Generating Ideas
- Articulating your research topic
- Asking an analytical question
- Brainstorming
- Choosing a research topic
- Conclusion ideas
- Idea and motive
- Identifying your audience
- Motivating the argument
- Opener ideas
- Prewriting strategies
- Questions to begin your research
- Terminology: Elements of the academic essay
- Tips for thesis analysis
- UWS lens essays
- UWS research essays
- Writing a research proposal
"Introduction to College Writing" video series from Caltech's Hixon Writing Center
Part 1: Making an Argument (6:13)
Part 2: Organizing Your Writing (7:14)
Part 3: Working With Sources (7:30)
Part 4: Writing With Clarity (13:24)