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| Write Now | |
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| Why Writing Matters | |
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| The Power of the Pen | |
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| Captain of Your Fate | |
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| Take a Letter | |
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| It's as Easy as A, B, C | |
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| Break the Code | |
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| The Write Way | |
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| Trick or Treat | |
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| Cop an Attitude | |
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| Model Behavior | |
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| Four Play | |
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| Pack the Essentials | |
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| The People's Court | |
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| How's That Again? Logic | |
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| Take Aim: Purpose | |
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| Crowd Control: Audience | |
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| Hitting the Right Note: Tone | |
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| Details, Details, Details | |
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| Simply Irresistible: Style | |
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| Words, Words, Words | |
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| There's a Word for It | |
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| Royal Words | |
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| And the Commoners | |
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| Words to Live By | |
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| More Than Meets the Eye: Denotation and Connotation | |
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| How's That Again? | |
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| Use Nonbiased Language | |
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| Formal and Informal English | |
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| Clause and Effect | |
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| Going Through a Phrase: Phrases | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Verbal Phrases | |
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| Appositive Phrases | |
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| Tighten Up | |
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| Clause-ality | |
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| Sentence Sense | |
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| I Know It When I See It | |
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| Superb Sentences | |
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| Sentence Style | |
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| Sorry Sentences | |
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| Paragraphs Plus | |
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| Appearance vs. Reality | |
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| Don't Leave Home Without It: Topic Sentences | |
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| Build Me Up, Buttercup: Supporting Sentences | |
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| Sweet Endings: Concluding Sentences | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Write This Way | |
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| Get the Big Picture | |
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| Blueprint for Success: Planning | |
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| Topic Time | |
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| Narrowing Your Topic | |
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| Getting the Facts: Researching | |
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| Shaping and Drafting | |
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| Spit and Polish: Revising and Editing | |
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| The Proof's in the Pudding--and the Writing: Proofreading | |
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| Brain Freeze | |
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| A Place for Everything, and Everything in Its Place | |
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| Special Delivery | |
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| A Method to All This Madness | |
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| Time Marches On: Chronological Order | |
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| It's What's Up Front That Counts: Order of Importance | |
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| Asked and Answered: Question and Answer | |
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| Space, the Final Frontier: Spatial Order | |
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| Making Your Bones | |
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| Start at the Very Beginning: Introductions | |
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| Body Talk | |
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| End Game: Conclusions | |
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| Personal Best: Revising and Editing | |
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| Judgment Day | |
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| Less Can Be More: Revise by Deleting | |
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| All Dressed Up and Ready to Go: Revise by Elaborating | |
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| Little Things Matter a Lot: Revise Punctuation | |
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| Come Again? Revise by Rewording | |
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| It's a Lock: Revise for Unity | |
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| A Master at Work | |
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| Write for Success | |
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| You Got Some 'Splaining to Do, Lucy: Exposition | |
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| The Perfect Couple: Cause and Effect | |
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| Neat and Tidy: Classify-Divide | |
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| Alike and Different: Comparison and Contrast | |
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| You Could Look It Up: Definition | |
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| "How to" Essays: Process Analysis | |
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| Tell Me a Story: Narration | |
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| Narrative Building Blocks | |
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| Get Cookin'! | |
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| Life Line: Personal Narratives | |
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| Why Not See It My Way?: Persuasion and Argumentation | |
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| It Won't Be Greek to You | |
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| A + B = C: Appeal to Reason | |
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| Take the High Road: Appeal to Ethics | |
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| Tug the Heartstrings: Appeal to Emotion | |
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| The Moment of Truth | |
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| My Way or the Highway: Acknowledging the Opposition | |
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| How's That Again? Logical Fallacies | |
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| Picture This: Description | |
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| Help Is on the Way! | |
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| Make a Deposit in the Idea Bank | |
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| Take the Plunge | |
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| Color My World | |
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| Music to the Eyes | |
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| Tools of the Trade | |
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| An Affair to Remember | |
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| Writing Across the Curriculum | |
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| Different Strokes for Different Folks | |
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| Playing with the Big Kids | |
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| Full Credit | |
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| Two's Company, Three's a Crowd--Unless You're Writing | |
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| Just Shoot Me Now: Research Papers and Term Papers | |
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| Paper Chase | |
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| Inquiring Minds Want to Know | |
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| Time Flies When You're Having Fun | |
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| Subject to Change | |
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| Subjects vs. Topics | |
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| The Heart of the Matter: Writing a Thesis Statement | |
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| Seek and Ye Shall Find | |
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| Basic Training | |
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| Book Learning | |
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| Mags and Rags | |
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| Researching on the I-Way | |
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| You're Not Done Yet | |
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| Cast a Critical Eye | |
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| An Embarrassment of Riches | |
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| On the Right Track | |
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| Working the Crowd | |
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| In the End Zone | |
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| Backed by the Best | |
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| Credit Given Here | |
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| MLA Internal Documentation | |
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| CMS Footnotes and Endnotes | |
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| Stop, Thief! | |
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| Light at the End of the Tunnel | |
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| Frontmatter | |
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| More Big Deals | |
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| In the Hot Seat: Writing Under Pressure | |
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| What, Me Worry? | |
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| What's the Big Idea? | |
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| Write This Way | |
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| The Golden Rules | |
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| Before the Test | |
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| When the Meter's Running | |
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| All the World's a Stage: Writing Speeches | |
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| The Big Three | |
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| Information, Please: Speeches That Inform | |
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| Point Counterpoint: Speeches That Persuade | |
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| Life of the Party: Speeches That Entertain | |
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| Letter Perfect | |
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| Drop Me a Line | |
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| Stamp of Approval | |
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| People Who Like People: Social Notes | |
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| Letters of Opinion | |
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| Professional Edge: Writing on the Job | |
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| The Desk Set | |
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| Appearance Is Reality | |
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| Have I Got News for You! | |
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| Onward and Upward: Resumes and Cover Letters | |
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| You've Got Mail! | |
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| Writing.com | |
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| Bits and Bytes | |
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| Johnny B Good: "Netiquette" | |
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| Picture Perfect | |
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| Grammar 101 | |
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| Woe Is I | |
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| Sentence Errors | |
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| Punctuation Errors | |
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| Grammar Errors | |
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| Usage Errors | |
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| Spelling Ace | |
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| Spelling Bee | |
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| Spelling Rules! | |
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| Good Things Come in Small Packages: Contractions | |
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| 9/10th of the Law: Possessives | |
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| Crowd Control: Plurals | |
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| How's That Again?: Pronunciation | |
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| Silent but Deadly: Silent Letters | |
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| Spelling Demons | |
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| Mark Me: Punctuation | |
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| End Runs: Period, Question Mark, and Exclamation Mark | |
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| Big Man on Campus: The Comma | |
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| Hot Shot: The Semicolon | |
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| With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Colon | |
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| The Dynamic Duo: Quotation Marks | |
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| Wild Things: The Hyphen, Dash, and Ellipsis | |
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| Pair Off and Square Off: Parentheses and Brackets | |
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| A Triple Threat: The Apostrophe | |
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| A Capital Affair | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| A Tall Order: Capitalization | |
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| Short and Sweet: Abbreviations | |
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| You Can Count On It: Numbers | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Sample Term Papers | |
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| Documentation Format | |
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| Index | |