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| Rhetorical Contents | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Hints and Help for Writers | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Writing--and Composing--Process | |
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| The Reasons for Writing | |
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| Writing as Communication | |
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| Writing as a Process | |
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| Composing with Confidence | |
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| Discovering the Right Way to Write | |
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| Writing for Every Reason | |
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| Getting a Head Start | |
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| The Composing Process | |
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| Composing as a Process | |
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| Exploring Your Ideas | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Organizing Your Ideas | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Revising the Draft | |
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| Preparing a Second Draft | |
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| Producing the Final Copy | |
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| Composing a Powerful Paragraph | |
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| What Is a Paragraph? | |
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| The Topic | |
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| The Topic Sentence | |
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| The Body | |
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| The Conclusion | |
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| Revising for Unity | |
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| Additional Topics for Writing | |
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| Composing an Effective Essay | |
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| What Is an Essay? | |
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| A Closer Look at the Essay | |
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| Composing an Essay | |
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| Revising for Coherence | |
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| A Student Model Essay | |
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| Additional Topics for Writing | |
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| Strengthening Writing | |
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| Developing Ideas | |
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| Support for General Statements | |
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| Two Ways to Develop Ideas | |
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| Facts and Figures | |
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| Additional Topics for Writing | |
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| Achieving Coherence | |
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| What Is Coherence? | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Repeated Words and Ideas | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Additional Topics for Writing | |
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| Writing Directly and Vividly | |
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| What Is Strong Writing? | |
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| Eliminating Weak Verbs | |
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| Eliminating Vague Expressions | |
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| Eliminating Wordiness | |
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| Eliminating Unnecessary Repetition | |
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| Eliminating Tired Comparisons | |
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| Additional Topics for Writing | |
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| Creating Sentence Variety | |
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| Why Work for Sentence Variety? | |
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| Varying Sentence Length | |
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| Varying Sentence Beginnings | |
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| Using Special Types of Sentences | |
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| Joining Sentences | |
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| Additional Topics for Writing | |
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| Composing Types of Paragraphs and Essays | |
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| Composing a Description | |
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| A Model Paragraph: Description | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Model Essay: Description | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Description | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Composing Narratives | |
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| A Model Paragraph: Narration | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Narration | |
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| An Additional Student Model: Narration | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Explaining a Process | |
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| Model Paragraphs: Process Analysis | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Model Essay: Process Analysis | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Process Analysis | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Drawing Comparisons and Contrasts | |
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| Model Paragraphs: Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Model Essay: Comparison-Contrast | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Comparison-Contrast | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Making Classifications | |
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| A Model Paragraph: Classification | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Model Essay: Classification | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Classification | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Composing Definitions | |
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| Model Paragraphs: Definition | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignments | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Model Essay: Definition | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Definition | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Examining Causes or Effects | |
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| Model Paragraphs: Causes or Effects | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Examining Causes | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Examining Effects | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Persuading an Audience | |
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| Models of Persuasion | |
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| Getting Ready to Write | |
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| Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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| More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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| From Paragraph to Essay | |
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| A Model Essay: Persuasion | |
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| A Student Model Essay: Persuasion | |
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| Topics for Essays | |
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| Writing Essay Exams | |
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| A Model Essay: An Essay Exam | |
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| Preparing for an Essay Examination | |
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| Writing the Essay Answer | |
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| Getting Ready to Write an Exam | |
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| Essay Writing Assignment | |
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| Additional Topics for Practicing Essays | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Writing Complete Sentences | |
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| What Is a Sentence? | |
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| Simple Fragments | |
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| Complex Fragments | |
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| Joining Sentences Through Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Combining Equals | |
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| Combining Unequals | |
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| Checking Subject-Verb Agreement and Noun Plurals | |
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| What Is Subject-Verb Agreement? | |
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| Agreement with Noun Subjects | |
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| Agreement with Pronoun Subjects | |
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| Subjects Joined with and | |
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| Irregular Present-Tense Verbs | |
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| Special Problems with Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Checking Past-Tense and Past-Participle Forms | |
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| The Past Tense of Regular Verbs | |
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| The Past Tense of Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Perfect Tenses | |
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| The Other Roles of the Past Participle | |
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| Achieving Consistency | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Tense | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Quotations and Reported Speech | |
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| Using Pronouns | |
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| Choosing the Right Pronoun | |
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| Special Pronouns | |
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| Strengthening Modifiers | |
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| What Is a Modifier? | |
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| Condensing Clauses to Phrases | |
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| Placing Modifiers with Precision | |
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| Using Apostrophes, Hyphens, and Capital Letters | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Checking Punctuation | |
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| The Comma | |
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| The Period | |
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| The Question Mark | |
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| The Exclamation Point | |
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| The Semicolon | |
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| The Colon | |
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| The Dash | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Checking Soundalike and Lookalike Words | |
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| Contraction Confusion | |
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| The -D Dilemma | |
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| The of Offense | |
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| Other Commonly Confused Words | |
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| Reading Selections | |
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| "Buzzard" | |
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| from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| "Baby Birds" | |
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| "Whose Eyes Are These, Whose Nose?" | |
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| "What Is Poverty?" | |
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| "The Real War on Drugs" | |
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| "Why I Want a Wife" | |
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| "The Deer at Providencia" | |
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| "The Myth of the Latin Woman" | |
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| from The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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| "Friends, Good Friends--and Such Good Friends" | |
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| "A Tale of Two Gravies" | |
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| "Mother Tongue" | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |