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Reading and Writing Successfully in College / Patricia Lynne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynne, Patricia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- English language--Rhetoric--Software.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : ROTEL, 2023.
- Summary:
- This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom's Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
- Contents:
- Welcome, Students!
- Welcome, Instructors!
- Ackowledgements
- Land Acknowledgement
- Icons and Textbooks
- I. Successful College Reading
- Why Reading in a College Writing Textbook?
- Reading Effectively
- Creating an Optimal Setting for Reading
- Examining a Sample Assignment
- Using Pre-Reading Strategies
- Focusing Your Reading
- Annotating and Note-Taking
- Doing Quick Research
- Finding the Main Point
- Working Carefully Through Trouble Spots
- Rereading
- Responding to What You Are Reading
- Summarizing and Reflecting on a Text
- Reading in College and Elsewhere
- II. Doing Intellectual Work
- What is Intellectual Work?
- Understanding Bloom's Taxonomy
- Understanding Writing Assignments as Intellectual Work
- Examining Sample Assignment 1: Summary and Analysis
- Examining Sample Assignment 2: Position Paper
- Examining Sample Assignment 3: Article for a Public Audience
- Examining Sample Assignment 4: Reflection
- Treating Complext Tasks as Intellectual Work: Why?
- III. Writing Process in College
- Why Writing Process in College?
- Thinking about Writing Process
- Prewriting 1: Understanding the Task
- Prewriting 2: Generating Ideas
- Drafting 1: Setting Up Your Structure
- Drafting 2: Producing Text
- Getting Feedback
- Revising 1: Revising Globally
- Revising 2: Revising Paragraphs
- Editing
- Proofreading
- Owning Your Process
- IV. Writing with Sources
- How Are Sources Used in College?
- Understanding Sources Types
- Finding Sources
- Evaluating Sources
- Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting
- Choosing Between Quotations and Paraphrases
- Citing Your Sources
- Plagarizing
- Integrating Source Material with Your Ideas
- Thoughtful Source Use
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Grant Information.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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