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Writing Skills for Doctoral Students Kathy Neff

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Writing Skills for

Doctoral Students

Kathy Neff

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The Writing Process Prewriting Writing Rewriting

The Five C’s Common Errors APA

Documentation

TOPICS

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WRITING WORKS

ONLY

WHEN IT WORKS

FOR THE

READER.

REMEMBER THIS:

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THE WRITING SITUATION

Purpose Audience Due Date Content Format Length Documentation Style

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WRITING IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A THINKING TASK

Knowledge Comprehension Application ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION

WRITING AND THINKING

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What IS good writing?

SO…..

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COMPLETE

CLEAR

CONCISE

CORRECT

COMPELLING

Characteristics of Effective Writing

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HOW DO YOU START TO WRITE?

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PREWRITING

WRITING

REWRITING

THE WRITING PROCESS

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Generate ideas

Do research

Organize ideas

Plan content and structure

Purposes of Prewriting

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Prewriting

Brainstorming

Free Writing

Mind Mapping

Branching

Reporter’s Questions

Cubing

Outlining

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Writing

Just

DO it!

Do just IT!

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REVISE

EDIT

PROOFREAD

Rewriting

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“DATA”

“SIGNIFICANT”

“THEIR”

COMMON ERRORS

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

COMMAS

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DOCUMENTATION

Citations

No URLs Author (or title) and

Year Page/paragraph

numbers with quotations

Punctuation after citation/parentheses

Personal communication

Reference Page

Alphabetical order Hanging Indent Author name Capitalization in

titles Formatting in titles

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Integrate sourceinformationsmoothly!

DOCUMENTATION SANDWICH

Lead in or signal phrase

In-text citation

Information from a source

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AcknowledgesAgreesArguesAsserts BelievesClaims ConcludesConfirms

ContendsDemonstratesDescribes

EmphasizesExplains FindsIllustrates Indicates

Maintains NotesObserves Points

outProves QuestionsRecognizes

RecommendsRefutes RejectsRemarks ReportsSays ShowsStates

SpeculatesSuggests Supports

VERBS YOU CAN USE

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Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Diana Hacker Bedford Handbook http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/

bedhandbook7enew/Player/Pages/Main.aspx

Brian’s List http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

errors.html

ONLINE RESOURCES

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QUESTIONS?