In today’s fast-paced and information-driven world, effective communication is a fundamental skill, particularly within the academic sphere. Students and scholars must navigate a vast sea of information, assimilate it, and then express their understanding in a unique and original manner. Paraphrasing, the act of rephrasing someone else’s words or ideas while retaining the core message, is an indispensable tool in this endeavor. Our journey into the realm of paraphrasing began with a simple yet pressing question: How do university students engage with paraphrasing in their academic writing? To find answers, we embarked on a comprehensive research project that spanned multiple institutions and engaged students from diverse academic backgrounds.

An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, nursing, education, business, and related disciplines.

Provides strategies for identifying, combating, and preventing plagiarism, such as providing assignments that emphasize original thinking and use primary sources.

This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon. Created through a grant from Open Oregon in 2015-16, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand.

When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?

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