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Getting Started | |
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Writing and Genres | |
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What Are Genres? | |
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Using Genres to Write Successfully | |
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Genre and the Writing Process | |
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Using Genres in College and Your Career | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Topic, Angle, Purpose | |
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Topic: What Am I Writing About? | |
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Angle: What is New About the Topic? | |
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Purpose: What Do I Want to Accomplish? | |
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Choosing the Appropriate Genre | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations | |
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Profiling Readers | |
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Analyzing the Context | |
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Genres and the Rhetorical Situation | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Using Genres to Express Ideas | |
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Memoirs | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Diving In | |
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Inventing Your Memoir's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Memoir | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Memoir | |
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Revising and Editing Your Memoir | |
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MicroGenre: The Literacy Narrative | |
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"Learning to Read and Write" from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"Book War | |
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"Words of My Youth | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Profiles | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Brother, Life Coach, Friend: Troubled Kids Turn Their Lives Around | |
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Inventing You Profile's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Profile | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Profile | |
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Revising and Editing Your Profile | |
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MicroGenre: The Bio | |
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About John Charles Cook | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"The Near-Fame Experience | |
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"The Grand Canyon: A Whole New World | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, MicroGenre: The Resume | |
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Reviews | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "'Toy Story 3' Is An Adult's Film for Children | |
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Inventing Your Review's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Review | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Review | |
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Revising and Editing Your Review | |
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MicroGenre: The Rave | |
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"Review: The Black Keys shake up the Orpheum in Vancouver | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"Long Overdue: Review of Movie Juno | |
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"Violent Media is Good for Kids | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Literary Analyses | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Doing the Right Thing in Edwidge Danticat's 'A Wall of Fire Rising' | |
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Inventing Your Literary Analysis' Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Literary Analysis | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Literary Analysis | |
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Revising and Editing Your Literary Analysis | |
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MicroGenre: The Reading Response | |
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Student Reading Response to Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings : | |
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A Casebook on Edwidge Danticat | |
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"A Wall of Fire Rising | |
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"Edwidge Danticat: Return to Haiti | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Rhetorical Analyses | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Rhetorical Analysis of the Keep America Beautiful Public Service Announcement (1971) | |
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Inventing Your Rhetorical Analysis' Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Rhetorical Analysis | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Rhetorical Analysis | |
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Revising and Editing Your Rhetorical Analysis | |
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MicroGenre: The Ad Critique | |
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"Chrysler's Super Bowl ad sells Detroit | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"How Obama Does That Thing He Does | |
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"What's a Girl to Read? | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Commentaries | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Why My Generation Doesn't Care About Performance Enhancement | |
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Inventing You Commentary's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Commentary | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Commentary | |
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Revising and Editing Your Commentary | |
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MicroGenre: The Letter to the Editor | |
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"Why I'm Against the Statewide Smoking Ban | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"Are Jobs Obsolete? | |
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"Faith in a Globalized Age . | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Arguments | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Allowing Guns on Campus will Prevent Shootings, Rape | |
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Inventing Your Argument's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Argument | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Argument | |
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Revising and Editing Your Argument | |
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MicroGenre: The Rebuttal | |
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"Letter to the Editor on Climate Story | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"In Defense of Torture | |
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"Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide The Same Support As Those In Real Life? | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Proposals | |
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Overview | |
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*One Student Group's Work: "SCC Caf� Proposal" by The Associated Students of the University of Washington (Seattle Campus) | |
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Inventing Your Proposal's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Proposal | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Proposal | |
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Revising and Editing Your Proposal | |
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MicroGenre: The Pitch | |
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"Elevator Pitch: graFighters | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"For True Reform, Athletic Scholarships Must Go | |
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"From Degrading to De-Grading | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Reports | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Gender Stereotypes and Toys: Is it Nature or Nurture? | |
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Inventing Your Report's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Report | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Report | |
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Revising and Editing Your Report | |
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MicroGenre: The Explainer | |
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*"Planking: What is it and Why it is Popular" | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"How Many Zombies Do You Know? Using Indirect Survey Methods to Measure Alien Attacks and Outbreaks of the Undead | |
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American Psychological Association (APA), "Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls." | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Research Papers | |
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Overview | |
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One Student's Work: "Lives Not Worth the Money? | |
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Inventing Your Research Paper's Content | |
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Organizing and Drafting Your Research Paper | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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Designing Your Research Paper | |
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Revising and Editing Your Research Paper | |
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MicroGenre: The Annotated Bibliography | |
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"Annotated Bibliography: The Fog of Revolution | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Readings | |
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"Nervous Nellies | |
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"Serial Murder: A Forensic Psychiatric Perspective | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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Developing A Writing Process | |
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Inventing Ideas and Pre-Writing | |
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Pre-Writing | |
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Using Heuristics | |
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Exploratory Writing | |
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Taking Time to Invent and Prewrite | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Organizing and Drafting | |
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Using Genres to Organize Your Ideas | |
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Sketching an Outline | |
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Drafting Through Writer's Block | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Choosing A Style | |
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Writing in Plain Style | |
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Establishing Your Voice | |
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Writing Descriptively with Tropes | |
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Improving Your Writing Style | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Designing | |
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Before You Begin Designing | |
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Five Basic Principles of Design | |
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Design Principle 1 | |
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Alignment | |
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Grouping | |
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Consistency | |
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Contrast | |
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Using Photography and Images | |
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Using Graphs and Charts | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Revising and Editing | |
