Preface | |
Critical Reading | |
Definition and Purpose | |
Asking Questions about What You Read | |
Marking Texts | |
Sample Annotated Reading: Hard Choices | |
Note-Taking | |
Additional Reading: Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking | |
Summary Chart-Critical Reading: Asking Questions | |
Summary Chart-Critical Reading: Marking Texts | |
Summary Chart-Critical Reading: Note Taking | |
Journals | |
Definition | |
Purpose | |
Types of Entries | |
Language and Format | |
Final Considerations | |
Quotation | |
Definition and Purpose | |
Guidelines on When to Quote Material | |
Guidelines on When Not to Quote Material | |
Integrating Quotations into Your Writing | |
Reading: Missing Link | |
Altering Quoted Material and Avoiding Misquotations | |
Summary Chart: Guidelines on Quotations | |
Summary Chart: Integrating Quotations into Your Writing | |
Paraphrase | |
Definition and Purpose | |
Qualities of a Good Paraphrase | |
How to Paraphrase Material | |
Documentation | |
Summary Chart: How to Write a Paraphrase | |
Summary Chart: Qualities of a Good Paraphrase | |
Summary | |
Definition and Purpose | |
Types of Summaries | |
Qualities of a Good Summary | |
How to Summarize a Text | |
Documentation | |
Sample Summaries | |
Reading: AIDS and Population `Control' | |
Sample Informative Summary | |
Sample Explanatory Summary | |
Summary Chart: How to Write a Summary | |
Response Essays | |
Definition and Purpose | |
Qualities of a Good Response Essay | |
Writing the Response Essay | |
Sample Response Essay: A Response to AIDS and Population Control | |
Summary Chart: How to Write a Response Essay | |
Critique | |
Definition and Purpose | |
The Film Review as Critique | |
Writing a Critique | |
Reading: Clear Message to Teens: `It's OK to Have Sex' | |
Sample Critique: Beck's Essay Not Convincing | |
Additional Reading: Condom Availability Promotes Health, Saves Lives | |
Additional Reading: Apply Peer Pressure, Not Latex, Against Casual Sex | |
Summary Chart: Writing a Critique | |
Synthesis | |
Definition and Purpose | |
Types of Synthesis Essays | |
Reading: The Fool on the Hill | |
Reading: Forrest Gump | |
Reading: Forrest Gump | |
Informative Synthesis | |
Argumentative Synthesis | |
Sample Informative and Argumentative Syntheses | |
Additional Reading: Teenage Suicide by The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill | |
Additional Reading: Complex Set of Ills Spurs Rising Teen Suicide Rate | |
Additional Reading: Whatever Happened to Affirmative Action? | |
Additional Reading: Q: Does Diversity in Higher Education Justify Racial Preferences? | |
Additional Reading: Q: Does Diversity in Higher Education Justify Racial Preferences? | |
Summary Chart: Synthesis Essays | |
Plagiarism | |
Definition | |
Forms of Plagiarism | |
How to Avoid Plagiarism | |
Summary Chart: Plagiarism | |
Documenta | |
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