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| Writing from The Top Down | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Reading Actively and Efficiently | |
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| Writing Summaries | |
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| Steps in Writing a Summary | |
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| An Experienced Writer Writes a Summary | |
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| Analyzing and Evaluating Your Information | |
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| Organizing and Finding Your Point | |
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| Writing a Report | |
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| The Idea Draft | |
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| Later Drafts | |
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| Using Quotations | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Sentence Combining | |
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| Shaping Sentences | |
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| Recognizing Verb Forms for Writing and Sentence Combining | |
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| Shaping Sentences with Adjectives and Verb Forms | |
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| Shaping Sentences with Prepositional Phrases | |
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| The Shape of Texts | |
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| Introductions and Thesis Statements | |
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| Students at Work: Introductions | |
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| Paragraphs: Proving Your Points | |
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| Topic Sentences and the Organization Process | |
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| Students at Work: Paragraphs | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discovering and Writing | |
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| Learning by Sorting it Out | |
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| An Important Thinking Tool: Making Inferences | |
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| Inferences and Guesses | |
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| Good Inferences and Bad Inferences | |
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| Classifying to Discover | |
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| Assignments and Readings | |
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| Analyzing Television for Children | |
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| "What Are TV Ads Selling to Children?" | |
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| O''Connor | |
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| "Females and Minorities in TV Ads in 1987 Saturday Children''s Programs," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| Analyzing the Job Market | |
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| Reading Assignment | |
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| "U.S. Income Inequality Keeps on Rising," | |
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| "Tomorrow''s Jobs," | |
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| Department of Labor | |
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| "Benefits Dwindle Along with Wages for the Unskilled," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| Learning What Our Magazines Tell About Us | |
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| Reading Assignment | |
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| "Help or Hindrance? Women''s Magazines Offer Readers Little but Fear, Failure," | |
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| "We''ve Come a Long Way, but Magazines Stayed Behind," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| How Do Advertisers Try to Manipulate Us? Reading Assignment | |
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| "Advertising''s Fifteen Basic Appeals," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| The Writer''s Checklist | |
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| Sentence Combining | |
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| Joining Ideas to Show Basic Logical Relationships | |
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| Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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| Transition Words | |
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| Learning by Comparing | |
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| Comparing and Contrasting to Discover | |
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| Organizing Essays Based on Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Assignments and Readings | |
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| Controlling Political Campaign Expenses | |
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| Or Not | |
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| Reading Assignment | |
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| "Political Reform Issues," | |
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| "The Current State of Campaign Finance Laws," | |
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| "The FEC: Administering and Enforcing Campaign Finance Law," | |
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| Canada Elections Act and Income Tax Act | |
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| "Revitalizing Democracy: Clean Election Reform Shows the Way Forward," | |
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| "Who''s Buying Whom: How Money in Politics Really Works," | |
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| "Shut Up, They Explained," | |
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| "Governor Raises $17 Million in 6 Months," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| Comparing American Families in the Past and Present | |
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| Reading Assignment | |
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| "The Social Order in Colonial New England," | |
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| "The Role of Men and Women in Colonial New England," | |
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| "The Role of Children in Colonial New England," | |
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| "Men Assuming Bigger Share at Home, New Survey Shows," | |
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| "For First Time, Nuclear Families Drop Below 25% of Households," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| Examining American and Asian Educational Methods | |
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| Reading Assignment | |
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| "New Math-Science Study Rates U.S | |
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| Students Mediocre at Best," | |
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| "Why Are U.S. Kids Poor in Math?" | |
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| "Japan''s School System," | |
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| "We Should Cherish Our Children''s Freedom to Think," | |
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| "Strengths, Weaknesses, and Lessons of Japanese Education," | |
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| "School Here in the United States and There in Vietnam," Student Essay | |
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| "Some Public Schools Don''t Make the Grade," | |
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| Essay Assignment | |
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| The Health-Care Crisis: Examining Two Approaches to National Health | |
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| Reading Assignment | |
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| "U.S. Spends Most on Health, but France No | |
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| 1 in Treatment," by L | |