First-Year Composition
About This Book
1 Understanding Inquiry When we write with a question in mind—even if the question is not apparent to us yet—we engage in inquiry. According to The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, inquiry can be defined as: 1: a request for information 2: a systematic investigation often of a manner of public interest 3: examination into facts or principles: RESEARCH. If we trace the roots of inquiry back to its Latin origin, we encounter the word inquirere, which simply means “to seek” (Merriam-Webster Online). Thr
| Category | humanities |
|---|---|
| Subject | Writing and editing guides |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 79 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Understanding Inquiry
- 2 Inquiry via Other Modes
- 3 Wrapping Up
- 7 Writing to Research
- 8 Writing in Style
- 9 Wrapping Up
- 10 Application: Your Writing Inventory
- 12 Defining Audience and Purpose
- 13 Analyzing vs. Composing in Genres
- 14 Understanding Corollary Genres
- 15 Summary
- 17 Synthesis
- 18 Multimodality
- 20 Literacy Narrative
- 21 Report
- 22 Profile of a Place
- 24 Academic Research Essay
- 26 Annotated Bibliography
- 28 Application: PAID Genre Analysis
- 29 What does it mean to argue?
- 30 Composing Strong Thesis Statements
- 32 Analyzing Claims (i.e., Toulmin Method)
- 33 Analytical Writing
- 35 Alternative or Cultural Methods and Approaches
- 36 Wrapping Up
- 37 Rhetoric is Cultural
- 38 Rhetoric is Political, but not Politics
- 39 Rhetoric is Different from Argument
- 40 The Rhetorical Situation
- 41 Author
- 45 Medium
- 48 Visual Rhetoric
- 50 Application: Positionality Analysis
- 53 Evaluating Sources
- 55 Examining Biases
- 58 Annotating Sources
- 60 Application: Start Finding Sources
- 61 What is style in academic writing and why is it necessary?
- 63 Active Voice
- 66 Grammar
- 69 Organically Structured Essays
- 70 Paragraphs
- 71 Key Sentences
- 72 Transitions
- 73 Concluding Sentences
- 74 Arranging Paragraphs
- 75 Introductions
- 76 Conclusions
- 77 Finding Flow
- 79 Wrapping Up
- 81 What is the Writing Process?
- 82 Understanding the Assignment
- 83 Prewriting
- 84 Planning
- 87 Peer Review
- 88 Understanding Feedback
- 89 Revising
- 90 Reflections and Cover Letters
- 91 Wrapping Up
- 94 Narrative: “An Inanimate Object”
- 96 Profile of a Place: “Curiosity Killed the Cadillacs”
- 97 Profile of a Place: “Old Main Building – TWU”
- 98 Art Analysis: “The Beauty in Chaos”
- 102 Think Piece: “Why We Must Fight for Medicare for All”
- 103 Research Essay: “Displacement between Powers”
- 104 Remix: “The Baker Hotel”
- 105 Remix: “Encapturing Nature”
- 107 Punctuation
- 109 Point of View
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- 112 Mechanics
- 114 APA Style and Format
- 119 Genres
- 121 Organization
- 122 Process
- 124 Style: Quiz: Grammar, Sentence, and Punctuation
- 125 Style: Quiz: Punctuation and Sentences
- 126 Style: Quiz: Sentence Problems
- 128 Works Cited