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To the Instructor | |
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To the Student | |
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Citations | |
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Making Sources Your Own | |
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Reading for Understanding | |
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Underlining | |
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Annotating | |
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Reading: William Leach, from Land of Desire | |
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Annotating a Passage | |
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Sex and Suits | |
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Asking Questions | |
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Reading: Blanche Blank, A Question of Degree | |
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Understanding What You Read | |
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A Victim of Circumstance | |
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Questioning the Author | |
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Reading: Rub�n Mart�nez: The Kindness of Strangers | |
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Examining Intention | |
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Cosmopolitan Emotions? | |
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Analyzing the Author's Use of Evidence and Reading | |
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Interpreting Evidence: Inference | |
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Drawing Inferences | |
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The Other Gender Gap | |
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Logical Reasoning | |
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Analyzing an Author's Logic | |
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Analyzing an Author's Logic | |
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The Code of Man | |
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Presenting Sources To Others | |
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Summarizing Sources | |
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Summarizing a Paragraph | |
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Summarizing a Paragraph | |
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The Love Bloat | |
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Comic Book Nation | |
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America's Women | |
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Americans: The National Experience | |
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | |
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Summarizing an Article | |
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Reading: Selwyn Raab, Holdup Man Tells Detectives How to Do It | |
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Summarizing an Article | |
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Crying Foul Over Fans' Boorish Behavior | |
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Summarizing a Complex Essay | |
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Reading: Bertrand Russell, The Social Responsibility of Scientists | |
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Assignment 1: Summarizing an Essay | |
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When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic | |
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Our Celebrities, Ourselves | |
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Against School | |
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Quoting Sources | |
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Reasons for Quoting | |
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Using Quotations | |
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Quoting Correctly | |
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Quoting Accurately | |
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Tailoring Quotations to Fit Your Writing | |
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Using Ellipses and Brackets in Quotations | |
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Writing Citations | |
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Deciding What to Quote | |
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Reading: Lizabeth Caten, Feminizing Public Space | |
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Why Quote? | |
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America's Women | |
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What to Quote | |
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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology | |
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home and Abroad | |
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Integrating Quotations into Your Paragraphs | |
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Integrating Quotations Into a Paragraph | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Identifying Plagiarism | |
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Paraphrasing Sources | |
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Using Paraphrase in Your Essays | |
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Using Paraphrase as Preparation for Reading and Writing Essays | |
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Writing a Good Paraphrase | |
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Paraphrase and Summary | |
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Writing an Accurate Paraphrase | |
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Identifying a Good Paraphrase | |
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Evolution, Males, and Violence | |
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Paraphrasing a Difficult Text | |
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Writing a Literal Paraphrase | |
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Writing a Free Version of the Literal Paraphrase | |
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Assignment 2: Paraphrasing a Difficult Passage | |
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Using Paraphrase with Quotation and Summary | |
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Reading: Conor Cruise O'Brien, Violence -- And Two Schools of Thought | |
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Distinguishing Between Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary, and Commentary | |
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Does Class Count in Today's Land of Opportunity? | |
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Citing Your Paraphrased Sources | |
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Writing a Paragraph that Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation | |
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Reading: Anthony Swofford, Jarhead | |
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Writing a Paragraph That Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation | |
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Presenting Sources: A Summary of Preliminary Writing Skills | |
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Writing From Sources | |
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The Single-Source Essay | |
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Strategy One: Arguing Against Your Source | |
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Reading: Roger Sipher, So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To | |
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Presenting Your Source's Point of View | |
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Presenting Your Point of View | |
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An Argument Based On a Single Source | |
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Reading: Let Teenagers Try Adulthood | |
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Reading: What Our Education System Needs is More Fs | |
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Reading: Fixing the American High School System | |
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Assignment 3: Writing an Argument Based on a Single Source | |
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Reading: Forcing Greek Organizations to Go Coeducational Won't Lead to Greater Diversity | |
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Reading: Now, For Tonight's Assignment... | |
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Reading: Falling on Deaf Ears | |
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Strategy Two: Developing an Essay Based on a Source | |
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Finding and Narrowing a Topic | |
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Taking Notes and Writing a Thesis | |
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Deciding on a Strategy | |
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Structuring Your Essay | |
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Writing the Essay | |
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Revising the Essay | |
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Assignment 4: Writing an Essay Based on a Single Source | |
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An Army of One | |
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The Pillars of the Temple of Liberty | |
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The End of Courtship | |
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The Multiple-Source Essay | |
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Selecting Information for a Multiple-Source Essay | |
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Selecting and Presenting Information | |
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Assignment 5: Writing an Essay from Factual Information | |
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Generalizing from Examples | |
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Analyzing Multiple Sources | |
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Analyzing Shades of Meaning in Multiple Sources | |
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Assignment 6: Writing a Definition Essay from Multiple Sources | |
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Synthesizing Multiple Sources | |
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Identifying Common Ideas | |
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Organizing Multiple Sources | |
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Reading: from Rule Tying Pupil Promotion to Reading Skill Stirs Worry | |
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How the Three Steps Work | |
