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WritingForceful Paragraphs | |
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Exploring the Writing Process | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Subject, Audience, Purpose | |
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Guidelines for Submitting Written Work | |
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Prewriting to Generate Ideas | |
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Freewriting | |
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Brainstorming | |
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Clustering | |
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Keeping a Journal | |
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Developing Effective Paragraphs | |
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Defining the Paragraph and the Topic Sentence | |
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Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence | |
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Generating Ideas for the Body of the Paragraph | |
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Selecting and Dropping Ideas | |
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Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline | |
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Writing and Revising the Paragraph | |
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Writing the Final Paragraph | |
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Improving Your Paragraphs | |
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More Work on Support: Examples | |
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More Work on Arranging Ideas: Coherence | |
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More Work on Revising: Exact and Concise Language | |
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Turning Assignments into Paragraphs | |
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Moving from Paragraph to Essay | |
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Defining the Essay and the Thesis Statement | |
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The Process of Writing an Essay | |
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Unit 1 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 1 Review | |
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Unit 1 Writer's Workshop--Discuss Your Name | |
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Writing Complete Sentences | |
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Subjects and Verbs | |
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Defining and Spotting Subjects | |
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Spotting Singular and Plural Subjects | |
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Spotting Prepositional Phrases | |
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Defining and Spotting Action Verbs | |
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Defining and Spotting Linking Verbs | |
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Spotting Verbs of More Than One Word | |
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Avoiding Sentence Fragments | |
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Writing Sentences with Subjects and Verbs | |
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Writing Sentences with Complete Verbs | |
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Completing the Thought | |
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Unit 2 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 2 Review | |
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Unit 2 Writers' Workshop--Discuss an Event That Influenced You | |
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Using Verbs Effectively | |
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Present Tense (Agreement) | |
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Defining Agreement | |
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Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO BE | |
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Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO HAVE | |
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Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO DO (+ NOT) | |
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Changing Subjects to Pronouns | |
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Practice in Agreement | |
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Special Problems in Agreement | |
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Past Tense | |
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Regular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
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Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
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Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: TO BE | |
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Review | |
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The Past Participle in Action | |
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Defining the Past Participle | |
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Past Participles of Regular Verbs | |
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Past Participles of Irregular Verbs | |
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Using the Present Perfect Tense | |
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Using the Past Perfect Tense | |
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Using the Passive Voice | |
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Using Past Participles as Adjectives | |
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Progressive Tenses (TO BE + -ING Verb Form) | |
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Defining and Writing the Present Progressive Tense | |
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Defining and Writing the Past Progressive Tense | |
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Using the Progressive Tenses | |
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Avoiding Incomplete Progressives | |
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Fixed-Form Helping Verbs and Verb Problems | |
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Defining and Spotting the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs | |
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Using the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs | |
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Using CAN and COULD | |
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Using WILL and WOULD | |
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Writing Infinitives | |
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Revising Double Negatives | |
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Unit 3 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 3 Review | |
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Unit 3 Writers' Workshop--Tell a Family Story | |
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Joining Ideas Together | |
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Coordination | |
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Subordination | |
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Defining and Using Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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Punctuating Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices | |
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Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs | |
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Defining and Using Semicolons | |
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Defining and Using Conjunctive Adverbs | |
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Punctuating Conjunctive Adverbs | |
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Relative Pronouns | |
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Defining and Using Relative Pronouns | |
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Punctuating Ideas Introduced by WHO, WHICH, or THAT | |
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-ING Modifiers | |
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Using -ING Modifiers | |
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Avoiding Confusing Modifiers | |
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Unit 4 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 4 Review | |
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Unit 4 Writers' Workshop--Describe a Detour off the Main Highway | |
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Choosingthe Right Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, or Preposition | |
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Nouns | |
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Defining Singular and Plural | |
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Signal Words: Singular and Plural | |
