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

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Relevant FeatuRes oF From InquIry to AcAdemIc WrItIng:

A PrActIcAl guIde, thiRd edition

develop facility in respond-

ing to a variety of situations

and contexts, calling for

purposeful shifts in voice,

tone, level of formality,

design, medium, and/or

structure.

Throughout the chapters students are instructed to attend to situations

and contexts and given strategies for recognizing and responding to them

in their composing. For example:

•   Chapter 4 concludes with an activity for considering genre and

audience shifts (p. 105).

•   Chapter 5 shows how to establish a context for a thesis

(pp. 106–128).

•   Chapter 8 shows analysis and modulation of appeals, including

examples of visual appeals.

understand and use a

variety of technologies

to address a range of

audiences.

The range of texts and technologies in the print text and available

through LaunchPad Solo help students understand and analyze different

technologies they can use in their own composing.

•   A poster presentation in LaunchPad Solo is affiliated with the

student research paper in Chapter 11.

•   Multimodal texts available through LaunchPad deploy a range of

strategies via different technologies, for example video, PowerPoint,

performance, documentaries.

Match the capacities of dif-

ferent environments (e.g.,

print & electronic) to vary-

ing rhetorical situations.

•   The rhetorical and analytical instruction in the text chapters (1–11)

help students match the capacities of different composing technolo-

gies to different rhetorical situations and the multimodal examples

available through LaunchPad.

critical thinking, reading, and composing

use composing and reading

for inquiry, learning, think-

ing, and communicating in

various rhetorical contexts.

•   Chapter 1 sets the stage for academic writing as a form of inquiry

(pp. 1–28).

•   Chapters 2, 3, and 4 show critical reading in action.

•   Chapters 5, 8, and 9 show how to generate texts and compositions

from reading in various rhetorical contexts.

read a diverse range of

texts, attending especially

to relationships between

assertion and evidence, to

patterns of organization,

to interplay between verbal

and nonverbal elements,

and how these features

function for different audi-

ences and situations.

•   Chapter 3 offers instruction in identifying claims and assertions and

relating them to evidence (pp. 55–79).

•   Chapter 5 presents the thesis statements as ways of developing

claims and using evidence depending on the situation

(pp. 106–128).

•   Chapter 9 shows how to shape a composition via different patterns

of organization (pp. 257–285).

•   Multimodal texts available through LaunchPad demonstrate rela-

tionships between assertion and evidence, patterns of organization,

the interplay between verbal and nonverbal elements, and how these

features function for different audiences and situations.

Locate and evaluate

primary and secondary

research materials, includ-

ing journal articles, essays,

books, databases, & infor-

mal internet sources.

•   Chapter 6, From Finding to Evaluating Sources, presents instruction

in locating and evaluating primary and secondary research materi-

als, including journal articles, essays, books, databases, and infor-

mal internet sources.

•   Chapter 11, Other Methods of Inquiry, helps students do primary

research via interviews and focus groups.

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