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Table Of ContentPART 1 · Becoming a College Reader and Writer Chapter 1 · Knowing Yourself and Your Community Chapter 2 · Becoming a College Reader Chapter 3 · Investigating a Topic: Growth Mindset, Grit, and College Success Chapter 4 · Prewriting Chapter 5 · Generating a Thesis and Organizing Your Essay Chapter 6 · Composing Paragraphs Chapter 7 · Composing Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles Chapter 8 · Reviewing and Revising Chapter 9 · Editing and Proofreading PART 2 · Strategies for Academic Writing Chapter 10 · Making an Evaluation Chapter 11 · Arguing a Position Chapter 12 · Proposing a Solution Chapter 13 · Analyzing a Text Chapter 14 · Reading and Writing Multimodal Texts PART 3 · Writing with Research Chapter 15 · Establishing Your Research and Writing Goals Chapter 16 · Locating and Evaluating Sources Chapter 17 · Drafting and Revising Your Research Essay Chapter 18 · MLA Style Chapter 19 · APA Style Appendix: Keeping a Portfolio Appendix: Writing Timed/In-class Essays
SynopsisHello, Writer: An Academic Writing Guide, developed for the first-year composition course with corequisite support, combines familiar academic writing and reading topics with a fresh and flexible approach that works in multiple teaching and learning contexts and with a range of college writers. Support for common first-year writing assignments--such as analyzing a text, arguing a position, and presenting research--sits side by side with support for first-year writers. Drawing heavily on principles of learning science and psychology and facilitating engagement through practice and reflection, this purposes-driven rhetoric offers a foundation for today's high-challenge, high-support corequisite learning models. Reading strategies, noncognitive learning, and plenty of scaffolding pair easily with David Starkey's easy-going conversational style. It's an upbeat composition text that takes college success very seriously. Hello, Writer looks squarely at first-year students and says: You can do it. You belong here. You are a writer. What's more, Achieve with Hello, Writer offers guided practice and facilitates writing, revision, reflection, and peer review--all in a powerful online platform designed to build skills, spark engagement, and boost confidence.
LC Classification NumberLB2369.S6883 2022