Introduction: Anyone can learn to write -- Reading -- Reading (writing) -- Doing analysis -- What is an essay? -- Asking questions, generating ideas -- Idea threads -- Discovery drafts -- Working with your discovery draft -- Claim drafts -- Assessing and working with your claim draft -- Research -- Final drafts -- Appendix. The final polish.
Summary:
"To present powerful ideas effectively in your college essays, you need to break away from rigid rules and structures and start thinking on the page. With this book, you'll learn how to actively engage with a text, analyze it, draw informed conclusions, and then make solid claims about what you have observed. Thinking on the Page will also help you: think critically about what you're reading and draw questions and ideas directly from the text; approach your essay as a story rather than a formula; work through your ideas by graphing, listing, charting, and drawing; incorporate relevant outside research; edit your final essay and polish it to perfection"--Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.