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In this open education resource (OER) text, we will enter the world of academic writing by exploring how to craft the college essay. We will do this through an interactive discussion of the six main stages of the writing process and the six main elements of the essay format. While no essay can be fully reduced to a simple series of steps or formulas, we will see that the essay does provide a coherent template, an ancient and powerful structure, through which we can engage the world of ideas and communicate our own perceptions and discoveries in meaningful and academically productive ways. We will also examine how emerging technologies, and multimodal instruction and composition, are changing the notion of how to teach and how to do writing. And, most importantly, how our various subjectivities influence not only the ways we approach any topic, but also how we develop voice, tone, and our relationship to authority, tradition, and the ever changing world of ideas.

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