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Editor's Foreword | |
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Introduction: The Need for Standards | |
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Writing and Thinking as an Intelligence Analyst | |
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The Basic Tools of Writing | |
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Clarity | |
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Conciseness | |
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Correctness | |
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Appropriateness | |
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Completeness | |
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Coherence | |
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Summing Up the Basics | |
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Using the Basic Tools | |
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Pacing Yourself | |
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Titles, Headings, and Subheadings: Previews of Coming Attractions | |
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The Paper Layout | |
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Some Hints for the Content | |
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Concluding Section: All Good Things Must End | |
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Appendixes and Annexes: Extra | |
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Additional Front Matter Options | |
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How to Handle Graphic Material | |
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Beyond the Form and Format | |
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What an Intelligence Analyst Does | |
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Training New Analysts | |
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The First Step | |
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The Differences between Academic and Intelligence Writing | |
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A Framework for Analysis | |
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Getting to the Argument | |
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Argument in Intelligence Writing | |
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Characterics of Arguments | |
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Focus on a Thesis Statement and Its Support | |
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Take Prewriting Seriously | |
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Developing Support for Your Thesis Statement | |
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The Usage Manual | |
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Usage and Abusage | |
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Wasted Words | |
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Numbers | |
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Plurals and Singulars | |
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Puns | |
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Punctuation | |
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Clarification and Separation | |
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Ampersand (&) | |
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Apostrophes and Possessives | |
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Brackets | |
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Bullets | |
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Colon | |
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Comma | |
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Dashes | |
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Ellipsis Periods | |
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Hyphen | |
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Italics or Underlining | |
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Parentheses | |
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Period | |
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Question Mark | |
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Quotation Marks | |
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Semicolon | |
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Virgule | |
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Capitalization | |
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Two Principles | |
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Coined Names | |
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Derivatives of Proper Names | |
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Common Nouns in Proper Names | |
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Titles Preceding a Name | |
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Titles Following or Replacing a Name | |
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Governmental Bodies | |
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Political Parties and Philosophies | |
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Diplomatic Units and Corps | |
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Historic Events | |
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Titles of Publications | |
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Military-Associated Terms | |
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For Emphasis | |
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Military Designators | |
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Abbreviations | |
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General Policy | |
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Abbreviations to Avoid | |
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Foreign Terms | |
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Incomplete or Possessive References | |
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Plural Forms | |
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Military Grades with Abbreviations | |
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State, Province, Territory, and District Names | |
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Abbreviations Often Found in Research | |
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Abbreviations Often Found in Intelligence Publications | |
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Compounding and Other Troublemakers | |
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Demon Words and Phrases | |
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A Usage Glossary for Intelligence Writers | |
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Citation Style and Handling Classified Material | |
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Citing Your Sources | |
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Who? | |
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Why? | |
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How? | |
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General Format | |
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Spacing and Fonts | |
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Sample Note and Bibliographic Forms | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Alphabetization | |
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Anonymous Authors or Unattributed Work | |
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Capitalization and Punctuation in Titles | |
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Cited Hereafter as ... | |
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Dates of Publication | |
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Epigraphs | |
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Explanatory Notes | |
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Foreign-Language Publications | |
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Indirect (Secondary) References | |
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Lecture, Cited in a Book | |
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Members of Congress | |
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Military Rank | |
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Missing Data | |
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Multiple Sources in One Note | |
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Names, Referenced in the Text | |
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Periodicals | |
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Publishers | |
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Punctuation | |
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Punctuation in Quoted Material | |
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Secondary (Short) Citations | |
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Subsequent Works by the Same Author, Agency, Organization | |
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Titles of Individuals | |
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Translations from a Foreign Language | |
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Volume Numbers in Notes and Bibliography | |
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Bits and Bytes | |
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Electronic Citations | |
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General | |
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Electronic Sources | |
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Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) | |
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The Mysterious Disappearing Website | |
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Page Numbers in Electronic Citations | |
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PDFs, PROQUEST, TIFFs, and Such | |
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Links, Homepages, and Service Providers | |
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Generic Citation Format | |
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Keeping Up in the E-World | |
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Handling Classified Material | |
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Why? | |
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Unclassified Excerpts from Classified Works | |
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How? Similarity to Unclassified Forms | |
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Proper Precautions and Markings | |
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Downgrading, Declassification, and Marking | |
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Note and Bibliographic Forms | |
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Intelink | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |