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| Planning, Drafting, and Revising | |
| Think as a Writer | |
| Think about the process of communication | |
| Think about how to persuade others c Think about your audience | |
| Think about your credibility | |
| Think about your purpose | |
| Think about the complex demands of writing today | |
| Plan and Draft | |
| Think about the expectations of college readers | ... MORE |
| Establish your goals | |
| Explore your topic | |
| Write a working thesis | |
| Plan a strategy | |
| Compose a draft | |
| Write as a member of a team | |
| Compose Paragraphs | |
| Focus your paragraphs | |
| Organize your paragraphs | |
| Make your paragraphs coherent | |
| Consider paragraph length | |
| Link across paragraphs | |
| Write effective beginning and ending paragraphs | |
| Rewrite, Edit, and Proofread | |
| Switch from writer to reader | |
| Learn strategies for rewriting | |
| Respond to other writers drafts | |
| Edit for particular goals | |
| Proofread carefully | |
| Learn to edit the writing of others | |
| Writing for Different Purposes | |
| Read and View with a Critical Eye | |
| Become a critical reader | |
| Read actively | |
| Recognize verbal fallacies | |
| Become a critical viewer | |
| Recognize visual fallacies | |
| Write to Analyze | |
| Understand the goal of a rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze the context and the text | |
| Organize and write a rhetorical analysis | |
| Sample rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze images and other visual texts | |
| Write to Reflect | |
| Find a reflective topic | |
| Identify a focus | |
| Organize and write a reflection | |
| Sample reflective essay | |
| Write to Inform | |
| Find an informative topic | |
| Narrow your topic and write a thesis | |
| Organize and write an informative essay | |
| Sample informative essay | |
| Write Arguments | |
| Position arguments and proposal arguments | |
| Find an arguable topic | |
| Make an arguable claim | |
| Organize and write a position argument | |
| Sample position argument | |
| Organize and write a proposal argument | |
| Sample proposal arguments | |
| Writing in the Disciplines | |
| Learn to Write in Academic Disciplines | |
| Become an academic writer | |
| What counts as evidence in the disciplines? | |
| Write in Specific Genres | |
| Write an essay exam | |
| Write an observation | |
| Write a case study | |
| Write a lab report | |
| Write a letter of application | |
| Write a rsum | |
| Write about Literature | |
| Become a critical reader of literature | |
| Develop an interpretation | |
| Write a literary analysis | |
| Sample literary analysis | |
| Designing and Presenting | |
| Communicate with Words, Images, and Graphics | |
| Write in multimedia | |
| Think about verbal and visual relationships | |
| Know where images and graphics work best | |
| Know where words work best | |
| Design for Print and the Screen | |
| Start with your readers | |
| Design pages | |
| Choose type | |
| Compose images | |
| Edit images | |
| Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
| Design a Web site | |
| Design Presentations | |
| Plan a presentation | |
| Design visuals for a presentation | |
| Deliver an effective presentation | |
| Researching | |
| Plan Your Research | |
| Analyze the research task | |
| Find a topic | |
| Determine what kind of research you need | |
| Draft a working thesis | |
| Start a working bibliography | |
| Find and Evaluate Sources in Databases | |
| Know the strengths of database sources | |
| Find information in databases | |
| Construct | |
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