Writing Resources

For a variety of resources about writing and research, see

"Pro Sem ILP [Independent Learning Project] Boot Camp." Cambridge College.

http://www.inforesearching.com/prosem/index.html

Strategies in essay writing include organizational strategies for writing and strategies for critical analysis (See below).

Behrens, Laurence, Leonard J. Rosen, and bonnie Beedles. A Sequence for Academic Writing. 2nd ed. ABLongman, n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2010.

The site's description of the text: " the hallmark writing sequence of the best-selling

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, this brief rhetoric focuses on the key academic writing strategies of summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique."

Chapters

Summary, Paraphrase and Quotation

Critical Reading and Critique

Writing as a Process

Explanatory Synthesis

Argument Synthesis

Analysis

Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources