Sin boldly! : Dr. Dave's guide to writing the college paper /
An irreverent, smart, and practical writing guide unlike any other on the market.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2004
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Some Really Crude Basics
- What Is a College Paper?
- Format and Length
- Timing Counts!
- How Much Work Do I Have to Do?
- Picking Your Nose at 4 a.m.
- Choosing a Topic and Telling Your Story
- K.I.S.S.
- Plagiarize
- Brainstorming
- Why Must We Fight?
- Daring Dissent
- Swindler's List
- Finding Patterns: Comparisons and Contrasts
- Freeing the Slaves
- Look for the Conflict
- End with a Bang
- Before Plunging In
- In the Beginning ... Pulling Your Creation Out of the Void
- Do I Really Need an Outline?
- What's in a Title?
- The Topic Paragraph
- Topic Sentences
- Keep the Flow Going
- Sentences and Paragraphs
- Be Specific
- Show; Don't Tell
- Choosing a Voice
- Who Must You Pretend to Be?
- Faking Other Voices
- Sin Boldly!
- Dialogue
- Voices to Avoid
- Dissing the Prof
- Imagining Your Audience
- Ungrammatical Voices
- Breezy or Pompous?
- Overwriting
- Plain-Style American Populism
- Yankee Doodle's Macaroni
- McMurphy's "Average Asshole"
- The All-American Con-Man
- Empowering or Cowering
- PC Patty
- Business and Other Jargon
- Bushwhacking Bush
- Choosing Words
- Piss and Urine
- Christian Dogs
- Being Niggardly About the Paddy Wagon
- Snobs and Slobs
- Cliches
- Say What You Mean
- Mean What You Say
- The Prepositionless Excremental
- Sexist Language
- Past and Present
- Poetic Prose
- Arguing Your Case
- No Right or Wrong
- Make It Yours
- Battle Tactics
- VGs, AEs, and OAs
- Show What You Know and Define Your Terms
- Keep Your Argument Grounded
- Refute! Reply! Fight Back!
- The Propaganda Machine
- How to Lose Your Case
- Circular Reasoning
- Just Say No to "Just"
- Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
- Ad Hominem
- False Choices
- Non Sequitur
- Teleological False Assumptions
- Blaming the Victim
- Emotionally Logical
- For Instance: Three Examples
- "Robert Frost: Gentle New England Satanist"
- "Bouncing into Graceland"
- "Women Are Like Boxcars"
- Literary Games
- What Is "Literature," Anyway?
- The "Deep Inner Meaning" Debate
- The Voice Behind the Voice
- Searching for Symbols
- Texts in Context
- Class and the Classroom Context
- Cynics and Essentialists
- RaceGenderClass
- Francobabble for Freshmen
- Morality Plays
- Dr. Dave's Dirty Dozen, or the Twelve Deadly Sins of Writing About Literature
- The Social Sciences
- What's the Dif?
- Free to Be? Free at All?
- Nature and Nurture
- Praise and Blame
- Cause and Effect Again
- Constructed Snobs and Essential Slobs
- Grammatical Horros
- ONW
- Omit Needless Words
- NAS
- Not a Sentence
- MM
- Misplaced Modifier
- //
- Parallelism Problem
- A [not equal] They
- AWK
- Awkward
- OOG
- One Step Beyond AWK
- BB
- Back-to-Back
- Typo
- Typographical Error
- SP
- Spelling
- WW
- Wrong Word
- Big Brother Bill Cannot Be Trusted
- Some Common Stupid Mistakes
- Its, It's, and Its'
- One's and Theirs
- The Split Infinitive
- "Hopefully" and Other Controversies
- Adjective or Adverb?
- Prepositions and Their Pronouns
- Fewer and Less
- Who and Whom
- Unclear Referents
- I, Me, Mine
- Subjunctive Dreams
- Plurals
- Hyphens
- Must of Alot of Attitude
- Edit Carefully!
- "Punct'uation!?!"
- Clueless High School Teachers
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Quotation Marks
- Block That Quote!
- Parentheses (), Brackets, and Dashes
- Citing Sources Successfully
- MLA Style
- APA Style
- Citing Cyberspace
- Why Punctuation Is Important.
