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1. Request Access
2. I Need Help
3. Reading to Write
4. Audience
5. Text: Evaluating Information With Critical Thinking
6. Why It Matters: Reading
7. Keeping Your Writing Engaging
8. How to Read Like a Writer
9. Reading Games
10. Thesis Statements
11. Organizing an Essay
12. Effective Thesis Statements
13. Incorporating Objections and Opposing Views
14. Argument and persuasion
15. Critical Thinking
16. Critical Thinking in College Writing: From Personal to Academic
17. Defining the Writing Process
18. Revising
19. Editing and Proofreading
20. Matters of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
21. Composition as a Write of Passage
22. Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way Into a Writing Assignment
23. The Complexity of Simplicity: Invention Potentials for Writing Students
24. Introduction to College-Level Writing
25. Storytelling, Narration, and the Who I am Story
26. Purpose, Audience, Tone and Content
27. Evidence
28. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism
29. Research Strategies
30. Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills
31. MLA Format
32. Formatting the Works Cited Page (MLA)
33. Quoting and Paraphrasing
34. Compare and Contrast
35. Beyond Black and White: Document Design and Formatting in the Writing Classroom
36. Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys and Interviews
37. Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn't (Always) Right
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