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Signal Words with OF | |
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Pronouns | |
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Defining Pronouns and Antecedents | |
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Referring to Indefinite Pronouns | |
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Referring to Collective Nouns | |
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Referring to Special Singular Constructions | |
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Avoiding Vague and Repetitious Pronouns | |
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Using Pronouns as Subjects, Objects, and Possessives | |
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Choosing the Correct Case after AND or OR | |
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Choosing the Correct Case in Comparisons | |
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UsingPronouns with -SELF and -SELVES | |
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Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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Defining and Writing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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A Troublesome Pair: GOOD/WELL | |
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Writing Comparatives | |
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Writing Superlatives | |
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Troublesome Comparatives and Superlatives | |
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Demonstrative Adjectives: THIS/THAT and THESE/THOSE | |
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Prepositions | |
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Defining and Working with Prepositional Phrases | |
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Troublesome Prepositions: IN, ON, and LIKE | |
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Prepositions in Common Expressions | |
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Unit 5 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 5 Review | |
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Unit 5 Writers' Workshop--Tell How Someone Changed Your Life | |
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Revising for Consistency and Parallelism | |
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Consistent Tense | |
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Consistent Person | |
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Parallelism | |
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Writing Parallel Constructions | |
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Using Parallelism for Special Effects | |
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Unit 6 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 6 Review | |
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Unit 6 Writers' Workshop--Shift Your Audience and Purpose | |
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Mastering Mechanics | |
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Capitalization | |
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Commas | |
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Commas after Items in a Series | |
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Commas after Introductory Phrases | |
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Commas for Direct Address | |
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Commas to Set Off Appositives | |
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Commas for Parenthetical Expressions | |
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Commas for Dates | |
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Commas for Addresses | |
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Commas for Coordination and Subordination | |
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Apostrophes | |
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Using the Apostrophe for Contractions | |
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Defining the Possessive | |
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Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Do Not AlreadyEnd in -S) | |
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Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Already End in-S) | |
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Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
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Defining Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
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Punctuating Simple Direct Quotations | |
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Punctuation Split Quotations | |
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Ending Direct Quotations | |
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Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work | |
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Unit 7 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 7 Review | |
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Unit 7 Writers' Workshop--Explain a Cause or an Effect | |
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Improving Your Spelling | |
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Spelling | |
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Suggestions for Improving Your Spelling | |
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Computer Spell Checkers | |
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Spotting Vowels and Consonants | |
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Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of One Syllable) | |
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Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of More Than One Syllable) | |
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Dropping or Keeping the Final E | |
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Changing or Keeping the Final Y | |
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Choosing IE or EI | |
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CommonlyMisspelled Words | |
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Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes | |
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Unit 8 Writing Assignments | |
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Unit 8 Review | |
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Unit 8 Writers' Workshop--Examine Positive (or Negative) Values | |
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Reading Selections and Quotation Bank | |
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Reading Selections | |
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Effective Reading Strategies for the Writer | |
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Daring to Dream | |
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A Homemade Education | |
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Don't Share Your Life with Me | |
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Mrs. Flowers Leonard Pitts Jr., Beauty Is Not Just Smaller Than Life | |
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Hot Dogs and Wild Geese | |
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My English Courtland | |
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The Gift | |
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Montgomery, Alabama, 1955 | |
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Quitting Hip-Hop | |
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You Can Take This Job and... Well, It Might Surprise You | |
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Papa, the Teacher | |
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Another Road Hog with Too Much Oink | |
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Stuff | |
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In This Arranged Marriage, Love Came Later | |
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Playing a Violin with Three Strings | |
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One Man's Kids | |
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The Hidden Life of Bottled Water | |
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Four Directions | |
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Emotional Intelligence | |
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Quotation Bank | |
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Parts of Speech Review | |
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Some Guidelines for Students of English as a Second Language | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |
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Index of Rhetorical | |
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Modes Index to the Readings | |
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Rhetorical Index to the Readings | |