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Introduction | |
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How To Write The Right Words and Sentences | |
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The Right Words, the Right Stuff | |
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What You'll Learn-The Never Ending Story. ldquo;Shortrdquo; Is Better Than ldquo;Succinct.rdquo; Learn These, for a Start | |
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Translating English into Better English | |
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Translating Other Tongues Iito English | |
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Be Dynamic When You Can | |
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Don't Get Tense Over the Tense | |
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Descriptive Versus Dull | |
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Judgmental Verbs May Be Accurate, but Wrong | |
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Words to Choose from, Carefully! Judgmental Adjectives and Adverbs Usually Are Dreadfully Unnecessary | |
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Exercises to Hone Your Word Skills | |
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The Wrong Way to Write It | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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The Terms of the Story | |
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The Never Ending Story | |
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Don't Abb | |
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I Can't Hear You | |
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Turning Numbers into Words | |
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Turning $ into Dollars | |
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Sounding Smart, Saying It Right | |
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English 101, Revisited | |
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English 101, Revisited Yet Again | |
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When Time Doesn't Matter | |
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The Important Thing About Commas | |
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Giving It Some Punch | |
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Exercises to Hone Your Writing Skills | |
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Being Perfectly Clear | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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TMI (Too Much Information). If It's a Question, Answer It | |
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Generalizing Is Always Wrong... or Is It, Generalizing Is Always Right? | |
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Exercises to Hone Those Skills Even Sharper | |
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The Right Way to Write It | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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Giving Credit Only Where Credit Is Due | |
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Leaving Expert Judgment to Others | |
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You Don't Always Have to Attribute Things, Your Instructor Says | |
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Print Journalists Don't Write the Way They Talk | |
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Crowds, Dead or Alive | |
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Personalizing Complex Economics | |
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Take My Word for It | |
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The Final Potpourri | |
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Exercises to Further Hone Your Writing Skills | |
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Saying it Twice | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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The Terms of the Story | |
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Is That a Fact? | |
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Is That Gobbledygook? | |
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You've Got Your Bite, Now You Write | |
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Tag, You're It | |
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Exercises to Say it Twice | |
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The Story of the Story | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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The Terms of the Story | |
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Is That the Telephone Ringing? | |
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Start Strong, End Strong | |
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The Sounds of Silence | |
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Exercises to Test Your Judgment | |
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But Before You Write.. | |
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Organizing Your Facts, Organizing Your Story | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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The Terms of the Story | |
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Giving New Meaning To ldquo;Running to the Bathroom.rdquo; Figuring Out What to Keep, What to Cut | |
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What to Note After the Notes | |
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Exercises to Hone Your Organizing Skills | |
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Choosing Your Lead | |
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What You'll Learn | |
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The Terms of the Story | |
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