English Composition
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- 1Writing as Thinking: The Rhetorical SituationWriting Is Thinking, Not Transcription, The Five Elements of the Rhetorical Situation, Audience: The Reader You Are Actually Writing For
- 2Reading Critically and Analyzing RhetoricTwo Kinds of Reading, Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Reading the Appeals, Finding the Argument Under the Prose
- 3The Writing Process: Invention, Drafting, RevisionThe Process Is a Loop, Not a Line, Invention: Making Something Out of Nothing, Shaping: From Pile to Plan
- 4Thesis, Claim and PurposeWhat a Thesis Actually Is, Purpose: What the Thesis Has to Do, Building the Claim: Scope, Reason, Stakes
- 5Paragraphs, Unity and CoherenceThe Paragraph as a Unit of Thought, Unity: One Paragraph, One Controlling Idea, Development: Making the Paragraph Earn Its Space
- 6Evidence and SupportWhat Counts as Evidence, Matching Evidence to the Claim, Making Evidence Mean Something
- 7Argument: Structure and FallaciesWhat an Argument Is Made Of, Warrants: The Assumption Doing the Real Work, Arranging the Argument on the Page
- 8Research: Finding and Evaluating SourcesFrom Topic to Researchable Question, The Source Landscape, Searching on Purpose
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- 9Integrating Sources: Summary, Paraphrase, QuotationThree Moves, One Job, Summary: Compression Without Distortion, Paraphrase: Rewriting, Not Word-Swapping
- 10Citation and Academic IntegrityWhat a Citation Is Actually For, The Anatomy of a Citation, Building References for Real Sources
- 11Style, Clarity and ConcisionFind the Character, Find the Action, Cutting Without Losing Anything, Old Information First: The Physics of Flow
- 12The Grammar and Mechanics That Actually MatterSentence Boundaries: The Error That Costs the Most, Agreement: Subjects, Verbs and Pronouns, Modifiers, Parallelism and Word Order
- 13Genres: Narrative, Analysis, Argument, ReflectionGenre Is a Move Set, Not a Container, Narrative: Making Experience Mean Something, Analysis: Taking Something Apart to Show How It Works
- 14Revision, Peer Review and the PortfolioRevision Is Re-seeing, Not Repairing, Global Revision: The Reverse Outline, Local Revision and Editing: One Pass, One Problem