List of Sample Student Essays and "The Active Voice" Essays
From the Publisher
Preface
Part One: Academic Reading: An Introduction
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Academic Writing
What Is Academic Writing?
- What Are Conventions?
General Features of Academic
Writing
- Knowledge across the Disciplines
- Audience: Who Reads Academic Writing?
The Purposes of Academic Writing
- An Exchange of Ideas
- Analysis, Synthesis, and Academic Writing
The Influence of the Academic Community
- A Self-Regulating Community
Chapter 2
Conventions of Academic Writing
Authors
Length
Research
- Research Sources
- Documenting Sources
Voice and Style
- Objectivity and Style
- Language and Academic Writing
Strategies for Approaching Academic Essays
- Previewing Content: Titles
- Features
of Introductions in Academic Writing
- Features of Conclusions in Academic Essays
Chapter 3 Common Types of Academic Essays
Text-based Analyses
Critical Reviews
Empirical Reports
- Empirical Studies with Qualitative Methodologies
Tables, Graphs, and Other
Visuals
- Reading Tables and Graphs
Academic Essay Formats
Sample Text-based Analysis
- Excerpt from "Speed That Kills: The Role of Technology in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour,'" Jeremy Foote
Sample Critical Review
Professional Writing Sample: Waste Not, Want Not, Emit
Less, Jessica Aschemann-Witzel
Sample Empirical Study
Adaptive Responses to Social Exclusion: Social Rejection Improves Detection of Real and Fake Smiles, Michael J. Bernstein et al.
Forgot-a-Lock: Increasing the CRD Bicycle Modal Share, James Bennett
Summarizing the Differences
among the Three Types of Essays
Chapter 4 Critical Thinking
When Do You Use Critical Thinking?
Inferences and Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking and Skepticism
The Spirit of Inquiry
Critical Factors in Critical Thinking
Drawing Conclusions
Using Critical
Thinking to Determine the Writer's Attitude
Chapter 5 Reading Strategies
Interacting with Texts
- Annotating Texts
- Pre-reading Strategies: Reading Purpose
Reading Strategies: The Big Picture
- Selective Reading: Scanning and Focused Reading
Reading Strategies:
The Detail Work
- Connotations and Denotations
- Linguistic Resources
Part Two: Academic Writing
Chapter 6 Writing Summaries
Times and Places for Summaries
- Summarizing and Research
The Stand-Alone Summary: The Précis
- Ten Pointers for Précis
Writing
- A How-To of Précis Writing
- Some Summary Writing Strategies
- Replacing Words
- Sample Précis
- Taking Race Out of Human Genetics, Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, and Sarah Tishkoff
Chapter 7 Writing Rhetorical Analyses
The Rhetorical
Analysis: Explaining the How and Why
- What to Include in a Rhetorical Analysis
- Organizing a Rhetorical Analysis
- Explaining/Summarizing
- Analyzing
Writing a Rhetorical Analysis of an Argument
Sample Student Rhetorical Analysis
- Rhetorical Analysis of "Youth Mental
Health Services: Promoting Wellness or Treating Mental Illness>" by Ashok Malla, Alyssa Frampton, and Bilal Issaoui Mansouri, Lia McHardy
Chapter 8 An Overview of the Essay
The Stages in Writing
- Subject, Topic, and Thesis
- Finding Support
- Relating Parts and Discovering
Structure
- Composing
- Revising
The Structure of the Essay
- Writing Introductions
- Writing Body Paragraphs
- Writing Strong Paragraphs
- Paragraph Development: Rhetorical Patterns
- Paragraph Development: Kinds of Evidence
- Issues of Credibility
- Writing
Conclusions
Chapter 9 Writing Argumentative Essays
Argumentative Purpose
- Academic Arguments
- Models of Formal Argument
- Toulmin: Linking Claim and Evidence
- Facts versus Opinions
Claims in Argument
- Arguable Claims
- Specific Claims
- Realistic
Claims
Kinds of Evidence in Argumentative Essays
- Facts, Statistics, and Academic Studies
- Experts
- Examples and Illustrations
Two Kinds of Reasoning
- Faulty Arguments
Failures in Reasoning
Giving Life to Logic: Strategies for Argument
- Dramatic Introductions
and Hooks
- Precedents
- Making Concessions
- Appeal to Audience and Reader Interests
- Offering Solutions
- Emotional and Ethical Appeals
- Establishing Common Ground
- Logical Reasoning
- Rebuttal Strategies
Organizing Your Argument
Sample Student
Argumentative Essay (APA Citation Style)
- Social Media: An Effective Resource in Facilitating Peer Support across a Spectrum of Mental Health Concerns, Victoria Greene
Sample Professional Argumentative Essay with Annotations
- Added Sugars on Nutrition Labels: A Way to Support
Population Health in Canada, Jodi T. Bernstein and Mary R. L'Abbé
Making an Oral Presentation
- Purpose
- Audience
- Guidelines and Expectations
- Structure and Content
- Preparation
- Delivery
- Make Your Presentation Stand Out
Chapter 10 Writing Research
Papers
Coming Up with a Topic
Preparing for Research
Research Proposals
- Sample Proposal
- Proposal for Research Essay on the Effects of Implementing Prison-Based Needle Exchange Programs in Canadian Federal Prisons, Kate Newcombe
Recording Important Information
-
Organizing Research Notes
Using Credible Sources
- Credibility Issues in Online Sources
Integrating and Documenting Sources
- Integrating Your Sources: Summary versus Paraphrase
- Direct Quotation and Mixed Format
- Integrating Quotations
Documenting Your Sources
-
Plagiarism
Major Documentation Styles
MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
- MLA Sample Formats
APA (American Psychological Association) Style
- APA Sample Formats
Sample Student Expository Research Paper
- Head Impacts among Youth Athletes Must Be Reduced in Sports,
Hirshdeep Bhatti
Part Three: The Reader
Section One: Literacy and Learning
Academic Language and the Challenge of Reading for Learning about Science, Catherine E. Snow
The Politics of #diversifyyourfeed in the Context of Black Lives Matter, Hester Hockin-Boyers and
Chloe Clifford-Astbury
Overcoming Resistance to Change: Using Narratives to Create More Positive Intergroup Attitudes, Sohad Murrar and Markus Brauer
Growing Up in the Digital Age: Early Learning and Family Media Ecology, Rachel Barr
Section Two: Our Earth
Waste Not, Want Not,
Emit Less, Jessica Aschemann-Witzel
Climate Change: What Psychology Can Offer in Terms of Insights and Solutions, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Jeff Joiremann, and Manfred Milinski
Community Perspectives on the Impact of Climate Change on Health in Nunavut, Canada, G. K. Healey et al.
