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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Is Your Egg Ready to Hatch? Know the Subject | |
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| "The Party to Whom I Am Speaking": Know the Audience | |
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| Get with the Program: The Organized Writer | |
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| Commencement Address: The First Few Words | |
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| From Here to Uncertainty: How Am I Doing? | |
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| Pompous Circumstances: Hold the Baloney | |
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| The Life of the Party: Verbs That Zing | |
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| Call Waiting: Putting the Subject on Hold | |
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| Now, Where Were We? A Time and a Place for Everything | |
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| The It Parade: Pronoun Pileups | |
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| Smothering Heights: Misbehaving Modifiers | |
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| Too Marvelous for Words: The Sensible Sentence | |
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| Made for Each Other: Well-Matched Sentences | |
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| Give Me a Break: Thinking in Paragraphs | |
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| The Elongated Yellow Fruit: Fear of Repetition | |
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| Training Wheels: Belaboring the Obvious | |
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| Critique of Poor Reason: The Art of Making Sense | |
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| Grammar Moses: Thou Shalt Not Embarrass Thyself | |
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| Down for the Count: When the Numbers Don't Add Up | |
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| Lost Horizon: What's the Point of View? | |
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| Wimping Out: The Backward Writer | |
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| Everybody's Favorite Subject: I, Me, My | |
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| Promises, Promises: Making Them, Keeping Them | |
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| You Got Rhythm: Writing to the Beat | |
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| The Human Comedy: What's So Funny? | |
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| I Second That Emotion: Once More, with Feeling | |
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| The Importance of Being Honest: Leveling with the Reader | |
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| Once around the Block: What to Do When You're Stuck | |
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| Debt before Dishonor: How and What to Borrow | |
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| Revise and Consent: Getting to the Finish Line | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |