You, Writing! A Guide to College Composition

by Alexandra Glynn, Kelli Hallsten-Erickson & Amy Jo Swing

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This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process, not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process, trying out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them.

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Publisher
North Hennepin Community College & Lake Superior College
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Why Write?
  7. 1.1: Why Write?
  8. 2: A Writing Process for Every Writer
  9. 2.1: A Writing Process for Every Writer
  10. 2.2: The basic writing process chart
  11. 3: Defining Audience and Purpose
  12. 3.1: Defining Audience and Purpose
  13. 3.2: What is an audience?
  14. 3.3: What does this mean for your writing?
  15. 3.4: Audience wants and needs
  16. 3.5: Leading the audience
  17. 3.6: Purpose
  18. 4: Exploring- Finding a Topic
  19. 4.1: Exploring- Finding a Topic
  20. 4.2: To start - Brainstorm
  21. 4.3: Freewriting
  22. 4.4: Mind Mapping
  23. 4.5: The writer's notebook
  24. 4.6: Advice for finding a topic
  25. 5: Writing a Thesis
  26. 5.1: Writing a Thesis
  27. 5.2: Working Thesis
  28. 5.3: Elements of a thesis
  29. 5.4: Where is the thesis?
  30. 5.5: Tips for writing a thesis statement
  31. 5.6: Resources
  32. 6: Organizing
  33. 6.2: The importance of organization
  34. 6.3: Getting started with organization
  35. 6.4: Ways to organize
  36. 6.5: Ways to organize- An example of ways to organize a persuasive writing
  37. 6.6: Organization considerations
  38. 6.7: Organization between and within paragraphs
  39. 6.8: Writing introductions, conclusions, and titles- A key to organizing
  40. 7: Drafting
  41. 7.2: Tips for drafting
  42. 7.3: Modes
  43. 7.4: Tips for overcoming writer's block
  44. 8: Revising
  45. 8.1: Revising- Re-seeing your writing
  46. 8.2: The writing process and revision
  47. 8.3: Peer review
  48. 8.4: Further research
  49. 8.5: Reorganizing
  50. 8.6: Slash and burn
  51. 8.7: Strategies for revising
  52. 8.8: Tips for revising
  53. 8.9: Resources
  54. 9: Editing
  55. 9.1: Style
  56. 9.2: Types of styles
  57. 9.3: Editing for style
  58. 9.4: Editing for other things
  59. 10: Proofreading
  60. 10.01: Proofreading
  61. 10.02: The simple sentence
  62. 10.03: Subjects
  63. 10.04: Verbs
  64. 10.05: Run-ons, fragments, comma splices
  65. 10.06: Verb tense
  66. 10.07: Pronoun/antecedent agreement
  67. 10.08: Passive and active voice
  68. 10.09: Comma rules simplified
  69. 10.10: Semicolons, once and for all
  70. 10.11: Colons: Use them right
  71. 10.12: Apostrophes
  72. 10.13: Spelling
  73. 10.14: Wordiness
  74. 11: Research Process
  75. 11.1: Researching a writing assignment
  76. 11.2: Sources
  77. 11.3: Finding sources: Academic databases
  78. 11.4: Reading sources
  79. 11.5: Using sources
  80. 11.6: Citing sources
  81. 11.7: Citing sources: Basic citation styles
  82. Back Matter
  83. Appendix: Glossary of terms commonly used in writing and English studies
  84. Glossary
  85. Detailed Licensing