The Writer's Loop, Achieve Online Modules (2-Term Online; International Edition)

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Publication Date: July 21, 2022

Achieve ISBN: 9781319516956

Strong writers embrace a recursive process

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...

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ISBN: 9781319516956
The Writer's Loop, Achieve Online Modules (2-Term Online; International Edition)

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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

Conceived as a primarily digital, multimedia text, The Writer’s Loop integrates video and powerful writing tools that support students’ learning. Achieve with Ingraham and Bohannons The Writer’s Loop combines the text’s clear, concise treatment of key rhetorical concepts, relatable examples, and multi-draft writing assignments with integrated videos, powerful writing tools, and the flexibility to select content and customize assignments.

A consistent, scaffolded learning framework emphasizes the recursive nature of the writing process. Within the chapters, a four-part framework encourages students to reflect often and loop backwards and forwards in their writing process:

First, students engage with key rhetorical concepts and writing strategies by reading about them.
Next, a Reflect activity prompts them to connect what they’ve read with their past writing experiences or a current writing assignment.
An Understand section follows, diving deeper into the concepts through extended examples, often in the form of videos or annotated readings.
Then, an Apply activity prompts students to try out what they’ve learned in their own writing. Reflect and Apply activities in each chapter build in a recursive fashion toward the Chapter Project, a larger, multi-draft writing assignment.

Chapter Projects give students practice writing a range of assignments in multiple drafts. The thirteen multi-draft Chapter Projects support the most common types of academic writing, including personal essay, literacy narrative, reflection, evaluation, rhetorical analysis, argument, annotated bibliography, and researched writing.

Videos featuring student characters give students confidence to tackle their own writing challenges. Seventeen animations throughout the text follow four student characters as they work through some of the writing processes and strategies the text introduces. Videos are no more than three minutes long, making them great icebreakers for class discussion.

Twelve sample essays by real students provide models for students to learn from and critique. These sample essays provide realistic models (rather than perfect examples) that demonstrate many of the concepts introduced in the text.

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.

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