Cover: From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader, 6th Edition by Stuart Greene; April Lidinsky

From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader

Sixth Edition  ©2027 Stuart Greene; April Lidinsky Formats: Achieve, E-book, Print

Authors

  • Headshot of Stuart Greene

    Stuart Greene

    Stuart Greene received his Ph.D. in English from Carnegie Mellon in Rhetoric. He is associate professor of English with a joint appointment in Africana Studies at Notre Dame.His research has examined the intersections of race, poverty, and achievement in public schools. This work has led to the publication of his co-edited volume, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding (Teachers College Press, 2003), for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award in 2005. He has published a monographic, Race, Community, and Urban Schools: Partnering with African American Families (Teachers College Press, 2013), edited Literacy as a Civil Right (Peter Lang, 2008) and co-edited with Cathy Compton-Lilly, Bedtime Stories and Book Reports: Connecting Parent Involvement and Family Literacy (Teachers College Press, 2011). His current research focuses on literacy, youth empowerment and civic engagement in the context of university/community partnerships. This work appears in his edited collection Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic Engagement. (Routledge Press, 2016), Language Arts, Urban Education, and The Urban Review.

  • Headshot of April Lidinsky

    April Lidinsky

    April Lidinsky (PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers) is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Indiana University South Bend. She has published and delivered numerous conference papers on writing pedagogy, womens autobiography, and creative nonfiction, and has contributed to several textbooks on writing. She has served as acting director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame and has won several awards for her teaching and research including the 2015 Indiana University South Bend Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2017 Indiana University South Bend Eldon F. Lundquist Award for excellence in teaching and scholarly achievement, and the All-Indiana University 2017 Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.

Table of Contents

1 Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers

2 From Reading as a Writer to Writing as a Reader

3 From Writing Summaries and Paraphrases to Writing Yourself into Academic Conversations

4 From Identifying Claims to Analyzing Arguments

5 From Identifying Issues to Forming Questions

6 From Formulating to Developing a Thesis

7 From Finding to Evaluating Sources

8 From Synthesis to Researched Argument

9 From Ethos and Pathos to Logos: Appealing to Your Readers

10 From Analyzing Visuals to Using Them in Writing

11 From Introductions to Conclusions: Drafting an Essay

12 From Revising to Editing: Working with Peer Groups

13 Other Methods of Inquiry: Interviews and Focus Groups

Entering the Conversation of Ideas

14 Education: What does it mean to be educated? What is the future of education, and how might this affect every part of our lives?

15 Sociology: How does studying human social behaviors help us understand ourselves and the world?

16 Psychology: How does our rapidly changing, technology-saturated environment affect the way we think, feel, and behave?

17 Sustainability: How do our decisions affect our environment?

18 Artificial Intelligence: How can we effectively navigate the risks and opportunities of generative AI?

Appendix: Citing and Documenting Sources

Index of Authors, Titles, and Key Terms

Product Updates

  • New chapter on artificial intelligence, discussing not only the role that genAI can have in academic work, but also how technology in general relates to age-old questions about human identity and creativity.
  • The Moves to Model feature now provides extra support within Practice Sequences by demonstrating rhetorical strategies used in professional and scholarly writing and offering students opportunities to try out those strategies in their own work. 
  • Chapter 10 on visual rhetoric has been thoroughly revised with new multimodal visuals, including advertisements and infographics, to help students make sense of the many visual arguments they encounter. 
  • Forty new reading selections. Selections engage students with timely, real-world conversations. 
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom unpacks the pressures of the hustle economy.
    • Max Fisher and Johann Hari examine how social media may be reshaping our minds.
    • Robin Wall Kimmerer and other environmental writers offer insight and hope in the face of climate change.
  • From Inquiry to Academic Writing with Achieve is a flexible, integrated suite for designing and facilitating writing assignments, with actionable insights that make student progress clear and measurable. It includes an e-book, fully editable prebuilt assignments aligned to the text, reading quizzes, and interactive materials—all designed to support effective feedback on student drafts.

