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Composing an Academic Response

Good Summary Concise Complete Objective Accurate Coherent Author’s Assumptions Explicit opinions: What is bluntly stated by the author. Statements of fact/truth: What must be assumed to accept the selected facts? Any biases or prejudices expressed or implied. Responding to Opinions To what does the expressed opinion relate? What is the…

Academic Writing as a Rhetorical Process

There are two parallel sets of processes involved in academic composition: the mechanical and the rhetorical. The mechanical processes are those that produce writing. The rhetorical processes are those that refine ideas and their presentation to an audience. You cannot separate these activities because each act of writing reflects rhetorical…

Composition and Rhetoric Web Resources

Specialized Portals Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/ Oxford Digital Library http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/ Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ Writing Resources APA Stylehttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resourceshttp://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/ Diana Hacker http://www.dianahacker.com Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary http://www.litencyc.com/ MLA Style http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm The Online Writery http://www.missouri.edu/~writery/ OWL: Purdue’s Online…

Software for Citations vs. Memorization of Academic Style

Admittedly, I dislike the stylistic rules of academic writing. Citations, I understand, but style rules should be limited to those rules that help ensure clarity. In science, I want the Oxford comma, for example, so groupings are clear within a list. I am not a stickler for citations, either, as…