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Humanities

Author: Karen Crozer
Publisher: Los Angeles Mission College
Source: LibreTexts
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Language: EN

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Contents· 108 sections

01: Reading Strategies
1.01: Online Reading Tips
1.02: Effective Reading Strategies
1.03: How to Remember More of What You Read (Thomas Frank)
1.04: Active vs. Passive Reading
1.05: Previewing
1.06: Read Strategically- Context Clues
1.07: Creating an Annotation System
1.7.01: Annotating an Essay or Book
1.7.02: Annotating a Journal Article
1.08: Summarizing
1.09: Academic Reading Strategies
1.10: How to Read Like a Writer (Mike Bunn)
1.11: Reading Games- Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources (Karen Rosenberg)
02: Mastering Academic Writing
2.01: Writing for Whom Writing for What
2.02: Writing in College
2.03: Whats Critical About Critical Thinking
2.04: Paraphrasing
2.4.01: Activity
2.05: The Prompt- What Does Analyze Mean Anyway
2.06: Rubrics as Road Maps
2.07: Techniques Part 1
2.08: Techniques Part 2
2.09: Techniques Part 3
2.10: Analysis
2.11: Interpretation
2.12: Incorporating Sources
2.13: Writing Like You Drive
2.14: Principles
2.15: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme
2.16: Revising for Clarity- Who Did What to Whom
2.17: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up
2.18: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument
2.19: Form and Function
2.20: Correctness in Writing
2.21: The Dilemma of Gendered Language in English
2.22: Elements of Punctuation and Language You Must Master
2.23: Types of Writing Styles
2.24: Concision and Grace
2.25: How to- Write a Summary
2.26: Reading with Concision and Grace in Mind
2.27: Grace
03: The Research Paper
3.01: Getting Started Writing
3.02: Understanding the Assignment
3.03: Assessing the Writing Situation
3.04: Ah the Research Paper
3.05: Theses and Sources
3.06: Library Research as Problem-solving
3.07: Keyword Searching- Do it Better
3.08: Finding Tier 1 Sources- Article Databases
3.09: Some Sources are Better than Others
3.10: Origins and Anatomy of a Journal Article
3.11: Avoiding Plagiarism
3.12: Misinformation and Biases Infect Social Media Both Intentionally and Accidentally (Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer)
04: The Little Reader of Nonfiction Essays
4.01: Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health (Honarvar)
4.02: The Danger of a Single Story (Adichie)
4.03: The Story We Tell about Millennials and Who We Leave Out (Allen)
4.04: How the New Aladdin Stacks Up Against a Century of Hollywood Stereotyping (Alsultany)
4.05: Mushrooms- Natures Greatest Decomposers (Anderson)
4.06: Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share (Cook)
4.07: The Story We Tell about Millennials and Who We Leave Out (Allen)
4.08: Jamaica Leads in Richard Branson-Backed Plan for a Caribbean Climate Revolution (Ashtine and Rogers)
4.09: Is Burning Trash a Good Way to Handle It Waste Incineration in 5 Charts (Baptista)
4.10: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Schorin)
4.11: No Food No Water No Sleep- Is Brazil Torturing Student Protesters (Paula)
4.12: How I Celebrate Life on the Day of the Dead (Gonzalez)
4.13: We Are Still Here- Native Americans Win a Voice in Government (Hansen and Keeler)
4.14: Who Are the 1 in 4 American Women Who Choose Abortion (Ireland)
4.15: So What Really Is Jihad (Khalil)
4.16: Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion from Science (LaPier)
4.17: Juneteenth - Freedoms Promise Is Still Denied to Thousands of Blacks Unable to Make Bail (Larson)
4.18: Why Women From Asia Are Confronting U.S. Fracking- Oil Extraction Equals Plastic Production (Morrison)
4.19: Minorities Face More Obstacles to a Lifesaving Organ Transplant (Nonterah)
4.20: A Syrian Asks Herself- Am I Capable of Killing (Shehwaro)
4.21: A Feminists Guide to Rom-Coms and How to Watch Them (Sutriasa)
4.22: How a Green New Deal Could Exploit Developing Countries (Taiwo)
4.23: Time Wasnt Always Money- Decolonizing Time in Diaspora (Villasenor)
4.24: Taking the Native American Narrative Beyond Reservations (Vizcarra)
4.25: On Reparations the Question Isnt If but When and How (Warfield)
4.26: Youre Not Going to Get Accepted into a Top University on Merit Alone (Warikoo)
4.27: The Black Muslim Female Fashion Trailblazers Who Came before Model Halima Aden (Wheeler)
4.28: Visiting First Place School- Reflections on Other-Centric Education Private Education and Identity (Shepard)
4.29: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Bekoff)
4.30: Everything You Need to Know About the Radical Roots of Wonder Woman (Finke)
4.31: Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene- Understanding Ecological Grief (Ellis and Cunsolo)
4.32: The Plot to Privatize Common Knowledge (Bollier)
4.33: Shadows of the Bat- Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan (Born)
4.34: The 1995 Anime Ghost in the Shell Is More Relevant than Ever in Todays Technologically Complex Society (Maynard)
4.35: Misinformation and Biases Infect Social Media Both Intentionally and Accidentally (Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer)
4.36: The Blue (Oomen)
4.37: How to Save the Middle Class When Jobs Dont Pay (Barnes)
4.38: Think You Love Your Valentine Whats Beneath the Surface May Be More Complicated (Zayas and Shoda)
4.39: How the New Aladdin Stacks Up Against a Century of Hollywood Stereotyping (Alsultany)
4.40: How I Celebrate Life on the Day of the Dead (Gonzalez)
4.41: Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion from Science (LaPier)
4.42: Education in the (Dis)Information Age (Shaffer)
05: The Little Reader of World Literature
5.01: The Bhagavad Gita
5.02: The Popul Vuh
5.03: The Mother of Mencius
5.04: The Art of War
5.05: Hebrew Bible Genesis And Exodus
5.06: Seneca Creation Myths
5.07: Origin Myth of the Acoma
5.08: Selected Sonnets