Full Description
This book guides first-year students through the dos and don'ts of composition, from such basic questions as "Can I use 'I' in a college essay?" to more advanced points about structure and style. Emphasizing the importance of writing in all majors, the author encourages students to find their own voice and to express themselves without jargon or "academese." Tips are provided on concision, use of supporting claims, marshaling arguments, researching topics, documenting sources, and revision.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Be Interesting, or "B.S."?
I: Style and the Academy
1. Who's Listening?
2. Blinded by Science
3. Subject and Object
4. Data
5. Specific Versus General
6. Active Voice, Active Mind
7. Rhythm and Emphasis
II: Argument and Persuasion
8. A Jury of Your Peers
9. Who Says? And So What?
10. Claim, Warrant and Support
11. Writing the Analytical Paragraph
12. Classical Argumentation
13. "B.S." and How to Detect It
III: Research and Preparation
14. Writing for Yourself
15. The eScholar and the Library
16. Quotation and Documentation
17. The Critical Lens
IV: Writing the College Essay
18. The Open House
19. Introduction and Threshold
20. Agent and Thesis
21. Plan
22. Conclusion and Takeaway
23. A Short Chapter on Titles
24. Revision: The Second Look
Appendix 1. Logical Fallacies
Appendix 2. Style Guides
Appendix 3. Writing in the Sciences
Index
