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Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading Critically
1.1 Reading Strategies
Planning Strategies
Comprehension Strategies
Active Reading Strategies
1.2 Read as a Writer
Structure Analysis
Text Analysis
Text Critique
Chapter 2 Writing Effectively
2.1 Common College Writing Assignments
2.2 The Writing Process
Defining the Writing Process
Developing the Writing Process
Audience
Purpose
2.3 Drafting the Essay
Writing the Thesis Statement
Writing Paragraphs
Writing Introduction
Writing Conclusion
2.4 Reviewing and Revising
Reviewing for Purpose
Editing and Proofreading
Making a Final Overview
Chapter 3 Avoiding Plagiarism
3.1 Paraphrasing
3.2 Quoting
3.3 Citation
Chapter 4 Summary
4.1 What is a Summary?
4.2 Preparing to Summarize
4.3 Writing a Summary
4.4 Evaluating a Summary
Chapter 5 Summarizing
5.1 THE ENDURING POWER OF PRINT FOR LEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD
5.2 TO NAVIGATE THE DANGERS OF THE WEB, YOU NEED CRITICAL THINKING — BUT ALSO CRITICAL IGNORING
5.3 FROM PUBLIC GOOD TO PERSONAL PURSUIT: HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS
5.4 DOES IT PAY TO GET A DOUBLE MAJOR IN COLLEGE?
5.5 THE LIFESAVING POWER OF GRATITUDE (OR, WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE THAT THANK YOU NOTE)
5.6 HOW SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS CAN MAKE YOU HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER
5.7 US CLIMATE RISKS ARE RISING – A SCIENTIST LOOKS AT THE DANGERS HER CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO ADAPT TO, FROM WILDFIRES TO WATER SCARCITY
5.8 Cohousing Is Empowering People to fight Back against a Global Housing Crisis
Chapter 6 Response
6.1 What is a Response?
6.2 Preparing to Respond
6.3 Writing a topic Sentence for a Response
6.4 Generating Support for a Response
6.5 Writing a Response
6.6 Evaluating a Response
Chapter 7 Responding
7.1 Out-of-Context Photos Are a Powerful Low-tech Form of Misinformation
7.2 Look Out, Email. Handwritten Letters Are Making a Comeback
7.3 Teaching in America’s Prisons Taught me to Believe in Second Chances
7.4 Hip-Hop Professor Looks to Open Doors with World’s First Peer-reviewed Rap Album
7.5 Amid Travel Ban, Regugee Women Copy With Trauma and Stress Through Drum Circle
7.6 Don’t Tell Me to Despair about the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
7.7 Energy, Housing, Food, Water: What’s a Fair Share?
Chapter 8 Argument
8.1 What is Argument?
8.2 The Structure of an Argumentative Essay
8.3 Writing an Argument
Chapter 9 Arguing
9.1 Prewriting the Argumentative
9.2 Planning and Drafting the Argumentative
9.3 Revising the Argumentative
Sample Argumentative Essays
Universal Health Care Coverage for the United States
Appendix
Lakmini Grant Siriwardana
Summary Response Essay Analysis for Content
Summary Response Essay Analysis for Language
Summary Response Essay - Opinion Expression
Argumentative Essay Analysis- Deconstruction for Content
Argumentative Essay Analysis- Deconstruction for Language
Ways to Integrate Sources
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