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Evaluating Sources | |
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Writing a Synthesis Essay | |
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Analyzing a Paragraph Based on a Synthesis of Sources | |
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Citing Sources for Synthesis | |
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Reading: Moral Freedom: Till Circumstances Do Us Part | |
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Assignment 7: Writing an Essay Synthesizing Multiple Sources | |
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Disappearing Ink | |
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Assignment 8: Writing an Argument from Multiple Sources | |
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When Doctors Slam the Door | |
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When Not to Synthesize | |
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Synthesizing Sources in Academic Essays | |
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Reading: Jeffrey Rosen, from The Naked Crowd | |
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Integrating Three Academic Sources | |
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In This Year's Fashion Jungle, Beastly Patterns Are the Sincerest Form of Fakery | |
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Assignment 9: Synthesizing Academic Sources | |
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Lost in the Life of the Mind | |
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A Liberal Education Is Not a Luxury | |
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Writing the Research Essay | |
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Finding Sources | |
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Topic Narrowing | |
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Narrowing a Topic | |
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Proposing a Topic | |
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Locating Sources | |
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Interviewing And Field Research | |
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Writing About an Issue from Multiple Sources | |
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Saving and Recording Information for Your Bibliography | |
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Compiling a Working Bibliography | |
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Assignment 10: Preparing a Topic Proposal for a Research Essay | |
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Evaluating Sources | |
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Learning More about Your Sources | |
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Evaluating Print Sources | |
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Evaluating Web Sources | |
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Evaluating Web Sources About Animal Rights | |
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Integrating Sources | |
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Evaluating Web Sites | |
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Evaluating Internet Sources | |
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Choosing Internet Sources | |
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Evaluating Sources | |
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Making Patriots | |
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Burning the Flag: The Great 1989-1990 American Flag Desecration | |
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Patriotism, Morality, and Peace | |
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To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism | |
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Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest | |
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Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism | |
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The Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Joint Resolution of Congress) | |
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O Say Can You See What That Flag Means? | |
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True Patriotism | |
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Flag Burning and Other Acts Deemed Disrespectful of American Symbols (web site) | |
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The Flag Burning Page (web site) | |
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Comparing Sources | |
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300 Killed By Fire (The New York Times) | |
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Catastrophe: Boston's Worst (Time Magazine) | |
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The Easy Chair | |
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Writing the Research Essay | |
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Saving Information | |
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Taking Notes | |
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Taking Notes on Two Topics | |
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Taking Notes on Three Topics | |
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap | |
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Developing a List of Topics | |
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Planning a Strategy | |
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Arranging the Order of Topics | |
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Completing Your Outline | |
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Writing an Outline with Cross-Referencing | |
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Writing Integrated Paragraphs | |
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Accommodating Argument in Your Paragraphs | |
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Presenting Arguments Fairly | |
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Integrating Your Sources: An Example | |
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Writing an Introduction | |
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Using Visuals as Sources | |
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Assignment 11: Organizing and Writing the Research Essay | |
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Acknowledging Sources | |
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Documenting Information | |
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Documenting Ideas Found in Your Source | |
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Plagiarism: Stealing Ideas | |
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Plagiarism: Stealing Words | |
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Understanding When to Document Information | |
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Understanding Plagiarism | |
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Comparing Notes (The New York Times) | |
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Identifying Plagiarism | |
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Using Documentation | |
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Acknowledging Sources | |
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Documenting Sources Correctly | |
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Signaling the Transitions Between Sources | |
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Using Explanatory Notes | |
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Avoiding Excessive Documentation | |
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Using Umbrella Notes | |
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The Final Bibliography | |
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Preparing The Annotated Bibliography | |
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Preparing the Bibliography | |
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Presenting Your Essay | |
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Some Basic Forms For Documentation: MLA, APA, and Endnotes | |
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MLA Style | |
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APA Style | |
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Numbered Bibliography | |
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Endnote/Footnote Documentation | |
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Notes Plus Page Numbers In The Text | |
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Three Research Essays | |
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Bethany Dettmore, Looking at Horror Films | |
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Lee Myers, Is Eating People Really Wrong? | |
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David Morgan, Explaining the Tunguskan Phenomenon | |
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Writing Essay Examinations | |
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Reading the Question | |
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Planning and Developing the Essay | |
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Analyzing an Essay and an Essay Question | |
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Reading: Football -- The Game of Aggression | |
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Answering the Question | |
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Introducing Your Topic | |
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Presenting Your Essay to the Reader | |
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Readings for a Research Essay | |
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Periodicals | |
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Essays from The Nation, 7/15/91 | |
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Debating How Best to Love Your Country (The New York Times, 7/1/00) | |
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John Lukacs, When Democracy Goes Wrong (Harper's, 4/05) | |
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Academic Books | |
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From Democracy in America | |
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Patriotism, or Peace? | |
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Civility and Civic Virtue in Contemporary America | |
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Urban Civilization and Its Discontents | |
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Honor, Patriotism, and Ultimate Loyalty | |
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Military Service and Unjust Wars | |
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Patriotism and Nationalism | |
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The War on Terrorism and The New Patriotism | |