The essentials of academic writing / by Derek Soles.

"Provides: thorough coverage of the most important phases of academic writing-- from planning and research through revising and proofreading; five carefully annotated academic essays by students and well-known authors as models of narrative, expository, and argumentative writing; and thirteen additional sample essays, both student and professional, and an engaging case study of a student research paper."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays with Instructional Notes and Commentary:- Harriet Ng /Saving the Vancouver Island Marmot--Christine Murray / The Appeal of the real: Why reality television is so popular--B. Michael Thorne and Tracy B. Henley /Freud\'s Influence--Alexander Petrunkevitch /The Spider and the Wasp--C. Mo Bahk /College students\' responses to content-specific advisories regarding television and movies--Part 3: An Anthology of Academic Writing:- Reading Actively and Critically--Kate Anderson /The Rise and Fall of the Music Hall--Pauling North / Each to His, Her, and Their Own: Gendor and Pronoun Agreement in English--Gordon Graham /Music and Autism--Michael Lyn and Tony Simmons /Predictors of Male and Female Servers\' Average Tip Earnings--Thomas F.X. Noble et al. /Spain\'s Colonial Empire, 1492-1600--Robert B. Kiningham and Daniel W. Gorenflo / Weight Loss Methods of High School Wrestlers--Michael Osborne and Suzanne Osborne / Controllling communication Apprehension--Allan C. Ornstein and Daniel U. Levine / Montessori: The Prepared Environment--Wayne D. Hoyer and Deborah J. MacInnis /Advertising to Children--Lacey Baldwin Smith /Henry V (1413-1422) and the war against France--Susan Willis /Disney World: Public Use/Private Use--Deborah Tannen /Rapport- Talk and Report-Talk--Edwin P. Christmann and John L>Badgett /The Comparative Effectiveness of ~CAI on Collegiate Academic Performance--Acknowledgments.

Part 1: The process of writing an academic essay: -1. What is an Academic Essay?--Writing for the social sciences--Writing for the sciences--Writing for the humanities--Writing for business--Writing for technology--Conclusion--2. Getting started: Consider Topic, Audience, Purpose:- Reflect upon your topic--Freewriting--W5 + IH questions--Webbing--Consider your reader--Readers influence content--Readers influence style--Readers Judge Quality--Establish your Purpose:- Expository Mode--Persuasive mode--Compose your Thesis Statement--Placement of the thesis--Conclusion--3. Research your Topic:- Books, Periodicals--The Internet--Interviews--Questionnaires--Incorporating Reasearch: Direct quotes--Summarising--Paraphrasing--Plagiarism--Citing sources--Sample Essay with sources cited using MLA style: The Enron Legacy by Grace Lehen--Conclusion--4. Make a Plan:- Planning an Expository Essay--Planning a Compare/Contrast Essay--Planning an arguement--Aristotle: Logos, Ethos, Pathos--Toulmin: Claim, support, warrant--Rogerian arguement--Audience and purpose in Arguement--5. Write a Draft:- Write a clear and specific opening--Sample introductory paragraphs--Write complete body paragraphs--Compose a topic sentence--Develop your topic sentence--Maintain paragraph unity--Sample body paragraphs--Write an explicit conclusion--Sample concluding paragraphs--Conclusion--6. Revise your Essay:- Structure--Content--Cohesive Ties--Transition--Repetition--Substitution--Style 100--Subordination--Parallelism--Order--Academic Voice--Peer Review--Conclusion--7. Edit your Essay:- Edit for Grammar--Subject-verb agreement--Pronoun reference--Pronoun case--Verb tense and Mood--Edit for Sentence structure--Sentence fragments--Run-on sentences--Misplaced and dangling modifiers--Faulty Parallelism--Wordiness--Edit for Punctuation--Punctuation at the end of sentence--Punctuation within sentence--Punctuation within words--Edit for Diction--Context--Meaning--Conclusion--8. Acknowledge your Sources:- MLA Method of Parenthetical Citation--Parenthetical citations within the text of the essay--Works cited list--Sample MLA works cited entries--APA Method of Parenthetical citation--Parenthetical citations wityhin the text of the essay---References list at the end of the essay--Sample APA reference list entries--Chicago Manual of Style Method of citing sources--Foot/endnotes--Source list at the end of the essay--Sample CMS Bibliography entries--Conclusion--Part 2: Sample Academic