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| The Writing Process | |
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| Getting Started and Finding a Focus | |
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| Reading, thinking, writing | |
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| Purpose and audience | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Topic and focus | |
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| Thesis or claim | |
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| Outlines | |
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| Writer's block | |
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| Collaborative writing | |
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| Six tips for writing drafts | |
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| Developing Paragraphs and Essays | |
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| Paragraph basics | |
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| Unified paragraphs | |
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| Developing ideas | |
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| Transitions and links for coherence | |
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| Introductions and conclusions | |
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| Revising, Editing, and Formatting | |
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| Strategies for revising and managing drafts | |
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| Giving and getting feedback | |
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| Title | |
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| Editing, proofreading, and using computer tools | |
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| Sample student revision | |
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| Formatting a college essay | |
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| Writing an Argument | |
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| Features of a good argument | |
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| Choice of topic | |
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| Thinking critically | |
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| The claim (thesis) | |
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| Reasons and evidence | |
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| Audience: Appeals and common ground | |
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| Opposing views | |
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| Toulmin's four questions | |
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| Deductive and inductive reasoning | |
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| Flaws in logic | |
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| Structures for an argument essay | |
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| Visual arguments | |
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| Sample argument essay | |
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| Writing in All Your Courses | |
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| Essay exams and short-answer tests | |
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| Writing about literature | |
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| Writing about community service | |
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| Lab reports | |
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| Writing in the disciplines | |
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| tDoing Research/ Evaluating Sources | |
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| Beginning a Research Project | |
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| Guide to writing a research paper | |
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| Schedule | |
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| Research question | |
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| Primary and secondary sources | |
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| A working thesis | |
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| Purpose statement, proposal, and outline | |
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| Finding Sources | |
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| Basic reference works | |
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| Indexes and databases | |
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| Online searching: keywords and search engines | |
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| Print sources: books and periodical articles | |
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| Online sources | |
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| A student's search | |
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| Sources in 27 subject areas | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Reading critically | |
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| Recognizing a scholarly article | |
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| Evaluating works originating in print | |
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| Evaluating Internet sources | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| What is plagiarism? | |
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| How to avoid even the suspicion of plagiarism | |
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| Keeping track of sources | |
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| Setting up a working bibliography | |
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| Annotating and taking notes | |
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| Summarizing and paraphrasing | |
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| What to cite | |
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| Indicating the boundaries of a citation | |
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| Writing the Research Paper | |
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| Guidelines for writing drafts | |
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| Getting mileage out of your sources | |
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| Putting yourself in your paper and synthesizing | |
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| Driving the organization with ideas, not sources | |
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| Introducing and integrating source material | |
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| Quoting | |
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| Researching across the curriculum | |
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| tMLA Documentation | |
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| Citing Sources, MLA Style | |
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| Two basic MLA features | |
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| FAQs about MLA in-text citations | |
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| Sample author/page citations | |
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| Explanatory footnotes and endnotes | |
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| MLA List of Works Cited | |
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| List format and organization | |
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| Guidelines for listing entries | |
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| Print books and parts of books | |
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| Print articles in periodicals | |
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| Internet and other electronic sources | |
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| Miscellaneous sources | |
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| Sample Documented Paper, MLA Style | |
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| Documentation: APA, CBE/CSE, Chicago, and CGOS Styles | |
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| Citing Sources, APA Style | |
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| Two basic APA features | |
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| Author/year in-text citations | |
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| Notes, tables, and figures | |
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| APA List of References | |
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| List format and organization | |
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| Guidelines for listing authors | |
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| Print books and parts of books | |
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| Print articles in periodicals | |
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| Internet and other electronic sources | |
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| Miscellaneous sources | |
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| Sample Documented Paper, APA Style | |
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| CBE/CSE Style of Documentation | |
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| Two basic CBE/CSE features | |
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| In-text citations | |
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| Guidelines for listing CBE/CSE references | |
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| Examples of entries in list | |
