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Strategies, Tactics, and Tips | |
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Rethinking Your Thoughts About Writing | |
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The Writing Process: Separating Fact from Fiction | |
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Most People Think They Should Like Writing | |
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Most People Think They Can Improve Their Writing Skills by Simply Reading More and Writing More | |
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Most People Think Their Writing Will Be Read by an Ideal Audience | |
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Your Writing: Separating Fact from Fiction | |
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Most People Think They Write Better Than They Do | |
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Most People Think They Can Develop Strong Writing Skills with Less Effort and Time Than Necessary | |
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Streamlining Your Writing | |
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Adopt the Runt of the (Word) Litter | |
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Ration Long Sentences | |
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Write Very Tightly Without Verbosity | |
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Exercises | |
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Constructing Sentences | |
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Get to the Point, Today | |
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Start with Active Actors | |
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Avoid Verby Nouns | |
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Play Nice | |
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Qualify Sensibly | |
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Treat Others Fairly | |
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Recognize That Women Exist | |
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Exercises | |
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Constructing Paragraphs and Pages | |
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State Your Purpose Like You Mean | |
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Build Them (Paragraphs) Right and They (Readers) Will Come | |
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Bottomline Your Main Ideas or Main Arguments | |
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Organize Evidence into Piles and Subpiles | |
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Embrace Your Outline | |
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Drive Home Your Message: Format Your Document | |
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Rely on Headings and Subheadings | |
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Befriend Bullets and Numbers | |
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Choose a Typeface | |
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Exercises | |
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Fortifying Sentences, Paragraphs, and Pages | |
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Check Out Your Audience | |
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Shepherd Your Sentences | |
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Rally Around the Topic Sentence | |
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Worry Not About Length | |
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Smooth the Rough Edges | |
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Strategize Your Case | |
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Strategize Persuasive Messages | |
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Strategize Informative Messages | |
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Revise How You Revise: A Final Note | |
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Exercises | |
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Additional Tools | |
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Punctuation Unmasked | |
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Why, Is Punctuation; So/Important | |
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Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
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Periods | |
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Question Marks | |
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Exclamation Points | |
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Commas, Semicolons, and Colons | |
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Commas | |
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Semicolons | |
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Colons | |
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Apostrophes | |
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Double and Single Quotation Marks | |
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Ellipses and Slashes | |
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Ellipses | |
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Slashes | |
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Dashes, Parentheses, and Brackets | |
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Dashes | |
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Parentheses | |
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Brackets | |
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Writing Nonobnoxious Professional and Personal E-mails | |
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Why You Are Not Always Read: Rating Your Readability | |
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Finding Your Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score | |
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Putting the Fog Index<sup>sm</sup> Scale to Work | |
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Original Fog Index<sup>sm</sup> Score: 22.3 | |
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Revised Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 8.1 | |
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Original Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 27.2 | |
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Revised Fog Index<sup>sm</sup> Score: 7 | |
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Original Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 17.2 | |
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Revised Fog lndex<sup>sm</sup> Score: 8.7 | |
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Learning to Write Cogently | |
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History and Structure of Short Fiction | |
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Stylistic Characteristics of Short Fiction | |
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A Short Conclusion About Short Fiction | |
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Exercise Answers | |
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About the Author | |