Idea to Essay: Collected Strategies and Readings for the College Writer
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- 3.1: Using the Assignment to Plan
- 3.2: Writing as Thinking- the Value of Planning Writing
- 3.3: Reading Like A Writer
- 3.4: Narrowing Your Thinking
- 3.5: Thinking About Your Audience
- 3.6: Outlining- Structuring Your Ideas
- 3.7: Sitting Down to Write
- 3.8: Overcoming Writer's Block
- 3.9: Example Essay- Reader Response
- 4: After Writing
- 4.1: After Writing- Revision and Editing
- 4.2: Revising for Unification
- 4.3: Revising for Coherence (including transitions)
- 4.4: Revising the Introduction and Conclusion
- 4.5: Editing the Paper- Sentence Level Issues
- 4.6: Formatting
- 4.7: Revising with Peers
- 4.8: Example Rough Draft
- 4.9: A Story of Revision
- 4.10: Turning in Your Paper
- 13: Writing Research Essays
- 13.1: Understanding Research Assignments
- 13.2: Finding and Narrowing Topics
- 13.3: Developing Research Questions
- 13.4: Considering Audience
- 13.5: Writing Thesis Statements for the Research Essay
- 13.6: Writing with Sources
- 13.7: Planning the Research Paper
- 13.8: Drafting the Research Paper
- 13.9: Revising the Research Paper
- 13.10: Example Research Paper
- 17: Developing Sentences
- 17.1: Developing Sentences that Say Something
- 17.2: Sentence Structures- Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex
- 17.3: Tools for Sentence Combining
- 17.4: Sentence Structures in Context
- 17.5: Some Comments on "Style"
- 17.6: Cutting "Fluff" while Meeting Length Requirements
- 17.7: Active and Passive Voice
- 17.8: Choosing Strong Verbs
- 17.9: Being Clear and Concise
- 19: Commas
- 19.1: Major Comma Uses
- 19.2: Using a Comma with a Conjunction in a Compound Sentence
- 19.3: Using a Comma to Set Off Introductory Phrases
- 19.4: Using a Comma to Separate Three or More Items in a Series
- 19.5: Using a Comma to Separate Coordinate Adjectives
- 19.6: Using a Comma to Set Off Non-Essential Elements
- 19.7: Using a Comma to Introduce Quotations
- 19.8: Using a Comma to Organize Tiles, Locations, and Dates
- 19.9: Using a Comma for Direct Addresses
- 19.10: Common Errors in Comma Usage
- 19.11: Commas in Context
- 23: The World
- 23.1: "Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816" by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
- 23.2: "Colorful Little Tale of Halloween Poison" by Deborah Blum
- 23.3: "The Eternal Hour of Lead" by Deborah Blum
- 23.4: "Poetry from a Refugee Camp" by Laura Naude
- 23.5: "Discovering Our Common Humanity Through Space Archaeology" by Kristin Butler
- 23.6: "The Inspired Writer vs the Real Writer" by Sarah Allen
- 23.7: "Multiple Intelligences" by Fred Mednick
- 23.8: "The Zombie as a Barometer of Capitalist Anxiety" by D.T. Robb