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Global Revision | |
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Substantive Editing | |
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Copyediting | |
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Proofreading | |
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Peer Review: Asking For Advice | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Strategies for Shaping Ideas | |
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Drafting Introductions and Conclusions | |
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Drafting Introductions | |
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Drafting Conclusions | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Developing Paragraphs and Sections | |
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Creating a Basic Paragraph | |
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Getting Paragraphs to Flow (Cohesion) | |
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Organizing a Section | |
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Using Sections and Paragraphs Together | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Using Basic Rhetorical Patterns | |
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Narrative | |
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Description | |
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Definition | |
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Classification | |
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Cause and Effect | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Combining Rhetorical Patterns | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Using Argumentative Strategies | |
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What is Arguable? | |
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Using Reason, Authority, and Emotion | |
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Avoiding Logical Fallacies | |
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Rebuttals and Refutations | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Working Collaboratively with Other Writers | |
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Working with a Group of Other Writers | |
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Working with a Team | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Doing Research | |
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Starting Research | |
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Starting Your Research Process | |
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Doing Start-Up Research | |
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Assessing a Source's Reliability | |
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Managing Your Research Process | |
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Following and Modifying Your Research Plan | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Finding Sources and Collecting Information | |
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Using Primary and Secondary Sources | |
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Finding Electronic and Online Sources | |
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Finding Print Sources | |
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Using Empirical Sources | |
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Developing an Annotated Bibliography | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources | |
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Common Knowledge: What You Don't Need to Cite | |
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Paraphrasing and Summarizes Sources | |
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Framing Quotes, Paraphrases, and Summaries | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Using MLA Style | |
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Parenthetical Citations | |
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Preparing the List of Works Cited | |
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Citing Sources in the List of Works Cited | |
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A Student's MLA Research Paper: "A Whole New World: A Background on the Life of the Freshwater Shark | |
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Using APA Style | |
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Parenthetical Citations | |
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Preparing the List of References | |
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Citing Sources in the List of References | |
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A Student's APA Research Paper: "Assortative Mating and Income Inequality | |
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Getting Your Ideas Out There | |
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Using the Internet | |
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Is This Writing? | |
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Creating a Social Networking Site | |
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Starting Your Own Blog | |
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Writing Articles for Wikis | |
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Putting Videos and Podcasts on the Internet | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Creating A Portfolio | |
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Two Basic Kinds of Portfolios | |
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Getting Started on Your Portfolio | |
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Step One: Collecting Your Work | |
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Step Two: Selecting the Appropriate Artifacts | |
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Step Three: Reflecting on Your Work | |
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Step Four: Presenting Your Materials | |
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Creating an E-Portfolio | |
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Keeping Your Portfolio Up to Date | |
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Creating a Starter Resume | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Succeeding on Essay Exams | |
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Preparing for an Essay Exam | |
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Starting Your Essay Exam | |
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Answering an Essay Exam Question | |
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Finishing Your Essay Exam | |
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One Student's Essay Exam | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Presenting Your Work | |
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Getting Started | |
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Organizing Your Presentation's Content | |
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Designing Your Visual Aids | |
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Delivering Your Presentation | |
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Practicing and Rehearsing | |
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Quick Start Guide | |
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Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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Anthology of Readings | |
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Memoirs | |
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"The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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"The College Hazing That Changed My Life | |
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"Growing Up Hard | |
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"The Good Immigrant Student | |
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Profiles | |
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"David Grohl and the Foo Fighters | |
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"Prudencia | |
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"Bodies in Motion and at Rest | |
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Two Profiles of Griffith Park: | |
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City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, General Information for Griffith Park | |
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"Welcome to the Jungle | |
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Reviews | |
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"Harry Potter's Girl Trouble. | |
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"Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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"'Hawaii Five-O': This is What Hit TV Looks Like | |
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"'Left Behind,' a Virtual Battle for the Souls of Unbelievers | |
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Literary Analyses | |
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Kate Chopin | |
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"The Story of an Hour" [short story] | |
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"Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' | |
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Robert Frost | |
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [poem] | |
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"An Overview of 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' | |
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"Touched by a Vampire | |
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Rhetorical Analyses | |
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"Homer Simpson's Figures of Speech | |
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"Sleuthing Patriotic Slogans | |
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"Shooting from the Hip, With a Smile to Boot | |
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"Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertising | |
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Commentaries | |
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"A Gay Man's Case Against Gay Marriage | |
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"Female Chauvinist Pigs | |
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"Why Suing College Students for Illegal Music Downloading is Right | |
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"Challenging Veteran Stereotypes | |
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Arguments | |
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"A More Perfect Union | |
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"Reconsidering Match.com's Sex Offender Ban | |
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"The Dangers of the Drinking Age | |
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"The Making of a Divorce Culture | |
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Proposals | |
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"Diet for a Warm Planet | |
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"Who Pays for My Time Off? | |
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"A Modest Proposal | |
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"With 7 Billion on Earth, a Huge Task Before Us | |
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Reports | |
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SAMHSA, "Underage Alcohol Use Among Full-Time College Students" | |
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"7 Days on Craigslist's Casual Encounters | |
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"Freshman Fifteen: Fact or Fiction? | |
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"More Than Just a Pretty Face | |
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Research Papers | |
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"The Public Overwhelmingly Wants It: Why Is Taxing the Rich So Hard? | |
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"Rapture Ready: The Science of Self Delusion | |
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"Insufficient Design | |
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"Charles Darwin's Paradigm Shift | |
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Handbook | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |