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Introduction
Christine Jones
1. What is a Text?
2. Read Effectively
3. Create an Optimal Setting for Reading
4. Use Pre-reading Strategies
5. Read Efficiently
6. Annotate and Take Notes
7. Do Quick Research
8. Discover What a Text is Trying to Say
9. Explore the Ways the Text Affects You
10. Reflect
11. Troubleshoot Your Reading
12. Why is Information Literacy Important?
13. Learning About Plagiarism and Guidelines for Using Information
14. Finding Quality Texts
15. Self-Exploration and Self-Enrichment
16. Professional Opportunities
17. Comprehension and Academic Performance
18. Creativity
19. Effective Communication and Persuasion
20. About This Section
21. Audience
22. Purpose
23. Appealing to Your Audience
24. Exercises
25. Tone, Voice, and Point of View
26. Imagining Your Audience’s Needs
27. Audience
28. Strategies for Getting Started
29. Selecting and Narrowing a Topic
30. Organizing Your Ideas and Looking for Connections
31. Finding the Thesis
32. Writing a First Draft
33. Writing Paragraphs
34. The Paragraph Body: Supporting Your Ideas
35. Developing Relationships between Ideas
36. Patterns of Organization and Methods of Development
37. Writing Introductions
38. Writing Conclusions
39. Writing Summaries
40. Paraphrasing
41. Quoting
42. Crediting and Citing Your Sources
43. Citing or Identifying Images in Your Writing
44. Handling Titles
45. Proofreading Your Work with Sources
46. Using Citation Generators
47. Overcoming Writing Anxiety and Writer's Block
48. Good Writing Habits
49. Procrastination
50. MLA: Get Citations While Searching
51. MLA: Create In-Text Citations
52. MLA: Compose a Work Cited Page
53. Higher vs. Lower Order Concerns
54. Reverse Outlining
55. Editing
56. Document Format, Documentation Style, and Proofreading
57. Giving and Receiving Feedback
58. What's Next?
59. Reading Critically
60. Exploring the Structure of a Text
61. Dialectic Note-taking
62. Analyzing Content and Rhetoric
63. Sentence-Level Analysis
64. Point of View
65. Word Choice
66. Paragraph Analysis
67. Summarizing a Text
68. Critiquing a Text
69. Drawing Conclusions, Synthesizing, and Reflecting
Appendices
Grammar and Style
Resources for Working with MLA
Glossary of Terms
Works Cited in This Text
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