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| The Honest Writer | |
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| A Professional Attitude | |
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| The Struggle Against Silence | |
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| What Do You Know? | |
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| Putting Pictures on Trial | |
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| Create Your Personal Blog | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| "Chicken at Wegman's." | |
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| Professional Essay | |
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| "Fueling a Contagion of Campus Violence." | |
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| "When Preaching Flops." | |
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| The Two-Part Secret of Good Writing: Ideas and Details | |
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| Ideas | |
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| Details | |
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| What Makes a Good Idea | |
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| What Makes a Good Detail | |
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| The Difference Between a Topic and an Idea | |
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| Should You Start with Ideas or Details? | |
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| The Three-to-One Ratio | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| How to Read a Visual Composition for Ideas and Details | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| "The Unknown Children." Analysis | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| "What Disney Movies Really Teach Children." | |
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| Getting Ideas: Brain Teasers to Help you Write on Almost any Topic | |
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| Improving Your Ideas | |
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| Ten Brain Teasers | |
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| Sample Brain Teasers | |
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| Roadblocks to Good Ideas and Details | |
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| Fear of Risk | |
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| Insecurity About Your Ability to Think | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| "Spring Break: Mazatl?n, Mexico." "Sense Brain Teaser for Spring Break: Mazatl?n, Mexico." | |
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| Professional Essay | |
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| "American Students Abroad Can't Be 'Global Citizens.'" | |
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| Paragraphs: Ideas and Details In Miniature | |
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| Three Ways to Build Paragraphs | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Student Paragraph: Shawn'ta Brown, "Being Ghetto." | |
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| Order from Chaos: Thesis and Outline | |
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| A Working Thesis | |
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| Sample: Creating a Working Thesis | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Looping | |
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| Outlines | |
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| The Scratch Outline | |
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| Use Brain Teasers that Help Create Outlines | |
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| Use Bullets to Outline Your Brain Teasers or Freewriting | |
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| Use Clustering, a Visual Diagram | |
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| Sample Draft from Outline: "The Fine Art of Dying." | |
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| The Draft: that Frenzy Near Madness | |
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| The Concrete Introduction | |
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| Warm-ups Are for Leftovers | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| What to Focus on While Writing the Draft | |
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| What NOT to Focus on in the Draft | |
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| 7 Tips for When You Get Stuck | |
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| Blocks During Drafting | |
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| Fear of Messiness | |
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| Poor Work Environment | |
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| Nail Your Conclusion | |
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| Student Essay Introduction | |
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| "Tougher Punishment for Sex Offenders." | |
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| Revising Drafts: Writing is Revising | |
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| Revision Myths and Realities | |
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| How to Be Your Own Editor | |
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| Revise Ideas | |
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| Honesty, Freshness, Coherence | |
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| Revise Details | |
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| Visualize and Support | |
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| Revise Organization | |
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| Make It Easy on the Reader | |
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| Revise Word Use | |
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| Waxed Words Sparkle | |
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| Revise Mechanics | |
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| Revising with Others: Peer Editing and Teacher Conferences | |
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| How to Edit a Peer's Paper | |
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| How to Receive Peer Criticism | |
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| A Sample Revision | |
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| Teacher Comments | |
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| The Final Draft | |
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| Revising on a Computer | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Student Essay and Analysis | |
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| "Bastard." | |
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| Writing with Style | |
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| Honesty | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Accuracy | |
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| Euphemisms and Crude Language | |
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| Clich?s | |
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| Sexist Language | |
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| Vividness | |
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| Concreteness | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Stylish Sentence Structure | |
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| Variety | |
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| Parallel Structure | |
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| Conciseness | |
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| Using a Computer to Revise Words | |
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| Playing with Language | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Three Ways to Revise Style | |
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| A Cyber Game for Style | |
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| Sample Revision for Style | |
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| Revised Student Essay and Analysis | |
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| "Good Intentions." | |
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| Putting it all Together: from Topic Choice to Published Essay | |
