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| Getting Started | |
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| Writing and Genres | |
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| What Are Genres? | |
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| Using Genres to Write Successfully | |
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| Genre and the Writing Process | |
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| Using Genres in College and Your Career | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Topic, Angle, Purpose | |
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| Topic: What Am I Writing About? | |
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| Angle: What is New About the Topic? | |
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| Purpose: What Do I Want to Accomplish? | |
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| Choosing the Appropriate Genre | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations | |
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| Profiling Readers | |
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| Analyzing the Context | |
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| Genres and the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Using Genres to Express Ideas | |
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| Memoirs | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Diving In | |
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| Inventing Your Memoir's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Memoir | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Memoir | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Memoir | |
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| MicroGenre: The Literacy Narrative | |
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| "Learning to Read and Write" from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "Book War | |
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| "Words of My Youth | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Profiles | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Brother, Life Coach, Friend: Troubled Kids Turn Their Lives Around | |
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| Inventing You Profile's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Profile | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Profile | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Profile | |
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| MicroGenre: The Bio | |
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| About John Charles Cook | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "The Near-Fame Experience | |
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| "The Grand Canyon: A Whole New World | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, MicroGenre: The Resume | |
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| Reviews | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "'Toy Story 3' Is An Adult's Film for Children | |
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| Inventing Your Review's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Review | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Review | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Review | |
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| MicroGenre: The Rave | |
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| "Review: The Black Keys shake up the Orpheum in Vancouver | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "Long Overdue: Review of Movie Juno | |
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| "Violent Media is Good for Kids | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Literary Analyses | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Doing the Right Thing in Edwidge Danticat's 'A Wall of Fire Rising' | |
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| Inventing Your Literary Analysis' Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Literary Analysis | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Literary Analysis | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Literary Analysis | |
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| MicroGenre: The Reading Response | |
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| Student Reading Response to Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings : | |
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| A Casebook on Edwidge Danticat | |
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| "A Wall of Fire Rising | |
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| "Edwidge Danticat: Return to Haiti | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Rhetorical Analyses | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Rhetorical Analysis of the Keep America Beautiful Public Service Announcement (1971) | |
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| Inventing Your Rhetorical Analysis' Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Rhetorical Analysis | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Rhetorical Analysis | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Rhetorical Analysis | |
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| MicroGenre: The Ad Critique | |
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| "Chrysler's Super Bowl ad sells Detroit | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "How Obama Does That Thing He Does | |
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| "What's a Girl to Read? | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Why My Generation Doesn't Care About Performance Enhancement | |
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| Inventing You Commentary's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Commentary | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Commentary | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Commentary | |
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| MicroGenre: The Letter to the Editor | |
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| "Why I'm Against the Statewide Smoking Ban | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "Are Jobs Obsolete? | |
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| "Faith in a Globalized Age . | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Arguments | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Allowing Guns on Campus will Prevent Shootings, Rape | |
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| Inventing Your Argument's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Argument | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Argument | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Argument | |
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| MicroGenre: The Rebuttal | |
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| "Letter to the Editor on Climate Story | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "In Defense of Torture | |
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| "Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide The Same Support As Those In Real Life? | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Proposals | |
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| Overview | |
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| *One Student Group's Work: "SCC Caf� Proposal" by The Associated Students of the University of Washington (Seattle Campus) | |
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| Inventing Your Proposal's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Proposal | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Proposal | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Proposal | |
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| MicroGenre: The Pitch | |
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| "Elevator Pitch: graFighters | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "For True Reform, Athletic Scholarships Must Go | |
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| "From Degrading to De-Grading | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Reports | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Gender Stereotypes and Toys: Is it Nature or Nurture? | |
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| Inventing Your Report's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Report | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Report | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Report | |
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| MicroGenre: The Explainer | |
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| *"Planking: What is it and Why it is Popular" | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "How Many Zombies Do You Know? Using Indirect Survey Methods to Measure Alien Attacks and Outbreaks of the Undead | |
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| American Psychological Association (APA), "Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls." | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Research Papers | |
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| Overview | |
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| One Student's Work: "Lives Not Worth the Money? | |
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| Inventing Your Research Paper's Content | |
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| Organizing and Drafting Your Research Paper | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Style | |
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| Designing Your Research Paper | |
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| Revising and Editing Your Research Paper | |
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| MicroGenre: The Annotated Bibliography | |
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| "Annotated Bibliography: The Fog of Revolution | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Readings | |
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| "Nervous Nellies | |
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| "Serial Murder: A Forensic Psychiatric Perspective | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This, Exploring Other Microgenres | |
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| Developing A Writing Process | |
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| Inventing Ideas and Pre-Writing | |
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| Pre-Writing | |
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| Using Heuristics | |
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| Exploratory Writing | |
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| Taking Time to Invent and Prewrite | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Organizing and Drafting | |
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| Using Genres to Organize Your Ideas | |
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| Sketching an Outline | |
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| Drafting Through Writer's Block | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Choosing A Style | |
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| Writing in Plain Style | |
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| Establishing Your Voice | |
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| Writing Descriptively with Tropes | |
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| Improving Your Writing Style | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Designing | |
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| Before You Begin Designing | |
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| Five Basic Principles of Design | |
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| Design Principle 1 | |
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| Alignment | |
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| Grouping | |
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| Consistency | |
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| Contrast | |
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| Using Photography and Images | |
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| Using Graphs and Charts | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Global Revision | |
