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| The Writing Process | |
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| Define the Writing Task | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Audience | |
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| Requirements, assignments, and schedules | |
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| Tone | |
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| Standard English and other Englishes | |
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| In your own words: Resisting the lure of copy and paste | |
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| Think Critically about Reading and Writing | |
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| How to read critically | |
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| Annotating a reading | |
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| Critical reading of your own writing | |
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| Generate Ideas | |
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| Finding a topic | |
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| Journals, blogs, and online conversations | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Brainstorming, listing, and mapping | |
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| Journalists' questions | |
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| Find a Focus and a Structure | |
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| From topic to thesis | |
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| Formulating a working thesis--and why you need one | |
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| Developing support | |
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| Planning and structuring your essay: Road maps, purpose statements, and outlines | |
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| The power of a title | |
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| Develop Paragraphs | |
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| Paragraph basics | |
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| Focus and topic sentence | |
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| Unity | |
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| Strategies for developing paragraphs | |
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| Coherence with links, parallel structures, and transitions | |
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| Construct an Argument | |
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| What makes a good argument? | |
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| Topic | |
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| An arguable claim (thesis), reasons, and evidence | |
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| Argument structures | |
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| Appeals, common ground, and opposing views | |
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| Logic and flaws in logic | |
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| A student's argument essay | |
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| Draft, Revise, and Edit | |
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| Tips for writing and managing drafts | |
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| Writing collaboratively | |
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| Giving and getting feedback | |
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| Beginning and ending well | |
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| Tools for content revision | |
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| Tools for editing and proofreading | |
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| A student's drafts | |
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| Pay attention to the 5 C's of Style | |
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| The first C: Cut | |
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| The second C: Check for action | |
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| The third C: Connect | |
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| The fourth C: Commit | |
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| The fifth C: Choose the right words | |
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| Put it all together: Delight your readers | |
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| Document Design, Visual Power | |
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| Academic Documents: Page and Screen | |
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| Formats for academic essays | |
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| Title and identification | |
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| Title page | |
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| Formatting with MS Word | |
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| Academic writing online | |
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| Visual Presentation of Text and Data | |
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| Typefaces | |
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| Color | |
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| Headings, columns | |
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| Lists | |
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| Tables, charts | |
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| Visuals: Analysis and Preparation | |
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| How to read images critically | |
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| Visuals and argument | |
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| Multimedia presentations | |
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| PowerPoint | |
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| Sample PowerPoint slides | |
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| Editing for Common Sentence Problems | |
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| How a Sentence Works (Review) | |
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| What a sentence is | |
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| Subject and verb | |
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| Parts of speech | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Top Sentence Troublespots | |
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| Students' FAQs | |
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| Top sentence troublespots | |
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| The Boundaries of a Sentence: Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices | |
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| What is a fragment? | |
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| Dependent clause fragments | |
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| Phrase fragments | |
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| Missing subject, verb | |
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| Fragments missing subject afterand, but, or | |
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| Intentionally use/frag | |
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| Run-on, comma splice | |
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| Correcting run-on, splices | |
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| Sentence Snarls | |
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| Tangles: Mixed constructions, faulty comparisons, convoluted syntax | |
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| Misplaced modifiers | |
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| Dangling modifiers | |
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| Shifts | |
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| Logical sequence | |
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| Necessary / unnecessary words | |
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| Faulty parallelism | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Verb forms | |
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| Verbs commonly confused | |
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| Verb Tenses | |
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| -edendings | |
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| Indirect quotations | |
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| Conditional sentences | |
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| Active / passive voice | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| The -sending | |
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| Subject separated from verb | |
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| Subject after verb | |
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| After linking verb | |
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| Tricky subjects | |
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| Collective nouns | |
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| Subects withand, or, nor | |
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| Indefinite pronouns | |
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| Quantity words | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Personal pronouns | |
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| Possessive forms | |
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| Clear reference | |
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| Agreement wit | |