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| Writing and Reading | |
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| Communities of Writers and Readers | |
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| Academic, Public, and Work Communities | |
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| Electronic Communities | |
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| Generating and Organizing Ideas | |
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| Generating Ideas | |
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| Organizing Ideas and Information | |
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| Purpose, Thesis, and Audience | |
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| Identifying Your Focus and Purpose | |
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| Creating a Thesis | |
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| Understanding Your Readers | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Moving from Planning to Drafting | |
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| Drafting Collaboratively | |
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| Revising, Editing, and ProofReading | |
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| Making Major Revisions | |
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| Making Minor Revisions | |
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| Revising Collaboratively | |
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| Writing Correctly | |
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| Editing | |
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| ProofReading | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Reading for Understanding | |
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| Reading Analytically and Critically | |
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| Using Journals to Turn Reading into Writing | |
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| Paragraphs | |
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| Recognizing Unfocused Paragraphs | |
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| Revising for Paragraph Focus | |
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| Recognizing Incoherent Paragraphs | |
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| Revising for Paragraph Coherence | |
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| Recognizing Poorly Developed Paragraphs | |
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| Revising for Paragraph Development | |
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| Using Special-Purpose Paragraphs | |
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| Reasoning and Presenting | |
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| Making Language Choices | |
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| Choosing a Style | |
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| Recognizing Home and Community Language Varieties | |
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| Meeting Language Expectations | |
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| Reasoning Critically | |
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| Recognizing Critical Reasoning | |
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| Building a Chain of Reasoning | |
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| Representing Your Reasoning | |
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| Writing in Online Communities | |
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| Online Expectations | |
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| Email Conventions | |
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| Online Communities | |
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| Writing for the World Wide Web | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism and Behaving Ethically Online | |
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| Designing Documents | |
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| Goals of Document Design | |
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| Planning Design | |
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| Laying Out Your Document | |
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| Using Type | |
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| Using Visuals | |
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| Sample Documents | |
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| Writing for Specific Audiences | |
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| Persuasive Arguments | |
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| Recognizing Occasions for Argument | |
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| Developing Your Stance | |
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| Developing Reasons and Evidence | |
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| Acknowledging Other Perspectives | |
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| Arguing Logically | |
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| Writing a Position Paper | |
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| Academic Writing Across the Curriculum | |
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| Goals of academic writing | |
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| Analyzing academic audiences | |
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| General academic writing tasks | |
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| Types general academic writing | |
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| Short documented paper | |
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| Lab report | |
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| Essay exam | |
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| Annotated bibliography | |
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| Literature review | |
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| Writing in the arts and humanities | |
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| Original or researched interpretation | |
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| Writing in the social and natural sciences | |
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| Research report | |
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| Reading and Writing About Literature | |
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| Reading Literary Texts | |
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| Writing About Literary Texts | |
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| Sample Literary Analysis | |
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| Public Writing | |
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| Goals of Public Writing | |
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| Analyzing Public Audiences | |
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| Types of Public Writing | |
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| Public Flyer | |
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| Letter to the Editor | |
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| Speaking in Public Settings | |
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| Workplace Writing | |
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| Goals of Workplace Writing | |
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| Analyzing Workplace Audiences | |
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| Understanding Workplace Writing Tasks | |
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| Types of Workplace Writing | |
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| Business Letter | |
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| Memo | |
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| R�sum� and Application Letter | |
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| Speaking in the Workplace | |
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| Researching and Writing | |
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| Getting Started: Researching and Writing | |
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| Beginning Your Research | |
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| Types of Research Writing | |
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| Developing a Research Question | |
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| Developing a Preliminary Thesis | |
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| Creating a Research File and a Timeline | |
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| Reading and Note Taking | |
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| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing | |
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| Library Resources and Research Databases | |
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| Developing a Search Strategy and Working Bibliography | |
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| Searching Library Resources and Databases | |
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| General Resources | |
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| Books and Online Catalogs | |
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| Periodicals, Print or Electronic Indexes, and Government Documents | |
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| Online Databases | |
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| Evaluating Library Sources | |
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| Web and Internet Resources | |
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| Developing a Web and Internet Search Strategy | |
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| Search Engines | |
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| Web Sites and Internet Resources | |
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| Evaluating Web and Internet Sources | |
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| Fieldwork | |
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| Interviewing | |
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| Surveying, Polling, or Using Questionnaires | |
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| Conducting an Ethnographic Study | |
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| Obtaining Consent and Approval for Research on Human Subjects | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Recognizing Plagiarism | |
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| The Problem of Intention | |
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| Recognizing When to Document Sources | |
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| Working with Common Knowledge | |
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| Citing Sources Responsibly | |
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| Citing Sources in Context | |
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| Integrating Sources | |
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| Choosing Purposes for Your Sources | |
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| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing | |
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| Writing, Revising, and Presenting Your Research | |
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| Reviewing Your Research Questions | |
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| Reviewing Your Purpose | |
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| Building from a Thesis to a Draft | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Presenting Your Research | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| Five Serious Documentation Problems | |
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| Wrong Kind of Citation Entry | |
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| Missing Citation Information | |
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| Wrong Citation Details | |
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| Misplaced In-text Citations | |
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| Incorrect In-text Citation Format | |
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| MLA Documentation Style | |
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| MLA In-Text (Parenthetical) Citations | |
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| MLA List of Works Cited | |
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| Sample MLA Paper | |
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| APA Documentation Style | |
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| APA In-text Citations | |
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| APA Reference List | |
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| CMS Documentation Style | |
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| Using CMS Endnotes or Footnotes | |
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| Creating CMS Endnotes or Footnotes | |
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| Creating a CMS Bibliography | |
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| CSE Documentation Style | |
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| CSE In-text Citations | |
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| CSE Reference List | |
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| Editing Grammar | |
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| Ten Serious Errors | |
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| Fragment | |
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| Fused Sentence | |
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| Unclear Pronoun Reference | |
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| Lack of Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Dangling Modifier | |
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| Shift | |
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| Misused or Missing Apostrophe | |
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| Unnecessary Commas | |
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| Missing or Misused Quotation Marks | |
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| Double Negative | |
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| Words Working in Sentences | |
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| Nouns and Articles | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Interjections | |
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| Sentence Parts and Patterns | |
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| Subjects and Predicates | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Subordinate Clauses | |
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| Different Types of Sentences | |
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| Using Verbs | |
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| Simple Present and Past Tense Verbs | |
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| Editing Present Tense Verbs | |
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| Editing Past Tense Verbs | |
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| Complex Tenses and Helping Verbs | |
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| Editing Progressive and Perfect Tenses | |
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| Editing Troublesome Verbs (lie, lay, sit, set) | |
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| Clear Tense Sequence | |
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| Subjunctive Mood | |
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| Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Using Pronouns | |
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| Pronoun Forms | |
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| Editing Common Pronoun Forms | |
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| Making Sentence Parts Agree | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Creating Simple Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Creating Complex Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Creating Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
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| Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| What Adjectives and Adverbs Do | |
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| Editing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Editing Sentence Problems | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Editing Sentence Fragments | |
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| Using Partial Sentences | |
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| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
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| Comma Splices | |
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| Fused Sentences | |
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| Editing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
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| Creating Pronoun Reference | |
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| Unclear Pronoun Reference | |
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| Editing for Clear Pronoun Reference | |
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| Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
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| Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
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| Editing Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
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| Making Shifts Consistent | |
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| Shifts in Person and Number | |
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| Shifts in Tense and Mood | |
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| Shifts in Active or Passive Voice | |
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| Shifts Between Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
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| Mixed and Incomplete Sentences | |
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| Mixed Sentences | |
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| Editing Mixed Sentences | |
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| Incomplete Sentences | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Faulty Parallelism | |
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| Editing for Parallelism | |
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| Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Creating Coordination | |
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| Creating Subordination | |
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| Editing Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Clear and Emphatic Sentences | |
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| Unclear Sentences | |
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| Editing for Clear Sentences | |
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| Editing Word Choice | |
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| Being Concise | |
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| Common Types of Wordiness | |
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| Editing for Conciseness | |
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| Choosing Appropriate Words | |
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| Recognizing the Demands of Context and Purpose | |
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| Editing for Precise Diction | |
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| Using Respectful Language | |
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| Editing Gender Stereotypes | |
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| Editing Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Stereotypes | |
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| Building Your Language Resources | |
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| Recognizing Your Language Resources as a Writer | |
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| Turning to the Dictionary and the Thesaurus | |
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| Editing Punctuation | |
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| Commas | |
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| Joining Sentences | |
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| Setting Off Sentence Elements | |
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| Setting Off Nonessential Modifiers | |
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| Separating Items in a Series | |
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| Separating Adjectives in a Sequence | |
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| Dates, Numbers, Addresses, Place Names, People's Titles, and Letters | |
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| Commas with Quotations | |
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| Commas to Make Your Meaning Clear | |
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| Eliminating Commas that Do Not Belong | |
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| Semicolons and Colons | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Colons | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Apostrophes that Mark Possession | |
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| Apostrophes that Mark Contractions and Omissions | |
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| Marking Quotations | |
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| Using Quotation Marks | |
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| Titles of Short Works | |
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| Highlighting Words, Special Terms, and Tone of Voice | |
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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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| Other Punctuation Marks | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Slashes | |
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| Symbols in Electronic Addresses | |
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| Combining Punctuation Marks | |
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| ProofReading for Mechanics and Spelling | |
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| Capitalizing | |
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| Capitalizing to Begin Sentences | |
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| Capitalizing Proper Names and Titles | |
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| Italicizing (Underlining) | |
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| Italics (Underlining) in Titles | |
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| Italics for Specific Terms | |
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| Underlining for Emphasis | |
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| Hyphenating | |
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| Hyphenating to Join Words | |
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| Hyphenating to Divide Words | |
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| Using Numbers | |
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| Spelling Out Numbers | |
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| Using Numerals | |
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| Abbreviating | |
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| Familiar Abbreviations | |
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| ProofReading for Appropriate Abbreviations | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Starting with Your Spell Checker | |
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| Watching for Common Patterns of Misspelling | |
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| ProofReading for Commonly Misspelled Words | |
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| Glossary of Usage | |
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| Answers to Selected Exercises | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |
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| Guide to ESL Advice | |
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| Symbols for Revising and Editing | |