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| The Writing Process | |
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| Toward Purposeful Writing | |
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| The Writer's Environment and Habits | |
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| The Stages of the Writing Process Making Decisions in the Writing Process | |
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| Selecting Your Subject Analyzing Your | |
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| Audience Guidelines for selecting your subject Guidelines for analyzing your audience | |
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| Determining Your Purpose Forming a Working Purpose: The Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Your Hypothesis: The Discovery Draft Purpose and Thesis Guidelines for determining your purpose | |
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| Coordinating Decisions in the Writing Process Seeing with a Purpose Readings | |
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| Becoming a Writer | |
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| Brandon's Clown Writing Assignments | |
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| Planning Strategies and Your Journal Keeping a Journal on your computer | |
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| Listing on your computer Freewriting on your computer | |
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| Speculating on your computer Interviewing on your computer | |
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| Reading on your computer | |
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| A Final Word about Planning Readings | |
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| On Keeping a Journal | |
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| The Five Rings Writing Assignments | |
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| Drafting | |
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| The Scratch Outline Drafting a Hypothesis | |
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| The Discovery Draft | |
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| The Descriptive Outline Composing an Effective | |
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| Thesis Preparing a Formal Outline | |
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| Drafting on your computer | |
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| A Final Word about Drafting Readings | |
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| Comforting Thoughts | |
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| A Man with All Reasons Writing Assignments | |
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| Revising Looking to Revise Reading to Revise | |
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| Revision Agenda Revising: A Case Study | |
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| Revising on your computer | |
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| A Final Word about Revising Readings | |
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| Andy Rooney, New Products | |
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| The Coupon Conspiracy (4th Draft) Writing Assignments | |
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| Designing Conventions of MLA and APA Style Elements of Design | |
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| Typeface Graphics Color and White Space Principles of Design Proximity | |
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| Alignment Repetition Contrast Headings Breaking the Rules | |
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| Designing with Your Computer Readings | |
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| Michael Rock, Since When Did USA Today Become the National Design Ideal? | |
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| The Telephone Paradox Writing Assignments | |
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| Writing Structures | |
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| Common Methods of Development Narration: What Happened? | |
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| Description: What Does It Look Like? | |
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| Process Analysis: How Do You Do It? | |
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| Comparison: How Is It Similar or Different? | |
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| Classification: What Kind of Subdivision Does It Contain? | |
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| Definition: How Would You Characterize It? | |
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| Causal Analysis: Why Did It Happen? | |
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| Exploring methods of development on your computer Readings | |
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| Grizzly | |
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| Watching Whales Writing Assignments | |
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| Argument Planning: Investigating the Argument | |
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| Drafting: Organizing the Argument | |
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| Revising: Eliminating Fallacies Composing an argument on your computer | |
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| Readings | |
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| Execution | |
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| Who Controls Information? (Our Side) Writing Assignments | |
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| Paragraphs: Units of Development | |
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| The Requirements of Topical | |
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| Paragraphs Special Paragraphs Revising | |
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| Topical Paragraphs Revising Special | |
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| Paragraphs Composing paragraphs on your computer | |
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| Readings | |
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| Family: The One Social Glue | |
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| La Frontera Writing Assignments | |
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| Sentences: Patterns of Expression | |
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| Expanding and Combining Sentences | |
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| Types of Sentences and Their Effects | |
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| Revising Sentences Three Pieces of Advice on Sentence Variety | |
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| Composing sentences on your computer | |
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| Readings | |
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| Excerpts from a Painter's Studio Notes | |
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| The Knife Writing Assignments | |
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| Diction: The Choice of Words Denotation and Connotation | |
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| Three Qualities of Effective Diction Revising | |
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| Diction Correcting Diction on your computer | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Microscope | |
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| Total Eclipse Writing Assignments | |
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| Tone and Style Tone Style | |
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| Guidelines for revising your style | |
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| Checking your tone and style on your computer | |
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| Readings | |
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| Third World Driving Hints and Tips | |
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| Prague Writing Assignments | |
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| Writing Research | |
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| Planning the Research Paper | |
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| Understanding the Assignment Making a Schedule | |
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| Selecting a Subject Finding Sources Evaluating | |
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| Sources Guidelines for evaluating sources Taking | |
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| Notes Planning your research paper on your computer Writing Assignments | |
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| Writing the Research Paper Organizing a Preliminary | |
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| Outline Developing a Thesis Writing the First Draft | |
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| Creating the Introduction Quoting Sources Documenting | |
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| Sources Notes Listing or Evaluating | |
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| Sources or Referring to Additional | |
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| Sources Listing Sources: Sample Entries | |
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| Designing the Final Draft (MLA Style) | |
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| Writing your research paper on your computer | |
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| Sample Student Research Paper Writing Assignments | |
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| Readings with a Purpose | |
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| Writing Strategies Strategy One: Narration and Description | |
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| Inside and Out Andre Dubus | |
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| Digging Questions about Strategy | |
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| Strategy Two: Process Analysis | |
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| Anatomy of a Garage Band Barbara Ehrenreich, Selling in Minnesota | |
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| Strategy Three: Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Same Goal/Different Plan | |
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| The Golden Spike | |
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| Strategy Four: Division and Classification | |
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| Television Did It First: Ten Myths About "New" Media | |
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| Strategy Five: Definition | |
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| Attention! Multitaskers | |
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| Strategy Six: Causal | |
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| Only Child Policy | |
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| Changing History | |
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| Strategy Seven: Argument | |
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| The Recycling Controversy | |
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| The End of Nature Writing Assignments | |
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| Handbook of Grammar and Usage | |
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| The Evolution of English Understanding Sentence Elements | |
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| Recognize the Basic Elements of Sentences | |
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| Recognize the Basic Sentence Patterns | |
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| Expand and Vary Sentence Patterns Writing Logical and Effective Sentences | |
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| Sentence Sense | |
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| Active and Passive Sentences | |
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| Maintain Parallelism among Sentence Elements | |
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| Word Order | |
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| Position Modifiers Carefully | |
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| Comparisons | |
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| Conciseness Writing Grammatical Sentences | |
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| Eliminate Sentence Fragments | |
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| Eliminate Fused Sentences and Comma Splices | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Case | |
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| Verb Tenses | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs Choosing Effective Diction | |
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| Use a Dictionary | |
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| Consider Issues of Diction Observing the Rules of Punctuation 19.Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
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| Commas | |
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| Unnecessary Commas | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Colons | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Ellipses Observing the Rules of Mechanics | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Italics | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Hyphenation | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Spelling A Glossary of Contemporary Usage | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |
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| Subject Index | |