Ava Arndt, Editor
The Writer’s Handbook, written by Core lecturing faculty and instructors, is a critical tool you will want to make use of all year long. It is organized in sequence with the writing assignments and lecture material you will be experiencing in Core Course. The Handbook offers extra instruction, explanations, tips and practical guidelines to help you improve your writing and critical reading skills. It is designed to help you with your essay assignments and offers important information on the different types of essays and analysis you will be asked to complete in Core Course. You should feel free to browse through all the contents, whether you are looking for help with a specific topic or skill (such as “how to read philosophy” or “the proper use of quotations”) or reviewing the basic features of college level writing.
Chapter 1: Analyzing Philosophical Texts
Bonnie Kent
Chapter 2: Active Reading and Textual Analysis
Vivian Folkenflik
Chapter 3: How to Read Scripture: Appreciating Primary vs. Secondary, Sacred vs. Profane, Secular vs. Religious, and Critical vs. Uncritical
Jack Miles
Chapter 4: Writing and Translation
Nuccia Malinverni
Chapter 5: Narrative Analysis and the Close Reading of Scripture
Jack Miles
Chapter 6: Comparison and Contrast
Brook Haley
Chapter 7: How to Analyze and Write About a Work of Art
James D. Herbert
Chapter 8: Warrants
David Pan
Chapter 9: Claims, Evidence and Warrants: A Practical Approach to Composing a CEW Paragraph
Susan Morse
Chapter 10: Analyzing Drama
Katharine Walsh
Chapter 11: Oral Presentations
Giovanna Fogli
Chapter 12: Rhetorical Analysis
Susan Jarratt
Chapter 13: Integrating Quotations
Jason Sheley
Chapter 14: Grammatical Coordination + Subordination
Brian Thill
Chapter 15: Counterargument
Christine Connell
Chapter 16: Genre
Ava Arndt
Chapter 17: What Are the Humanities?
David Pan
Chapter 18: Logical Fallacies
Giovanna Fogli
Chapter 19: Analyzing Primary Sources
Ava Arndt
Chapter 20: Working with Secondary Sources
Laura J. Mitchell
Chapter 21: Scholarship in a Digital Age
Laura J. Mitchell