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Accessibility Statement
For Students: How to Access and Use this Textbook
About BCcampus Open Education
Introduction
1. What is a Text?
2. Reading Effectively
3. Creating an Optimal Setting for Reading
4. Pre-reading Strategies
5. Reading Critically
6. Annotating and Taking Notes
7. Dialectic Note-taking
8. Exploring the Structure of a Text
9. Patterns in Texts
10. Discovering What a Text is Saying
11. Reflecting on What You Read
12. Reading Review
13. What is the Assignment?
14. Audience
15. Imagining Your Audience’s Needs
16. Purpose
17. Appealing to Your Audience
18. Point of View
19. Selecting and Narrowing a Topic
20. Why Write?
21. Professional Opportunities
22. The Writing Process
23. Types of Assignments
24. Overcoming Writing Anxiety and Writer's Block
25. Good Writing Habits
26. Procrastination
27. Prewriting Step One: Gathering Ideas
28. Organizing Your Ideas and Looking for Connections
29. Outlining
30. Patterns of Organization and Methods of Development
31. Creating Your Thesis
32. Writing a First Draft
33. Transitions
34. Writing Paragraphs
35. Writing Essay Introductions
36. Writing the Essay Body: Supporting Your Ideas
37. Writing Essay Conclusions
38. Revision: Higher Order Concerns
39. Reverse Outlining
40. Editing and Proofreading: Lower Order Concerns
41. Giving and Receiving Feedback
42. Submission: MLA Style Document Format
43. Why is Information Literacy Important?
44. Learning About Plagiarism and Guidelines for Using Information
45. Finding Quality Texts
46. Analyzing Content and Rhetoric
47. Paragraph-Level Text Analysis
48. Writing Summaries
49. Paraphrasing
50. Quoting
51. Critiquing a Text
52. Synthesizing
53. Crediting and Citing Your Sources
54. Citing or Identifying Images in Your Writing
55. Using Citation Generators
56. Handling Titles
57. Elements of Fiction: Character
58. Elements of Fiction: Plot
59. Point of View, Narrative, and Dialogue
60. How to Discuss/Present Literature
61. How to Write a Book Review
62. Elements of Literature: Setting, Theme
63. Context Clues for Literature
64. Close Reading for Literature
65. Public Speaking and Class Presentations
66. Presentations to Inform
67. Types of Presentations to Inform
68. Creating Your Presentation to Inform
69. Principles of Persuasion
70. Presentations to Persuade
71. Making An Argument
72. Speaking Ethically and Avoiding Fallacies
73. Sentence Basics
74. Coordination and Subordination for Sentence Variety
75. More on Sentence Variety
76. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
77. Parallelism
78. Dictionary, Thesaurus, Slang, Cliches
79. More on Slang and Idioms
80. Spelling and Homonyms
81. Synonyms and Antonyms
82. Prefixes and Suffixes
Resources for Working with MLA
Creating a Works Cited Page
Glossary of Terms
Works Cited in this Text
Versioning History
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