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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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Preface | |
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The Writing--and Composing--Process | |
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The Reasons for Writing | |
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Writing as Communication | |
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Writing as a Process | |
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Composing with Confidence | |
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Discovering the Right Way to Write | |
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Writing for Every Reason | |
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Getting a Head Start | |
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The Composing Process | |
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Composing as a Process | |
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Exploring Your Ideas | |
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Prewriting | |
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Organizing Your Ideas | |
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Writing the First Draft | |
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Revising the Draft | |
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Preparing a Second Draft | |
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Producing the Final Copy | |
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Composing a Powerful Paragraph | |
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What Is a Paragraph? | |
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The Topic | |
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The Topic Sentence | |
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The Body | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Revising for Unity | |
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Additional Topics for Writing | |
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Composing an Effective Essay | |
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What Is an Essay? | |
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A Closer Look at the Essay | |
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Composing an Essay | |
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Revising for Coherence | |
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A Student Model Essay | |
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Additional Topics for Writing | |
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Strengthening Writing | |
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Developing Ideas | |
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Support for General Statements | |
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Two Ways to Develop Ideas | |
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Facts and Figures | |
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Additional Topics for Writing | |
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Achieving Coherence | |
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What Is Coherence? | |
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Parallelism | |
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Repeated Words and Ideas | |
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Transitions | |
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Additional Topics for Writing | |
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Writing Directly and Vividly | |
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What Is Strong Writing? | |
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Eliminating Weak Verbs | |
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Eliminating Vague Expressions | |
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Eliminating Wordiness | |
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Eliminating Unnecessary Repetition | |
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Eliminating Tired Comparisons | |
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Additional Topics for Writing | |
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Creating Sentence Variety | |
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Why Work for Sentence Variety? | |
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Varying Sentence Length | |
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Varying Sentence Beginnings | |
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Using Special Types of Sentences | |
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Joining Sentences | |
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Additional Topics for Writing | |
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Composing Types of Paragraphs and Essays | |
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Composing a Description | |
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A Model Paragraph: Description | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Model Essay: Description | |
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A Student Model Essay: Description | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Composing Narratives | |
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A Model Paragraph: Narration | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Student Model Essay: Narration | |
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An Additional Student Model: Narration | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Explaining a Process | |
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Model Paragraphs: Process Analysis | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Model Essay: Process Analysis | |
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A Student Model Essay: Process Analysis | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Drawing Comparisons and Contrasts | |
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Model Paragraphs: Comparison and Contrast | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Model Essay: Comparison-Contrast | |
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A Student Model Essay: Comparison-Contrast | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Making Classifications | |
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A Model Paragraph: Classification | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Model Essay: Classification | |
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A Student Model Essay: Classification | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Composing Definitions | |
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Model Paragraphs: Definition | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignments | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Model Essay: Definition | |
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A Student Model Essay: Definition | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Examining Causes or Effects | |
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Model Paragraphs: Causes or Effects | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Student Model Essay: Examining Causes | |
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A Student Model Essay: Examining Effects | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Persuading an Audience | |
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Models of Persuasion | |
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Getting Ready to Write | |
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Paragraph Writing Assignment | |
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More Topics for Paragraphs | |
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From Paragraph to Essay | |
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A Model Essay: Persuasion | |
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A Student Model Essay: Persuasion | |
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Topics for Essays | |
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Writing Essay Exams | |
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A Model Essay: An Essay Exam | |
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Preparing for an Essay Examination | |
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Writing the Essay Answer | |
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Getting Ready to Write an Exam | |
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Essay Writing Assignment | |
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Additional Topics for Practicing Essays | |
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Troubleshooting | |
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Writing Complete Sentences | |
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What Is a Sentence? | |
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Simple Fragments | |
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Complex Fragments | |
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Joining Sentences Through Coordination and Subordination | |
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Combining Equals | |
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Combining Unequals | |
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Checking Subject-Verb Agreement and Noun Plurals | |
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What Is Subject-Verb Agreement? | |
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Agreement with Noun Subjects | |
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Agreement with Pronoun Subjects | |
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Subjects Joined with and | |
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Irregular Present-Tense Verbs | |
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Special Problems with Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Checking Past-Tense and Past-Participle Forms | |
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The Past Tense of Regular Verbs | |
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The Past Tense of Irregular Verbs | |
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The Perfect Tenses | |
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The Other Roles of the Past Participle | |
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Achieving Consistency | |
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Pronouns | |
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Tense | |
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Sentence Structure | |
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Quotations and Reported Speech | |
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Using Pronouns | |
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Choosing the Right Pronoun | |
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Special Pronouns | |
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Strengthening Modifiers | |
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What Is a Modifier? | |
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Condensing Clauses to Phrases | |
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Placing Modifiers with Precision | |
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Using Apostrophes, Hyphens, and Capital Letters | |
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Apostrophes | |
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Hyphens | |
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Capitalization | |
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Checking Punctuation | |
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The Comma | |
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The Period | |
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The Question Mark | |
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The Exclamation Point | |
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The Semicolon | |
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The Colon | |
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The Dash | |
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Parentheses | |
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Quotation Marks | |
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Checking Soundalike and Lookalike Words | |
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Contraction Confusion | |
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The -D Dilemma | |
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The of Offense | |
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Other Commonly Confused Words | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"Buzzard" | |
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from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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"Baby Birds" | |
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"Whose Eyes Are These, Whose Nose?" | |
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"What Is Poverty?" | |
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"The Real War on Drugs" | |
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"Why I Want a Wife" | |
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"The Deer at Providencia" | |
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"The Myth of the Latin Woman" | |
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from The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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"Friends, Good Friends--and Such Good Friends" | |
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"A Tale of Two Gravies" | |
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"Mother Tongue" | |
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Glossary | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |