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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| A Student's Guide to Using Focus on Writing | |
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| Checklists for Writing Paragraphs and Essays | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Understanding the Writing Process | |
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| Planning | |
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| Understanding Paragraph Structure | |
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| Focusing on Your Assignment, Purpose, and Audience | |
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| Finding Ideas | |
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| Identifying Your Main Idea and Writing a Topic Sentence | |
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| Organizing | |
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| Choosing Your Supporting Points | |
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| Arranging Your Supporting Points | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Drafting Your Paragraph | |
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| TESTing Your Paragraph | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Revising Your Paragraph | |
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| Editing Your Paragraph | |
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| TESTing Your Paragraphs | |
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| Using a Topic Sentence to Unify Your Paragraph | |
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| Using Evidence to Support Your Paragraph's Main Idea | |
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| Using a Summary Statement to Reinforce Your Paragraph's Unity | |
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| Using Transitions to Add Coherence | |
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| Using Patterns of Paragraph Development | |
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| Exemplification | |
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| What is Exemplification? | |
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| Writing an Exemplification Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing an Exemplification Paragraph | |
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| Narration | |
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| What is Narration? | |
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| Writing a Narrative Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Narration Paragraph | |
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| Description | |
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| What is Description? | |
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| Writing a Descriptive Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Description Paragraph | |
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| Using Process | |
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| What is Process? | |
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| Writing a Process Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Process Paragraph | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| What is Cause and Effect? | |
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| Writing a Cause-and-Effect Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Cause and Effect Paragraph | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| What is Comparison and Contrast? | |
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| Writing a Comparison-and-Contrast Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph | |
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| Classification | |
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| What is Classification? | |
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| Writing a Classification Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Classification Paragraph | |
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| Definition | |
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| What is Definition? | |
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| Writing a Definition Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing a Definition Paragraph | |
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| Argument | |
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| What is Argument? | |
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| Writing an Argument Paragraph | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Checklist: TESTing an Argument Paragraph | |
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| Writing Essays | |
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| Writing an Essay | |
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| Planning | |
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| Understand Essay Structure | |
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| Focus on Your Assignment, Purpose, and Audience | |
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| Find Ideas | |
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| Identify Your Main Idea and State Your Thesis | |
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| Organizing | |
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| Choose Supporting Points | |
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| Arrange Your Supporting Points | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Draft Your Essay | |
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| Test Your Essay | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Revise Your Essay | |
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| Self-Assessment Checklist: Revising Your Essay | |
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| Edit Your Essay | |
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| Self-Assessment Checklist: Editing Your Essay | |
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| Check Your Essay's Format | |
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| Review Checklist: Writing an Essay | |
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| Introductions and Conclusions | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Review Checklist: Introductions and Conclusions | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Writing Simple Sentences | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Review Checklist: Writing Simple Sentences | |
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| Writing Compound Sentences | |
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| B | |
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| C | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Review Checklist: Writing Compound Sentences | |
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| Writing Complex Sentences | |
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| Identifying Complex Sentences | |
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| Complex Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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| Complex Sentences with Relative Pronouns | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Review Checklist: Writing Complex Sentences | |
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| Writing Varied Sentences | |
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| Varying Sentence Types | |
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| Varying Sentence Openings | |
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| Combining Sentences | |
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| Varying Sentence Length | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Review Checklist: Writing Varied Sentences | |
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| Using Parallelism | |
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| Recognizing Parallel Structure | |
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| Using Parallel Structure | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Review Checklist: Using Parallelism | |
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| Using Words Effectively | |
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| Using Specific Words | |
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| Using Concise Language | |
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| Avoiding Slang | |
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| Avoiding ClichŽs | |