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| Chicago Manual of Style: Endnotes, Footnotes, and Bibliography | |
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| Two basic features | |
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| In-text citations, notes, and bibliography | |
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| Guidelines for notes | |
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| Print books and parts of books | |
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| Print articles in periodicals | |
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| Internet and electronic sources | |
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| Miscellaneous sources | |
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| Chicago bibliography guidelines and sample | |
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| CGOS Style for Online Sources | |
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| Two basic features: CGOS humanities style | |
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| Sample entries: humanities style | |
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| Two basic features: CGOS scientific style | |
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| Sample entries: scientific style V. Document Design/ Online and Workplace | |
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| Design Tools, Design Features | |
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| Basic design functions in Word | |
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| Typefaces | |
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| Color | |
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| Headings | |
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| Lists | |
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| Columns | |
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| Visuals | |
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| Tables | |
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| Graphs and charts | |
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| Illustrations, clip art, Web downloads, and copyright issues | |
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| Online Communication | |
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| E-mail style and mechanics | |
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| E-mail discussion lists, bulletin boards, and discussion boards | |
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| Newsgroups, blogs, and synchronous communication | |
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| Web Site Design | |
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| Planning and organizing a Web site | |
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| Tips for Web site design | |
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| Useful resources | |
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| Sample student Web site | |
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| Academic Writing Online | |
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| Hypertext | |
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| HTML | |
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| Guidelines for posting academic writing online | |
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| Flyers, Brochures, and Newsletters | |
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| Design principles for flyers, brochures, newsletters | |
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| Sample community brochure | |
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| Reacute;sumeacute;s and Letters of Application | |
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| How to write a reacute;sumeacute; | |
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| Sample print or Web page reacute;sumeacute; | |
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| An electronic reacute;sumeacute; | |
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| Sample electronic reacute;sumeacute; | |
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| Cover letter and sample | |
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| Business Letters and Memos | |
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| Features of a business letter | |
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| Sample business letter | |
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| Technical requirements of a business letter | |
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| Basic features of a memo | |
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| Sample memo | |
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| Oral and Multimedia Presentations | |
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| Preparing an oral presentation | |
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| Speaking from notes or manuscript | |
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| Practicing and presenting | |
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| Using presentation aids and multimedia | |
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| Using PowerPoint | |
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| A student's PowerPoint slides | |
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| Style The Five C's of Style | |
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| The First C: Cut | |
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| Repetition and wordiness | |
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| Formulaic phrases | |
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| References to your intentions | |
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| Redundancy | |
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| The Second C: Check for Action | |
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| Who's doing what? | |
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| Sentences beginning with there or it | |
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| Unnecessary passive voice | |
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| The Third C: Connect | |
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| Consistent subjects and topic chains | |
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| Old/new information and emphasis | |
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| Options: coordination, subordination, and transitions | |
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| Beginning a sentence with and or but | |
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| Paragraph connections | |
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| The Fourth Cut: Commit | |
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| Personal presence | |
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| Appropriate and consistent tone | |
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| Confident stance | |
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| The Fifth C: Choose Your Words | |
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| Word choice checklist | |
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| Dictionary and thesaurus | |
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| Exact words and connotations | |
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| Language of speech, region, and workplace | |
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| Figurative language | |
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| Avoiding biased and exclusionary language | |
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| Avoiding clicheacute;s and pretentious language Style in Action | |
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| Sentence Variety | |
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| Sentence length | |
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| Statements, questions, commands, and exclamations | |
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| Types of sentences | |
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| Inverted word order | |
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| Sentence beginnings | |
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| Revising for Style: A Student's Drafts | |
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| Style Tips | |
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| tCommon Sentence Problems | |
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| Troublespots and Terms | |
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| Students' frequently asked questions | |
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| Teachers' top ten sentence problems | |
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| Standard English | |
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| Terms for the parts of a sentence | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Dependent clauses | |
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| Missing verb | |
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| Missing subject | |
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| Intentional use | |
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| Run-ons and Comma Splices | |
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| Identifying | |
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| Correcting | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Sentence Snarls | |
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| Fu | |