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MAY 5 ONLINE INSTRUCTIONS:
1. CLICK ABOVE ON THE DISCUSSION ICON. 2. A NEW SCREEN WILL OPEN WITH DISCUSSION POINTS LISTED. 3. CLICK ON THE POINT LABELLED "FIRST DISCUSSION POINT" AND ADD YOUR ANSWER.

===Here are links to the files developed to help develop academic and critical skills, and to implement academic integrity and avoid plagiarism, as you study for the Diploma courses. Special thanks to Dr. Amal Sedky for her contributions. ===



FOR FURTHER FOLLOW-UP:
==More information on how to use critical thinking when participating in academic reading and writing, with guidelines from the original Study Skills website, available here: []. ==

Click on the link below to learn more about these topics in __Reading.__

 * [|Reading critically]
 * [|Pre-reading strategies]
 * [|SQ3R reading method]
 * [|KWL reading method]
 * [|Marking & underlining]
 * [|Reading difficult material]
 * [|Interpretive reading]
 * [|Reading essays]
 * [|Reading fiction]
 * [|Narrator and character types]
 * [|Speed and comprehension]

Click on the link below to learn more about these topics related to __Writing__.

 * [|Seven stages of writing assignments]
 * [|Develop your topic](1)
 * [|Identify your audience](2)
 * [|Research](3)
 * [|Organizing with notecards](3a)
 * [|Prewrite](4)
 * [|Draft/write](5)
 * [|Revise](6)
 * [|Proofread] (7)

**Click on the link below to learn more about these topics related to __Critical Thinking__ **

 * [|Concentrating]
 * [|Thinking critically]
 * [|Thinking critically]
 * [|Thinking creatively]
 * [|Radical thinking]
 * [|Thinking aloud/private speech]
 * [|Mapping explanation]
 * [|Make your own map I]
 * [|Make your own map II]
 * Thinking like a genius: [|Creative solutions] [|Famous thinkers] [|Selected thoughts]