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| Writing, Reading, And Research | |
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| Introduction to Writing and Research | |
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| Writing | |
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| Writing Habits and Strategies | |
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| Audience and Purpose | |
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| Student Writing."It's Not About Looking Cute" | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Composing a First Draft | |
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| Guidelines: Peer Review | |
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| Student Writing | |
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| "A Night at the Roller Derby" | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Revising | |
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| Editing and proofreading | |
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| Developing Your Own Writing Routines | |
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| Guidelines: Writing an Essay That Incorporates Primary Research | |
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| Research | |
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| Reading Selection | |
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| "The Holly Pageant" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| "Passage to Manhood" | |
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| "The Price of Parsimony" | |
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| About the Rest of This Book | |
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| Introduction to Reading | |
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| Reading Habits and Strategies | |
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| Interpreting Texts | |
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| Audience | |
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| Tacit Knowledge | |
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| Context | |
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| Efferent and Aesthetic Approaches to Rading | |
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| Responding to Reading | |
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| Reading Response Groups | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "A Short History of Love" | |
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| Student Writings | |
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| Janet's Freewriting | |
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| Alex's Freewriting | |
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| Agnes's Freewriting | |
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| Guidelines: Group Work | |
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| Reading Selection | |
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| "The Future of Reading" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Strategies for Reading | |
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| Inferences | |
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| Context | |
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| Strategies for Understanding | |
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| Surveying a Text | |
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| Prereading | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Study Hard and You, Too, Can Deliver Pizza." | |
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| Responding to Textual Clues | |
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| Recognizing Transitions | |
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| Reading with a Pencil | |
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| Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Relationships with Maturing Children" | |
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| Guidelines: Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Keeping Parents off Campus" | |
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| Annotating to Stimulate Response | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Some Geography, Some History" | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "The Dehydrated States of America" | |
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| Keeping a Reading Journal | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
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| Checklist: Reading Strategies | |
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| Reading Selections | |
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| "Learning How to Learn" | |
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| "Adapting to College Life in an Era of Heightened Stress" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Group Work | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| "The Challenge of First-Generation College Students" | |
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| "Pressure and Competition" | |
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| Reading for the Main Idea | |
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| General and Specific Categories | |
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| Deductive and Inductive Organization | |
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| Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences | |
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| Identifying Topic Sentences | |
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| Restating the Main Idea | |
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| Paragraphs with Implied Main Ideas | |
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| Detecting Implications | |
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| Questioning Implications | |
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| A Further Comment on Paragraphs | |
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| Reading selection | |
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| "Girls Just Want to Be Mean" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Group Work | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Reading | |
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| "Listen to Boys' Voices" | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Paraphrasing as a Reading Strategy | |
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| Using Paraphrase in Writing | |
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| Paraphrasing for a Different Audience | |
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| Paraphrasing an Argument | |
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| Paraphrasing in Research Papers | |
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| Guidelines: Effective Paraphrasing | |
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| Reading Selection | |
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| "Another Day, Another Indignity" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Group Work | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Reading | |
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| "Who Moved My Ability to Reason?" | |
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| Summarizing | |
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| Summary and Paraphrase | |
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| Writing Summaries | |
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| Guidelines: Summarizing Longer Passages | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Stereotyping: Homogenizing People" | |
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| Uses of Summary | |
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| Summarizing an Argument | |
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| Summarizing in Research Papers | |
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| Guidelines: Effective Summarizing | |
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| Reading Selection | |
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| "What Meets the Eye" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Group Work | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| "The Great Sorority Purge" | |
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| "Fat Gregg is Dead" | |
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| Synthesizing | |
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| A Brief Summary Report | |
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| Practice Readings | |
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| Readings on Thomas Kinkade | |
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| Practice Readings | |
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| "Not a Pretty Picture" | |
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| Guidelines: Writing a Brief Summary Report | |
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| An Objective Report on Sources | |
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| Practice Readings | |
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| "Reagan Deserves Landmarks" | |
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| "The Rename Game" | |
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| The Obligation of Acknowledging Sources | |
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| The List of Works Cited | |
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| Parenthetical Notes | |
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| Reading Selection | |
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| "Service Learning" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Group Work | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| "Serve or Fail" | |
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| "Learning Outside of School: Service to the Community Lends Meaning to Education" | |
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| Analyzing Texts | |
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| Analyzing the Parts | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Audience | |
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| Main Idea | |
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| Development | |
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| Organization and Coherence | |
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| Writing a Brief Reading Analysis | |
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| Practice Readings | |
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| "Earnie's Nuns Are Pointing the Way" | |
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| Reading Selection | |
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| "Opening Ourselves to Unconditional Love in our Relationships with Students" | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Group Work | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Writing | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| "Crossing the Fine Line Between Teacher and Therapist" | |
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| "Hollywood Goes to School" | |
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| Beginning a Research Project | |
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| The Research Paper | |
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| Primary and Secondary Research | |
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| Benefits of Doing Research | |
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| Learning an Essential Skill | |
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| Contributing to Scholarship | |
