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Introduction Pre-Writing | What is Academic Writing?,Types of Essays,Strategies and Approaches for the Humanities | ![]() |
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Formulating a Thesis | Identifying a Main Idea - Formulating a Theory / Making an Analysis - Thesis Statement Examples | ![]() |
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Good and Bad Thesis Statements | Poor Thesis Statements - Types of Research Topics - Implicit Questions within Research Topics | ![]() |
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Essay Structure | Good Paragraphs - Parts of the Essay: Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion - The 5-Paragraph Essay | ![]() |
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Rhetorical Strategies | Language Variety - Academic Vocabulary - Precision, Directness, Neutral Expressions and “Extreme” Claims - Writing Critically | ![]() |
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Writing from Research | Purpose of Research - Academic Sources - Other types of sources - Evaluating your sources - “Common Knowledge” - The CRAAP Test | ![]() |
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Reporting, Paraphrasing and Avoiding Plagiarism | Reporting what you read - Paraphrasing and Quotations - How to avoid Plagiarism | ![]() |
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Paraphrasing (Continued) Academic Tone Style and Language | Paraphrasing Examples - Academic Tone - Concision - Details in Writing - Sentence Structure - Transition Signals | ![]() |
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Format and Referencing | MLA Format - Signal and Reporting Verbs - Grammatical and Syntactical Points - Issues in Punctuation - Common Errors | ![]() |
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Revision and Editing Course Review | Editing your work - Peer Critique - Strong and Weak Papers - Consistency - Review of the Course - Works Cited | ![]() |