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| Introduction: Visualizing the Essay | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Developing Your Own Thinking, Writing, and Learning Process | |
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| Prewriting | |
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| Prewriting Experiments: Freewriting, Focused Writing, Brainstorming, Outlining, Clustering, Cubing | |
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| Interacting with Your Readers | |
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| Identifying Your Purpose | |
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| Prewriting Activities: A Glimpse of a Student Writer at Work | |
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| Writing Tip #1Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Proofreading Practice: Identifying Sentence Divisions in Your Prewriting | |
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| Activities: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Making a Point | |
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| Thesis Statements | |
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| Introductory Paragraph | |
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| Writing Tip #2 | |
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| Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Proofreading Practice: Agreement of Subjects/Verbs: Basic, Int., Challenge | |
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| Developing Your Body Paragraphs and Making Conclusions | |
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| Explaining and Illustrating Ideas in Your Body Paragraphs | |
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| Applying Techniques of Development | |
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| Choosing Modes of Development | |
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| Writing Tip #3 | |
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| Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Concluding Paragraphs | |
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| Proofreading Practice: Special Problems with Agreement: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Global Revising: Doing an Extreme Makeover | |
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| Moving from Draft to Essay: A Glimpse of a Student Writer at Work | |
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| Testing Your Thesis: Looking for Digressions and Weak Spots | |
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| Achieving Continuity through Transitions | |
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| Improving Your Style: Breaking up, Varying and Combining Sentences | |
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| Interacting with Your Reader (reading aloud to others) | |
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| Peer Review Questions | |
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| Writing Tip #4 | |
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| Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge Proofreading Practice: Subordination: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Putting on the Final Touches | |
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| Improving Word Choice; Eliminating Wordiness | |
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| Proofreading Aloud; Locating Your Patterns of Error | |
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| Using Your Spelling and Grammar Check | |
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| Writing Tip #5 | |
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| Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Proofreading Practice: Spelling: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Step Two | |
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| Describing a Situation, Person, or Group | |
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| Visualizing Your Subject and Giving It Meaning | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| Organizing a Description | |
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| Example by a Published Author: Using Details | |
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| Writing Tip #6 | |
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| Writing Exercises:Basic, Intermediate, Challenge | |
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| Essay Topics: Descriptive Writing | |
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| Peer Review Questions | |
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| Proofreading Pra" | |