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| Substantive Editing | |
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| Copyediting | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Peer Review: Asking For Advice | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Strategies for Shaping Ideas | |
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| Drafting Introductions and Conclusions | |
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| Drafting Introductions | |
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| Drafting Conclusions | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Developing Paragraphs and Sections | |
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| Creating a Basic Paragraph | |
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| Getting Paragraphs to Flow (Cohesion) | |
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| Organizing a Section | |
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| Using Sections and Paragraphs Together | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Using Basic Rhetorical Patterns | |
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| Narrative | |
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| Description | |
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| Definition | |
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| Classification | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Combining Rhetorical Patterns | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Using Argumentative Strategies | |
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| What is Arguable? | |
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| Using Reason, Authority, and Emotion | |
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| Avoiding Logical Fallacies | |
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| Rebuttals and Refutations | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Working Collaboratively with Other Writers | |
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| Working with a Group of Other Writers | |
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| Working with a Team | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Doing Research | |
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| Starting Research | |
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| Starting Your Research Process | |
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| Doing Start-Up Research | |
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| Assessing a Source's Reliability | |
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| Managing Your Research Process | |
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| Following and Modifying Your Research Plan | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Finding Sources and Collecting Information | |
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| Using Primary and Secondary Sources | |
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| Finding Electronic and Online Sources | |
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| Finding Print Sources | |
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| Using Empirical Sources | |
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| Developing an Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources | |
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| Common Knowledge: What You Don't Need to Cite | |
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| Paraphrasing and Summarizes Sources | |
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| Framing Quotes, Paraphrases, and Summaries | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Using MLA Style | |
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| Parenthetical Citations | |
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| Preparing the List of Works Cited | |
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| Citing Sources in the List of Works Cited | |
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| A Student's MLA Research Paper: "A Whole New World: A Background on the Life of the Freshwater Shark | |
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| Using APA Style | |
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| Parenthetical Citations | |
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| Preparing the List of References | |
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| Citing Sources in the List of References | |
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| A Student's APA Research Paper: "Assortative Mating and Income Inequality | |
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| Getting Your Ideas Out There | |
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| Using the Internet | |
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| Is This Writing? | |
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| Creating a Social Networking Site | |
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| Starting Your Own Blog | |
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| Writing Articles for Wikis | |
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| Putting Videos and Podcasts on the Internet | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Creating A Portfolio | |
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| Two Basic Kinds of Portfolios | |
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| Getting Started on Your Portfolio | |
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| Step One: Collecting Your Work | |
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| Step Two: Selecting the Appropriate Artifacts | |
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| Step Three: Reflecting on Your Work | |
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| Step Four: Presenting Your Materials | |
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| Creating an E-Portfolio | |
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| Keeping Your Portfolio Up to Date | |
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| Creating a Starter Resume | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Succeeding on Essay Exams | |
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| Preparing for an Essay Exam | |
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| Starting Your Essay Exam | |
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| Answering an Essay Exam Question | |
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| Finishing Your Essay Exam | |
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| One Student's Essay Exam | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Presenting Your Work | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Organizing Your Presentation's Content | |
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| Designing Your Visual Aids | |
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| Delivering Your Presentation | |
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| Practicing and Rehearsing | |
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| Quick Start Guide | |
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| Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This | |
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| Anthology of Readings | |
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| Memoirs | |
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| "The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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| "The College Hazing That Changed My Life | |
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| "Growing Up Hard | |
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| "The Good Immigrant Student | |
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| Profiles | |
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| "David Grohl and the Foo Fighters | |
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| "Prudencia | |
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| "Bodies in Motion and at Rest | |
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| Two Profiles of Griffith Park: | |
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| City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, General Information for Griffith Park | |
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| "Welcome to the Jungle | |
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| Reviews | |
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| "Harry Potter's Girl Trouble. | |
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| "Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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| "'Hawaii Five-O': This is What Hit TV Looks Like | |
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| "'Left Behind,' a Virtual Battle for the Souls of Unbelievers | |
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| Literary Analyses | |
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| Kate Chopin | |
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| "The Story of an Hour" [short story] | |
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| "Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' | |
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| Robert Frost | |
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| "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [poem] | |
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| "An Overview of 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' | |
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| "Touched by a Vampire | |
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| Rhetorical Analyses | |
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| "Homer Simpson's Figures of Speech | |
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| "Sleuthing Patriotic Slogans | |
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| "Shooting from the Hip, With a Smile to Boot | |
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| "Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertising | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| "A Gay Man's Case Against Gay Marriage | |
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| "Female Chauvinist Pigs | |
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| "Why Suing College Students for Illegal Music Downloading is Right | |
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| "Challenging Veteran Stereotypes | |
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| Arguments | |
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| "A More Perfect Union | |
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| "Reconsidering Match.com's Sex Offender Ban | |
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| "The Dangers of the Drinking Age | |
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| "The Making of a Divorce Culture | |
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| Proposals | |
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| "Diet for a Warm Planet | |
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| "Who Pays for My Time Off? | |
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| "A Modest Proposal | |
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| "With 7 Billion on Earth, a Huge Task Before Us | |
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| Reports | |
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| SAMHSA, "Underage Alcohol Use Among Full-Time College Students" | |
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| "7 Days on Craigslist's Casual Encounters | |
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| "Freshman Fifteen: Fact or Fiction? | |
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| "More Than Just a Pretty Face | |
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| Research Papers | |
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| "The Public Overwhelmingly Wants It: Why Is Taxing the Rich So Hard? | |
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| "Rapture Ready: The Science of Self Delusion | |
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| "Insufficient Design | |
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| "Charles Darwin's Paradigm Shift | |
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| Handbook | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |