ADVICE FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS

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Adapting structures and phrases from a genre without plagiarizing (14d)

The basic grammar of sentences (37a)

Subjects (37b)

Predicates (37c)

Phrases (37d)

Clauses (37e)

Nouns and Noun Phrases (Ch. 38)

Forming verb phrases (39b)

Indicating verb tenses (39e)

Using mood and forming conditional sentences (39h)

Using adjectives ending in -ed and -ing (42f)

Putting adjectives in order (42g)

Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases (Ch. 43)

Revising shifts between direct and indirect discourse (44e)

For Multilingual Writers boxes

Bringing in other languages

Using your best language to explore ideas

Stating a thesis explicitly

Organizing information

Understanding peer reviews

Reviewing a draft

Asking an experienced writer to review your draft

Being explicit

Constructive criticism

Recognizing appeals in various settings

Counting your own experience

Bringing in other voices

Identifying sources

Plagiarism as a cultural concept

Asking experienced writers to review a thesis

Reading patterns

Writing notes in your own language

Global varieties of English

Choosing appropriate words

Avoiding fancy language

Mastering idioms

Using the dictionary to learn idioms

Consulting a learner’s dictionary

American spellings

Count and noncount nouns

Adjectives with plural nouns

Sentence length

Deciding which articles to use

Quoting in American English

Quotation marks

English capitalization

The term hundred

STUDENT WRITING MODELS

Drafts

Early draft: Lesk

Final draft: Lesk

Reflective Writing

Blog post: Nguyen

Cover letter: Kung

Critical reading and argument

Annotations of scholarly article: Sanchez and Lum

Critical reading: Song

Researched argument project: Mercer-Golden

Rhetorical analysis: Ateyea

Researched writing

Annotated bibliography: Chan

Annotated bibliography (reflective): Sriram

APA research project: Bell

Chicago research project: Rinder

CSE research project: Hays

MLA research project: Craig

Researched argument: Mercer-Golden

Synthesis project: Warner

Writing for the public

Pitch package: Jane and Burke

Presentation: Song

Résumés: Lange

Web site: Dart

Writing in other disciplines

Close reading (literature): Sillay

Lab report (chemistry): Goldberg

Review of literature (biology): Hays

Review of literature (psychology): Redding

Review of literature (public health): Bell

Multimodal writing

Blog post: Nguyen

Pitch package: Jane and Burke

Presentation: Song

Résumés: Lange

Web site: Dart