IntroductionPart 1: Working with Texts -- What is a Text? -- Building Strong Reading Skills -- Read Effectively -- Create an Optimal Setting for Reading -- Use Pre-reading Strategies -- Read Efficiently -- Annotate and Take Notes -- Do Quick Research -- Discover What a Text is Trying to Say -- Explore the Ways the Text Affects You -- Reflect -- Troubleshoot Your Reading -- Writing about Texts -- Reading Critically -- Exploring the Structure of a Text -- Dialectic Note-taking -- Analyzing Content and Rhetoric -- Sentence-Level Analysis -- Point of View -- Word Choice -- Paragraph Analysis -- Summarizing a Text -- Critiquing a Text -- Drawing Conclusions, Synthesizing, and Reflecting -- What is Information Literacy? -- Why is Information Literacy Important? -- Finding Quality Texts -- Learning About Plagiarism and Guidelines for Using Information -- Part 2: Writing -- About This Section -- Why Write? -- Self-Exploration and Self-Enrichment -- Creativity -- Comprehension and Academic Performance -- Professional Opportunities -- Effective Communication and Persuasion -- Determining Your Audience and Purpose -- Audience -- Purpose -- Appealing to Your Audience -- Exercises -- Tone, Voice, and Point of View -- Prewriting-Generating Ideas -- Selecting and Narrowing a Topic -- Strategies for Getting Started -- Imagining Your Audience's Needs -- Drafting -- Organizing Your Ideas and Looking for Connections -- Finding the Thesis -- Writing a First Draft -- Writing Paragraphs -- The Paragraph Body: Supporting Your Ideas -- Developing Relationships between Ideas -- Patterns of Organization and Methods of Development -- Writing Introductions -- Writing Conclusions -- Writing Summaries -- Paraphrasing -- Quoting -- Using Sources Correctly -- Crediting and Citing Your Sources -- Citing: Identifying In-Text Sources -- Citing or Identifying Images in Your Writing -- Handling Titles -- Proofreading Your Work with Sources -- Using Citation Generators -- Dealing with Obstacles and Developing Good Habits -- Overcoming Writing Anxiety and Writer's Block -- Good Writing Habits -- Procrastination -- Revising -- Higher vs. Lower Order Concerns -- Reverse Outlining -- Editing -- Document Format, Documentation Style, and Proofreading -- Giving and Receiving Feedback -- What's Next? -- AppendicesGrammar and StyleResources for Working with MLACreating a Works Cited PageResults for the "Check Your Understanding" ActivitiesGlossary of TermsWorks Cited in This Text

Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text draws from decades of experience teaching students who are entering the college reading and writing environment for the very first time. It includes examples, exercises, and definitions for just about every reading- and writing-related topic students will encounter in their college courses.

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