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| Preface | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Rhetoric | |
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| Writing: A First Look | |
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| The Purposes of Writing | |
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| The Audience for Your Writing | |
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| The Qualities of Good Writing | |
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| Writing and Ethics | |
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| Strategies for Successful Reading | |
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| Orienting Your Reading | |
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| A First Reading | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Mastering Reading Problems | |
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| Reading to Critique | |
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| Reading Assignments Carefully | |
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| Reading as a Writer | |
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| "The Appeal of the Androgynous Man" | |
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| Writing About What You Read | |
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| Planning and Drafting Your Paper | |
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| Understanding the Assignment | |
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| Zeroing In on a Topic | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Organizing the Information | |
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| Creating an Outline | |
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| Developing a Thesis Statement | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Planning and Drafting with a Computer | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Paper | |
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| Preparing to Revise | |
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| Considering the Whole Essay | |
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| Strengthening Paragraph Structure and Development | |
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| Sharpening Sentences and Words | |
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| Writing the Introduction and Conclusion | |
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| Selecting a Title | |
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| Peer Evaluation of Drafts | |
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| Proofreading Your Draft | |
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| Revising with a computer | |
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| Collaborative Writing | |
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| Maintaining and Reviewing a Portfolio | |
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| Paragraphs | |
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| Characteristics of Effective Paragraphs | |
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| Paragraphs with Special Functions | |
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| Chapter6 Effective Sentences | |
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| Sentence Strategies | |
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| Diction, Tone, Style | |
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| Toward Clear Diction | |
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| Toward Rhetorical Effect | |
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| Special Stylistic Techniques | |
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| Eliminating Flawed Diction | |
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| Narration: Relating Events | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Action | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Key Events | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Narrative | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF NARRATION: "Joy through the Tears" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Description: Presenting Impressions | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Sensory Impressions | |
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| Dominant Impression | |
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| Vantage Point | |
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| Selection of Details | |
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| Arrangement of Details | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Description | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF DESCRIPTION: "My Serenity" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Process Analysis: Explaining How | |
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| Kinds of Process Analysis Papers | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Process Analysis | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF PROCESS ANALYSIS: "Basic Song Writing Technique" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Illustration: Making Yourself Clear | |
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| Selecting Appropriate Examples | |
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| Number of Examples | |
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| Organizing the Examples | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing an Illustration | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF ILLUSTRATION: "If It Is Worth Doing" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Classification: Grouping into Categories | |
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| Selecting Categories | |
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| Number of Categories | |
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| Developing Categories | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Classification | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF CLASSIFICATION: "Types of Video Games for Children" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Comparison: Showing Relationships | |
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| Selecting Items for Comparison | |
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| Developing a Comparison | |
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| Organizing a Comparison | |
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| Using Analogy | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Comparison | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF COMPARISON: "Differences between Korean and English" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Cause and Effect: Explaining Why | |
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| Patterns in Causal Analysis | |
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| Reasoning Errors in Causal Analysis | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Causal Analysis | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: "Why Students Drop Out of College" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Definition: Establishing Boundaries | |
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| Types of Definitions | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing an Extended Definition | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF DEFINITION: "Rediscovering Patriotism" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Argument: Convincing Others | |
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| The Rational Appeal | |
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| Reasoning Strategies | |
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| The Emotional Appeal | |
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| The Ethical Appeal | |
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| Ferreting Out Fallacies | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing an Argument | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF ARGUMENT: "Bottled Troubled Water" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| Mixing the Writing Strategies | |
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| Why and How to Mix Strategies | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Problem/Solution Report | |
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| Evaluation Report | |
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| SAMPLE ESSAY USING SEVERAL WRITING STRATEGIES: "Eating Alone in Restaurants" | |
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| Critical Edge | |
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| The Essay Examination | |
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| Studying for the Examination | |
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| Types of Test Questions | |
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| Preparing to Write | |
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| Writing the Examination Answer | |
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| Writing About Literature | |
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| The Elements of Literature | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing a Paper on Literature | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY ON LITERATURE: "Scratchy Wilson: No Cardboard Character" | |
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| Electronic Chapter | |
