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