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About this book
From Inquiry to Academic Writing helps students understand academic culture and its ways of reading, thinking, and writing. With a practical and now widely proven step-by-step approach, this text demystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing.
The fourth edition provides extensive coverage of academic habits and skills: reflection, summary, synthesis, and visual analysis. More than 40 readings, one quarter of which are new, bring students into debates that not only bear on their college careers but also reflect larger cultural issues that they will encounter outside the academy.
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Table of contents
- Front Matter
- 1 Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers
- 2 From Reading as a Writer to Writing as a Reader
- 3 From Writing Summaries and Paraphrases to Writing Yourself into Academic Conversations
- 4 From Identifying Claims to Analyzing Arguments
- 5 From Identifying Issues to Forming Questions
- 6 From Formulating to Developing a Thesis
- 7 From Finding to Evaluating Sources
- 8 From Synthesis to Researched Argument
- 9 From Ethos to Logos: Appealing to Your Readers
- 10 From Image to Text
- 11 From Introductions to Conclusions: Drafting an Essay
- 12 From Revising to Editing: Working with Peer Groups
- 13 Other Methods of Inquiry: Interviews and Focus Groups: Why Do Original Research?
- Getting Started: Writing an Idea Sheet
- A Student’s Annotated Idea Sheet
- Writing a Proposal
- An Annotated Student Proposal
- Interviewing
- Using Focus Groups
- Back Matter