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Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading Critically
1. Reading Strategies
2. Read as a Writer
Chapter 2 Writing Effectively
3. Common College Writing Assignments
4. The Writing Process
5. Drafting the Essay
6. Reviewing and Revising
Chapter 3 Avoiding Plagiarism
7. Quoting
8. Paraphrasing
9. Citation
Chapter 4 Summary
10. What is a Summary?
11. Preparing to Summarize
12. Writing a Summary
13. Evaluating a Summary
Chapter 5 Summarizing
14. THE ENDURING POWER OF PRINT FOR LEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD
15. TO NAVIGATE THE DANGERS OF THE WEB, YOU NEED CRITICAL THINKING — BUT ALSO CRITICAL IGNORING
16. FROM PUBLIC GOOD TO PERSONAL PURSUIT: HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS
17. DOES IT PAY TO GET A DOUBLE MAJOR IN COLLEGE?
18. THE LIFESAVING POWER OF GRATITUDE (OR, WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE THAT THANK YOU NOTE)
19. HOW SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS CAN MAKE YOU HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER
20. I SPOKE TO ‘MINIMALISTS’ TO FIND OUT WHY THEY ARE GIVING UP THEIR PERSONAL POSSESSIONS
21. US CLIMATE RISKS ARE RISING – A SCIENTIST LOOKS AT THE DANGERS HER CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO ADAPT TO, FROM WILDFIRES TO WATER SCARCITY
22. Cohousing Is Empowering People to fight Back against a Global Housing Crisis
Chapter 6 Response
23. What is a Response?
24. Preparing to Respond
25. Writing a topic Sentence for a Response
26. Generating Support for a Response
27. Writing a Response
28. Evaluating a Response
Chapter 7 Responding
29. Out-of-Context Photos Are a Powerful Low-tech Form of Misinformation
30. Look Out, Email. Handwritten Letters Are Making a Comeback
31. Teaching in America’s Prisons Taught me to Believe in Second Chances
32. Hip-Hop Professor Looks to Open Doors with World’s First Peer-reviewed Rap Album
33. Amid Travel Ban, Regugee Women Copy With Trauma and Stress Through Drum Circle
34. Don’t Tell Me to Despair about the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
35. Energy, Housing, Food, Water: What’s a Fair Share?
Chapter 8 Argument
36. What is Argument?
37. The Structure of an Argumentative Essay
38. Writing an Argument
Chapter 9 Arguing
39. Prewriting the Argumentative
40. Planning and Drafting the Argumentative
41. Revising the Argumentative
Sample Argumentative Essays
42. Universal Health Care Coverage for the United States
Appendix
(adapted, in part, from Becoming a Confident Readerby Dr. Susannah M. Givens)
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