Table of contents

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Part 1: Literacy research

• Literacy and race

  • Spotlight: Flint Water Crisis

• Literacy and socioeconomic status

• Literacy and gender

• Literacy and disability

• Literacy and technology

  • Spotlight: AI and Academic Writing

  • Spotlight: The History of Writing Technologies 

• Literacy and schooling

Part 2: Student literacy narratives

Part 3: The reading process

• The reading and writing connection

• Strategies for college-level reading

Part 4: The writing process

• Understanding college writing

• What is a rhetorical approach to writing?

• Brainstorming

• Drafting and organizing

• Feedback and revising

• Writing literacy narratives

• Plagiarism

• Reflective writing

Part 5: The research process

• Developing questions

• Finding and evaluating sources

• Conducting primary research

• Synthesizing and using sources

• Creating a research presentation

Part 6: Multimodality

• What is multimodality?

• Examples of multimodal research

• Multimodal tools

Part 7: Style and Citation

• Guide to APA Style

• Guide to MLA Style

• About other style systems