Writing in College - From Competence to Excellence

by Amy Guptill

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Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence is designed for students who have largely mastered the conventions of high-school level writing and are now rising to meet more the advanced expectations of college. Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to think of themselves as full, self-motivated members of the academic community.

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Publisher
The College at Brockport, SUNY
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: Really? Writing? Again?
  7. 1.1: Yes. Writing. Again.
  8. 1.2: The Origins of Higher Education
  9. 1.3: College Writing is Different
  10. 1.4: So What Do Professors Want?
  11. 1.5: Exercises
  12. 2: What Does the Professor Want? Understanding the Assignment
  13. 2.1: Writing for Whom? Writing for What?
  14. 2.2: The Prompt: What Does “Analyze” Mean Anyway?
  15. 2.3: Rubrics as Road Maps
  16. 2.4: What’s Critical About Critical Thinking?
  17. 2.5: Exercises
  18. 3: Constructing the Thesis and Argument—From the Ground Up
  19. 3.1: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme
  20. 3.2: The Three-story Thesis: From the Ground Up
  21. 3.3: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument
  22. 3.4: Exercises
  23. 4: Secondary Sources in Their Natural Habitats
  24. 4.1: Ah, the Research Paper
  25. 4.2: Some Sources are Better than Others
  26. 4.3: Origins and Anatomy of a Journal Article
  27. 4.4: Finding Tier 1 Sources: Article Databases
  28. 4.5: Library Research as Problem-solving
  29. 4.6: Exercises
  30. 5: Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources
  31. 5.1: Theses and Sources
  32. 5.2: Incorporating Sources
  33. 5.3: Principles
  34. 5.4: Exercises
  35. 6: Back to Basics - The Perfect Paragraph
  36. 6.1: Paragraphs
  37. 6.2: Key Sentences (a.k.a. Topic Sentences)
  38. 6.3: Cohesion and Coherence
  39. 6.4: The Wind-up
  40. 6.5: Exercises
  41. 7: Intros and Outros
  42. 7.1: In Today’s World …
  43. 7.2: In Conclusion …
  44. 7.3: Form and Function
  45. 7.4: Exercises
  46. 8: Clarity and Concision
  47. 8.1: Writing Like You Drive
  48. 8.2: Revising for Clarity: Who Did What to Whom?
  49. 8.3: Concision and Grace
  50. 8.4: Reading with Concision and Grace in Mind
  51. 8.5: Grace
  52. 8.6: Exercises
  53. 9: Getting the Mechanics Right
  54. 9.1: “Correctness” in Writing
  55. 9.2: Elements of Punctuation and Language You Must Master
  56. 9.3: The Dilemma of Gendered Language in English
  57. 9.4: Exercises
  58. Back Matter
  59. Index
  60. Detailed Licensing