Authors

  • Headshot of Stuart Greene

    Stuart Greene

    Stuart Greene received his Ph.D. in English from Carnegie Mellon in Rhetoric. He is associate professor of English with a joint appointment in Africana Studies at Notre Dame.His research has examined the intersections of race, poverty, and achievement in public schools. This work has led to the publication of his co-edited volume, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding (Teachers College Press, 2003), for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award in 2005. He has published a monographic, Race, Community, and Urban Schools: Partnering with African American Families (Teachers College Press, 2013), edited Literacy as a Civil Right (Peter Lang, 2008) and co-edited with Cathy Compton-Lilly, Bedtime Stories and Book Reports: Connecting Parent Involvement and Family Literacy (Teachers College Press, 2011). His current research focuses on literacy, youth empowerment and civic engagement in the context of university/community partnerships. This work appears in his edited collection Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic Engagement. (Routledge Press, 2016), Language Arts, Urban Education, and The Urban Review.

  • Headshot of April Lidinsky

    April Lidinsky

    April Lidinsky (PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers) is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Indiana University South Bend. She has published and delivered numerous conference papers on writing pedagogy, womens autobiography, and creative nonfiction, and has contributed to several textbooks on writing. She has served as acting director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame and has won several awards for her teaching and research including the 2015 Indiana University South Bend Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2017 Indiana University South Bend Eldon F. Lundquist Award for excellence in teaching and scholarly achievement, and the All-Indiana University 2017 Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.

Table of Contents

1 Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers

2 From Reading as a Writer to Writing as a Reader

3 From Writing Summaries and Paraphrases to Writing Yourself into Academic Conversations

4 From Identifying Claims to Analyzing Arguments

5 From Identifying Issues to Forming Questions

6 From Formulating to Developing a Thesis

7 From Finding to Evaluating Sources

8 From Synthesis to Researched Argument

9 From Ethos and Pathos to Logos: Appealing to Your Readers

10 From Analyzing Visuals to Using Them in Writing

11 From Introductions to Conclusions: Drafting an Essay

12 From Revising to Editing: Working with Peer Groups

13 Other Methods of Inquiry: Interviews and Focus Groups

Entering the Conversation of Ideas

14 Education: What does it mean to be educated? What is the future of education, and how might this affect every part of our lives?

15 Sociology: How does studying human social behaviors help us understand ourselves and the world?

16 Psychology: How does our rapidly changing, technology-saturated environment affect the way we think, feel, and behave?

17 Sustainability: How do our decisions affect our environment?

18 Artificial Intelligence: How can we effectively navigate the risks and opportunities of generative AI?

Appendix: Citing and Documenting Sources

Index of Authors, Titles, and Key Terms

Product Updates

  • New chapter on artificial intelligence, discussing not only the role that genAI can have in academic work, but also how technology in general relates to age-old questions about human identity and creativity.
  • The Moves to Model feature now provides extra support within Practice Sequences by demonstrating rhetorical strategies used in professional and scholarly writing and offering students opportunities to try out those strategies in their own work. 
  • Chapter 10 on visual rhetoric has been thoroughly revised with new multimodal visuals, including advertisements and infographics, to help students make sense of the many visual arguments they encounter. 
  • Forty new reading selections. Selections engage students with timely, real-world conversations. 
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom unpacks the pressures of the hustle economy.
    • Max Fisher and Johann Hari examine how social media may be reshaping our minds.
    • Robin Wall Kimmerer and other environmental writers offer insight and hope in the face of climate change.
  • From Inquiry to Academic Writing with Achieve is a flexible, integrated suite for designing and facilitating writing assignments, with actionable insights that make student progress clear and measurable. It includes an e-book, fully editable prebuilt assignments aligned to the text, reading quizzes, and interactive materials—all designed to support effective feedback on student drafts.

Demystifies academic reading and writing, step by step.

From Inquiry to Academic Writing helps students build college-level writing skills through clear rhetorical instruction and a thematically organized anthology of readings across disciplines. Designed to support inquiry, analysis, and argument, the text combines step-by-step guidance with real examples and opportunities for practice.

Rhetoric chapters break down essential reading, thinking, and writing strategies with focused instruction and built-in practice. Annotated examples, practical tools, and support for working with sources—including AI—help students strengthen analysis, develop arguments, and write with greater confidence.

The thematic reader spans education, sociology, psychology, sustainability, and artificial intelligence, blending accessible and scholarly texts. Guided prompts connect critical reading to effective writing, reinforcing skills students can apply across courses and academic contexts.

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