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Academic Writing: From Inquiry to Argument

This course introduces students to the core practices of academic writing, emphasizing writing as a recursive process of inquiry, argumentation, and revision. Drawing on the moves and templates of They Say/I Say and the research methods of The Craft of Research, students learn to enter scholarly conversations, frame research questions, gather and evaluate evidence, and craft persuasive, source-based arguments. Weekly workshops integrate grammar, style, and citation conventions through hands-on drafting, peer review, and reflection.

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What Academic Writing Is—and Isn’t

We begin by unpacking the expectations of college-level writing: moving beyond summary to analysis, from opinion to evidence-based argument.

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What Academic Writing Is—and Isn’t: the core idea

We begin by unpacking the expectations of college-level writing: moving beyond summary to analysis, from opinion to evidence-based argument. The key thing to notice is: College writing as evidence-based argument vs. high-school summary/opinion. A useful example is 2024 Supreme Court ruling on student-loan forgiveness: tweets (opinion) vs. NYT editorial (argument) vs. law-review note (scholarly argument). Do not treat this as a vocabulary item; the point is to use it to reason about a new situation.

Where would What Academic Writing Is—and Isn’t show up in an everyday decision or news headline?

Look for the hidden relationship in the example: 2024 Supreme Court ruling on student-loan forgiveness: tweets (opinion) vs. NYT editorial (argument) vs. law-review note (scholarly argument).

What Academic Writing Is—and Isn’t: the core idea