Writing in College

This is a local copy of Writing in College by Joseph Williams and Lawrence McEnerney, available online at http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/index.htm. It has been copied and updated for Grinnell with permission of the writing laboratory at the University of Chicago. (Permission obtained in 1999.) I have also reformatted the document to improve the printed copy. You can find this PDF version at http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/Tutorial/2007F/Readings/Williams/writingincollege.pdf.

The original guide is intended to help first and second year students at the University of Chicago write effective papers in the Humanities Core and Social Sciences Core. It has been updated for students in Sam Rebelsky's tutorial, Freedom and Authority on the Internet: Community, Conflict, and Control. If you wish to learn more about the principles of organization and argumentation you find here, you may consult with the staff of Grinnell's writing lab or with Mr. Rebelsky.

• Part I: Some crucial differences between high school and college writing
• Part II: Preparing to write and drafting the paper
• Part III: A strategy for analyzing and revising a first draft
• Part IV: Revising the introduction and conclusion, and polishing the draft
• Part V: But what if you get stuck? A good solution and a terrible solution
• Appendix A: Some local notes

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