Contents

Chapter 1

Review of Writing Process

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1

1 Critical Thinking Questions

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2

2 Introduction to Academic Writing

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3

3 Review: Types of Support in Academic Essays

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6

4 Plagiarism

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10

5 Writing Process of Academic Writing

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13

6 Self-Evaluation

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18

Chapter 2

Choosing a Title and Types of Academic Writing

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1 Critical Thinking Questions

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20

2 Purposes of Choosing a Title

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3 Principles for Choosing a Title

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4 Ways of Choosing a Title

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5 Types of Academic Writing

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28

6 Self-Evaluation

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30

Chapter 3

Researching and Evaluation

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33

1 Critical Thinking Questions

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34

2 Types of Finding Information

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35

3 Research Skills

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37

4 Principles of Researching

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38

5 Criteria of Source Evaluation

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40

6 Note-Taking for Selected Sources

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43

7 Put it Together

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45

Chapter 4

Developing an Outline

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47

1 Critical Thinking Questions

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48

2 Introduction to Outline

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49

3 Points to Consider in Developing an Outline

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52

4 How to Write an Outline

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5 How to Evaluate an Outline

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61

6 Put it Together

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64

Chapter 5

Introduction, Conclusion and Peer Review

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65

1 Critical Thinking Questions

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66

2 The Introductory Part

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67

3 The Concluding Part

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71

4 Peer Review

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75

5 Put it Together

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80

Chapter 6

In-Text Citation

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81

1 Critical Thinking Questions

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82

2 In-Text Citation VS. Plagiarism

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83

3 The Principles and Ways of In-Text Citation

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86

4 Quoting

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88

5 Paraphrasing

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92

6 Summarizing

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95

7 Put it Together

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100

Chapter 7

Academic Language of Essay

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103

1 Critical Thinking Questions

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104

2 What Is Academic Language?

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105

3 Features of Academic Language

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106

4 Connecting Words and Signal Words in Writing

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110

5 Self-Evaluation

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120

Chapter 8 Writing the First Draft / 121

1 Critical Thinking Questions / 122

2 Thesis Statement / 123

3 Process to Write the First Draft / 128

4 Practice for the Introductory Paragraph / 132

5 Practice for Body Paragraphs / 134

6 Practice for the Concluding Paragraph / 136

7 Self-Evaluation / 138

Chapter 9 Abstract and References / 141

1 Critical Thinking Questions / 142

2 How to Write an Abstract? / 143

3 Introduction of Reference / 146

4 APA Reference Formatting / 149

5 Self-Evaluation / 152

Chapter 10 Research Proposal / 155

1 Critical Thinking Questions / 156

2 Introduction to Research Proposal / 157

3 Guidance and Structure of Writing a Research Proposal / 160

4 Put it Together / 165

Chapter 11 Revising and Editing the Final Draft / 167

1 Critical Thinking Questions / 168

2 General Introduction to Revising and Editing / 169

3 Rereading Your Rough Draft / 170

4 Revising the Overall Structure / 171

5 Revising Sections/Chapters / 173

6 Revising Paragraphs / 175

7 Revising Sentences / 177

8 Revising Words / 179

9 Self-Evaluation / 182

Chapter 12 Thesis Presentation and Publication / 183

1 Critical Thinking Questions / 184

2 Thesis Presentation / 185

3 Preparing for Publication / 191

4 Self-Evaluation / 194

Appendix 1 APA Style / 195

Appendix 2 MLA Style / 200

Appendix 3 Chicago Style / 205

References / 210