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• Writing Process
  • Play the Believing Game
  • Develop Effective Writing Habits
    • Why Write?
    • Adopt Effective Writing Habits
    • Demystify Writing Misconceptions
    • Tips for Realizing Your Creative Potential
  • Play the Doubting Game
  • Think Rhetorically
    • Consider Your Audience
    • Consider Your Purpose
    • Consider Your Context
    • Consider Your Media
    • Consider Your Voice, Tone, and Persona
  • Organize
    • Paper Structure
    • Paragraphs
    • Transitions
  • Focus
  • Invent
    • Journalistic Questions
    • Group Brainstorming
    • Freewrite
    • Journal About the Assignment
      • Benefits to Using A Writer's Journal
    • Burke's Pentad
  • Format
  • Revise
    • Writers on Revising
  • Edit
    • Use Correct Punctuation
      • Commas
      • Dashes and Parentheses
      • Colons
      • Semicolons
      • Apostrophe
  • Publish
• Information Literacy
  • New Understandings of Literacy
  • Visual Literacy
    • Decoding an Image
    • Annotating the Margins
    • Ad Analysis
      • Language for Analyzing Ads
      • Analyzing Ads: Gender
      • Analyzing Ads: Race
      • Analyzing Ads: Socioeconomic Status
• Research Process
  • Research Primer
    • Demystify Research Methods
    • Survey Academic Research Communities
    • Understand Opposing Research Ideologies
  • Textual Research
    • Intellectual Property
    • Library & Internet Research
      • Seek Help From Librarians
      • Search the Library Catalog
      • Search the Web
      • Search Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
      • Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
    • Evaluate Researchers' Methods
  • Empirical Research
    • Informed Consent
    • Surveys
    • Ethnography
      • Select a Culture
      • Learn About the Culture
      • Develop Field Notes
      • Arrange Access
      • Use Research Tools
      • Select Key Informants
      • Analyze Artifacts
      • Observe Rituals
      • Conclude Your Work
    • Interviews
  • Integrate Evidence
    • Avoid Plagiarism
    • Incorporate Evidence
      • Introduce Evidence
      • Summarize & Paraphrase Sources
        • Understand When Citations are Necessary
        • Examples of Effective Summaries and Paraphrases (MLA Style)
        • Create an Annotated Bibliography
    • Analyze Evidence
• Collaboration
  • Group Work
    • Managing Group Projects
    • Advice on Finding Collaborators
  • Peer Review
    • Providing & Receiving Feedback in Group Situations
    • Questions to Consider
    • Document Review Guidelines
    • Navigate Readers' Suggestions Wisely
    • In-Class Peer Review
  • Consider Feedback
    • Ask Questions to Improve Your Document
    • Overcome Discouragement
• Genres
  • Creative Writing
    • Autobiography
  • Academic Writing
    • Exam Essays
    • Argument
    • Classical/ Traditional Argument
    • Rogerian Argument
    • Literary Criticism
    • Causes & Effects
    • Subjects & Concepts
    • Use Academic Language
  • Professional Writing
    • Technical Writing
      • Instructions & Process Reports
    • Business Writing
      • Reviews & Recommendations
      • Proposals
• New Media
  • Copyright Law
  • Remediation
  • Text-to-Visual Remediation
  • Text-to-Text Remediation

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