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| Preface | |
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| The Composing Process | |
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| Overview | |
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| Exploring Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| Generating Ideas | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Narrowing Topics | |
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| Identifying Audience and Purpose | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Developing Paragraphs | |
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| Topic Sentences | |
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| Primary Support Sentences | |
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| Secondary Support Sentences | |
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| Coherence | |
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| Concluding Sentences | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Revising Paragraphs | |
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| Revising Strategies | |
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| Editing | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Writing Essays | |
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| Structuring Essays | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| The Sentence Core: Subjects and Verbs | |
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| Identifying Subjects and Verbs | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Identifying Subjects and Verbs | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Style | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Sentence Formats | |
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| Sentence Formats | |
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| Verbals | |
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| Parts of Speech and Their Functions | |
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| Classes of Sentences | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Singular and Plural Forms | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| Verbs | |
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| The Simple Tenses | |
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| Action Verbs and Linking Verbs | |
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| Conjugating Verbs | |
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| The Present Tense | |
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| The Past Tense | |
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| The Future Tense | |
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| Consistency of Verb Tenses | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| The Perfect Forms | |
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| The Perfect Tenses | |
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| The Present Perfect Tense | |
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| The Past Perfect Tense | |
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| The Future Perfect Tense | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| The Progressive Forms | |
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| The Progressive Forms | |
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| The Simple Progressive Forms | |
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| The Perfect Progressive Forms | |
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| Helping Verbs | |
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| Consistency of Verb Tenses | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| Correct Sentence Formation | |
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| Types of Sentences | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Simple Sentences | |
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| Compound Sentences | |
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| Complex Sentences | |
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| Compound-Complex Sentences | |
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| A Final Hint | |
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| Style | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Fragments | |
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| No Subject | |
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| No Verb | |
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| -ing Verb with No Helping Verb | |
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| No Complete Thought | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Comma Splices | |
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| Identifying the Problem | |
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| Correcting the Problem | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Run-Ons | |
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| Identifying the Problem | |
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| Correcting the Problem | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| Sentence Choices-Style | |
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| Sentence Combinations | |
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| Adjectives and Other Modifiers | |
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| Appositives and Relative-Pronoun Clauses | |
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| Participles | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Subordination | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Beginning Sentences | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Diction | |
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| Vocabularies | |
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| Using Appropriate Language | |
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| Denotation and Connotation | |
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| Euphemisms and Neologisms (Invented Words or Meanings) | |
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| Wordiness and Redundancy (Unnecessary Repetition) | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| The Finer Points of Verbs | |
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| Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | |
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| Voice | |
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| Mood | |
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| Verbals | |
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| Style | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| Sentence Tools | |
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| Capitals and End Punctuation | |
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| Capitals | |
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| End Punctuation | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Commas to Separate | |
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| Independent Clauses | |
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| Items in a Series | |
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| Coordinate Adjectives | |
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| Long Introductory Elements | |
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| Dates and Addresses | |
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| Elements That Might Be Misread or Misunderstood | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Commas to Enclose | |
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| Direct Address | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Appositives | |
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| Out-of-Place Adjectives | |
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| Nonrestrictive Clauses and Phrases | |
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| Parenthetical Expressions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Indicating Possession | |
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| Forming Contractions | |
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| Forming Plurals | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Other Types of Punctuation | |
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| Quotation Marks ("") | |
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| Colons (:) | |
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| Ellipsis Points (...) | |
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| Hyphens (-) and Dashes (--) | |
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| Parentheses () and Brackets [] | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| Correct Forms | |
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| Pronoun Reference | |
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| Personal Pronouns and Cases | |
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| Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Special Problems | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| Dangling Participles and Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Split Infinitives | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Functions of Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Confusing Words | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Types of Spelling Errors | |
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| Words with ie or ei | |
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| Adding Prefixes | |
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| Changing y to i | |
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| Silent e | |
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| Doubling the Final Consonant | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Chapter Reviews | |
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| Chapter Review Writing Assignments | |
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| Collaborative Writing Assignment | |
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| Reading to Learn and Write | |
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| Analytical Reading | |
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| Reading As Thinking | |
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| Analyzing Essays | |
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| The Analytical Reading Process (SQ3R) | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Readings for Writing | |
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| Narratives | |
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| "Man at His Best" | |
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| "The Library Card" | |
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| "The All-American Job" | |
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| Descriptions | |
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| "The Beach" | |
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| "Plains, Ga." | |
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| "Paradise Can Be a Concentration Camp" | |
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| Illustrations by Example | |
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| "The Boons of Civilization" | |
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| "Adversity Proves No Match for UM's Dixon" | |
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| "Do Something Different: Go Back in Time" | |
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| Comparisons and Contrasts | |
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| "Two Views of the River" | |
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| "1899: The Names Have Changed, but the Worries Remain" | |
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| "Lives Beyond the Beltway" | |
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| Causes and Effects | |
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| "The Arrest of Rosa Parks" | |
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| "Did You Lose Something?" | |
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| "A Place to Come Home To" | |
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| Definitions | |
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| "The Tomato As Endangered Species" | |
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| "Living in the Blog-osphere" | |
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| "Environmental Droppings" | |
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| Classifications | |
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| "Three New Yorks" | |
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| "The Plot Against People" | |
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| "Baseball Spectators" | |
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| Process Analysis | |
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| "The Birth of an Island" | |
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| "The Smart Way to Buy a New Car" | |
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| "Writing a Paper" | |
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| Common ESL Mistakes | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |