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Rhetorical Contents | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Hints and Help for Writers | |
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Building Your Writing Skills | |
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Why Write? | |
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Speaking and Writing | |
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Writing with Confidence | |
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Finding the Right Way to Write | |
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Writing for Every Reason | |
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Writing to Work | |
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Writing to Learn | |
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Writing to Communicate | |
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Writing for Yourself | |
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Getting a Head Start | |
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The Writing Process: Laying the Foundation | |
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Writing with Confidence in Six Steps | |
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Exploring Ideas | |
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Your Subject | |
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Your PurposeYour Audience | |
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Prewriting | |
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Brainstorming | |
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Clustering | |
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Freewriting | |
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Organizing | |
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Selecting | |
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Outlining | |
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Writing a First Draft | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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Reviewing | |
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Reading Aloud | |
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Predicting | |
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Making a Clean Copy | |
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Producing the Final Copy | |
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Editing | |
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Proofreading | |
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Writing a Powerful Paragraph: Building the Foundation | |
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What Is a Paragraph | |
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Exploring and Planning | |
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Writing the Topic Sentence | |
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General and Specific Statements | |
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Making a Claim | |
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Expressing an Attitude or Opinion | |
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Writing the Body and Conclusion | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Selecting and Organizing Ideas | |
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Developing Ideas | |
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Looking at Paragraph Development | |
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Writing a First Draft | |
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Writing a Conclusion | |
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Revising the Paragraph | |
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Unity | |
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Coherence | |
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Refining the Topic Sentence and Conclusion | |
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Using Peer Review | |
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Revision Guidelines: Writing a Powerful Paragraph | |
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Writing an Effective Essay: Building a Larger Structure | |
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What Is an Essay? | |
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Composing an Essay | |
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Getting Started | |
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Developing the Thesis Statement | |
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Writing the First Draft | |
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Revising | |
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Revision Guidelines: Writing an Effective Essay | |
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Editing and Proofreading | |
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Blueprint for Success | |
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Building And Repairing Sentences | |
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Recognizing Sentences and Fixing Fragments | |
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What Is a Sentence? | |
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Identifying SubjectsIdentifying Verbs | |
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What Is a Fragment? | |
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Fixing Simple Fragments | |
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Missing Subjects | |
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Missing or Incomplete Verbs | |
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Infinitives and -ing Words | |
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Hanging Details or Examples | |
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Fixing Complex Fragments | |
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Although and Because Types | |
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Who, That, and Which Types | |
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Editing for Mastery | |
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Joining Sentences through Coordination | |
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Connecting Words | |
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The Coordinating Conjunctions | |
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Joining Sentences with Coordination | |
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Punctuating Compound Sentences | |
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Joining Sentences with Semicolons | |
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The Semicolon | |
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Transitional Words after the Semicolon | |
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Editing for Mastery | |
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Joining Sentences through Subordination | |
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What Is Subordination? | |
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Subordinating with Clauses | |
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Common Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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Punctuating Dependent Clauses | |
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Subordinating with Phrases | |
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Editing for Mastery | |
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Joining Sentences with Pronouns | |
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Relative Clauses | |
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Placement of Relative Clauses | |
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Commas with Relative Clauses | |
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Relative Pronouns as Subjects | |
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Relative Pronouns as Objects | |
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Relative Clauses with Whose | |
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Noun Clauses | |
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Phrases | |
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Editing for Mastery | |
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Repairing Run-ons and Correcting Comma Splices | |
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Run-on Sentences | |
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Comma-Spliced Sentences | |
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Editing for Mastery | |
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Blueprint for Success | |
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Revising With Care: Building On The Framework | |
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Making Subjects and Verbs Agree | |
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What Is Subject-Verb Agreement? | |
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Subjects | |
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Nouns as Subjects (and Objects) | |
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Irregular Plurals | |
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Pronouns as Subjects | |
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Subjects Joined by and | |
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Special Present Tense Verbs | |
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To Be | |
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To Do | |
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To Have | |
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Special Problems with Subject-Verb | |