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| Business Letters and Rÿsumÿs | |
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| This chapter, enhanced with fourteen case-based business writing scenarios, appears after the | |
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| Research Guide | |
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| The Research Paper | |
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| Learning About Your Library | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Assembling a Working Bibliography | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Organizing and Outlining | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Writing Your Research Paper | |
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| SAMPLE MLA STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER: "House Arrest: An Attractive Alternative to Incarceration" | |
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| Using a Computer | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| Preparing Proper MLA Bibliographic References | |
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| Preparing Proper APA Bibliographic References | |
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| Handling In-Text Citations | |
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| Handling Quotations | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Additional Research Strategies: Interviews, Questionnaires, Direct Observations | |
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| The Value of Primary Research | |
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| General Principles for Primary Research | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Interviews | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT INTERVIEW REPORT: "Budget Cuts Affect State Police: An Interview Report with Officer Robert Timmons" | |
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| Questionnaires | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT QUESTIONNAIRE: "Survey on Public Smoking" | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT QUESTIONNAIRE REPORT: "Findings from Smoking Questionnaire Distributed to Bartram College Students" | |
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| Direct Observations | |
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| SAMPLE STUDENT OBSERVATION REPORT: "Observations of an Inner-City APartment Building" | |
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| Reader | |
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| Rhetorical Table of Contents | |
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| Narration | |
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| "The Perfect Picture" | |
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| "Sound and Fury" | |
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| "Momma's Encounter" | |
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| "The Scholarship Jacket" | |
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| Description | |
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| "When the Full Moon Shines Its Magic over Monument Valley" | |
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| "Assembly Line Adventure" | |
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| "Once More to the Lake" | |
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| Process Analysis | |
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| "Fast Track to Perfection" | |
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| "Taking Carbon Down" | |
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| "Let's Get Vertical!" | |
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| "Can Generation Xers Be Trained? | |
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| Illustration | |
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| "Binge Drinking: A Campus Killer" | |
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| "Rambos of the Road" | |
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| "Going for Broke" | |
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| "The Company Man" | |
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| Classification | |
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| "What Are Friends for?" | |
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| "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" | |
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| "A Tale of Four Learners" | |
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| "Which Stooge Are You?" | |
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| Comparison | |
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| "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" | |
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| "Conversational Ballgames" | |
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| "Barbie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | |
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| "Private Language, Public Language" | |
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| "Art Form for the Digital Age" | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| "Old Father Time Becomes a Terror" | |
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| "Why We Keep Stuff" | |
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| "Why Marriages Fail" | |
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| "Why We Flirt" | |
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| Definition | |
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| "The Sweet Smell of Success Isn't All That Sweet" | |
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| "The Blended Economy" | |
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| "Krumping" | |
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| Argument | |
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| "The Problem with Single-Payer Plans" | |
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| "Has Canada Got the Cure?" | |
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| "The Misguided Zeal of the Privacy Lobby" | |
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| "Halt and Show Your Papers!" | |
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| "I Have a Dream" | |
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| "A Journalist's View of Black Economics" | |
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| "The Case for Amnesty" | |
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| "Not Amnesty but Attrition" | |
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| Mixing the Writing Strategies | |
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| "Supermarket Pastoral" | |
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| From "Social Bodies: Tightening the Bonds of Beauty" | |
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| "Gender Gap in Cyberspace" | |
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| Handbook | |
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| Sentence Elements | |
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| Subjects and Predicates | |
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| Complements | |
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| Appositives | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Phrases and Clauses | |
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| Editing to Correct Sentence Errors | |
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| Revising Sentence Fragments | |
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| Revising Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices | |
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| Creating Subject���Verb Agreement | |
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| Achieving Pronoun���Antecedent | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Using Effective Pronoun Reference | |
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| Managing Shifts in Person | |
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| Using the Right Pronoun Case | |
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| Creating Consistency in Showing Time | |
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| Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Effectively | |
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| Placing Modifiers Correctly | |
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| Revising Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Maintaining Parallelism | |
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| Revising Faulty Comparisons | |
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| Editing to Correct Faulty Punctuation and Mechanics | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Commas | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
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| Colons, Dashes, Parentheses, and Brackets | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Italics | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Spelling Rules | |
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| Helpful Spelling Tips | |
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| List of Troublesome Words | |
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| Glossary of Word Usage | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |
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| New to this edition | |