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| Getting Started: The Principles of Good Reading and Writing | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| Why Read? | |
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| Reading for Best Results | |
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| Tips for Reading Critically | |
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| Critical Reading in Action | |
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| "The Shy, Egg-Stealing Neighbor You Didn't Know You Had" [Annotated professional essay] | |
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| Reading as Inquiry | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Reading Critically | |
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| "A Hanging | |
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| Reading Visual Images | |
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| Reading a Photograph | |
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| Tips for Reading Photographs | |
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| Reading Advertisements | |
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| Tips for Reading Advertisements | |
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| Reading Graphs, Tables, and Charts | |
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| Tips for Reading Graphs, Tables, and Charts | |
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| Reading Cartoons | |
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| Tips for Reading Cartoons | |
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| Reading Web Sites | |
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| Tips for Reading and Evaluating Web Sites | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Reading and Evaluating Web Sites | |
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| Models of Writing | |
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| "Intimate Shopping: Should Everyone Know What You Bought Today? | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Reading and Interpreting Visuals | |
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| Active Writing | |
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| Choosing a Good Topic | |
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| Setting Limits on a Topic | |
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| Narrowing a Topic in Stages | |
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| Determining Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Prewriting | |
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| Organizing Ideas | |
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| Writing Drafts | |
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| Tips for Writing a Rough Draft | |
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| One Student Writing: First Draft | |
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| First Draft: John Fousek, "My Roommate" [Student Essay] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Getting Started with Writing | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Finding and Supporting a Thesis | |
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| Understanding the Thesis | |
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| Elements of a Good Thesis | |
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| Tips for Evaluating a Thesis | |
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| Stating Your Thesis | |
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| Tips for Developing a Thesis | |
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| Thesis Statements: Strong or Weak? | |
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| Supporting Your Thesis: Details | |
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| Using Sensory Details | |
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| Using Data: Statistics, Cases, and Expert Testimony | |
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| Student Writing: Thesis and Details | |
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| "You Must Be Crazy!" [Student essay] | |
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| "Getting Juiced" [Student essay] | |
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| Models of Writing | |
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| "Love and Race | |
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| "Salvation" [Story] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Stating and Supporting a Thesis | |
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| Planning a Paper: Outlining | |
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| Why Outline? | |
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| Creating a Rough Outline | |
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| Making a Formal Outline | |
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| Establishing Main Divisions | |
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| Adding Supporting Details | |
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| Formatting a Formal Outline | |
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| Writing a Topic Outline | |
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| Correcting a Formal Outline | |
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| One Student Writing: From Prewriting to Essay | |
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| "Ozymandias" [Poem] | |
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| Prewriting, Rough Outline, Formal Outline, Essay: Alan Benjamin, "Enough Despair to Go Around" [Student essay] | |
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| Preparing Your Formal Outline | |
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| Tips for Writing a Formal Outline | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Preparing a Formal Outline | |
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| Writing Your Paper: An Overview | |
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| Writing a Strong Introduction | |
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| Stating the Thesis | |
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| Forecasting the Paper | |
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| Using Different Introductory Strategies | |
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| Tips for Writing a Strong Introduction | |
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| Writing the Body Paragraphs | |
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| Writing Topic Sentences | |
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| One Student Writing: Topic Sentences | |
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| "The Mechanics of Backyard Mechanics" [Student essay] | |
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| Writing Transitions | |
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| Developing Paragraphs: Unity and Coherence | |
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| Tips for Achieving Paragraph Unity | |
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| Tips for Achieving Paragraph Coherence | |
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| Writing a Strong Conclusion | |
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| Tips for Writing a Strong Conclusion | |
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| Revising, Editing, and Proofreading Your Paper | |
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| Revising Your Paper | |
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| Revising to Improve Your Thesis | |
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| Revising for Appropriate Supporting Detail | |
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| Revising for Better Organization | |
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| Revising for Purpose and Audience | |
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| Revising for Suitable Structure: Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion | |
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| Peer Review: Learning from Other Students | |
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| One Student Writing: Revising and Editing | |
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| Intermediate Draft: "My Roommate" [Student Essay] | |
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| Tips for Editing Your Paper | |
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| Learning from Your Instructor's Comments | |
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| Intermediate Draft with Instructor Comments: , "My Roommate" [Student Essay] | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Tips for Careful Proofreading | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Revising and Editing Your Drafts | |
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| One Student Writing: Final Draft | |
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| Final Draft: "My Roommate, Jim" [Student Essay] | |
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| A Brief Note on Style | |
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| Methods of Development | |
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| Description | |
