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Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students [1st Edition]
About This Book
What Is Intellectual Work? When instructors give you writing assignments, they want you to do intellectual work. If you can understand what this means, you’ll be better able to understand what your professors are looking for and how to complete your assignments successfully. If something is intellectual, it’s about thinking, so understanding information and ideas. And as soon as we talk about using something, we are working with it. So “intellectual work” is about thinking actively (in the ways
| Category | technology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Writing and editing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Information retrieval and access, Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 23 |
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| Price | |
| Institution | Framingham State University |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- What Is Intellectual Work?
- Examining Sample Assignment 1: Summary and Analysis
- Examining Sample Assignment 3: Article for a Public Audience
- Treating Complex Tasks as Intellectual Work: Why?
- Reading Effectively
- Examining a Sample Assignment
- Using Pre-Reading Strategies
- Focusing Your Reading
- Doing Quick Research
- Working Carefully Through Trouble Spots
- Rereading
- Responding to What You Are Reading
- Summarizing and Reflecting on a Text
- Drafting 1: Setting Up Your Structure
- Getting Feedback
- Evaluating Sources
- Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting
- Choosing Between Quotations and Paraphrases
- Citing Your Sources
- Plagiarizing
- Integrating Source Material with Your Ideas