From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader

Preface for Instructors 
Brief Contents 
How This Book Supports WPA Outcomes for First-Year Composition 
1  Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers
What Is Academic Writing? 
What Are the Habits of Mind of Academic Writers? 
Academic Writers Make Inquiries 
       Steps to Inquiry 
       A Practice Sequence: Inquiry Activities 
Academic Writers Seek and Value Complexity 
       *Moves to Model in Academic Writing 
       Steps to Seeking and Valuing Complexity 
       A Practice Sequence: Seeking and Valuing Complexity 
Academic Writers See Writing as a Conversation 
       *Moves to Model in Academic Conversations  
       Steps to Joining an Academic Conversation 
       A Practice Sequence: Joining an Academic Conversation 
Academic Writers Understand That Writing Is a Process 
       Collect Information and Material 
          Steps to Collecting Information and Material 
       Draft, and Draft Again 
          Steps to Drafting 
       Revise Significantly 
          Steps to Revising 
Academic Writers Reflect 
       Steps to Reflection 
       A Practice Sequence: Reflection Activities 
Becoming Academic: Three Narratives 
       Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me 
       Richard Rodriguez, Scholarship Boy 
       *Tara Westover, from Educated 
       A Practice Sequence: Composing a Literacy Narrative 

2  From Reading as a Writer to Writing as a Reader 
Reading as an Act of Composing: Annotating 
Reading as a Writer: Analyzing a Text Rhetorically 
E. D. Hirsch Jr., Preface to Cultural Literacy 
       Identify the Situation 
       Identify the Writer''s Purpose 
       Identify the Writer''s Claims 
          *Moves to Model for Making a Claim 
*Identify the Writer''s Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Identify the Writer''s Audience 
       Steps to Analyzing a Text Rhetorically 
       A Practice Sequence: Analyzing a Text Rhetorically 
*Nick Hanauer, Education Isn''t Enough 
       Writing as a Reader: Composing a Rhetorical Analysis 
David Tyack, Whither History Textbooks?  
       An Annotated Student Rhetorical Analysis 
Quentin Collie, A Rhetorical Analysis of "Whither History Textbooks?" (Student Writing)  
       Writing a Rhetorical Analysis 
Sherry Turkle, The Flight from Conversation 
       A Practice Sequence: Writing a Rhetorical Analysis 

3  From Writing Summaries and Paraphrases to Writing Yourself into Academic Conversations 
Summaries, Paraphrases, and Quotations 
Writing a Paraphrase 
       Steps to Writing a Paraphrase 
       A Practice Sequence: Writing a Paraphrase 
Writing a Summary 
Clive Thompson, On the New Literacy 
       Describe the Key Claims of the Text 
       Select Examples to Illustrate the Author''s Argument 
       Present the Gist of the Author''s Argument 
       Contextualize What You Summarize 
          Steps to Writing a Summary 
          *Moves to Model for Summarizing  
          A Practice Sequence: Writing a Summary 
Writing Yourself into Academic Conversations 
       Steps to Writing Yourself into an Academic Conversation 
       A Practice Sequence: Writing Yourself into an Academic Conversation 
Tom Standage, History Retweets Itself 

4  From Identifying Claims to Analyzing Arguments 
Identifying Types of Claims 
Dana Radcliffe, Dashed Hopes: Why Aren''t Social Media Delivering Democracy?  
       Identify Claims of Fact 
       Identify Claims of Value 
       Identify Claims of Policy 
          Steps to Identifying Claims 
          A Practice Sequence: Identifying Claims 
Analyzing Arguments 
       Analyze the Reasons Used to Support a Claim 
       Identify Concessions 
       Identify Counterarguments 
*Moves to Model for Analyzing Arguments 
An Annotated Student Argument 
Marques Camp, The End of The World May Be Nigh, and It''s the Kindle''s Fault (Student Writing)  
       Steps to Analyzing an Argument 
       A Practice Sequence: Analyzing an Argument 
Susan D. Blum, The United States of (Non)Reading: The End of Civilization or a New Era?  
       Recognizing Logical Fallacies  
       Analyzing and Comparing Arguments 
Stuart Rojstaczer, Grade Inflation Gone Wild 
Phil Primack, Doesn''t Anybody Get a C Anymore?  
       A Practice Sequence: Analyzing and Comparing Arguments 

5  From Identifying Issues to Forming Questions 
Identifying Issues 
       Draw on Your Personal Experience 
       Identify What Is Open to Dispute 
       Resist Binary Thinking 
       Build on and Extend the Ideas of Others 
       Read to Discover a Writer''s Frame 
       Consider the Constraints of the Situation 
          Steps to Identifying Issues 
Identifying Issues in an Essay 
Anna Quindlen, Doing Nothing Is Something 
       A Practice Sequence: Identifying Issues 
Formulating Issue-Based Questions 
       Refine Your Topic 
       Explain Your Interest in the Topic 
       Identify an Issue 
          *Moves to Model for Identifying an Issue 
       Formulate Your Topic as a Question 
       Acknowledge Your Audience 
          Steps to Formulating an Issue-Based Question 
          A Practice Sequence: Formulating an Issue-Based Question 
Academic Writing for Analysis 
*Ronald E. Purser, Mindful Schools 

6  From Formulating to Developing a Thesis 
Working versus Definitive Theses 
Developing a Working Thesis: Four Models 
       The Correcting-Misinterpretations Model 
       The Filling-the-Gap Model 
       The Modifying-What-Others-Have-Said Model 
       The Hypothesis-Testing Model 
          A Practice Sequence: Identifying Types of Theses 
Establishing a Context for a Thesis 
An Annotated Student Introduction: Providing a Context for a Thesis 
Colin O''Neill, Money Matters: Framing the College Access Debate (Student Writing)  
       Establish That the Issue Is Current and Relevant 
       Briefly Present What Others Have Said 
       Explain What You See as the Problem