Table of Contents

WRITE

W-1  Rhetorical Contexts

a. Purpose

b. Audience

c. Genre

d. Topic

e. Stance and Tone

f. Media/Design

W-2 Academic Contexts

W-3 Reading Strategies

W-4 Writing Processes

a. Generating Ideas

b. Organizing and Drafting

c. Giving and Getting Response

d. Taking Stock and Revising

e. Editing and Proofreading

f. Reflecting on Your Work

g. Collaborating

h. Compiling a Portfolio 

NEW i. Writing in Class

W-5 Parts of the Essay

a. Beginning

b. Crafting a Thesis Statement

c. Ending

d. Choosing a Title

NEW W-6 Crafting Voice in Your Writing

a. Understanding Voice

b. Informal Voices

c. Formal Voices

d. Impersonal Voices

e. AI and Voice

W-7 Developing Paragraphs

W-8 Designing What You Write

W-9 Building Up Academic Habits of Mind

NEW W-10 Making Good Choices about Generative AI

a. Considering Your Context

b. Interacting with AI

c. Thinking Critically about AI Output

d. Taking Responsibility for Your Work with AI

KINDS OF WRITING 

W-11 Arguments

NEW Nabila Samayra, “Hungry for Change”

W-12 Rhetorical Analyses

Pierce Rendall, “Hip-Hop’s Potential Impact”    

W-13 Personal Narratives

Mohammed Masoom Shah, “One Last Ride”    

W-14 Summary/Response Essays

Jacob MacLeod, “Guns and Cars Are Different”    

W-15 Literary Analyses

Laurel Henning, “Hidden Images: H.D.’s Imagist Mastery Revealed in ‘Sea Rose’ ”   

W-16 Reports

W-17 Proposals

W-18 Reflections

W-19 Annotated Bibliographies

W-20 Abstracts

RESEARCH

R-1 Doing Research

a. Thinking about What You Already Know and Believe

b. Considering the Context for Your Research, Choosing a Topic

c. Narrowing Your Topic’s Focus

d. Posing a Research Question, Drafting a Tentative Thesis

e. Finding Relevant Sources

f. Using Popular Sites and Search Engines

g. Using Library Resources

h. Narrowing Search Results

i. Doing Field Research

R-2 Evaluating Sources

a. Deciding If a Source Is Useful

b. Fact-Checking Popular Sources Online

c. Reading Sources with a Critical Eye

R-3 Synthesizing Ideas

R-4 Integrating Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism

MLA STYLE

Jackson Parell, “Free at Last, Free at Last: Civil War Memory and Civil Rights Rhetoric”

APA STYLE

Eli Nicholas Vale, “The Causes of Burnout in San Antonio Nurses—And Some Possible Solutions   

UPDATED CHICAGO STYLE 

UPDATED CSE STYLE

EDIT

EDITING THE DETAILS THAT MATTER

NEW What about Generative AI?

SENTENCES

S-1 Elements of a Sentence

S-2 Sentence Fragments

S-3 Comma Splices, Fused Sentences

S-4 Verbs

S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement

S-6 Pronouns

S-7 Parallelism

S-8 Coordination, Subordination

S-9 Shifts

LANGUAGE

L-1 Well-Chosen Words

L-2 Precise Words

L-3 Idioms

L-4 Words Often Confused

L-5 Prepositions

L-6 Unnecessary Words

L-7 Adjectives & Adverbs

L-8 Articles: “A,” “An,” or “The”?

L-9 Respectful Language

L-10 Pronouns & People

L-11 Englishes

PUNCTUATION / MECHANICS

P-1 Commas

P-2 Semicolons

P-3 End Punctuation

P-4 Quotation Marks

P-5 Apostrophes

P-6 Other Punctuation

P-7 Hyphens

P-8 Capitalization

P-9 Italics

P-10 Abbreviations

P-11 Numbers

EXERCISES (only in the "with exercises" version)

Sentences

Language

Punctuation/Mechanics 

Glossary / Index

Documentation Directories