Chapter One Academic Writing:A Process of Creation 1.1 Creation:At the heart of research 1.2 Distinguishing between everyday genres and academic genres 1.3 Moving from topics to problems 1.4 Writing activities and prompts 1.5 Reference materials Chapter Two Reading Sources Critically 2.1 Observations versus inferences 2.2 Evaluating sources 2.3 Building an annotated bibliography 2.4 Writing activities and prompts 2.5 Reference materials Chapter Three Synthesizing the Literature Review 3.1 Synthesis:What is it 3.2 Synthesis points to a problem 3.3 Chronological organizational patterns 3.4 Comparison and contrast patterns 3.5 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 3.6 Reference materials Chapter Four Paraphrasing without Plagiarizing 4.1 Plagiarism:What is it 4.2 Paraphrase: What makes it challenging to do well 4.3 Quotation: Why are direct quotations used less in the sciences than in the humanities 4.4 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 4.5 Reference materials Chapter Five Criteria-based Reasoning 5.1 Questions that cannot be answered matter-of-factly 5.2 Killing the clich�� "Every coin has two sides" Criteria-based reasoning in thesis-driven arguments 5.4 Writing activities and prompts 5.5 Reference materials Chapter Six Writing about Texts 6.1 Reading what is on the page 6.2 Evidence-based analysis of a text 6.3 Distinguishing between modernism and post-modernism 6.4 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 6.5 Reference materials Chapter Seven Drafting the Argument 7.1 What is an argument 7.2 Thesis: Is the main claim arguable and sufficiently qualified 7.3 Structure: What kind of structure does the research question invite 7.4 Support: Are the reasons sufficiently developed with the best available evidence 7.5 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 7.6 Reference materials Chapter Eight Writing a Research Proposal 8.1 Why write a proposal 8.2 Research question 8.3 Significance 8.4 Feasibility 8.5 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 8.6 Reference materials Chapter Nine Entering an Academic Conversation 9.1 Entering an academic conversation 9.2 What "they say": The literature review 9.3 What "I say": Raising and addressing a question 9.4 Identifying the structural"moves"in a scholarly introduction 9.5 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 9.6 Reference materials Chapter Ten Matching Methods with Research Questions 10.1 "Is"versus "ought"questions 10.2 Angle of investigation 10.3 Matching methods with research questions 10.4 Qualitative and quantitative research 10.5 Writing activities and prompts 10.6 Reference materials Chapter Eleven Moving from Writer-based Prose to Reader-based Prose 11.1 Reader-based prose: What is it 11.2 Logic, order, and unity: Is the organizing principle explicit in the thesis statement 11.3 Transitions:Are the relationships between and among parts made explicit in topic sentences 11.4 Unpacking key ideas: Are body parts developed by linking back to key terms in the topic sentences and thesis statement 11.5 Two principles of style 11.6 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 11.7 Reference materials Chapter Twelve Checking Front,Body, and Back Matter 12.1 Front matter: What is it and what should be included in your sub-discipline 12.2 Body:What is it and what should be included in your sub-discipline 12.3 Back matter:What is it and what should be included in your sub-discipline 12.4 Writing activities, prompts, and peer review 12.5 Reference materials References