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A Note on Contextualization
Welcome, Students!
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Land Acknowledgement
Why Reading in a College Writing Textbook?
Reading Effectively
Creating an Optimal Setting for Reading
Examining a Sample Assignment
Using Pre-Reading Strategies
Focusing Your Reading
Annotating and Note-Taking
Doing Quick Research
Finding the Main Point
Working Carefully Through Trouble Spots
Rereading
Responding to What You Are Reading
Summarizing and Reflecting on a Text
Reading in College and Elsewhere
What Is Intellectual Work?
Understanding Bloom’s Taxonomy
Understanding Writing Assignments as Intellectual Work
Examining Sample Assignment 1: Summary and Analysis
Examining Sample Assignment 2: Position Paper
Examining Sample Assignment 3: Article for a Public Audience
Examining Sample Assignment 4: Reflection
Treating Complex Tasks as Intellectual Work: Why?
Why Writing Process in College?
Thinking about Writing Process
Prewriting 1: Understanding the Task
Prewriting 2: Generating Ideas
Drafting 1: Setting Up Your Structure
Drafting 2: Producing Text
Getting Feedback
Revising 1: Revising Globally Overview
Revising 2: Revising Paragraphs Overview
Editing Overview
Proofreading
Owning Your Process
How Are Sources Used in College?
Understanding Source Types
Evaluating Sources
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
Quoting
Choosing Between Quotations and Paraphrases
Citing Your Sources
Plagiarizing
Integrating Source Material with Your Ideas
Thoughtful Source Use
1. Revision Strategies
Dr. Sandi Van Lieu and Dr. Karen Palmer
2. Sentence Variety
Dr. Karen Palmer
3. Transitions
4. Using Strong Verbs
5. Writing Clearly and Concisely
6. Aligning Ideas
7. Editing Strategies
8. Grammar Basics: Understand the Vocabulary
9. All About Verbs: Tenses, Mood, and Subject-Verb Agreement
10. Identifying Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices
11. Identifying Pronoun Problems
12. Checking Adjectives and Adverbs
13. Identifying Clarity Issues
14. Identifying Mechanics Problems
15. Identifying Punctuation Problems
Glossary
Works Cited
Resource Articles and Worksheets
Articles for Analysis
College Inside Articles for Review
Oh CRAAP! Evaluating Sources Worksheet and Reading Log
Reading Self-Assessment
Writing Self-Assessment
Mid-Term Self-Assessment
Vocabulary Test Preview
Final Portfolio
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