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Handbook Menu Guide for Using This Handbook | |
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Writing and Reading | |
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Writing and Reading in Communities | |
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Understanding your writing situation | |
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Moving from reading to writing | |
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Paying attention to the writing process | |
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Developing a Thesis | |
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Creating a thesis statement | |
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Designing an appropriate thesis | |
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Providing Support and Reasoning Clearly | |
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Reasoning critically | |
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Providing support | |
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Evaluating support | |
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Paragraphing for Readers | |
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Focusing paragraphs | |
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Making paragraphs coherent | |
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Developing paragraphs | |
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Matching Style and Strategy to a Community of Readers | |
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Recognizing a communitys style | |
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Adjusting to a communitys style | |
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Recognizing a communitys expectations | |
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Designing Documents for Readers | |
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Planning your document | |
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Laying out your document | |
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Using type features | |
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Using visuals | |
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Sample documents | |
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Constructing an Argument | |
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Identifying an issue | |
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Developing an argumentative thesis | |
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Developing reasons and supporting evidence | |
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Presenting counterarguments | |
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Reasoning logically | |
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Writing for General Education Courses | |
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General academic writing assignments | |
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Writing goals and plans | |
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Common types of general academic writing | |
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Writing in the Disciplines | |
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Writing in the arts and humanities | |
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Common types of writing in the arts and humanities | |
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Writing in the natural and social sciences | |
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Common types of writing in the natural and social sciences | |
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Assessing Writing | |
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Assessing your own writing | |
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Assessing someone elses writing | |
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Understanding how others assess your writing | |
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Assessing your portfolio | |
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Conducting Research | |
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Planning and Conducting Research | |
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Recognizing research topics | |
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Identifying keywords | |
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Developing research questions | |
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Developing critical search strategies | |
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Maintaining a working bibliography | |
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Keeping track of sources and notes | |
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Assembling your research materials | |
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Finding Library and Database Resources | |
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Finding library resources | |
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Locating books and documents | |
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Locating periodicals and other documents | |
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Finding research databases | |
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Locating databases for articles and documents | |
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Finding Web Resources | |
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Finding Web and Internet resources | |
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Searching efficiently | |
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Locating appropriate Web resources | |
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Reading and Synthesizing Sources | |
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Summarizing | |
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Paraphrasing | |
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Synthesizing | |
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Questioning | |
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Evaluating Sources Critically | |
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Evaluating appropriateness | |
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Evaluating accuracy and reliability | |
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Evaluating search engine results. | |
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Evaluating point of view or bias | |
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Evaluating Web sources critically | |
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Turning inquiry into writing | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism and Integrating Sources | |
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Avoiding plagiarism | |
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Deciding what to document | |
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Documenting sources for different audiences | |
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Integrating quotations | |
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Integrating sources into your text | |
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Integrating visual and webbed sources | |
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Documenting Sources | |
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MLA Style Guide to MLA Formats | |
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MLA in-text (parenthetical) citations | |
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MLA list of works cited | |
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MLA sample pages | |
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APA Style Guide to APA Formats | |
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APA in-text (parenthetical) cit | |