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| Professional Essay | |
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| "If God Breaks my Bones." Finding the Topic | |
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| Brain Teasers | |
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| Thesis Ideas | |
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| Scratch Outline | |
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| The Draft | |
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| The Draft Conclusion | |
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| Revising on My Own | |
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| Revising With Peers and Editors | |
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| Description: making your Audience see | |
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| A Writer's Eye: Six Ways to Visualize Ideas | |
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| Re-experience: Don't Think in Words | |
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| Use Brain Teasers to Train Your Eye | |
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| Use the Iceberg Principle | |
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| Try Other Eye-Training Tricks | |
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| Revising for Vivid Description | |
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| The Sense Test | |
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| The Specificity Test | |
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| The Freshness Test | |
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| The Theme Test | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Student Essay and Analysis | |
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| "The Model." Sample Student Descriptive Essay for Analysis | |
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| "Simple Life." | |
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| Narration: Telling your Audience a Story | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Complication | |
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| How to Ruin a Story | |
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| Describing People | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| "The Red Heart." Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Ending a Story | |
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| How to Say Something Worth Saying | |
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| The Real Story is in the Second Draft | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Sample Student Narrative Essay | |
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| "Live Abortion." Student Essay | |
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| "Holy Hell." | |
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| Informative Writing: Telling your Audience what it doesn't know | |
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| Audience and Tone, Packing in Details | |
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| Surprise Value | |
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| Poor Informative Topics | |
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| Good Topics | |
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| Organizing Informative Writing | |
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| The Process or "How-To." The Essentials or "What-Is." Causes or "Why." Effects or "What's Next?" Comparison or Contrast | |
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| Classification | |
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| Drafting Informative Essays | |
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| Make Your Second Draft Even Better | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Writing Suggestions and Class Discussions | |
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| Sample Student Informative Essay Using a Process Pattern | |
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| "Helping the Dead." Sample Student Informative Essay Using an Effects Pattern | |
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| "Going to the Chair." Analyzing Professional Informative Writing | |
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| Professional Informative Essay | |
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| "Why We Procrastinate." | |
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| Persuasive Writing: Seeking Agreement from an Audience | |
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| Audience and Tone | |
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| Persuasive Topics | |
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| Raising Problems that Matter | |
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| Supporting Evidence | |
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| Facts | |
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| Appeals to the Reader's Values | |
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| Logic | |
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| An Example of Support and Logic | |
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| Structuring the Persuasive Essay | |
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| Quick Guide to Creating Persuasive Writing | |
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| Rehearsing Your Paper's Appearance in Court | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Analyzing Professional Persuasive Writing | |
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| Summary Analysis | |
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| Critical Analysis | |
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| Sample Analysis: The Pros and Cons of Cloning Humans | |
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| Sample Student Persuasive Essay | |
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| "Helping Immigrants is our Right and Duty." | |
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| Sample Persuasive Paragraph | |
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| "Battling Obesity with Cocaine." | |
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| Professional Persuasive Essay | |
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| "Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage." | |
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| Professional Persuasive Essay | |
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| "Fueling a Contagion of Campus Violence." | |
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| The Literary Essay and Review | |
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| How Much Can You See? | |
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| Brain Teasers for Literature | |
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| Brain Teasers for Explication | |
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| Why Don't Authors Just Say What Their Theme Is? | |
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| Organizing Literary Essays | |
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| Drafting Literary Essays | |
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| Revising Literary Essays | |
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| The Review | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Poems for Explication and Discussion | |
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| Sample Student Literary Essay: Carrie Gaynor, "Structure and Feeling in 'Childhood | |
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| Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.'" Commentary Based on Peer Review Sheet | |
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| Poem and Sample Student Literary Essay | |
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| "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God," | |
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| "Three-Personed God." Sample Student Critical Review Using Sources | |
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| "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." | |