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| Writing Your Descriptive Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing a Descriptive Essay | |
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| Assignment: Description | |
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| Student Writing: Description | |
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| "Dad's Disappointment" [Student essay] | |
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| "High School Practice" [Student essay] | |
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| Description in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "A Blanco Navidad for New Yorikans" [Annotated Professional Essay] | |
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| "On the Ball | |
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| "Marrying Absurd | |
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| "My Mother Has Cooked for Us | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| Mark Strand, "Black Sea" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Descriptive Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Narration | |
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| Writing Your Narrative Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing a Narrative Essay | |
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| Assignment: Narration | |
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| Student Writing: Narration | |
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| "The Death of Santa Claus" [Student essay] | |
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| "My Father's House" [Student essay] | |
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| Narration in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "Death Is a Personal Matter | |
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| "Se Habla Espan�l | |
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| "'You Don't Look Indian' | |
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| "The Story of an Hour" [Story] | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "Incident" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Narrative Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Example | |
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| Writing Your Example Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing an Example Essay | |
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| Seeing an Example Paper Plan | |
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| Assignment: Example | |
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| Student Writing: Example | |
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| "Keep It Simple" [Student essay] | |
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| Researched Student Writing: Example | |
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| "Children of Television" [MLA-style essay] | |
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| Example in the World Around You | |
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| Critical Reading: Example | |
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| "Inside the Mind's Eye, a Network of Highways" [Annotated professional essay] | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "Childhood Transgressions | |
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| "What I've Learned from Men | |
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| "Boxers, Briefs and Books | |
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| "I Want a Wife | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "Lament" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Example Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Process | |
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| Writing Your Process Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing a Process Essay | |
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| Assignment: Process | |
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| Student Writing: Process | |
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| "Coffee Time" [Student essay] | |
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| Researched Student Writing: Process | |
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| "Preparing for he First Day of Classes" [MLA-Style essay] | |
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| Process in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz | |
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| "Wash Day | |
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| "Campus Racism 101 | |
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| "Remote Control: How to Raise a Media Skeptic | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "Fire and Ice" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Process Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Writing Your Comparison-Contrast Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing a Comparison-Contrast Essay | |
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| Assignment: Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Student Writing: Comparison�Contrast | |
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| Subject-by-Subject Pattern | |
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| "In the Swim" [Student outline and essay] | |
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| Point-by-Point Pattern | |
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| "Two Jobs" [Student outline and essay] | |
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| Comparison and Contrast in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "The Professional | |
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| "Speaking of Writing | |
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| "That Lean and Hungry Look | |
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| "The Medium is the Medium | |
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| "Charles" [Story] | |
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| "The Open Window" [Story] | |
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| Legalizing Drugs: Two Web Sites for Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Office of National Drug Control Policy [Home page] | |
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| Marijuana Policy Project [Home page] | |
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| Love, Sweet Love: Two Poems for Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Sonnet 29, "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes" [Poem] | |
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| Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" [Poem] | |
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| "Two Kinds of Love" [Student essay] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Comparison and Contrast Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Classification and Division | |
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| Classification and Division in Action | |
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| Using Division (or Analysis) | |
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| Using Classification | |
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| How Are Division and Classification Different? | |
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| Reviewing Division Strategies | |
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| Writing Your Classification Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing a Classification Essay | |
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| Assignment: Classification | |
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| Student Writing: Classification | |
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| "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" [Student essay] | |
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| Classification in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "A Brief, Handy Guide to Those Odd Birds in the Upper Branches | |
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| "Three Kinds of Disciplines | |
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| "A World Not Neatly Divided | |
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| "How Polarizing Is the Internet? | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "The Rose Family" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Classification Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Writing Your Cause and Effect Paper | |
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| Tips for Writing a Cause and Effect Essay | |
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| Assignment: Cause and Effect | |
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| Student Writing: Cause and Effect | |
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| "Cause for Failure" [Student essay] | |
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| Researched Student Writing: Cause and Effect | |
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| "Banning Same-Sex Marriage: An Attack on an American Institution" [MLA-style essay] | |
