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| To the Instructor | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| What Is The Least You Should Know? | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Spelling Pre-Test | |
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| Your Own List of Misspelled Words | |
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| Words Often Confused (Set 1) | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Words Often Confused (Set 2) | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Contractions | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Possessives | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Words That Can Be Broken into Parts | |
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| Rule for Doubling a Final Letter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Spelling Progress Test | |
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| Using a Dictionary | |
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| Spelling Post-Test | |
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| Knowing the Tools of Language | |
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| Sentence Essentials Pre-Test | |
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| Identifying Sentence Parts | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Finding Subjects and Verbs | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Locating Propositional Phrases | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Identifying Verb Phrases | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Recognizing Verbal Phrases | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Using Standard English Verbs | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Using Regular & Irregular Verbs | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sentence Essentials Progress Test | |
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| Sentence Essentials Post-Test | |
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| Building Effective Sentences | |
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| Sentence Structure Pre-Test | |
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| Identifying Clauses | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Correcting Fragments | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Correcting Run-On Sentences | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Exploring Sentence Variety | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Sentence Structure Progress Test | |
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| Sentence Structure Post-Test | |
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| Keeping the Message Clear | |
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| Clarity Pre-Test | |
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| Maintaining Subject/Verb Agreement | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Using Pronouns | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Correcting Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Avoiding Shifts in Time and Person | |
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| Proofreading Exercises | |
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| Correcting for Parallel Structure | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Avoiding Clich�s, Awkward Phrasing, and Wordiness | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Clarity Progress Test | |
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| Clarity Post-Test | |
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| Punctuating Correctly | |
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| Punctuation Pre-Test | |
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| Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Semicolon, Colon, Dash | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Comma Rules 1, 2, and 3 | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Comma Rules 4, 5, and 6 | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Proofreading Exercise | |
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| Quotation Marks and Underlining/Italics | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Paragraph Exercise | |
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| Sentence Writing | |
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| Capital Letters | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Punctuation Progress Test | |
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| Punctuation Post-Test | |
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| Writing Well | |
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| What Is the Least You Should Know about Writing? | |
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| Basic Structures | |
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| Paragraphs | |
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| State Your Main Point (Unity) | |
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| Provide Plenty of Supportive Details (Support) | |
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| Keep the Ideas Logically and Clearly Organized (Coherence) | |
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| Multi-Paragraph Compositions | |
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| Pre-Writing | |
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| Identifying the Thesis | |
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| Writing the Introductory Paragraph | |
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| Composing Support Paragraphs | |
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| Crafting a Concluding Paragraph | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Sample Multi-Paragraph Piece: Empty Night Skies | |
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| Answers | |
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| Index | |