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| Making the Transition to College | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Getting to Know Your Materials | |
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| Getting to Know Your Classmates | |
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| Working with classmates | |
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| Getting Organized | |
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| Setting Goals and Overcoming Obstacles | |
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| Examining Attitudes and Expectations | |
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| Setting Long-term Goals | |
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| Setting Short-term Goals | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Beginning College Writing | |
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| Using a Journal | |
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| What Is a Writer's Journal? Your Journal | |
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| Peer Journals | |
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| Writing a Paragraph | |
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| Understanding the Assignment | |
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| Narrowing the Topic | |
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| Determining the Writing Context | |
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| Formulating a Topic Sentence | |
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| Developing the Topic Sentence with Supporting Details | |
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| Generating Ideas for Support | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Patterns of Development Narration | |
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| Illustration or Example | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Grammar, Mechanics, and Punctuation Skills | |
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| Learning to Write Correctly | |
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| Be Curious | |
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| Rely on Your Resources | |
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| Become a Skillful Learner | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Sentence Beginnings | |
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| Proper Nouns | |
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| Problem Words | |
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| List I | |
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| List II | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Interjections | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Effective Word Choice | |
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| Ineffective Word Choice | |
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| Subject-Verb Identification | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Singular and Plural Subjects | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement Rules | |
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| Verb Tense | |
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| Forming the Past Tense and the Past Participle | |
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| Using the Past Participle as an Adjective | |
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| Avoiding Shifts in Tense | |
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| Sentence Parts and Types | |
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| Definition of a Sentence | |
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| Definition of a Clause | |
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| Definition of a Phrase | |
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| Sentence Types | |
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| Sentence Purposes | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Types of Fragments | |
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| Identifying and Correcting Fragments | |
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| Run-ons | |
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| Types of Run-ons | |
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| Identifying Run-ons | |
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| Ways to Correct Run-ons | |
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| Commas | |
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| The Purpose of Using Commas | |
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| The Two Most Important Comma Rules: Compound | |
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| Sentences and Introductory Elements | |
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| Other Useful Comma Rules: Transitions, Series, Dates | |
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| Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Avoiding Shifts in Number and Person | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Contractions | |
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| Possession | |
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| Letters and Numerals | |
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| Sentence Combining | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Subordination | |
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| Using Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Sentence Variety | |
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| Sentence Variety Techniques | |
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| Readings | |
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| Successful Reading Strategies | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Using a Reader's Journal | |
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| Faith Andrews Bedford, Measles Mumps and Chicken Pox | |
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| Leo Buscaglia, Papa, The Philosopher | |
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| Jack Canfield, Consider This | |
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| Sandra Cisneros, The First Job | |
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| Annie Dillard, from An American Childhood | |
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| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, from The Bats | |
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| Cathy Dyson, The Girl Who Helped the Samburu | |
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| Daniel Eisenberg, The Coming Job Boom | |
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| John Garrity, Too Good to Be True | |
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| Jean Giono, from The Man Who Planted Trees | |
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| Natalie Goldberg, from The Long Quiet Highway | |
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| Karl Taro Greenfeld, Blind to Failure | |
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| Langston Hughes, What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Bruce Springsteen, The River | |
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| Cynthia Jabs, Saying Goodbye | |
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| John Leo, When Life Imitates Video | |
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| Mike Rose, from I Just Wanna Be Average | |
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| Ellen Sherman, Boys to Men | |
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| Brent Staples, From The Knock Out | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| ESL Appendix | |
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| Spelling Appendix | |
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| Creating a Portfolio | |
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| Checklists | |