Essay Writing and Research

• Argumentative Writing
• Argumentative Writing: Avoiding the Rant
• Argumentative/Persuasive Essay
• Book Review
• Building The Essay
• Cause and Effect Essay
• Choosing a Research Topic
• Classification Essay
• Comparison/Contrast Essay
• Conclusions
• Critical Analysis
• Definition Essay
• Descriptive Essay
• Essay Exam
• Exemplification/Illustration Essay
• Getting Started
• Introductions
• Introductory Phrases for Quotations and Citations
• Narrative Essay
• Often Confused Words
• Process Essay
• Research Proposals
• Revising Versus Editing
• Revision Strategies
• Rhetorical Triangle: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
• Selecting Visuals for Analysis
• The Counterargument
• Thesis Statement
• Topic Sentence
• Topic Sentence Transition Formula
• Transitions
• What is a Thesis and Argumentative Thesis
• What is an Outline
• Writing a Summary