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| Writing Critically and Conducting Research | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Reading Critically in Preparation for Writing Critically | |
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| Illustration: Reading Critically | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| More than You Think | |
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| Discussion of "What's in a Name? | |
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| More than You Think" Rhetorical Analysis of Visuals | |
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| Rhetorical Analysis of Websites | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Paper | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Writing a Summary | |
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| Writing a Summary | |
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| Illustration: Making Marginal Notes and Summarizing | |
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| "The Moon We Left Behind," | |
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| Writing a Critique | |
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| The Connection between Reading Critically and Writing a Critique | |
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| Writing a Critique | |
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| The Hollow Curriculum | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Writing an Arguement | |
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| Narrowing Your Focus and Discovering Your Position | |
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| Structuring an Argument | |
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| Strategies for Arguing Effectively | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Synthesizing Material and Documenting Sources | |
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| Using MLA Style Writing a Synthesis | |
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| In-text Citations Using MLA Style | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Quoting | |
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| Integrating Source Material into Your Paper | |
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| Using Ellipsis Points, Brackets, Single Quotation Marks and "Qtd. in." Documenting Sources in a Collection of Essays | |
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| Writing a Research Paper | |
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| Defining Your Purpose | |
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| Discovering a Topic | |
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| Forming a Preliminary Thesis and a Working Bibliography | |
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| Using the Library | |
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| Using Electronic Sources | |
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| Using Other Sources | |
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| Creating a Preliminary Bibliography | |
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| Evaluating Print Sources | |
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| Evaluating Internet Sources | |
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| Illustration: Seeking Promising Websites Taking Notes | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Illustration: Plagiarism, Inaccurate Documentation, and Correct Handling of Source Material | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| Parenthetical Documentation: Citing Sources in the Text | |
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| Creating a Works Cited Page Using MLA Style | |
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| Assembling the Parts of a Research Paper | |
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| Student Research Paper Using MLA Style | |
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| Writing a Research Paper Using APA Style | |
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| Parenthetical Citations Using APA Style | |
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| APA Style References List Sample Pages from Student Research Paper Using APA Style | |
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| A Student Paper Using PA Style | |
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| Media Studies, Popular Culture, and the Arts | |
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| Music and Video Games | |
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| Art Form for the Digital Age | |
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| Do Video Games Kill? | |
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| In Defense of Hip-Hop | |
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| Hip-Hop's Betrayal of Black Women | |
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| Media Studies | |
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| Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence | |
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| Violent Media is Good for Kids | |
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| The End of Admiration: The Media and the Loss of Heroes | |
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| The Wrong Lesson: Teaching College Reporters to be Meek | |
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| Film and Television | |
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| Stop Blaming Kids and TV | |
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| Getting Real with Reality TV | |
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| Creating Reel Change | |
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| Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs | |
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| The Arts | |
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| Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth | |
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| Comix Poetics | |
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| Dance, Dance Revolution | |
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| How Song, Dance and Movies Bailed Us Out of the Depression | |
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| Social and Behavioral Sciences | |
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| Education | |
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| Censorship: A Personal View | |
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| Critical Thinking? | |
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| You Need Knowledge | |
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| Except from "Why School?: A Student in a Community College Basic Skills Program," | |
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| No Time to Read? | |
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| Poverty and Homelessness | |
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| Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids | |
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| Homeless, Mike Dick was 51, Looked 66 | |
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| Too Poor to Make the News | |
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| The Singer Solution to World Poverty | |
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| Gender and Sex Roles | |
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| The Puzzle of Boys | |
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| Who Does the Talking Here? | |
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| A Sporting Chance: Title IX and the Seismic Shift in Women's Sports | |
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| Sacred Rite or Civil Right? | |
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| Race and Ethnicity in America | |
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| One Nation, Indivisible: Is It History? | |
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| Imagining the Immigrant: Why Legality Must Give Way to Humanity | |
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| Play the Race Card | |
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| Race in America: We Would Like to Believe We Are Over the Problem+cMaryann Cusimano Love | |
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| American Foreign Policy | |
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| American Idealism and Realpolitik | |
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| Still Not Tired | |
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| Lessons from World War II | |
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| Now Showing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Americans | |
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| Science and Technology | |
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| Digital Technology and the Internet | |
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| I Need My Space! | |
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| The Most Important Moment of All Time? | |
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| Grant Calder | |
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| Social Connection | |
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| Chips: High Tech Aids or Tracking Tools? | |
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| Todd Lewan | |
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| Bioethics | |
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| About That New Jersey Organ Scandal | |
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| Women Sell Their Eggs, So Why Not a Kidney? | |
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| Deborah Kotz | |
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| Patenting Life | |
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| Bioethics and Stem Cell Research Debate | |
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| Public Health | |
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| HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny | |
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| The HPV Debate Needs an Injection of Reality | |
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| Global Public Goods and Health | |
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| What the Rest of Africa Could Learn about AIDS | |
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| Environmental Studies | |
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| Humboldt's Legacy and the Restoration of Science | |
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| Get Up! Stand Up! | |
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| The Sixth Extinction | |
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| Accounting 101 for the 21st Century: A Liberal Arts Education in Carbon | |
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| Business and Economics | |
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| Marketing and the American Consumer | |
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| Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture | |
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| Marketing in the Millennials | |
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| Stuff is Not Salvation | |
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| Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in Americdan Today | |
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| The Workplace | |
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| You've Been Mommified | |
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| The Full-Time Blues | |
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| Temporary Workers and the 21st Century Economy | |
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| Oh, Brother | |
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| American Business in the Global Marketplace | |
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| In Defense of Sweatshops | |
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| The Wal-Mart You Don't Know | |
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| 30 Little Turtles | |
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| Dominant Elsewhere, Google Struggles in China | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Formatting Guidelines for Course Papers | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |