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

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cademic writing can be a challenging hurdle for students entering col-

lege. They must learn new habits of writing, reading, and even think-

ing. That’s where From Inquiry to Academic Writing comes in. It addresses

the challenges of academic writing, offering a clear, methodical approach

to meeting those challenges. Our students, and many others, have told us

that our approach demystifies academic writing, while helping them to see

that its skills carry over to civic participation and life issues beyond their

college years.

Specifically, From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide is a

rhetoric text with readings and activities that introduce students to college-

level inquiry, analysis, and argument. It is based on a first-year composi-

tion course in which we guide students to produce essays that use evidence

and sources in increasingly complex ways. In this book, as in our classes,

we present academic writing as a collaborative conversation, undertaken

to pursue new knowledge. We teach students to see that academic writing

is a social act that involves working responsibly with the ideas of others.

At the same time, we encourage students to see themselves as makers of

knowledge who use sources to advance arguments about important aca-

demic and cultural issues.

This third edition encompasses a greater range of academic habits

and skills than the second, particularly strategies and genres of research,

with more examples of students using the strategies. And for the first time,

From Inquiry to Academic Writing is available with LaunchPad Solo, book-

specific multimodal materials in a customizable course space.

■ How From Inquiry to Academic Writing Is Organized

The book starts by addressing academic thinking and proceeds through

academic reading and research, integrating academic writing through-

out. Yet the chapters are freestanding enough to be taught in any order

that suits your course. What unites them is our constant emphasis on the

Preface for Instructors

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