Preface;
Introduction: On Academic Writing;
Act I Foundations of Academic Writing;
1:The Interrelated Skills of Thinking, Reading, and Writing;
2:Purpose and Audience;
3:The Conventions of Academic Writing;
4:Stages of Writing;
5:Research;
6:Essay Writing;
7:A Grammar Primer;
Act II Summary;
8:Summarizing: An Everyday Skill;
9:Summary as Overview: The Abstract;
10:The Complete Picture: Extended Summaries;
11:A Broader Focus: Annotated Bibliographies;
12:Summaries, Research, and Your Writing;
13:Less Is More: Strategies for Concrete Writing;
Act III Analysis;
14:What Is Critical Thinking?;
15:Engaging with a Text;
16:Rhetorical Analysis of an Argument;
17:Analyzing Weak and Misleading Arguments;
18:Examples of Arguments;
Act IV Synthesis;
19:To Quote or Not to Quote: How to Use Your Sources;
20:An Introduction to Citation Styles;
21:Getting Down to It: Outlining and Composing;
22:A Case Study: A Student Research Paper;
Readings;
"Managing the Modern Infodemic" by Nancy Tomes;
"Stop Whitewashing Our National History" by Tayo Bero;
"The Case for Semicolons" by Lauren Oyler;
"Cybervictimization among Pre-Adolescents in a Community-Based Sample in Canada: Prevalence & Predictors" (Excerpt) by Ahmad Mobin, Cindy Xin Feng, and Cory Neudorf;
"The Social Price of Constant Connectivity: Smartphones Impose Subtle Costs on Well-Being" by Kostadin Kushlev, Ryan Dwyer, and Elizabeth W. Dunn;
Glossary;
Index.