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| Cause and Effect in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "Tweet Less, Kiss More | |
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| "On Splitting | |
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| "Why I Write Wrong | |
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| "What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace | |
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| "Reassigned Pending an Investigation" [Cartoon] | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "Is my team ploughing…" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Cause and Effect Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Definition | |
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| Writing Your Definition Paper | |
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| Beginning a Formal Definition | |
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| Tips for Writing One-Sentence Definitions | |
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| Drafting Your Formal Definition Paper | |
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| Writing an Informal Definition Paper | |
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| Assignment: Definition | |
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| Student Writing: Formal Definition | |
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| "Everyone Is Equal in the Grave" [Student essay] | |
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| Student Writing: Informal Definition | |
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| "The Grinnies" [Student essay] | |
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| Definition in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "The Perfect Job | |
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| "Meet Joe Blog | |
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| "The Struggle with Celibacy | |
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| "Harrison Bergeron" [Story] | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "Dreams" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Definition Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Argumentation | |
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| Using Logic | |
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| Induction | |
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| Deduction | |
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| Using Induction and Deduction | |
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| Avoiding Logical Fallacies | |
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| Making Appeals | |
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| Writing Your Argumentation Paper | |
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| Writing a Formal Argument | |
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| Tips for Writing a Formal Argument | |
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| Developing a Debatable Position | |
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| Assignment: Argumentation | |
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| Student Writing: Argumentation | |
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| "The Right Not to Vote" [Student essay] | |
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| Argumentation: Perspectives on Immigrants in America | |
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| US Immigration Support, "Illegal Immigration" | |
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| "Report an Illegal Alien" | |
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| "Undocumented Aliens" [Cartoon] | |
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| "The Utah Compact" | |
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| "Citizenship for Christmas" [Student essay] | |
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| "Being a Recent American" [Student essay] | |
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| Argumentation: Perspectives on the Death Penalty | |
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| "Capital Punishment: An Example for Criminals" [Student essay] | |
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| "Abolish the Death Penalty" [Student essay] | |
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| "Continuing the Search for Kinder Executions | |
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| "Good News" [Cartoon] | |
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| Argumentation in the World Around You | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "Till Children Do Us Part | |
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| "Just Take Away Their Guns | |
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| "In Defense of the Animals | |
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| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
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| "The Man He Killed" [Poem] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Argument Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Mixing Methods of Development | |
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| Developing Your Paper through Mixed Modes | |
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| Tips for Developing a Mixed Modes Essay | |
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| Mixing Methods: Looking at Possibilities | |
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| Assignment: Mixed Methods of Development | |
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| Student Writing: Mixing Methods in Developing Your Essay | |
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| "Against the Great Divide" [Student essay] | |
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| Critical Reading: Mixed Methods of Development | |
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| "Bibles du Jour" [Annotated professional essay] | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "Fitting the Poor Into the Economy | |
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| "You People Did This | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Mixed Modes Paper | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Collaborative Learning | |
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| Special Writing | |
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| Literary Analysis | |
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| Writing Your Analysis of Literature | |
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| Reading Literature for Analysis | |
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| Tips for Reading Literature for Analysis | |
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| Interpreting Symbols | |
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| Tips for Avoiding Traps Involving Symbols | |
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| Watching for Metaphors and Similes | |
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| Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Literary Analysis | |
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| Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Literary Analysis | |
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| Student Writing: Literary Analysis | |
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| "The Beginning of the End" [Student essay] | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| "Girl" [Story] | |
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| "Doby's Gone" [Story] | |
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| "TheTell-Tale Heart" [Story] | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing and Revising Your Literary Analysis Paper | |
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| Writing Essay Exams | |
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| Preparing for the Exam | |
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| Evaluating the Question | |
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| Planning and Writing Your Essay | |
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| Tips for Planning and Writing Your Essay | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Taking an Essay Exam | |
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| Business Writing: An Overview | |
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| Writing Inquiry and Complaint Letters | |
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| Letter of Inquiry | |
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| Letter of Complaint | |
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| Letter Format | |
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| Tips for Writing and Formatting a Letter | |
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| Online Job Search | |
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| Tips for Online Job Hunters | |
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| Writing a Letter to Apply for a Job | |
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| Writing Your R�sum� | |
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| Tips for Preparing a Resume | |
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| Electronic (Digital) R�sum�s | |
