Week 8 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 8 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 43–51 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when a review test feels shaky, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (19–21 min total)

• Revision Techniques — Study Hall
• Summary vs Analysis — Michelle Hansen Little
• Summary Versus Analysis — Center for Writing and Speaking

① Which job am I doing? Revision, editing, and the thesis

Chapter 8, Section “Revision vs. editing: sort a change by what it changes” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Pairs from Weeks 1 to 4” · Remember: revision changes what a draft says or how it is organized, and editing polishes its sentences.

• Revision Techniques — Study Hall — revising as seeing a draft again, with several techniques for looking at the whole text in a new light before any sentence gets polished. Notice which techniques would count as revision and which as editing. (video, 12 min) (captions: creator)
• Revising, Editing, and Proofreading — Writing Center Link Library — a short page that splits the late stages of writing into three passes and says what each one looks for, from purpose and audience down to typos. Read the three descriptions and skip the outside links. Use it while completing the Week-8 module overview. (reading, 3–5 min)
• Thesis Statement vs Topic Sentences — Worldwide Speak — the difference between a thesis statement, which states the claim of a whole essay, and a topic sentence, which states the point of one paragraph. Hold each one to the chapter's test: could a reader answer it with "prove it"? This builds on Week 3's work with arguable claims and well-developed paragraphs. (video, 5 min) (captions: automatic)

② Why does the evidence count? Grounds and the warrant

Chapter 8, Section “Warrant vs. evidence: say why the evidence counts” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Pairs from Weeks 5 to 7” · Remember: the grounds are what you point to, and the warrant is the reason that evidence supports the claim.

• The Toulmin Argument: CDW (Claim + Data + Warrant) — Argument Theory and Application — a two-minute explanation of the model's core: the claim, the data (this course's grounds), and the warrant that connects them. Keep the course's four keyed parts in mind: claim, grounds, warrant, and rebuttal. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)
• The Warrant in the Toulmin Argument Model — Russ Markert — a focused explanation of the part students find hardest, with models that show why evidence needs a warrant before it supports anything. (video, 5 min) (captions: automatic)
• Toulmin Argument — Writing Centers — the claim, the data, and the warrant worked through one advertising example, followed by short sections on the qualifier, the rebuttal, and backing. Read the claim, data, and warrant sections closely and skim the rest. (reading, 4–6 min)

③ Report, explain, then judge: the three-sentence habit

Chapter 8, Section “Add the three-sentence habit: summary, analysis, agreement” · Session 2, Segment 3, “The three-sentence habit” · Remember: say what a text says, then how it persuades, and only then whether you agree, each in its own sentence.

• Two-Minute Lecture: Summary vs. Analysis — Colburn Classroom — a two-minute contrast between restating what a text says and explaining how and why it works. Listen for the line between the first sentence of the habit and the second. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)
• Summary vs Analysis — Michelle Hansen Little — a quick review of what separates a summary from an analysis, with the questions each one answers. As you watch, add the third job the chapter keeps separate: agreement, which comes last and carries a reason. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)
• Summary Versus Analysis — Center for Writing and Speaking — a one-page handout on keeping summary short and making every summary sentence serve your own point. Read it for the habit's first two sentences. Stop here before judging whether a source is credible; next week takes that up. (reading, 2–4 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Toulmin Argument — Online Writing Lab (OWL) — a compact reference page defining the six Toulmin parts; read the claim, grounds, and warrant definitions as a check on this week's warrant test, and treat backing and the qualifier as named, not tested. (reading, 3–5 min)

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