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| The Complexity of the English Sentence | |
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| Tools, Not Rules | |
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| The Anatomy of a Sentence's Meaning, from the Reader's Perspective | |
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| A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence | |
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| The Fallacy of Good and Bad Sentences | |
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| Reader Expectations at the Sentence Level | |
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| Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections | |
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| Artificial EMPHASIS, and When to Use It | |
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| Fred and His Dog: Competition for Emphasis | |
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| Moments of Truth: The Shape of the Sentence, Revisited | |
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| The Backwards Link of the Topic Position | |
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| The Various Functions of the Stress Position | |
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| The Flow of Thought from Sentence to Sentence | |
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| ldquo;Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?rdquo;: The Shapes of the English Paragraph | |
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| Procrustean Problems in Teaching the Paragraph | |
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| The Issue | |
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| Point | |
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| Pointless Paragraphs | |
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| Connections Between Paragraphs | |
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| Summarizing Paragraph Structures | |
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| A Note on Whole Documents | |
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| ldquo;Write the Way You Speakrdquo; and Other Bad Pieces of Advice | |
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| Bad Advice; and Why Not to Take It | |
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| The Toll Booth Syndrome | |
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| Mark My Words: A Reader's Perspective on the World of Punctuation | |
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| From Fetters to Facilitators: Punctuation as Power | |
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| The Semi-colon: A Hope for an Afterlife | |
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| A Brief Glimpse at the History of Punctuation | |
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| The Colon: Play It Again, Sam | |
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| Dashes -- (Parentheses), Commas, and [Brackets]: Pardon the Interruption | |
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| The Hyphen: In the Midst of Things | |
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| The Question Mark: Is Anything Uncertain Here? | |
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| The Exclamation Point and Other Forms of Artificial Emphasis: Look at Me! The Use of Punctuation with Quotation Marks: Consistency, Logic, and Illogical Consistency | |
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| The Apostrophe: Whose Who's Are What's What | |
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| The Ellipsis: Now You Don't | |
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| The Period: A Comfort Zone | |
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| The Comma: It Gives One Pause | |