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Welcome, Students!
Welcome, Instructors!
Acknowledgements
Land Acknowledgement
Icons and Textboxes
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 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
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
Revising 2: Revising Paragraphs
Editing
Proofreading
Owning Your Process
How Are Sources Used in College?
Understanding Sources Types
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
Quoting
Choosing Between Quotations and Paraphrases
Citing Your Sources
Plagiarizing
Integrating Source Material with Your Ideas
Thoughtful Source Use
Glossary
Works Cited
Grant Information
Version History
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