Recommended Textbooks – Supporting Objectives-Related Assignments

A Meeting of Minds

• Annotated Bibliography – Chapter 6, “Researching Questions,” & Chapter 3, “Summarizing and Responding”
• Synthesis – Chapter 7, “Synthesizing the Perspectives of Others”
• Academic Argument – Chapter 8, “Taking a Position: The Academic Argument”
• Rhetorical Analysis – Chapter 4, “Analyzing”
• Process Strategies – Chapter 2, “Reading and Writing Strategically;” Chapter 11, “Revising;” & Chapter 12, “Editing”

Work in Progress

• Rhetorical Analysis – Part Two, “Rhetorical Situations”
• Academic Argument – Part Four, “Analyzing and Writing Academic Arguments”
• Process Strategies – Part One, “Writing, Reading, and Research: An Introduction,” & Part Three, “Practical Strategies for Writing”

Everything’s an Argument

• Rhetorical Analysis – Chapter 5, “Thinking Rhetorically”
• Academic Argument – Most of the Book!
• Proposals – Chapter 11, “Proposals”
• Process Strategies – Chapter 6, “Structuring Arguments”

The Brief Thomson Handbook

• Process Strategies – Chapter 1, “Writing and Rhetoric in Context;” Chapter 2, “Inventing and Developing Content;” & Chapter 3, “Revising, Editing, and Proofreading”
• Academic Argument – Chapter 7, “Writing Arguments”
• Research Strategies – Section 3, “Conducting Research”

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