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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. Writing Essays
18. Defining the Writing Process
19. Revising
20. Editing and Proofreading
21. Matters of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
22. Composition as a Write of Passage
23. Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way Into a Writing Assignment
24. The Complexity of Simplicity: Invention Potentials for Writing Students
25. Introduction to College-Level Writing
26. Storytelling, Narration, and the Who I am Story
27. Purpose, Audience, Tone and Content
28. Discussion Board: Academic Writing
29. Discussion Board: Reading Difficult Material
30. Writing Summaries and Responses
31. Evidence
32. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism
33. Research Strategies
34. Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills
35. MLA Format
36. Formatting the Works Cited Page (MLA)
37. Quoting and Paraphrasing
38. Compare and Contrast
39. Beyond Black and White: Document Design and Formatting in the Writing Classroom
40. Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys and Interviews
41. Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn't (Always) Right
42. Grammar/Mechanics Mini-lessons
43. Mini-lesson: Comma Usage
44. Mini-lesson: Run-ons and Comma Splices
45. Matters of Grammar, Mechanics and Style
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