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| Composing and Paragraphing | |
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| Thinking Critically about Cheating and Plagiarism | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| Critical Viewing | |
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| Creating Your Voice (Persona) | |
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| Writing Thesis Statements | |
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| Drawing Conclusions and Writing a Thesis | |
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| Organizing Information (Outlining) | |
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| Proofreading and Editing | |
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| Writing Coherent Paragraphs | |
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| Writing Unified, Well-Developed Paragraphs | |
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| Identifying Grammar | |
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| Identifying Parts of Speech: Nouns | |
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| Identifying Parts of Speech: Pronouns | |
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| Identifying Parts of Speech: Verbs | |
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| Identifying Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Identifying Sentence Parts: Subjects and Verbs | |
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| Identifying Sentence Parts: Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Identifying Sentence Parts: Verbals and Verbal Phrases | |
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| Identifying Sentence Parts: Dependent Clauses | |
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| Identifying Sentence Types | |
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| Practicing Sentence Types | |
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| Editing Grammar and Usage | |
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| Avoiding Sentence Fragments | |
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| Fixing Fragments | |
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| Avoiding Comma Splices | |
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| Fixing Comma Splices | |
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| Fixing Fused Sentences | |
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| Editing Irregular Verbs | |
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| Editing Verb Tenses | |
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| Editing Verb Forms (Omitted Verbs and Missing or Incorrect Endings) | |
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| Choosing the Subjunctive or Indicative Mood | |
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| Editing Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Editing Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Editing Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
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| Editing Pronoun Reference | |
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| Editing Pronoun Case Forms | |
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| Choosing Who or Whom, Whoever or Whomever | |
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| Editing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Editing Faulty Parallelism | |
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| Crafting Sentences | |
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| Using the Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Editing the Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Emphasizing with Subordination | |
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| Emphasizing with Coordination | |
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| Emphasizing with Subordination and Coordination | |
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| Emphasizing with Repetition | |
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| Emphasizing with End Focus | |
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| Editing to Create End Focus | |
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| Variety: Combining Choppy Sentences | |
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| Variety: Dividing Rambling Sentences | |
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| Varying Sentence Structure | |
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| Editing for Varied Sentence Structure | |
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| Editing Faulty Predication and Mixed Constructions | |
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| Editing Faulty Comparisons and Omitted Words | |
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| Editing Mixed and Incomplete Messages | |
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| Editing Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| Editing Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Editing Faulty Shifts | |
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| Choosing Words | |
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| Editing for Exact Words | |
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| Editing Ambiguous Words | |
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| Choosing Words with Appropriate Connotations | |
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| Editing for Idiomatic Words | |
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| Choosing Specific and Concrete Words | |
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| Creating Figurative Language: Metaphors and Similes | |
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| Editing Cliches and Mixed Metaphors | |
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| Editing for Words Appropriate for Academic and Public Writing | |
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| Editing for Jargon and Pretentious or Misleading Words | |
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| Editing for Biased and Offensive Words | |
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| Editing for Wordiness | |
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| Exercises for Multilingual Writers | |
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| Using Articles | |
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| Editing Articles and Quantifiers | |
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| Editing for Correct Verb Forms | |
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| Choosing Verbs in Conditional Sentences | |
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| Editing Conditional Sentences | |
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| Choosing Infinitives or Gerunds | |
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| Editing Infinitives and Gerunds | |
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| Completing Two-Word Verbs | |
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| Editing Omissions and Repetitions | |
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| Editing Dependent Clauses for Correct Linking Words | |
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| Editing Summarized Questions and Speech | |
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| Choosing Correct Word Endings | |
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| Editing -ing and -ed Adjectives (Participles) | |
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| Arranging Cumulative Adjectives and Placing Adverbs | |
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| Editing Prepositions | |
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| Punctuating | |
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| Editing End Punctuation | |
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| Commas: Punctuating Compounds and Introductory Words | |
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| Commas: Punctuating Series, Adjectives, and Modifiers | |
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| Commas: Other Uses | |
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| Commas: All Uses | |
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| Editing for Missing and Misused Commas | |
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| Punctuating with Commas and Semicolons | |
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| Editing Commas and Semicolons | |
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| Punctuating with Commas, Semicolons, and Colons | |
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| Editing Commas, Semicolons, and Colons | |
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| Editing Apostrophes | |
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| Punctuating Quotations | |
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| Editing Quotations | |
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| Editing the Dash, Parentheses, Brackets, the Ellipsis, and the Slash | |
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| Editing Punctuation (Paragraph Editing) | |
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| Mechanics and Spelling | |
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| Editing Capital Letters | |
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| Editing Italics/Underlining | |
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| Editing Abbreviations | |
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| Editing Numbers | |
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| Editing Hyphens | |
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| Editing Spelling | |
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| Research | |
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| Focusing Topics | |
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| Writing Source Citations (Bibliography) | |
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| Navigating the Web and Gathering Web Site Information | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Writing Effective Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase | |
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| Writing Signal Statements and Quoting Effectively | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Writing Parenthetical Citations | |
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| Argument and Persuasion | |
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| Writing Arguable Claims | |
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| Building an Effective Argument | |
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| Identifying Logical Fallacies | |
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| Analyzing Audiences, Creating a Trustworthy Persona | |
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| Answers to Lettered Exercises | |
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| Topics for Selected Exercises | |