Click on the following topics to take you through the process of writing a deliberative essay for MAX 132: Global Community.  You will be able to pick up some pointers on how to write a strong college-level essay.

Reading Strategies
Critical reading strategies can lead your thinking to questions or issues that you might want to explain and analyze in your essay.

Composing Strategies
After you have identified the issues you want to discuss, you need to state a claim and prove, expand and analyze that claim through paragraphs, examples and details.

Revision Strategies
You can make your ideas more accessible to the reader by revising your draft for focus content and organization, and by providing transitions between sentences and paragraphs.

Citation Strategies: Avoiding Plagiarism
Evaluating your sources and citing them correctly not only avoids plagiarism, but also strengthens your analysis and the evidence to support your reasoning.

Reading to Writing
As you work through the questions and apply your own thinking and writing to the answers, you will clarify your ideas and therefore, better communicate them to your audience.

Most of these pages point you toward asking questions about your own writing and thinking. You should look at these questions as ways to help you grow as a thinker and a writer for they are meant to be springboards for your own ideas.

For grammatical and technical advice, you can refer to any good style manual such as A WRITER'S REFERENCE, 4th EDITION by Diana Hacker.

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