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| Foreword | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Building Blocks of the Report: Attitude, Tone, Style, and Voice | |
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| Attitude: The Writer's View | |
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| What Is Attitude in Writing? | |
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| Attitude Toward Your Own Writing | |
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| Attitude Toward Your Subject and Audience | |
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| What Influences Attitude? | |
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| Attitude and Your Reader | |
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| Tone: Words and More | |
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| Formality in Tone | |
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| Formality and Contractions | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Accuracy and Clarity | |
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| Clarity Versus Variety | |
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| Denotation and Connotation | |
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| Selecting Material and Subtext | |
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| Juxtaposition and Finn's Levels 1, 2, 3 | |
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| Style: Content Plus Structure | |
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| Beginning, Middle, and End | |
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| Communication Qualities: Clarity and Accuracy | |
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| Communication Qualities: Specificity | |
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| Concrete Versus Abstract Terms | |
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| Abstraction and Hayakawa's Ladder | |
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| Communication Qualities: Sensitivity, Compassion, Respect for Your Subject and Reader | |
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| Jettison Unnecessary Jargon | |
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| Clear Away Clutter | |
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| Energize Text | |
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| Dynamic Versus Linking Verbs | |
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| "Smothered" Verbs | |
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| Active Versus Passive Structure | |
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| Voice: What Is It and How Do I Find It? | |
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| Active Versus Passive Voice in Sentence Structure | |
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| Using Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Narrative Voice/Point of View | |
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| Third Person | |
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| First Person and Second Person | |
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| Stylistic Voice | |
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| Narrative Stance | |
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| Neutral Voice and Objectivity in Writing | |
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| Mortar to Fortify the Building Blocks: Grammar and Editing | |
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| Big Picture, Small Details: Format, Write, Edit, Proof | |
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| Formatting | |
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| Choosing Font: Style and Size | |
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| Ordering Sections and Content | |
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| Possible Formats | |
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| Using an Outline | |
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| An Alternative Approach to Outlining | |
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| Writing | |
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| Evaluating and Editing | |
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| Proofing | |
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| Content that Communicates: Sentences and Paragraphs | |
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| Sentence: What Is It and How Is It Structured? | |
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| Initial Decisions | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Basic Sentence | |
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| Sentence Order | |
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| Varying Your Sentences | |
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| Paragraph: How Do Sentences Build Into Paragraphs? | |
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| Building the Paragraph | |
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| Standard Phrases for Reports | |
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| Parallel Structure | |
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| Fillers, Redundancies, and Unnecessary Phrases | |
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| Assessing Readability | |
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| Readability Tools: Various Formulas | |
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| Reaching Agreement: Subject-Verb, Pronoun, and Gender | |
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| Verb Tenses | |
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| "Mood" in Grammar | |
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| Verb Pairs: Which to Use? | |
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| Used To Versus Use To | |
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| Can Versus May | |
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| Fewer Versus Less | |
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| Lay Versus Lie | |
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| Raise Versus Rise | |
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| Set Versus Sit | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Intervening Words | |
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| Compound Subjects | |
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| Collective Nouns | |
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| Additional Subject-Verb Agreement Challenges | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Selecting Pronouns | |
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| Indefinite Pronouns | |
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| Gender Neutrality in Pronouns | |
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| Pronoun as Subject or Object | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Modifying the Main Idea: Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Articles = Adjectives | |
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| Using Adjectives of Quantity | |
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| Compound Adjectives | |
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| Placing Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Splitting Verbs With Adverbs | |
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| Adjectives, Adverbs, and Linking Verbs | |
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| Degrees of Comparison in Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Avoiding Ambiguity and Awkwardness | |
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| Separating Related Words | |
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| Misplacing Modifiers | |
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| Constructing Awkward Adverbs | |
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| Adding Too Many Adjectives or Adverbs | |
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| Modifying Absolutes | |
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| Using Hopefully and However | |
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| To + Base Verb: To Split or Not to Split | |
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| Precision: Right Word, Right Spelling | |
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| Spelling in the Body of a Word | |
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| Prefixes and Suffixes | |
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| Spelling Plural Nouns | |
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| Numbers: Digits or Words? | |
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| Spelling Words That Sound Alike | |
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| Effect Versus Affect | |
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| Other Words Easily Confused | |
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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Capital Letters | |
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| When Not to Capitalize | |
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| Spelling Variations and Modern Usage | |
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| Guiding the Reader: Punctuate and Connect for Clarity | |
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| Independent and Dependent Clauses | |
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| Connecting for Clarity | |
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| Punctuation Marks: How and Why We Use Them | |
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| Periods and Semicolons | |
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| Commas | |
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| Recognizing Fragments and Run-on Sentences | |
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| Colons | |
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| Hyphens and Dashes | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Ellipsis | |
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| Connecting Words Revisited: Special Challenges | |
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| Although, Though, While | |
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| Since | |
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| Like Versus Such as | |
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| That Versus Which | |
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| Beginning a Sentence With a Conjunction | |
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| Beyond the Report: Extending Clear and Effective Communication | |
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| Continuing the Therapeutic Goals: Writing Letters and Stories | |
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| Letter to the Individual Assessed: An Overview | |
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| Tone in Letters Written as Feedback | |
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| Can a Letter of Written Feedback Be "Therapeutic"? | |
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| A Clinician's Approach: Assessing Personal Warmth in Letters to the Person Assessed | |
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| Metaphor: A Bridge Between Fact and Truth | |
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| Conceptual Metaphor: Everyday Life | |
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| Metaphor and the Brain | |
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| Therapeutic Stories | |
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| Children's Stories: Fables | |
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| Adult and Adolescent Stories: Allegories | |
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| Narrative and Dialogue | |
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| Richness, Texture, Safety, and Risk: Communicating Verbally | |
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| Written Versus Spoken Communication | |
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| Richness and Texture in Communication | |
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| "Voice" in Speech | |
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| Pacing and Pauses | |
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| Loudness and Pitch | |
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| Interruptions and Overlap | |
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| Report-Talk Versus Rapport-Talk | |
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| Nonverbal Cues | |
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| Active Listening | |
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| Communicating When Fear Equals Risk | |
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| Glossary of Terms: Grammar, Style, and Communication | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |