A List of Charts

• PART 1 A Process for Writing
  • Considering audience when writing an email message
  • Checklist for assessing your writing situation
  • Putting your working thesis to the “So what?” test
  • How to solve five common problems with thesis statements
  • Strategies for drafting an introduction
  • Strategies for drafting a conclusion
  • Writing focused and unified paragraphs
  • Common transitions
  • How to write helpful peer review comments
  • Checklist for global revision
  • How to improve your writing with an editing log
• PART 2 Academic Reading and Writing
  • Guidelines for active reading
  • How to read like a writer
  • Guidelines for writing a summary
  • How to draft an analytical thesis statement
  • Writing guide: How to write an analytical essay
  • Recognizing logical fallacies
  • Evaluating ethical, logical, and emotional appeals as a reader
  • Questioning the evidence behind the argument
  • Checklist for reading and evaluating arguments
  • Using ethical, logical, and emotional appeals as a writer
  • How to draft a thesis statement for an argument
  • Anticipating and countering objections
  • Writing guide: How to write an argument essay
  • What counts as evidence in various disciplines?
  • Questions to ask about literature
• PART 3 Clear Sentences
  • Using coordination to combine sentences of equal importance
  • Using subordination to combine sentences of unequal importance
• PART 5 Grammatical Sentences
  • Basic verb forms
  • Modals and their meanings
  • Commonly used noncount nouns
  • At, on, and in to show time and place
• PART 8 Grammar Basics
  • Words that introduce subordinate clauses
• PART 9 Researched Writing
  • Writing for an audience
  • How to enter a research conversation
  • Distinguishing between primary and secondary sources
  • How to go beyond a Google search
  • Information to collect for a working bibliography
  • How to take notes responsibly
  • How to avoid plagiarizing from the web
  • Determining if a source is scholarly
  • How to detect false and misleading sources
  • Writing guide: How to write an annotated bibliography
  • Testing your thesis
  • Writing for an audience
  • How to be a responsible research writer
  • How to paraphrase effectively
  • Using signal phrases in MLA papers
  • Using signal phrases in APA papers
  • Using sentence guides to integrate sources

    MLA STYLE

  • List of MLA in-text citation models
  • List of MLA works cited models
  • General guidelines for the works cited list
  • How to answer the basic question “Who is the author?”
  • MLA citation at a glance: Article in an online journal
  • MLA citation at a glance: Article from a database
  • MLA citation at a glance: Book
  • MLA citation at a glance: Selection from an anthology or a collection
  • MLA citation at a glance: Work from a website
  • How to cite a source reposted from another source

    APA STYLE

  • List of APA in-text citation models
  • List of APA reference list models
  • General guidelines for the reference list
  • APA citation at a glance: Online article in a journal or magazine
  • APA citation at a glance: Article from a database
  • APA citation at a glance: Book
  • APA citation at a glance: Section in a web document