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| The Process Of Writing | |
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| Preparing to Write: Prewriting | |
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| Finding a Topic | |
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| Generating Content | |
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| Determining the Purpose | |
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| Identifying an Audience | |
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| Considering the Writer's Role | |
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| Planning and Drafting | |
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| Focusing the Topic: A Working Thesis | |
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| Planning the Paper | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Sample First Draft | |
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| Improving the First Draft: Revision | |
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| Revising from the Top Down | |
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| Revising for Style | |
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| Getting Feedback: Peer Review | |
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| Editing and Proofreading | |
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| Sample Final Draft | |
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| Building Coherent Paragraphs | |
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| Unity | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Patterns of Development | |
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| Transition | |
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| Transitional Paragraphs | |
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| Paragraphs of Introduction | |
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| Concluding Paragraphs | |
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| Reading Critically And Writing Logically | |
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| Being a Critical Reader | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Making Inferences | |
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| Evaluating Texts | |
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| Writing Arguments | |
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| Building an Effective Argument | |
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| Sample Argument | |
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| Using Deductive and Inductive Reasoning | |
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| Avoiding Logical Fallacies | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Basic Sentence Grammar | |
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| Sentence Patterns | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Predicates | |
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| Complements | |
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| Word Classes: The Parts of Speech | |
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| Form-Class Words | |
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| Structure-Class Words | |
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| Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Types of Sentences | |
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| Sentence Form | |
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| Fragments | |
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| Fragments Lacking a Subject | |
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| Fragments Lacking a Predicate | |
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| Phrase Fragments | |
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| Dependent Clause Fragments | |
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| Intentional Fragments | |
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| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
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| Comma Splices | |
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| Fused Sentences | |
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| Verb Forms | |
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| Principal Parts for Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
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| Verb Forms for Tense, Voice, and Mood | |
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| Appropriate Forms of Troublesome Verbs | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Compound Subjects | |
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| Intervening Phrases or Clauses | |
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| Collective Nouns | |
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| Nouns Plural in Form but Singular in Meaning | |
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| Indefinite and Relative Pronoun Subjects | |
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| Titles | |
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| Units of Measurement, Time, and Money | |
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| Inverted Sentence Order | |
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| Agreement with Subject, Not Subject Complement | |
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| Pronouns: Agreement, Reference, and Usage | |
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| Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
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| Pronoun Reference | |
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| Pronoun Usage | |
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| Pronoun Case | |
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| Subjective, Possessive, and Objective | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Misused Adjective Forms | |
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| Misused Adverb Forms | |
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| Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Double Negatives | |
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| Shifts and Mixed Constructions | |
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| Shifts | |
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| Mixed Constructions | |
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| Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| Squinting Modifiers | |
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| Sentence Completeness | |
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| Faulty Predication | |
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| False Comparisons | |
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| Incomplete Comparisons | |
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| Ambiguous Comparisons | |
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| Omitted Comparative Words | |
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| English as a Second Language | |
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| Nouns, Articles, and Other Determiners | |
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| Adjectives, Adverbs, and Qualifiers | |
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| Verb Forms | |
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| Verbs in Sentences | |
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| Clear Sentences | |
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| Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism | |
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| Coordination | |