The Writer's Loop with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates

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Strong writers embrace a recursive process

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

The Writer’s Loop, presents a refreshing, practical approach to writing, based on the habits of strong writers, who pause often, reflect, and loop backwards and forwards as they revise on their way to a final draft. With integrated videos, relatable examples, clear explanations, and a consistent, scaffolded learning framework, each brief chapter engages writers through reflection and practices that support the most common types of academic writing, including essays, arguments, and research projects

Achieve with Ingraham and Bohannon, The Writer’s Loop combines instruction with integrated videos, powerful writing tools, and customizable multi-draft writing assignments.

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Authors

Lauren Ingraham

Lauren Ingraham is a Professor and Director of General Education at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Specializing in writing program administration and rhetoric and composition studies, Dr. Ingraham teaches both undergraduates and graduate students. Her current research focuses on ways to improve high school students’ readiness for college writing. She has been a consultant for the National Council of Teachers of English, and her most recent publication appears in The Framework of Success in Postsecondary Writing: Scholarship, Theories, and Practice (edited by Nicholas Behm, Sherry Rankings Robertson, and Duane Roen, 2017).

Jeanne Law Bohannon

Jeanne Law Bohannon is an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Her work with first-year writers focuses on creating digital and dialogic learning spaces, where students cultivate their writerly ethos through community engagement and public humanities. She is the Director of the #ATLStudentmovement Project and a Co-PI for the Learning Information Literacies Across the Curriculum (LILAC) initiative.

Introduction
1. Being an Academic Writer
2. Understanding Rhetoric
3. Understanding Writing as a Recursive Process
4. Improving Your Draft Using Feedback and Revision
5. Reading Actively and Critically to Create Meaning
6. Writing Academic Arguments
7. Writing for Public, Digital Spaces
8. Planning Your Research and Evaluating Sources
9. Managing, Annotating, and Summarizing Sources
10. Crafting a Thesis for a Substantial Writing Project
11. Integrating Ideas from Sources
12. Tightening Your Argument
13. Pulling It All Together in a Final Portfolio
Appendix: Understanding Academic Citation Styles
Index