Writing Today, 5th edition Richard Johnson-Sheehan Charles Paine
Answer Key for The Corequisite Support Workbook for Writing Today 5e
Workshop 1: Getting Your Edge
Activity 1.0.1: Think About This
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Activity 1.2.1: Getting My Reading Done for My Classes
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Activity 1.4.1: Managing Stress and Getting Help If I Need It
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Activity 1.7.1: Finding Help on Campus
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,Workshop 2: Reading to Strengthen Your
Writing
Activity 2.0.1: Think About This: My Reading this Past Week
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Activity 2.0.2: Think About This: What Makes Reading Hard and Easy?
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Activity 2.1.1: Previewing a Text
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Activity 2.2.1: Annotating a Text
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Activity 2.3.1: Playing the Believing and Doubting Game
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Activity 2.4.1: Analyzing Evidence
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Activity 2.5.1: Recognizing and Identifying Proofs
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Activity 2.6.1: Responding to a Text by Reflecting on Your Reading Process
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,Workshop 3: Inventing Ideas Before You
Write
Activity 3.0.1: Think About This: My Writing Process for a Past Project
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Activity 3.1.1: Analyzing Your Rhetorical Situation
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Activity 3.3.1: Making Your Own Concept Map
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Activity 3.4.1: Using Freewriting to Get Your Ideas Flowing
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Activity 3.5.1: Using Brainstorming to Make a List of Ideas
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Activity 3.6.1: Using the Five-W and How Questions
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, Workshop 4: Writing a College Paper
Activity 4.0.1: Think About This: Public Speaking or Death. Which Is Scarier?
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Activity 4.1.1: The Five Moves in an Introduction
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Activity 4.2.1: Coming Up with Your Paper’s Thesis Statement
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Activity 4.3.1: Writing the Body of Your Paper by Sorting Your Ideas into Bins
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Activity 4.4.1: The Five Moves in a Conclusion
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Activity 4.5.1: Writing Great Headings
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Workshop 5: Writing Stronger Sentences
Activity 5.0.1: Think About This: How Is Texting Different from Normal Writing?
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Activity 5.1.1: Finding the Doer and the Main Action
1. Jose cruised around town on his longboard.
2. The cedar trees on campus cause my allergies to flare up each spring.
3. The food courts here at Bristol College need more options for vegetarians.
4. Instead of partying this weekend, my roommates drove to Chicago for a Cubs game.
5. If you want to do well in your classes, you should go to class!
6. Calculus was easy in high school, but it’s much harder in college.
7. When Steph yells at her dog Bella, the poor thing sulks in her crate for hours.
8. The cause of Anita’s success is tenacity.
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