From Inquiry to Academic Writing A Practical Guide, 3rd edition

xvi CONTENTS

Formulate Your Topic as a Question 95

Acknowledge Your Audience 95

■ (^) Steps to Formulating an issue-Based Question 96
■ (^) A Practice Sequence: Formulating an issue-Based
Question 96

An Academic essay for Analysis 98

wiLLiAM dereSiewicz, the end of Solitude 98

5 From Formulating to Developing

a Thesis 106

Working versus Definitive theses 107

Developing a Working thesis: four Models 108

The Correcting-Misinterpretations Model 108

The Filling-the-Gap Model 109

The Modifying-What-Others-Have-Said Model 110

The Hypothesis-Testing Model 110

■ (^) Steps to Formulating a Working Thesis:
Four Models 111
■ (^) A Practice Sequence: identifying Types of Theses 111

establishing a context for a thesis 112

An Annotated student Introduction: Providing a context

for a thesis 113

coLin o’neiLL, Money Matters: framing the college

Access debate 113

Establish That the Issue Is Current and Relevant 116

Briefly Present What Others Have Said 116

Explain What You See as the Problem 117

State Your Thesis 117

■ (^) Steps to Establishing a Context for a Thesis 118
Analyze the Context of a Thesis 118
kriS Gutiérrez, from teaching toward Possibility:
Building cultural Supports for robust Learning 119
■ (^) A Practice Sequence: Building a Thesis 122

An Annotated student essay: stating and supporting

a thesis 123

veroniA StAfford, texting and Literacy 124

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