The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing

The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
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Part I. Developing your academic voice
Chapter 1. The art of academic writing
	A. The social context of writing
		1. Public and private writing
		2. Genres
			a. Literary genres
			b. Expository genres
	B. Writing for the academic discourse community
		1. Formal and informal language in writing
			Contrasting informal and formal text
		2. Academic vocabulary
		3. The art of writing: Developing an academic voice
		4. Avoiding plagiarism
			Paraphrase
			Summary
			Direct quotations
		5. Academic communication
	C. Expanding language
		Word families
Chapter 2. The architecture of academic writing
	A. Examining expository writing contexts
		1. The architecture of the expository essay
			The building blocks of the expository essay
		2. Expository thesis statements
			Expository thesis and organizational patterns
		3. Body paragraphs and evidence
	B. Understanding an essay assignment
		1. Analyzing the instructions
			Background information for the assignment
			Directives
			Informational directives
			Interpretative directives
		2. Writing: Following the instructions for a writing assignment
			1. Instructions for a description assignment
			2. Instructions for a narrative recount assignment
	C. Expanding language: Avoiding sentence fragments
		1. Sentence fragments: Subordinate phrases
			a. Avoiding sentence fragments: Prepositional phrases
			b. Avoiding sentence fragments: Verbal phrases
Chapter 3. AWARE: A framework for thesis-driven writing
	A. Examining the theory behind AWARE
	B. AWARE in practice
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write
			a. Choosing a writing topic
			b. Developing a working thesis
			c. Establishing the evidence
			d. Organizing the evidence
		2. AWARE: Writing
			Writing the draft
		3. AWARE: Assessing
			a. Quality of evidence
			b. Quantity of sources
			c. Assessment checklist
			d. Assessing the working thesis statement
		4. AWARE: Revising
			Revising the architectural elements of academic writing
		5. AWARE: Editing
			Editing: Non-count nouns
	D. Expanding Language
		Avoiding sentence fragments (part 2, subordinate clauses)
		1. Sentence fragments – subordinate clauses
			a. Avoiding sentence fragments with adverbial clauses
			b. Avoiding sentence fragments with noun clauses
		2. Recognizing and correcting adverbial and noun clause fragments
	D. Summary of The AWARE Approach
Chapter 4. Description and narrative in thesis-driven writing
	A. Examining description in thesis-driven writing
		1. Description: Illustration vs. explanation
		2. Precise language in description
	B. AWARE: Writing a description to support a thesis
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write a description
			a. Understanding the assignment
			b. Generating ideas and brainstorming
			c. Working thesis statement
		2. AWARE: Writing the description
		3. AWARE: Assessing a description to support a thesis
		4. AWARE: Revising
			Strategies for revising: Visualization and word precision
		5. AWARE: Editing
			Comma usage
	D. Examining narrative to support a thesis statement
		1. The building blocks of narrative
		2. Analyzing narrative
	E. AWARE: Writing a narrative to support a thesis
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write a narrative
			a. Understanding the assignment
			b. Brainstorming
			c. Opening statement
			d. Planning the narrative
		2. AWARE: Writing
		3. AWARE: Assessing
		4. AWARE: Revising
		5. AWARE: Editing (introductory words, phrases, clauses)
	F. Expanding language
		Spelling: UK and US
Chapter 5. The body of the essay
	A. The architecture of body paragraphs
		1. The building blocks of an essay: Body paragraphs
			a. Examining topic sentences
			b. Developing evidence to support a topic sentence
			c. Discourse connectors for enumeration
	B. AWARE: Writing the body of an enumeration essay
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write
			a. Generating ideas
			b. Strategy: Developing a working thesis statement
			c. Strategy: Outlining
		2. AWARE: Writing
		3. AWARE: Assessing
			Assessing strategy: Reverse outline
		4. AWARE: Revising
			Revision strategy: Paragraph unity
		5. AWARE: Editing
			Strategy: Punctuation for discourse connectors
	C. Expanding language
		Examining discourse connectors for enumeration
Chapter 6. Compare/contrast and cause/effect
	A. Compare and contrast
		1. Examining compare/contrast
		2. Compare – contrast thesis statements
		3. The architecture of a compare/contrast essay
			a. Body paragraphs
			b. Discourse connectors for compare/contrast
	B. AWARE writing: Compare/contrast essay
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write
			a. Using a T chart to outline the main ideas of an essay
			b. A Venn diagram for generating ideas for contrast essay on marriage
			c. Developing a working thesis and a point-by-point outline
		2. AWARE: Writing
		3. AWARE: Assessing
			a. Assessing strategy: Evaluating the evidence
			b. Assessing strategy: Evaluating the thesis statement
			c. From working thesis to thesis statement
		4. AWARE: Revising
			a. Revising strategy, sharpening the writer’s voice with precise vocabulary
			b. Revising checklist
		5. AWARE: Editing
			a. Commonly confused words in English
			b. Editing checklist
	C. Expanding language: Comma splices
	D. Cause and effect
		1. Examining cause and effect
		2. The architecture of cause and effect
			a. Examining multiple effects: Thesis statements and body paragraphs
			b. Discourse connectors for effect
			c. Examining multiple causes: Thesis statements and body paragraphs
			d. Causal language
	E. AWARE writing: Cause and effect
		1. Arranging to write: Cause and effect
			a. Developing a working thesis
			b. Graphic organizers for cause and effect essay
		2. AWARE writing: Cause and effect
		3. AWARE: Assessing
		4. AWARE: Revising
			Revising checklist
		5. AWARE: Editing
			Editing checklist
Chapter 7. Introductions and conclusions
	A. Introductions
		1. Examining the introduction
			“Moves” in introductions
		2. Strategies for writing the introduction
			a. Introduction strategy 1: Finalize the content before writing the introduction
			b. Introduction Strategy 2: Background questions for context
			c. Introduction strategy 3: Use a general to specific framework to situate the thesis statement
	B. AWARE: Writing the introduction to a compare/contrast essay
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write the introduction
			a. Counterpoint in the compare/contrast introduction
			b. Determine the necessary background information
		2. AWARE: Writing the introduction
		3. AWARE: Assessing the introduction
		4. AWARE: Revising the introduction
		5. AWARE: Editing the introduction
	C. Conclusions
		1. Examining the conclusion
			Moves in conclusions
		2. Strategies for writing conclusions
			a. Conclusion strategy 1: Rephrase the thesis
			b. Conclusion Strategy 2: Synthesize the major ideas of the essay
			c. Conclusion Strategy 3: Explain the significance of your topic and thesis
			d. Conclusion Strategy 4: Avoid ineffective elements in a conclusion
	D. AWARE: Writing the conclusion
		1. AWARE: Arranging to write the conclusion
		2. AWARE: Writing the conclusion to a compare/contrast essay
		3. AWARE: Assessing the conclusion
		4. AWARE: Revising the conclusion
		5. AWARE: Editing
	E. Putting it together: Revising and editing a full essay
		1. AWARE: Revising the full essay
		2. AWARE: Editing the full essay
			a. Formatting the paper
			b. Editing checklist
	F. AWARE independent writing assignments – enumeration essay and cause/effect essay
		1. The architecture of the essays
		2. Essay instructions
Part II. Presenting the views of others
Chapter 8. Research to support a thesis
	A. Examining academic research
		1. Quantitative research
		2. Qualitative research
		3. Conducting research
		4. Primary and secondary data sources
	B. Examining and avoiding plagiarism
		1. Examining quotations
			a. Strategies for using direct quotations
			b. Phrases to present quotations
		2. Examining paraphrase
			a. Strategies for writing short paraphrases
			b. Strategies for paraphrasing direct quotations
			c. Presenting paraphrased passages
		3. Examining summary
			Strategies for writing and reporting summarized material
	C. AWARE: Writing
		1. Writing a summary
			Understanding the assignment
		2. AWARE: Revising
		3. AWARE: Editing
Chapter 9. Conducting research for a case study
	A. Examining the case study
		1. Defining the case study assignment
		2. The building blocks of the case study
		3. Conducting research for a case study
			a. Select the subject/participants
			b. Define the research question
			c. Identify primary data sources
			d. Collect the data
			e. Analyze the data
			f. Creating an outline for the case study
	B. AWARE: Writing a case study
		1. Arranging to write your case study
			a. Choosing the subject for the case study
			b. Formulating a research question
			c. Planning to collect primary data
			d. Analyze the data
			e. Organize the data
Chapter 10. Writing the case study
	A. Writing the case study
		1. From research question to thesis statement
			Reformulating John’s research question into a thesis statement