Section
Three: Nutrition and Health
A Ban on Marketing of Foods/Beverages to Children: The Who, Why, What, and How of a Population Health Intervention, Daniel J. Dutton et al.
Youth Mental Health Services: Promoting Wellness or Treating Mental Illness? Ashok Malla, Alyssa Frampton, and Bilal
Issaoui Mansouri
Social Media Usage among University Students during Exams: Distraction or Academic Support? Camille Le Gall et al.
Self-reported Food Skills of University Students, Courtney Wilson et al.
Section Four: Indigenous Topics
Mental Wellness in Canada's Aboriginal
Communities: Striving toward Reconciliation, Patricia Boksa, Ridha Joober, and Laurence J. Kirmayer
Creating Canada: Emily Pauline Johnson and the Dramatic Monologue, Lindsey E. R. O'Neil
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: The Role of Grassroots Organizations and Social Media in
Education, Kaitlyn Watson
Section Five: Race for Equality
Tess Too? Revisiting the Chase Scene in Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the #MeToo Era, Shouhua Qi
Social Justice and Social Determinants of Health: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexed, and Queer Youth in Canada,
Deborah Dysart-Gale
Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science, Michael Yudell et al.
Gender Discrimination in Sport in the 21st Century: A Commentary on Trans-Athlete Exclusion in Canada from a Sociohistorical Perspective, Sarah
Teetzel and Charlene Weaving
Section Six: Voices of Canadians
Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belong of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants, Audrey Kobayashi and Valerie Preston
The Senate and the Fight against the 1885 Chinese Immigration Act, Christopher G.
Anderson
Learning Disabilities in Canada, Kim Calder Stegemann
Lost in the App Store: The State of the Canadian Game App Economy, David B. Nieborg, Chris Young, and Daniel Joseph
Section Seven: Behind the Wheel
Impaired Driving and Legalization of Recreational Cannabis, Sarah
B. Windle et al.
Addressing Driver Aggression: Contributions from Psychological Science, Christine M. Wickens, Robert E. Mann, and David L. Wisenthal
The Social Dilemma of Autonomous Vehicles, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, and Iyad Rahwan
Section Eight: Pandemic
Perspectives
Boredom in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trait Boredom Proneness, the Desire to Act, and Rule-Breaking, James Boylan et al.
The Immunological Case for Staying Active during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Richard J. Simpson and Emmanuel Katsanis
COVID-19 and the World Food System, A.
Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Section Nine: Academic Dialogues
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Can We Live Forever? A Commentary on Schnittker and Karandinos, Joel Lexchin
Evidence Against Depiction as Fiction: A Comment on 'Fictional First Memories' (Akhtar, Justice, Morrison, & Conway, 2018),
Patricia Bauer et al.
Appendix: A Grammar and Punctuation Primer for Academic Writers
Glossary
Subject Index
Index
Student Resources:
· 10 video lessons covering important skills such as how to write thesis statements, how to avoid plagiarism, and how write with unity and coherence
· 10 self-grading chapter quizzes (10-20 multiple-choice questions per quiz)
· 10 grammar quizzes so students
can check their knowledge of concepts and determine where further study is required (10-15 multiple-choice questions per quiz)
· Flashcards of all key terms and their definitions from the text to help reinforce important terms and concepts
Instructor Resources:
· An Instructor's
Manual provides answer keys to the activities in Parts One and Two of the book; answer keys to selected post-reading questions in Part Three (The Reader); and additional essay questions for the readings.
· PowerPoint slides (10-25 slides per chapter) summarize key points from each chapter and
may be edited to suit instructors' needs.
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 Academic Acts (with Sean Henry, 2021); The Empowered Writer, 4e (with Kathleen Moran, 2022); Becoming an Active Reader 3e (2020); and Writing by Choice, 3e (2015) among other
works.
Academic Acts - Eric Henderson and Sean Henry
Becoming an Active Reader - Eric Henderson
The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook - William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes
The Canadian Writer's Handbook - William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn and Judy Brown
