Academic Writing
Argumentation
Habits of Mind
Writing Process
Reading Strategies
100

This type of writing is done for academic purposes and involves entering into a conversation with others.

What is scholarly writing?

100

Scholarly arguments seek to do this to an audience

What is persuade?

100

This habit involves asking questions, making discoveries, and testing those discoveries.

What is inquiry?

100

This stage of the writing process involves generating ideas, drafting, editing, and revising.

What is invention?

100

This strategy involves reviewing the text to get a sense of the content and difficulty level.

What is pre-reading?

200

Scholarly writing requires ideas to be presented as a response to this.

What is another person or group?

200

This is the first step in writing an academic essay according to Greene & Lidinsky.

What is define a situation that calls for a response in writing?

200

This habit involves reflecting on observations and examining issues from multiple points of view.

What is valuing complexity?

200

This stage involves identifying information, ideas, and evidence to build your argument.

What is collecting information?

200

This strategy involves highlighting and annotating your reading or taking notes.

What is during reading?

300

These are the characteristics that distinguish scholarly writing from other forms of writing.

What are clear and complex thesis statements, reasons supported by documented evidence, significance of the topic, response to others, confident and formal tone, and clear presentation of sources?

300

Scholarly arguments involve the careful expression of an idea based on this.

What is reasoning and insights from examining others’ arguments?

300

This habit involves understanding that academic writing is both a conversation and this.

What is a process?

300

This stage involves identifying your focus and getting it down on paper.

What is drafting?

300

This strategy involves expressing ideas in your own words and summarizing to condense ideas.

What is after reading?

400

This term refers to the patterns of thought that lead scholars to question assumptions and explore alternative opinions.

What are habits of mind?

400

This is the term for the social nature of academic writing, often expressed as joining this.

What is an academic conversation?

400

This habit involves slowing down to think about the subject or object.

What is reflection?

400

This stage involves reworking your paper over several drafts.

What is revising?

400

This reading comprehension method stands for survey, question, read, recite, and review.

What is SQ3R?

500

This is the study of communication, particularly argument and persuasion, dating back to ancient Greece and Rome.

What is rhetoric?

500

This involves anticipating and responding to those who disagree with your argument.

What is counterargument?

500

These are the four steps to joining an academic conversation according to Greene & Lidinsky.

What are be receptive, be respectful, engage, and be flexible?

500

This process includes steps such as monitoring reading practices and evaluating what you’re learning.

What is reflection?

500

This note-taking system involves creating a table with two columns for notes and key words or questions.

What are Cornell Notes?