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| (Each chapter begins with Springboards to Thinking and ends with Refresher Exercise and Springboards to Writing.) | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Rambos of the Roadrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Road Rage | |
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| The Vocabulary of Road Rage | |
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| Spelling: Methods to Improve Your Spelling | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Prewriting Techniques | |
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| Purposes for Writing | |
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| Audience | |
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| The Topic Sentence | |
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| Paragraph Development | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Fire, Hope, and Charityrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of a Troubled Society | |
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| The Vocabulary of a Healthy Society | |
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| Spelling: Sound-Alikes | |
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| Paragraph Development | |
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| Ordering of Details in a Paragraph | |
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| Revising a Paragraph | |
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| Essay: ldquo;My Daughter Smokesrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Cigarette Addiction | |
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| The Vocabulary of Cigarette Addiction | |
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| Spelling: Spelling Rule - Changing y to i | |
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| The Sentence Fragment | |
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| Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Pursuit of Happinessrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Women in a Traditional Culture | |
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| The Vocabulary of Women in Mainstream America | |
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| Spelling: Proofreading | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Subordination | |
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| A Special Case of Subordination | |
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| Essay: ldquo;The Black Table Is Still Thererdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Racism | |
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| The Vocabulary of Racism | |
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| Spelling: Capitalization | |
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| The -s Verb Ending | |
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| Agreement of Subject and Verb | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| The -ed Verb Ending | |
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| Verb Tense Consistency | |
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| Essay: ldquo;The Ugly Truth about Beautyrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Self-Image | |
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| The Vocabulary of Self-Image | |
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| Spelling: Commonly Confused Words | |
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| Pronoun Choice | |
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| Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Pronoun Reference and Consistency | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Teenagers in Dreamlandrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Today''s Adolescent Subculture | |
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| The Vocabulary of Today''s Adolescent Subculture | |
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| Spelling: Spelling Rule -ie and ei | |
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| From Paragraph Principles to Essay Writing | |
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| Finding a Writing Topic, Drafting a Thesis Statement, Forming Main Body Ideas | |
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| The Introductory Paragraph | |
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| The Concluding Paragraph | |
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| Revising an Essay | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way Aboutrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of the Pro-Choice Movement | |
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| The Vocabulary of the Right-to-Life Movement | |
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| Spelling: The Apostrophe | |
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| The Comma | |
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| Other Marks of Punctuation | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Rapping Nastyrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Censorship | |
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| The Vocabulary of Censorship | |
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| Spelling: Plurals | |
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| The Unified Essay | |
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| Words of Transition | |
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| Key Words: Deliberate Repetition | |
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| Essay: ldquo;The Sins of the Parentsrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of the Troubled Family | |
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| The Vocabulary of the Untroubled Family | |
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| Spelling: To Split or Not to Split | |
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| Using the Right Word | |
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| Informal Language | |
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| Essay: ldquo;Money and Freedomrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of the Financial World | |
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| The Vocabulary of Avoiding Burnout | |
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| Spelling: Spelling Rule - Dropping the Final e | |
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| Parallelism, Misplaced Modifiers, Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Essay: ldquo;The Shadow of a Strangerrdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of a Violent Society | |
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| The Vocabulary of a Violent Society | |
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| Spelling: Doubling | |
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| The Descriptive Essay | |
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| The Narrative Essay | |
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| The Example Essay | |
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| The Process Essay | |
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| Essay: ldquo;The Way We Lierdquo; | |
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| Reading Survey | |
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| Vocabulary Building | |
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| The Vocabulary of Lying | |
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| The Vocabulary of Lying | |
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| Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes | |
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| The Comparison/Contrast Essay | |
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| The Classification Essay | |
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| The Cause and Effect Essay | |
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| The Definition Essay | |
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| The Argument Essay | |
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| Critical Thinking - Logic | |
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| Common Prefixes and Suffixes | |
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| Spelling Demons | |
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| Index | |