Academic Writing and the Emerging Scholar
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 428
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 428
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Academic Writing and the Emerging Scholar is an accessible, straightforward text that introduces first-year college students to the fundamentals of beginning composition. All four of its main sections are highly practical, and the authors have designed a number of learning activities that can serve as homework assignments, in-class exercises, or classroom-discussion facilitators. The book’s section on the basics of composition contains annotated example essays, and its MLA section conveniently combines in-text citation examples and corresponding bibliographic examples.
Academic Writing and the Emerging Scholar is a concise text that does not distract first-year students with a lot of “extra” information. Rather, its focus is on fundamental concepts and mechanics that are requisite to higher-level writing courses.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: COMPOSITION
CHAPTER 1: The Academic Meaning of Argument |
CHAPTER 2: Audience and Purpose
CHAPTER 3: The Writing Process
CHAPTER 4: Thesis Statements
CHAPTER 5: Supporting Arguments and Plan-of-Development Language
CHAPTER 6: Writing Introductions
CHAPTER 7: Rhetorical Modes
CHAPTER 8: Paragraph Development
CHAPTER 9: Expository Strategies
CHAPTER 10: Warrants, Premises, Objections, and Qualifying Language
CHAPTER 11: Transitions
CHAPTER 12: Conclusions
PART 2: EDITING: GRAMMAR AND MECHANICS
CHAPTER 13: Important Grammatical Terms and Concepts
CHAPTER 14: Run-On Sentences
CHAPTER 15: Comma Splices
CHAPTER 16: Fragments
CHAPTER 17: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
CHAPTER 18: Faulty Predication
CHAPTER 19: Subject-Verb Agreement
CHAPTER 20: Pronoun Usage
CHAPTER 21: Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
CHAPTER 22: Parallelism
CHAPTER 23: Formatting Titles
CHAPTER 24: Frequently Misspelled Words
CHAPTER 25: Feedback Key
PART 3: EDITING: PUNCTUATION
CHAPTER 26: Comma Usage
CHAPTER 27: Semicolons and Colons
CHAPTER 28: Apostrophes
CHAPTER 29: Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses
CHAPTER 30: Quotation Marks
CHAPTER 31: Brackets and Ellipses
PART 4: CITATION AND FORMATTING
CHAPTER 32: Plagiarism
CHAPTER 33: MLA Style and the Mechanics of In-Text Citation
CHAPTER 34: Formatting Papers
CHAPTER 35: MLA Citation Guidelines and Examples
CHAPTER 36: Sample Paper
INDEX
Gentry Sutton currently serves as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Warner University in Lake Wales, Florida. Previously he taught English and served as Provost, Dean of Arts and Sciences, and Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He also served as Assistant Professor of English and in various associate dean roles at Sterling College in Kansas.
Gentry earned his doctorate in Educational Ministry from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and he was named the seminary’s Outstanding Doctoral Student in 2015. He holds a master's degree in English from Emporia State University in Kansas and a bachelor's degree in English from Sterling College in Kansas.