Preface
Introduction: On Academic Writing
Act I Foundations of Academic Writing
1. The Interrelated Skills of Thinking, Reading, and Writing
2. Purpose and Audience
3. The Conventions of Academic Writing
4. Stages of Writing
5. Research
6. Essay
Writing
7. A Grammar Primer
Act II Summary
8. Summarizing: An Everyday Skill
9. Summary as Overview: The Abstract
10. The Complete Picture: Extended Summaries
11. A Broader Focus: Annotated Bibliographies
12. Summaries, Research, and Your Writing
13. Less Is
More: Strategies for Concise Writing
Act III Analysis
14. What Is Critical Thinking?
15. Engaging with a Text
16. Rhetorical Analysis of an Argument
17. Analyzing Weak and Misleading Arguments
18. Examples of Arguments
Act IV Synthesis
19. To Quote or
Not to Quote: How to Use Your Sources
20. An Introduction to Citation Styles
21. Getting Down to It: Outlining and Composing
22. A Case Study: A Student Research Paper
Readings
"Managing the Modern Infodemic" by Nancy Tomes
"Stop Whitewashing Our National History" by
Tayo Bero
"The Case for Semicolons" by Lauren Oyler
"Cybervictimization among Pre-Adolescents in a Community-Based Sample in Canada: Prevalence & Predictors" (Excerpt) by Ahmad Mobin, Cindy Xin Feng, and Cory Neudorf
"The Social Price of Constant Connectivity: Smartphones Impose Subtle
Costs on Well-Being" by Kostadin Kushlev, Ryan Dwyer, and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Glossary
Index
Instructor's Manual:
For each chapter:
· Chapter summary
· List of key terms
· 2-5 discussion topics
· 2-5 class assignments/activities
· 2-5 further resources (links to recommended videos, podcasts, articles, and websites)
PowerPoint Slides:
For each
chapter:
- 5-15 slides
Eric Henderson is a lecturer in the Academic and Technical Writing Program at the University of Victoria. Dr. Henderson has taught at the University of Victoria for two decades, teaching courses in composition and rhetoric. He previously taught courses in American Literature at Simon Fraser
University. He has published numerous articles and reviews in leading journals and is the author of the OUP Canada titles The Active Reader, 4e (2018); Becoming an Active Reader 3e (2020); The Empowered Writer, 4e (with Kathleen Moran, 2022); and Writing by Choice, 3e (2015) among other works.
Sean Henry is a continuing sessional lecturer in the Department of English and the Academic and Technical Writing Program at the University of Victoria, where he has taught since 2009. Dr. Henry was educated at the University of Victoria, Queen's University, and Western University, and
specializes in the English Renaissance in addition to first-year literature and composition. He has previously taught at Western University and Camosun College.
The Active Reader - Eric Henderson
Becoming an Active Reader - Eric Henderson
The Empowered Writer - Kathleen Moran and Eric Henderson
The Canadian Writer's Handbook - The late William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, The late Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes
The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook - William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes
Essay Do's and Don'ts - Lucia Engkent and Garry Engkent
Making Sense - Margot Northey
Writing with Style - Heather Pyrcz
Practical Grammar - Maxine Ruvinsky
