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Preface | |
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The Reading Process | |
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Get an Overview of the Selection | |
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First Reading: A Checklist | |
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Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | |
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Second Reading: A Checklist | |
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Evaluate the Selection | |
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Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist | |
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Family Counterculture | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Prewrite | |
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Stages of the Writing Process | |
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Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist | |
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Identify the Thesis | |
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Support the Thesis with Evidence | |
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Organize the Evidence | |
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Outlining: A Checklist | |
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Write the First Draft | |
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Structure of an Essay | |
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Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist | |
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Revise the Essay | |
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Edit and Proofread | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Description | |
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What Is Description? | |
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How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay | |
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Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Description Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Description | |
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Sister Flowers | |
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Essay Structure Diagram: "Sister Flowers" by Maya Angelou | |
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Flavio's Home | |
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The Storm This Time | |
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Life, Death and Spring | |
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A Partial Remembrance of Puerto Rican Childhood | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Narration | |
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What Is Narration? | |
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How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Narration Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Narration | |
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The Fourth of July | |
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Essay Structure Diagram: The Fourth of Jul | |
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Shooting an Elephant | |
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Someone's Mother | |
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Salvation | |
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The Price We Pay | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Exemplification | |
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What Is Exemplification? | |
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How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing an Exemplification Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Exemplification | |
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Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen | |
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Essay Structure Diagram: Tweens: Ten Going On Sixtee | |
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The "Values" Wasteland | |
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Black Talk and Pop Culture | |
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Bombs Bursting in Air | |
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The Miracle of Melancholia | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Division-Classification | |
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What Is Division-Classification? | |
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How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Division-Classification Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Division-Classification | |
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Ann McClintock,Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising | |
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Essay Structure Diagram: Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertisin;by Ann McClintock | |
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The Ways We Lie | |
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College Pressures | |
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Psst! Human Capital | |
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What Are Friends For? | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Process Analysis | |
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What Is Process Analysis? | |
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How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Process Analysis Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Process Analysis | |
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Cyberschool | |
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Essay Structure Diagram: Cyberschoo | |
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Talk About Editing | |
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The American Way of Death | |
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What Shamu Taught Me about a Happy Marriage | |
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words | |
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The Fine Art of Complaining | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Comparison-Contrast | |
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What Is Comparison-Contrast? | |
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How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Comparison-Contrast Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Comparison-Contrast | |
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Euromail and Amerimail | |
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Essay Structure Diagram:Euromail And Amerimai | |
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A Fable for Tomorrow | |
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Workers | |
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Beauty and the Beast | |
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The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Cause-Effect | |
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What Is Cause-Effect? | |
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How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Cause-Effect Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Cause-Effect | |
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Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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Essay Structure Diagram:Why We Crave Horror Movie | |
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Showing What Is Possible | |
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Beauty: When Manana is Too Soon | |
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When WillPeople Help in a Crisis? | |
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Innocents Afield | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Definition | |
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What Is Definition? | |
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How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay | |
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Development Diagram: Writing a Definition Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Definition | |
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Entropy | |
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Essay Structure Diagram: Entrop | |
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Life as Type A | |
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The Cute Factor | |
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle | |
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The Handicap of Definition | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Argumentation-Persuasion | |
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What Is Argumentation-Persuasion? | |
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How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
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Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay | |
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Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist | |
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Questions for Using Toulmin Strategy: A Checklist | |
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Development Diagram: Writing an Argumentation-Persuasion Essay | |
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Revision Strategies | |
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Argumentation-Persuasion: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
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Student Essay | |
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Commentary | |
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Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion | |
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Stanley Fish,Free Speech Follies | |
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Essay Structure Diagram:Free-Speech Follie | |
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In Praise of the "F" Word | |
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Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures | |
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The Damned Human Race | |
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Driving to the Funeral | |
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Examining an Issue: Gender-Based Education | |
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How the Schools Shortchange Boys | |
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The War Against Boys | |
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Examining an Issue: Torture | |
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Time to Think About Torture | |
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Now the Talk Is About Bringing Back Torture | |
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Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action | |
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The Border on Our Backs | |
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Se Habla Entitlement | |
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Additional Writing Topics | |
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Combining the Patterns | |
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The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process | |
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The Patterns in Action: In an Essay | |
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Student Essay | |
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The Death of the Moth | |
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Professions for Women | |
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Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos? | |
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The World House | |
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The Santa Ana | |
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Marrying Absurd | |
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AGuide to Using Sources | |
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Evaluating Source Materials | |
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Evaluating Articles and Books: A Checklist | |
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Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist | |
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Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material | |
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Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material: A Checklist | |
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Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase Without Plagiarizing | |
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Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase: A Checklist | |
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Integrating Sources Into Your Writing | |
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Integrating Sources Into Your Writing: A Checklist | |
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Documenting Sources: MLA Style | |
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How to Document: MLA In-Text References | |
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Citing Sources: A Checklist | |
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How to Document: MLA List of Works Cited | |
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Citing Print Sources-Books | |
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Citing Print Sources-Periodicals | |
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Citing Sources Found on a Website | |
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Citing Sources Found Through an Online Database or Scholarly Project | |
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Citing Other Common Sources | |
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Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors | |
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Fragments | |
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Comma Splices and Run-ons | |
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Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Faulty Pronoun Agreement | |
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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Faulty Parallelism | |
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Comma Misuse | |
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Apostrophe Misuse | |
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Confusing Homonyms | |
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Misuse of Italics and Underlining | |
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Glossary | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |