ISE A Writer's Resource (comb-version) Student Edition

Elaine P. Maimon is President of Governors State University in the south suburbs of Chicago, where she is also Professor of English. Previously she was Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Provost (Chief Campus Officer) at Arizona State University West, and Vice President of Arizona State University as a whole. In the 1970s, she initiated and then directed the Beaver College writing-across-the-curriculum program, one of the first WAC programs in the nation. A founding Executive Board member of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), she has directed national institutes to improve the teaching of writing and to disseminate the principles of writing across the curriculum. With a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she later helped to create the Writing Across the University (WATU) program, she has also taught and served as an academic administrator at Haverford College, Brown University, and Queens College. Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She has held several national leadership positions, including as President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). She also co-edited the journal Assessing Writing for seven years, and she is the immediate past editor of College Composition and Communication. Her scholarship ranges from reflection and ePortfolios to writing transfer and digital literacies. Previously, she taught at UNC Charlotte and at Clemson University, where she directed the Pearce Center for Professional Communication and created the Class of 1941 Studio for Student Communication, both of which are dedicated to supporting communication across the curriculum.

Tab 1: Writing Today1. Writing across the Curriculum and beyond College2. Writing Situations3. Audience and Academic English
Tab 2: Writing and Designing Texts4. Reading and Writing: The Critical Connection5. Planning and Shaping6. Drafting Text and Visuals7. Revising and Editing8. Designing Academic Texts and Portfolios
Tab 3: Common Assignments9. Informative Reports10. Interpretive Analyses and Writing about Literature11. Arguments12. Other Kinds of Assignments13. Oral Presentations14. Multimodal Writing
Tab 4: Writing Beyond College15. Service Learning and Community-Service Writing16. Writing to Raise Awareness and Share Concern17. Writing to Get and keep a Job
Tab 5: Researching18. Understanding Research19. Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources10. Finding and Creating Effective Visuals, Audio Clips, and Videos21. Evaluating Sources22. Doing Research in the Archive, Field, and Lab23. Plagiarism, Copyright, and Intellectual Property24. Working with Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism25. Writing the Paper
Tab 6: MLA Documentation Style26. MLA Style: In-Text Citations27. MLA Style: List of Works Cited28. MLA Style: Explanatory Notes and Acknowledgments29. MLA Style: Format30. Sample Research Project in MLA Style
Tab 7: APA Documentation Style31. APA Style: In-Text Citations32. APA Style: References33. APA Style: Format34. Sample Research Project in APA Style
Tab 8: Chicago and CSE Documentation Style35. Chicago Documentation Style Elements36. Sample from a Student Research Project in Chicago Style37. CSE Documentation Style
Tab 9: Editing for Clarity38. Wordy Sentences39. Missing Words40. Mixed Constructions41. Confusing Shifts42. Faulty Parallelism43. Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers44. Coordination and Subordination45. Sentence Variety46. Active Verbs47. Appropriate Language48. Exact Language49. The Dictionary and the Thesaurus50. Glossary of Usage
Tab 10: Editing for Grammar Conventions51. Sentence Fragments52. Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences53. Subject-Verb Agreement54. Problems with Verbs55. Problems with Pronouns56. Problems with Adjectives and Adverbs
Tab 11: Editing for Correctness: Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling57. Commas58. Semicolons59. Colons60. Apostrophes61. Quotation Marks62. Other Punctuation Marks63. Capitalization64. Abbreviations and Symbols65. Numbers66. Italics (Underlining)67. Hyphens68. Spelling
Tab 12: Basic Grammar Review with Tips for Multilingual Writers69. Parts of Speech70. Parts of Sentences71. Phrases and Dependent Clauses72. Types of Sentences
Tab 13: Further Resources for LearningSelected Terms from across the CurriculumDiscipline-Specific ResourcesTimeline of World EventsWorld MapIndexIndex for Multilingual WritersQuick Guide to Key ResourcesAbbreviations and Symbols for Editing and Proofreading