		2. Presenting case study research
			a. Present evidence thematically
			b. Report primary research in the past tense
			c. Build cohesion
			d. Concluding sentences
			e. Include in-text citations for all primary and secondary data sources
		3. Citing sources in the case study – APA
			a. Basic in-text citation style
			b. In-text citations for personal communication
		4. Writing the introduction to a case study
			Strategies for writing the introduction
		5. Writing the conclusion for the case study
			Strategies for writing the conclusion
	B. AWARE: Writing the case study document
		1. AWARE Arranging to Write
			a. From working thesis to thesis statement
			b. Reformulating your research question into a working thesis statement
		2. AWARE: Writing the draft of the case study
			a. Writing the body paragraphs
			b. Writing the introduction
			c. Writing the conclusion
		3. AWARE: Assessing
			a. Assessing strategy: Evaluating the evidence for the case study
			b. Assessing strategy: Evaluating the working thesis statement
		4. AWARE: Revising
			Revising checklist
		5. AWARE: Editing
			a. Formatting the paper
			b. The APA reference list
			c. The building blocks of an APA reference citation
			d. Formatting sources in the reference list
			e. Summary of formatting rules for references
			f. Sample reference list
Chapter 11. Conducting research for a research paper
	A. Examining the research paper
		1. The Literature Review
			Reading to write 1: A review of the literature
			Reading to write 2: A review of the literature
		2. Understanding the assignment
		3. Examining the new working thesis
			Examining ideas to develop a new working thesis: An example
		4. AWARE: Arranging to write a new working thesis
		5. Formatting the research paper
	B. Examining published sources: A review of the literature
		1. Disciplinary literacy – academic genres
		2. Strategies for finding sources
		3. AWARE: Arranging to write: identifying sources
		4. Strategies for choosing reliable and relevant secondary sources
			a. Quantity and diversity of scholarly sources
			b. Date of publication
			c. Quality and reliability
		5. AWARE: Arranging to write: evaluating sources for relevance and reliability of an article or book chapter
	C. Reading and documenting selected sources
		1. Strategies for reading secondary sources
			a. Strategies for reading a book
			b. Strategies for reading an article
			c. Strategies for reading selected sources
		2. AWARE: Arranging to write: evaluating the relevance of selected sources
		3. Documenting selected sources
			a. Documenting sources during the literature review
			b. Using APA to cite in-text and in the list of references
		4. AWARE: Arranging to write: Documenting sources
			Documenting selected sources using the APA format
	D. Taking notes while reading
		1. Annotation
			a. Examining annotation
			b. An annotated reference
		2. Quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing
			a. Strategies for quoting secondary sources
			b. Strategies for paraphrasing secondary sources
			c. Strategies for summarizing secondary sources
	E. Organizing sources for inclusion in the paper
		1. Strategies for organizing sources according to themes
			a. Examining ideas that support a thesis
			b. T Chart
		2. AWARE: Arranging to write: organizing new information for inclusion in the research paper
		3. Reevaluating the strength and relevance of the new information
			a. Triangulation
		4. AWARE: Arranging to write: Evaluating the strength and relevance of the sources
	F. Expanding language
Chapter 12. Writing the research paper
	A. Examining the thesis statement
		1. From working thesis to thesis statement
	B. AWARE: Arranging to write the thesis statement and outline
		1. The thesis statement
		2. The detailed outline
	C. Examining body paragraphs of a research paper
		1. Synthesizing sources for body paragraphs
		2. A blueprint for incorporating synthesis into a research paper
	D. AWARE: Arranging to write body paragraphs
	E. AWARE: Writing the body paragraphs
	F. Examining introductions to research papers
		1. Strategies for writing effective introductions to a research paper
	G. AWARE: Arranging to write an introduction
	H. AWARE: Writing an introduction
	I. Examining conclusions to research papers
		1. Strategies for writing effective conclusions to research papers
	J. AWARE: Arranging to write a conclusion
	K. AWARE: Writing a conclusion to a research paper
	L. AWARE: Assessing the research paper
	M. Expanding language
		1. Parallelism and cohesion
		2. Parallel words and phrases
	Checklist for revising and proofreading
References
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