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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Harrisburg_Area_Community_College/English_101%3A_English_Composition_(Woodring)/07%3A_Avoiding_Plagiarism/7.02%3A_Incorporating_Sources_to_Support_your_ThesisOn the other extreme, some students tend to describe, more or less accurately, what sources say about a topic but then go on to state opinions that seem unrelated to the claims they just summarized. Y...On the other extreme, some students tend to describe, more or less accurately, what sources say about a topic but then go on to state opinions that seem unrelated to the claims they just summarized. You may argue that the literature on cancer and the literature on violence both describe the unrecognized importance of prevention and early intervention in order to claim that insights about one set of problems may be useful for the other.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/14%3A_Back_to_Basics_-_The_Perfect_Paragraph_(Guptill)/14.5%3A_ExercisesIn addition to Williams’ and Bizup’s excellent lesson on cohesion and coherence in Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace 11th ed. (New York: Longman, 2014), check out this site at George Mason Universit...In addition to Williams’ and Bizup’s excellent lesson on cohesion and coherence in Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace 11th ed. (New York: Longman, 2014), check out this site at George Mason University, this handout from Duke University, and this resource from Clarkson University. 2 Etiology is the cause of a disease—what’s actually happening in cells and tissues—while epidemiology is the incidence of a disease in a population.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/07%3A_Constructing_the_Thesis_and_ArgumentFrom_the_Ground_Up_(Guptill)/7.2%3A_The_Three-story_Thesis%3A_From_the_Ground_UpSeeing this word in the prompt scared me and made me think to myself, “Oh great, what are they really looking for?” or “How am I going to make a thesis for a college paper?” When rehearing that I woul...Seeing this word in the prompt scared me and made me think to myself, “Oh great, what are they really looking for?” or “How am I going to make a thesis for a college paper?” When rehearing that I would be focusing on theses again in a class, I said to myself, “Here we go again!” But after learning about the three story thesis, I never had a problem with writing another thesis.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/1%3A_Really_Writing_Again_(Guptill)
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/02%3A_What_Does_the_Professor_Want_Understanding_the_Assignment_(Guptill)
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/11%3A_Listening_to_Sources_Talking_to_Sources_(Guptill)/11.3%3A_PrinciplesEven a passage that is important to reference and is well contextualized in the flow of the paper will be inefficient if it introduces terms and ideas that aren’t central to the analysis within the pa...Even a passage that is important to reference and is well contextualized in the flow of the paper will be inefficient if it introduces terms and ideas that aren’t central to the analysis within the paper.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/11%3A_Listening_to_Sources_Talking_to_Sources_(Guptill)/11.1%3A_Theses_and_SourcesYou may argue that the literature on cancer and the literature on violence both describe the unrecognized importance of prevention and early intervention in order to claim that insights about one set ...You may argue that the literature on cancer and the literature on violence both describe the unrecognized importance of prevention and early intervention in order to claim that insights about one set of problems may be useful for the other.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/English_121%3A_Composition_1/16%3A_Clarity_and_Concision_(Guptill)/16.1%3A_Writing_Like_You_DriveAs Michael Harvey explains 1 , the desire to sound more academic might prompt a student to write “To satisfy her hunger for nutrition, she ate the bread” rather than simply “She was hungry, so she ate...As Michael Harvey explains 1 , the desire to sound more academic might prompt a student to write “To satisfy her hunger for nutrition, she ate the bread” rather than simply “She was hungry, so she ate the bread.” It is true that a lot of academic writing is laden with unnecessary jargon, but the culture is shifting among scholars to favor plainer language and insist on clarity.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Writing_in_College_-_From_Competence_to_Excellence_(Guptill)/4%3A_Secondary_Sources_in_Their_Natural_Habitats/4.5%3A_Library_Research_as_Problem-solvingIt’s also a good sign when you find yourself deciding that some of the first sources you found are no longer relevant to your thesis; that likely means that you have revised and specified your thinkin...It’s also a good sign when you find yourself deciding that some of the first sources you found are no longer relevant to your thesis; that likely means that you have revised and specified your thinking and are well on your way to constructing the kind of self-driven in-depth analysis that your professor is looking for.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Writing_in_College_-_From_Competence_to_Excellence_(Guptill)/6%3A_Back_to_Basics_-_The_Perfect_Paragraph/6.1%3A_ParagraphsAs Michael Harvey writes, paragraphs are “in essence—a form of punctuation, and like other forms of punctuation they are meant to make written material easy to read.” 1 Effective paragraphs are the fu...As Michael Harvey writes, paragraphs are “in essence—a form of punctuation, and like other forms of punctuation they are meant to make written material easy to read.” 1 Effective paragraphs are the fundamental units of academic writing; consequently, the thoughtful, multifaceted arguments that your professors expect depend on them.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Harrisburg_Area_Community_College/A_Short_Guide_to_Argumentative_Writing/09%3A_Shaping_Your_Sentences/9.04%3A_Making_Sentences_ClearIf the author were to rewrite the passage to make the grammatical subjects match the characters, he or she would be prompted to clarify what exactly the king, the Parliament, the English populace, and...If the author were to rewrite the passage to make the grammatical subjects match the characters, he or she would be prompted to clarify what exactly the king, the Parliament, the English populace, and the American colonists did (and to who), something which the author of the above passage may not actually understand.