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| Writing Memorandums and E-mail | |
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| Research | |
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| Doing Research | |
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| Choosing Your Subject | |
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| Doing Preliminary Reading | |
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| Searching the World Wide Web | |
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| "Googling" Your Subject | |
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| Evaluating On-line Sources | |
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| Tips for Evaluating Web Sties Used in Your Research | |
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| Using General Encyclopedias | |
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| Using Specialized Reference Works | |
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| Preparing Your Preliminary Outline | |
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| Why Libraries? | |
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| Limiting Your Research Topic | |
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| Determining a Research Question | |
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| Finding Sources and Developing a Working Reference List | |
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| Finding Articles | |
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| Finding Books: The Online Catalog | |
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| Keeping Records for Your Reference List | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Note-taking Options: Pencils or Keyboards? | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Tips for Evaluating Your Sources | |
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| Recording Quotations | |
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| Summarizing and Paraphrasing in Your Notes | |
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| Disagreements: Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions | |
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| Developing Your Thesis | |
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| Preparing Your Formal Outline | |
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| Making a Slug Outline | |
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| Writing a Formal Outline | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Doing Research | |
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| Writing Your Research Paper | |
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| Writing Your Research Paper: An Overview | |
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| The First Draft | |
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| Subsequent Drafts | |
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| Using Explanatory Notes | |
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| Toward the Final Copy | |
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| Quoting and Paraphrasing Your Sources | |
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| Quoting an Original Source | |
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| Paraphrasing an Original Source | |
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| Direct Quotations: How Many? | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Documenting Sources in the Humanities: MLA Style | |
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| Parenthetical Citations | |
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| A List of Works Cited | |
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| Preparing the Works Cited List | |
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| Tips for Preparing the Works Cited List | |
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| Documenting Sources in the Social Sciences: APA Style | |
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| Parenthetical Citations | |
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| A List of APA References | |
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| Preparing Your References List | |
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| Tips for Preparing an APA References List | |
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| Preparing Your Manuscript | |
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| Tips for Preparing the Final Copy | |
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| Strategy Checklist: Writing Your Research Paper | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions about Writing Research Papers | |
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| Sample MLA-Style Research Paper | |
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| "The Banning of the Polygraph" [MLA-style essay] | |
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| Style | |
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| Proper Words in Proper Places | |
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| Denotation and Connotation | |
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| The Importance of Connotation | |
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| Word Sensitivity | |
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| Abstract Writing and Concrete Writing | |
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| Using Specific Details | |
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| Using Specific Words and Phrases | |
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| Using Comparisons | |
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| Effective Sentences | |
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| Wordiness and Economy | |
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| Cutting Deadwood | |
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| Avoiding Pointless Repetition of Meaning | |
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| Cutting Unnecessary Clauses | |
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| Avoiding Delay of Subject | |
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| Passive and Active Verbs | |
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| Faulty Parallelism | |
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| What Is Parallelism? | |
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| Avoiding Faulty Parallelism | |
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| Faulty Subordination and Sentence Combining | |
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| Sentence Monotony and Variety | |
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| Varying Sentence Length | |
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| Varying Sentence Structure | |
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| Additional Style Problems and Solutions | |
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| Triteness | |
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| Euphemisms | |
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| Repetition, Good and Bad | |
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| Repetition for Clarity | |
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| Repetition for Impact | |
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| Undesirable Repetition of Meaning | |
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| Undesirable Repetition of the Same Word | |
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| Undesirable Repetition of Sounds | |
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| Slang | |
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| Fancy Writing | |
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| Sexist Language | |
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| Tips for Avoiding Sexist Language | |
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| Miscellaneous Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Tips for Writing in an Academic Style | |
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| Handbook, Glossary, and ESL Pointers | |
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| Handbook | |
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| Glossary of Problem Words | |
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| ESL Pointers:Tips for Non-Native Writers | |
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| Verbs and Helping Verbs, Including Modals | |
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| Summary Checklist: Principal Parts and Auxiliaries for Three Sample Verbs | |
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| Using Helping Verbs and Modals with Principal Parts of Verbs | |
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| Phrasal Verbs | |
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| Tips and Pointers for Phrasal Verbs | |
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| Nouns:Countable and Uncountable | |
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| Examples of Nouns You Cannot Count | |
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| The articles a, and, and the Prepositions | |
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| Using in, at, and on | |