Experiential Language
17 Activities
17.1 Specificity Taxonomy
17.2 Micro-Ethnography
17.3 Imagery Inventory
17.4 The Dwayne Johnson Activity
17.5 Surprising Yourself: Constraint-Based Scene Description
17.6 Image Builder
18 Model Texts by Student Authors
18.1 Sample 1
18.2 Sample 2
19 Telling a Story
19.1 Vocabulary and ideas to consider as you write narratives.
19.2 Techniques
20 Story Activities
20.1 Idea Generation: What Stories Can I Tell?
20.2 Idea Generation: Mapping an Autobiography
20.3 Experimenting with Voice and Dialogue
21 Model Texts by Student Authors
21.1 Sample 1
21.2 Sample 2
21.3 Sample 3
22 Reflecting on an Experience
22.1 Reflective Vocabulary
22.2 Techniques
22.3 Reflective Activities
22.4 Model Texts by Student Authors
22.5 Assignment
22.6 One Example of a Peer Workshop Process
