PART 1: THE ACADEMIC WRITER <br> <br> 1. Thinking as an Academic Writer <br>Explore Through Writing <br>Understand the Process of Writing <br>Understand the Rhetorical Situation <br>Analyze Your Assignment <br>Think About Your Genre <br>Think About Your Medium <br>Think About Your Topic <br>Think About What Your Readers Expect <br>Think About Your Credibility <br> <br> 2. Reading as an Academic Writer <br>Become a Critical Reader <br>Become a Critical Viewer <br>Annotate Academic Readings <br>Recognize Fallacies <br>Write a Summary <br>Write a Paraphrase <br>Move from Reading to Invention <br>Start an Annotated Bibliography <br>Synthesize Readings and Visuals <br> <br> 3. Planning <br>Move from a General Topic to a Writing Plan <br>Narrow Your Topic <br>Write a Thesis <br>Make a Plan <br> <br> 4. Drafting <br>Draft with Strategies in Mind <br>Write a Zero Draft <br>Draft from a Working Outline <br>Start Fast with an Engaging Title and Opening Paragraph <br>Develop Paragraphs <br>Conclude with Strength <br>Link Within and Across Paragraphs <br> <br> 5. Revising <br>Revising and Editing <br>Evaluate Your Draft <br>Respond to Others <br>Pay Attention to Details Last <br>Revise Using your Instructor’s Comments <br> <br> PART 2: THE PERSUASIVE WRITER <br> <br> Writing to Reflect<br>6. Reflections <br>Writing a Reflection <br>What Makes a Good Reflection? <br>Reflections About Visuals <br>REFLECTIONS <br> <blockquote> Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Some Lines for a Younger Brother . . . <br>Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, My Hips, My Caceras <br>Amy Tan, Mother Tongue <br>How to Write a Reflection </blockquote>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Janine Carter, The Miracle Quilt </blockquote>Projects <br> <br> Writing to Inform<br>7. Informative Essays and Visuals <br>Reporting Information <br>What Makes Good Informative Writing? <br>Informative Visuals <br>INFORMATIVE ESSAYS AND VISUALS <br> <blockquote> Katherine Mangan, Is Faster Always Better? <br>Shane D. Johnson, Aiden Sitebottom, and Adam Thorpe, Bicycle Theft <br> </blockquote>How to Write to Inform <br>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Lakshmi Kotra, The Life Cycle of Stars </blockquote>Projects <br> <br> Writing to Analyze <br>8. Rhetorical and Visual Analyses <br>Writing an Analysis <br>Writing a Rhetorical Analysis <br>Writing a Visual Analysis <br>RHETORICAL AND VISUAL ANALYSES <br> <blockquote> Tim Collins, Straight from the Heart <br>Frank Gehry, The Ray and Maria Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology </blockquote>How to Write an Analysis <br>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Chris Gonzalez, Russell Lee’s Pie Town Photographs </blockquote> <br> Writing Arguments <br>9. Causal Arguments <br>Writing a Causal Argument <br>What Makes a Good Causal Argument? <br>Visual Causal Arguments <br>CAUSAL ARGUMENTS <br> <blockquote> Laura Fraser, The French Paradox <br>Tom Vanderbilt, Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too) </blockquote>How to Write a Causal Argument <br>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Armandi Tansel, Modern Warfare: Video Games’ Link to Real-World Violence </blockquote>Projects <br> <br> 10. Evaluation Arguments <br>Writing an Evaluation Argument <br>What Makes a Good Evaluation Argument? <br>Visual Evaluations <br>EVALUATION ARGUMENTS <br> <blockquote> Bill McKibben, The Only Way to Have a Cow <br>Rachel Laudan, In Praise of Fast Food </blockquote>How to Write an Evaluation <br>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Jenna Picchi, Organic Foods Should Come Clean </blockquote>Projects <br> <br> 11. Position Arguments <br>Writing a Position Argument <br>What Makes a Good Position Argument? <br>Visual Position Arguments <br>POSITION ARGUMENTS <br> <blockquote> Ted Koppel, Take My Privacy, Please! <br>Michael Pollan, Eat Food, Food Defined <br> </blockquote>How to Write a Position Argument <br>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Patrice Conley, Flagrant Foul: The NCAA’s Definition of Student Athletes as Amateurs </blockquote>Projects <br> <br> 12. Proposal Arguments <br>Writing a Proposal Argument <br>What Makes a Good Proposal Argument? <br>Visual Proposals <br>PROPOSAL ARGUMENTS <br> <blockquote> Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence <br>Glenn Loury, A Nation of Jailers <br> </blockquote>How to Write a Proposal Argument <br>STUDENT EXAMPLE (MLA Style) <br> <blockquote> Kim Lee, Let’s Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All </blockquote> <br> PART 3: THE MULTIMEDIA WRITER<br><br> 13. Composing in Multimedia <br>Understand the Process of Composing in Multimedia <br>Take Pictures That Aren’t Boring <br>Create Graphics <br>Create Audio <br>Create Video <br>Create a Photo Essay <br> <br> 14. Designing for Print and Digital Readers <br>Start With Your Readers <br>Use Headings and Subheadings Effectively <br>Design Pages <br>Understand Typography <br>Evaluate Your Design <br> <br> PART 4: THE WRITER AS RESEARCHER <br> <br> Guide to Research<br>15. Planning Research <br>Analyze the Research Task <br>Ask a Question <br>Draft a Working Thesis <br> <br> 16. Finding Sources <br>Identify the Kinds of Sources That You Need <br>Search Using Keywords <br>Find Sources in Databases <br>Find Sources on the Web <br>Find Multimedia Sources <br>Find Print Sources <br>Create a Working Bibliography <br> <br> 17. Evaluating Sources <br>Determine the Relevance and Quality of Sources <br>Determine the Kind of Source <br>Determine If a Source Is Trustworthy <br> <br> 18. Writing the Research Project <br>Write a Draft <br>Avoid Plagiarism <br>Quote Sources Without Plagiarizing <br>Summarize and Paraphrase Sources Without Plagiarizing <br>Incorporate Quotations <br>Incorporate Visuals <br>Review Your Research Project <br> <br> 19. MLA Documentation <br>Elements of MLA Documentation <br>Entries in the Works-cited List <br>In-text Citations in MLA Style <br>Books in MLA-Style Works Cited <br>Web Sources in MLA-Style Works Cited <br>Other Sources in MLA-Style Works Cited <br>Visual Sources in MLA-Style Works Cited <br>Sample MLA Paper <br>George Abukar <br>It’s Time to Shut Down the Identity Theft Racket <br> <br> <br> <br>