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| Gaining Personal Knowledge | |
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| The Research Process | |
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| A Research Assignment | |
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| The Finished Product | |
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| A Sample Standard Research Paper | |
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| Student Writing | |
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| "The Great Digital Shift in Music" | |
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| A Sample Personal Research Paper | |
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| Student Writing | |
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| "Human Papilloma Virus (HPV): The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Disease" | |
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| Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance | |
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| A Research Notebook | |
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| Your Research Topic | |
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| Generating Ideas | |
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| Brainstorming | |
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| Developing an Idea: Clustering | |
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| Tools for Finding Sources | |
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| Beginning Your Research | |
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| Your Campus Library | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Networks | |
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| Using Your Library's Research Tools | |
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| Finding Books and Other Library Holdings | |
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| Encyclopedias and Other General Reference Works | |
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| Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers | |
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| Locating Periodicals | |
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| Microforms | |
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| Library Vandalism--A Crime Against Scholarship | |
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| Using Electronic Databases | |
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| A Sample Search for Periodical Sources | |
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| Finding Government Documents | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Search Engines | |
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| The Reference Librarian--The Most Resourceful Resource | |
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| Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters | |
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| Interviewing Sources | |
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| Arranging the Interview | |
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| Conducting the Interview | |
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| Writing for Information | |
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| Still Other Sources | |
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| Putting Your Sources to Work | |
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| A Research Prospectus | |
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| The Working Bibliography | |
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| Using Your Sources | |
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| Reading Your Sources | |
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| Evaluating Your Sources | |
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| Narrowing Your Paper's Focus | |
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| Formulating and Refining a Plan | |
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| Taking Notes on Note Cards | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Guidelines: Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Using Sources in Research Writing | |
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| The Conventions of Reporting | |
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| Options for Presenting Sources | |
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| Acknowledging Sources | |
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| Relying on Experts | |
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| Paraphrasing Sources | |
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| Quoting Sources | |
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| Punctuating Quotations | |
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| Altering Questions | |
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| When to Quote and When to Paraphrase | |
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| A Further Note on Plagiarism | |
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| Practice with Using Sources | |
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| Writing a Brief Objective Research Essay | |
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| Writing a Brief Subjective Research Essay | |
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| Writing and Revising the Research Paper | |
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| Getting Organized | |
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| Formulating a Thesis Statement | |
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| Sorting Your Notes | |
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| Updating Your Outline | |
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| Writing the First Good Draft | |
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| Guidelines: Research Writing | |
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| Some Practical Writing Tips | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Writing the Opening | |
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| Writing the Conclusion | |
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| Giving Your Paper a Title | |
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| Editing and Revising | |
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| Reworking Your Paper | |
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| Checklist: Editing and Revising | |
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| Getting Advice from Other Readers | |
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| Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft | |
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| Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research | |
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| Emotional Persuasion | |
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| Logical Argument | |
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| The Structure of Logical Argument: Claims, Evidence and Values | |
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| Varieties of Evidence | |
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| Ethical and Emotional Appeals | |
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| An Informal Analysis of an Argument | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Abolish the Penny" | |
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| A Critique of an Argument | |
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| Guidelines: Writing a Critique of an Argument | |
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| Practice Reading | |
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| "Workplace Worrywarts" | |
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| An Argumentative Research Essay | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Audience | |
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| Persona | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Opposition | |
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| Organization | |
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| A Sample Argumentative Essay | |
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| Student Writing | |
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| "A Cure for World Hunger or 'Frankenfood'?: The Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods" | |
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| Research Paper Reference Handbook | |
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| List of Work Cited(MLA Format) | |
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| Bibliographic Formats | |
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| General Guidelines--MLA Format | |
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| Citing Electronic Sources | |
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| Model Entries--MLA Format | |
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| Sources in Books | |
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| Books | |
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| Selections from Books | |
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| Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers | |
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| Other Sources | |
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| Internet and Electronic Sources | |
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| Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format) | |
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| Types of Notes | |
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| Parenthetical Notes | |
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| Some Special Cases | |
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| When Are Notes Needed? | |
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| How Many Notes Are Enough? | |
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| How Much Material Can One Note Cover? | |
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| Information Footnotes | |
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| Research Paper Format (MLA Style) | |
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| Format for your Polished Draft | |
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| A Formal Outline | |
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| Standard Numbering System | |
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| Paper Title | |
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| Decimal System | |
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| Topic and Sentence Outlines | |
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| APA Format | |
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| Formats Other Than MLA | |
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| APA Style | |
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| APA Bibliographic Citations (Reference List) | |
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| Model Entries | |
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| Books | |
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| Selections from Books | |
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| Periodicals and Newspapers | |
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| Other Sources | |
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| Internet and Electronic Sources | |
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| Notes APA Style | |
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| Sample Pages in APA Style | |
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| Format Featuring Numbered References | |