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| Strategies, Tactics, and Tips | |
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| Rethinking Your Thoughts About Writing | |
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| The Writing Process: Separating Fact from Fiction | |
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| Most People Think They Should Like Writing | |
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| Most People Think They Can Improve Their Writing Skills by Simply Reading More and Writing More | |
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| Most People Think Their Writing Will Be Read by an Ideal Audience | |
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| Your Writing: Separating Fact from Fiction | |
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| Most People Think They Write Better Than They Do | |
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| Most People Think They Can Develop Strong Writing Skills with Less Effort and Time Than Necessary | |
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| Streamlining Your Writing | |
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| Adopt the Runt of the (Word) Litter | |
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| Ration Long Sentences | |
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| Write Very Tightly Without Verbosity | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Constructing Sentences | |
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| Get to the Point, Today | |
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| Start with Active Actors | |
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| Avoid Verby Nouns | |
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| Play Nice | |
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| Qualify Sensibly | |
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| Treat Others Fairly | |
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| Recognize That Women Exist | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Constructing Paragraphs and Pages | |
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| State Your Purpose Like You Mean | |
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| Build Them (Paragraphs) Right and They (Readers) Will Come | |
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| Bottomline Your Main Ideas or Main Arguments | |
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| Organize Evidence into Piles and Subpiles | |
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| Embrace Your Outline | |
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| Drive Home Your Message: Format Your Document | |
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| Rely on Headings and Subheadings | |
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| Befriend Bullets and Numbers | |
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| Choose a Typeface | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Fortifying Sentences, Paragraphs, and Pages | |
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| Check Out Your Audience | |
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| Shepherd Your Sentences | |
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| Rally Around the Topic Sentence | |
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| Worry Not About Length | |
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| Smooth the Rough Edges | |
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| Strategize Your Case | |
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| Strategize Persuasive Messages | |
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| Strategize Informative Messages | |
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| Revise How You Revise: A Final Note | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Additional Tools | |
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| Punctuation Unmasked | |
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| Why, Is Punctuation; So/Important | |
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| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
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| Periods | |
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| Question Marks | |
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| Exclamation Points | |
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| Commas, Semicolons, and Colons | |
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| Commas | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Colons | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Double and Single Quotation Marks | |
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| Ellipses and Slashes | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Slashes | |
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| Dashes, Parentheses, and Brackets | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Writing Nonobnoxious Professional and Personal E-mails | |
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| Why You Are Not Always Read: Rating Your Readability | |
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| Finding Your Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score | |
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| Putting the Fog Index<sup>sm</sup> Scale to Work | |
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| Original Fog Index<sup>sm</sup> Score: 22.3 | |
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| Revised Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 8.1 | |
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| Original Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 27.2 | |
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| Revised Fog Index<sup>sm</sup> Score: 7 | |
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| Original Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 17.2 | |
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| Revised Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 8.7 | |
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| Learning to Write Cogently | |
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| History and Structure of Short Fiction | |
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| Stylistic Characteristics of Short Fiction | |
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| A Short Conclusion About Short Fiction | |
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| Exercise Answers | |
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| About the Author | |