Primary Navigation
Book Contents Navigation
Introduction
1. The Characteristics of Academic Writing
2. The Writing Process
3. Academic Reading Skills
4. Note-Taking Skills
5. In-Depth Reading
6. Reasons to take a Writing Course in the Age of AI
7. Paraphrasing Introduction
8. Paraphrasing Techniques
9. Paraphrasing Toolkit
10. Paraphrasing Practice
11. Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct
12. Avoiding Plagiarism
13. Summarizing
14. Summary Types: Global and Selective
15. Techniques for Identifying Main Ideas in an Article
16. Summarizing and Generative AI
17. Reporting Verbs
18. Responding to Writing
19. Response Techniques
20. Partial Quotes
21. Combining a Summary and Response
22. Exploring the Essay
23. Creating a Research Question
24. Creating a Rough Outline
25. Writing a Thesis Statement
26. Creating a Working Bibliography
27. Selecting Evidence
28. Writing a Detailed Outline
29. Topic Sentences
30. Paragraph Basics
31. Paragraph Structure and Development
32. Introduction to Evidence Integration
33. Steps for Integrating Evidence
34. Avoiding "Dumped Evidence"
35. Introductions
36. Conclusions
37. The Research Process
38. Choosing and Narrowing a Topic
39. Finding and Evaluating Sources
40. Distinguishing Scholarly Journal Articles from Popular Articles
41. Reading Academic Journal Articles
42. Evaluating Popular Sources
43. Writing Argumentative Essays
44. Patterns of Organization for Argumentative Essays
45. Developing Research Questions and Thesis Statements for Argumentative Essays
46. Counterargument and Refutation Development
47. Logical Fallacies
48. Hedging
49. Documentation: Citing your Sources using APA Style
50. Citations
51. References
52. APA Review
53. What the Research Says about Peer Review
54. Peer Response Training
55. Academic Writing Tips
56. Cohesion and Coherence in Academic Writing
57. Transition Words for Cohesion and Coherence
58. Proofreading Your Essay
Glossary
Credits
Previous/next navigation
Academic Writing I Copyright © by UW-Madison ESL Program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.