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Contents
  1. Acknowledgements

  2. Accessibility Statement

  3. How to Use This Book – Instructors

  4. How to Use This Book – Students

  5. General Introduction

  6. Part 1: Description, Narration, and Reflection
    1. Section Introduction

    2. Chapter One: Describing a Scene or Experience

    3. Chapter Two: Telling a Story

    4. Chapter Three: Reflecting on an Experience

    5. Assignment: Descriptive Personal Narrative

  7. Part 2: Text Wrestling
    1. Section Introduction

    2. Chapter Four: Interpretation, Analysis, and Close Reading

    3. Chapter Five: Summary and Response

    4. Chapter Six: Analysis and Synthesis

    5. Assignment: Text wrestling Analysis

  8. Part 3: Research and Argumentation
    1. Section Introduction

    2. Chapter Seven: Argumentation

    3. Chapter Eight: Research Concepts

    4. Chapter Nine: Interacting with Sources

    5. Assignment: Persuasive Research Essay

  9. Additional Readings: By Both Student and Professional Authors

  10. Appendix A: Concepts and Strategies for Revision

  11. Appendix B: Engaged Reading Strategies

  12. Appendix C: Metacognition

  13. Additional Recommended Resources

  14. Glossary

  15. Full Citations and Permissions

EmpoWORD: A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers

Additional Recommended Resources

  • “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” from NCTE’s Conference on College Composition and Communication
  • “Revising Drafts” by the Writing Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • “‘I need you to say “I”’: Why First Person Is Important in College Writing” by Kate McKinney Maddalena [essay]
  • “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” by Kyle D. Stedman [essay]
  • Your Logical Fallacy Is…
  • “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott
    from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anchor, pp 21-27.
  • “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love” by Jim W. Corder [JSTOR access]
  • “The Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters” by Jane Gallop
    from Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, volume 16, issue 3, 2000, pp. 7-17.
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
    • Purdue OWL Home
    • Purdue OWL MLA Style & Citation
    • Purdue OWL APA Style & Citation
    • Purdue OWL Chicago/Turabian Style & Citation
  • A Pocket Style Manual (7th edition, 2016), edited by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers [WorldCat]
  • A Pocket Style Manual (7th edition, 2016), edited by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers [Amazon]
  • North Carolina State University Citation Builder
  • Citation Management Software – Overview Video
  • Zotero
  • Mendeley

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EmpoWORD: A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers Copyright © 2018 by Shane Abrams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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