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| Research: Written with Christopher Otero | |
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| Why Should I Write a Research Paper? | |
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| Great Research Topics | |
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| Create Your Key Research Questions | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| Library Resources | |
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| Librarians | |
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| The Reference Section | |
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| Books | |
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| Articles | |
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| Computer Indexes and Databases for Articles | |
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| Tips for Using Computer Indexes and Databases | |
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| World Wide Web | |
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| Reliable and Unreliable Websites | |
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| Searching the Web | |
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| E-mails to Experts, Newsgroups, and Blogs | |
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| Tips for Electronic Communication | |
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| Multi-Media on the Web | |
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| Overlooked Sources | |
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| Your Community | |
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| Smart Friends | |
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| Tips for Personal Interviews | |
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| Note-taking Strategies | |
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| Annotated Bibliographies | |
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| Organizing Research Papers | |
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| Formulate a Working Thesis | |
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| Rough Outline | |
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| Write an Abstract | |
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| Writing Research Papers | |
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| Sample Introduction: "Hip Hop: The Lyrical Phoenix." Research Ethics | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Citing Sources: MLA Style | |
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| Tag Lines | |
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| Paraphrase or Quotation of Sources | |
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| Handling and Interpreting Statistics | |
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| Parenthetical Citations: MLA Style | |
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| A Quick Guide to MLA Works Cited | |
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| Sample MLA Works Cited List | |
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| Missing Works Cited Information | |
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| Additional MLA Works Cited Formats | |
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| Electronic Sources | |
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| Citing Sources: APA Style | |
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| Parenthetical Citations: APA Style | |
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| A Quick Guide to the APA Reference List | |
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| Sample APA Reference List | |
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| Missing Reference List Information | |
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| Additional APA Reference List Formats | |
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| Electronic Sources | |
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| Revising Research Writing | |
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| Write a Career Research Paper | |
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| Student Essay Using MLA Documentation: Carol Nobles, "Quakers: America's First Feminists." | |
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| A Collection of Student Writings | |
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| Journals and Blogs | |
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| "Journal." Tina Thompson, "Journal." Narrative Essays | |
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| "Pa's Secret." | |
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| "Bastard" (Revised: Original in Chapter 7) | |
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| "Midnight Diner." | |
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| "Daddy Dearest." | |
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| "49 Hours in Afghanistan." | |
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| "Autumn Escape." Informative Essays: Contrast Essay | |
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| "Food for Thought." | |
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| Process Essay | |
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| "The Autopsy." Classification Essay | |
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| "Marijuana Smokers." Career Research Paper: Using the Interview and MLA-Style Documentation | |
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| "Mental Health Counseling." The Professional Persuasive Letter | |
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| Professional E-mail | |
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| E-mail or Snail Mail? | |
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| Craig Lammes, "Letter to Brad A. Walker." | |
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| "Letter to Shirl Bonaldi." | |
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| "Letter to John Goodman." Personal Persuasive Letter: Britni Bellwood | |
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| The Persuasive Essay | |
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| "The Beginning of the End of Freedom." Essay Presenting Both Sides of a Controversy | |
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| "Sterilization for Sale." | |
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| Researched Persuasive Essay Using MLA-Style Documentation | |
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| "Genetically Modified Food." Literary Research Paper Using Comparison and MLA Documentation | |
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| "Responsibility and the Odyssey." | |
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| Handbook of English | |
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| Myths About the English Language | |
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| Myths About English Usage | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Comma | |
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| Semicolon | |
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| Colon | |
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| Other Punctuation | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Apostrophe | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Sentence Fragment | |
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| Run-On Sentence (Comma Splice) | |
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| Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Tense | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Noun-Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Weird Words | |
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| Weird Singulars and Plurals | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Odd Pairs | |
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| Mechanics | |
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| Format for College Paper | |
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| Dictionary of Usage | |
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| The 25 Most Commonly Misused Words in English | |
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| Appendix: The Real Rules for Writing Classes (and Maybe Life) | |