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Contents

  1. Accessibility Statement

  2. For Students: How to Access and Use this Textbook

  3. About BCcampus Open Education

  4. Introduction

  5. I. Reading

    1. 1. What is a Text?

    2. 2. Reading Effectively

    3. 3. Creating an Optimal Setting for Reading

    4. 4. Pre-reading Strategies

    5. 5. Reading Critically

    6. 6. Annotating and Taking Notes

    7. 7. Dialectic Note-taking

    8. 8. Exploring the Structure of a Text

    9. 9. Patterns in Texts

    10. 10. Discovering What a Text is Saying

    11. 11. Reflecting on What You Read

    12. 12. Reading Review

  6. II. Prewriting: Ground Zero

    1. 13. What is the Assignment?

    2. 14. Audience

    3. 15. Imagining Your Audience’s Needs

    4. 16. Purpose

    5. 17. Appealing to Your Audience

    6. 18. Point of View

    7. 19. Selecting and Narrowing a Topic

  7. III. Academic Writing

    1. 20. Why Write?

    2. 21. Professional Opportunities

    3. 22. The Writing Process

    4. 23. Types of Assignments

    5. 24. Overcoming Writing Anxiety and Writer's Block

    6. 25. Good Writing Habits

    7. 26. Procrastination

  8. IV. Prewriting: Organizing and Outlining

    1. 27. Prewriting Step One: Gathering Ideas

    2. 28. Organizing Your Ideas and Looking for Connections

    3. 29. Outlining

  9. V. Drafting

    1. 30. Patterns of Organization and Methods of Development

    2. 31. Creating Your Thesis

    3. 32. Writing a First Draft

    4. 33. Transitions

    5. 34. Writing Paragraphs

    6. 35. Writing Essay Introductions

    7. 36. Writing the Essay Body: Supporting Your Ideas

    8. 37. Writing Essay Conclusions

  10. VI. Revising Stage

    1. 38. Revision: Higher Order Concerns

    2. 39. Reverse Outlining

    3. 40. Editing and Proofreading: Lower Order Concerns

    4. 41. Giving and Receiving Feedback

    5. 42. Submission: MLA Style Document Format

  11. VII. Researching

    1. 43. Why is Information Literacy Important?

    2. 44. Learning About Plagiarism and Guidelines for Using Information

    3. 45. Finding Quality Texts

    4. 46. Analyzing Content and Rhetoric

    5. 47. Paragraph-Level Text Analysis

    6. 48. Writing Summaries

    7. 49. Paraphrasing

    8. 50. Quoting

    9. 51. Critiquing a Text

    10. 52. Synthesizing

  12. VIII. Using Sources Correctly

    1. 53. Crediting and Citing Your Sources

    2. 54. Citing or Identifying Images in Your Writing

    3. 55. Using Citation Generators

    4. 56. Handling Titles

  13. IX. Literature

    1. 57. Elements of Fiction: Character

    2. 58. Elements of Fiction: Plot

    3. 59. Point of View, Narrative, and Dialogue

    4. 60. How to Discuss/Present Literature

    5. 61. How to Write a Book Review

    6. 62. Elements of Literature: Setting, Theme

    7. 63. Context Clues for Literature

    8. 64. Close Reading for Literature

  14. X. Presentations

    1. 65. Public Speaking and Class Presentations

    2. 66. Presentations to Inform

    3. 67. Types of Presentations to Inform

    4. 68. Creating Your Presentation to Inform

    5. 69. Principles of Persuasion

    6. 70. Presentations to Persuade

    7. 71. Making An Argument

    8. 72. Speaking Ethically and Avoiding Fallacies

  15. XI. Grammar

    1. 73. Sentence Basics

    2. 74. Coordination and Subordination for Sentence Variety

    3. 75. More on Sentence Variety

    4. 76. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

    5. 77. Parallelism

    6. 78. Dictionary, Thesaurus, Slang, Cliches

    7. 79. More on Slang and Idioms

    8. 80. Spelling and Homonyms

    9. 81. Synonyms and Antonyms

    10. 82. Prefixes and Suffixes

  16. Resources for Working with MLA

  17. Creating a Works Cited Page

  18. Glossary of Terms

  19. Works Cited in this Text

  20. Versioning History