Composing Ourselves and our World

by Elizabeth Burrows, Angela Fowler, Heath Fowler, and Amy Locklear

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This textbook is meant for first year English Composition Courses and covers the essentials of composition and rhetoric in a recursive manner and introduces research skills. Regardless of your field of study, honing your writing skills—and your reading and critical-thinking skills—gives you a more solid academic foundation.

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Publisher
Auburn University at Montgomery
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. About this Book
  6. Licensing
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Part I: The Composition Process
  9. 1: The Composing Process
  10. 1.1: Writing for College
  11. 1.2: What is Academic Writing
  12. 1.3: Your Role as a Learner
  13. 2: Critical Concepts
  14. 2.1: Rhetoric / Rhetorical
  15. 3: Defining the Composing Process
  16. 3.1: Invention As Process
  17. 3.2: Brainstorming Techniques
  18. 4: Rhetorical Invention and Planning
  19. 4.1: Reading To Write- What Models and Reading Strategies Can Offer
  20. 4.2: The Rhetorical Situation- Analyzing and Composing
  21. 5: Composing Strategies
  22. 5.1: Assessing Your Rhetorical Situation
  23. 5.2: Thesis / Purpose Statements
  24. 5.3: Organizing an Essay
  25. 5.4: MLA Formatting Conventions
  26. 5.5: Introductions and Conclusions
  27. 6: Revising and Recomposing
  28. 6.1: Revising vs. Proofreading
  29. 6.2: Matters of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
  30. 6.3: The Reader’s Role
  31. 7: Publishing / Circulation- Media Matters
  32. 7.1: Composing in Digital Spaces- Things To Consider
  33. 8: ePortfolio
  34. 8.1: ePortfolio
  35. 9: Narrative
  36. 9.1: The Literacy Narrative Assignment
  37. 10: Analysis and Evaluation
  38. 10.1: The Analysis and Evaluation Assignment
  39. 11: Argument
  40. 11.1: The Argument Assignment
  41. Part II: Research Writing
  42. 12: Research Proposal
  43. 12.1: The Topic Proposal Assignment
  44. 13: Annotated Bibliography
  45. 13.1: The Annotated Bibliography Assignment
  46. 14: Research Paper and Presentation
  47. 14.1: The Research Paper and Presentation Assignment
  48. 14.2: Alternate Ways to Present Research
  49. 15: Entering the Discourse Community
  50. 15.1: Identifying a Conversation
  51. 15.2: What is a Research Paper
  52. 15.3: Identifying and Understanding Your Audience and Purpose
  53. 15.4: Research Writing in the Academic Disciplines
  54. 15.5: Develop a Research Proposal
  55. 15.6: Topic, Thesis, and Research Proposal
  56. 15.7: Mapping Your Topic
  57. 16: Researching- How, What, When, Where, and Why
  58. 16.1: What are Sources?
  59. 16.2: Finding Your Sources
  60. 16.3: Recording and Organizing Your Research
  61. 17: Reviewing and Analyzing Your Sources
  62. 17.1: Critical Reading
  63. 17.2: Evaluating Your Sources
  64. 17.3: Developing an Annotated Bibliography
  65. 18: Writing the Research Paper
  66. 18.1: Creating Your Argument
  67. 18.2: Synthesis
  68. 18.3: Drafting
  69. 18.4: Using Sources Creatively
  70. 19: Citing Your Sources
  71. 19.1: In-text Citation
  72. 19.2: Works Cited Entries
  73. 19.3: Standard Style and Documentation Systems
  74. 20: Revising Your Research Project
  75. 20.1: Revising Your Research Paper
  76. 21: Planning Your Presentation
  77. 21.1: Turning Your Paper into an Oral Presentation
  78. Back Matter
  79. Index
  80. Glossary
  81. Attributions: Part II Research Writing
  82. Attributions: Part I The Composition Process
  83. Detailed Licensing