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| Grammar | |
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| Sentence Sense | |
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| Parts of speech | |
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| Subjects and predicates | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Subjects and complements | |
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| Basic sentence patterns | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Sentence forms | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Revising phrases punctuated as sentences | |
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| Revising clauses punctuated as sentences | |
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| Using intentional fragments | |
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| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
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| Recognizing comma splices and fused sentences | |
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| Revising comma splices and fused sentences | |
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| Revising with transitional words and phrases | |
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| Dividing quotations | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Degrees of comparison | |
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| Nouns or word groups as modifiers | |
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| The double negative | |
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| Pronouns and Case | |
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| Kinds of pronouns | |
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| Subjective, objective, or possessive case | |
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| Clause as determiner of pronoun case | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Subject-verb agreement | |
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| Pronoun-antecedent agreement | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Verb forms | |
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| Verb tenses | |
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| Voice | |
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| Mood | |
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| Mechanics | |
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| E-documents | |
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| Composing for the Web | |
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| Visual elements of a Web site | |
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| Graphics (tables, charts, diagrams) | |
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| Format and the rhetorical purpose | |
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| Format and readability | |
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| Capitals | |
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| Proper names, their abbreviations, and acronyms | |
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| Titles that precede a person's name | |
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| The first, last, and all major words in titles | |
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| The first word of a sentence and of directly quoted speech | |
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| Unnecessary capitals | |
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| Italics | |
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| Titles of separate works | |
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| Foreign words | |
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| Names of legal cases | |
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| Names of specific ships, submarines, aircraft, spacecraft, and satellites | |
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| Words, letters, or figures referred to as such | |
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| Emphasized words | |
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| Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Numbers | |
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| Before and after proper names | |
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| Addresses in correspondence | |
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| In bibliographies | |
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| As substitutes for certain words | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Special usage for numbers | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| The Comma | |
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| Before a coordinating conjunction that links independent clauses | |
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| After introductory words, phrases, and clauses | |
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| Separating parallel items such as those in a series | |
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| With (nonrestrictive non-essential) elements | |
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| With parenthetical elements | |
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| For ease in reading | |
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| Unnecessary Commas | |
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| Not between subject and verb or verb and object | |
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| Not after coordinating conjunctions | |
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| With parenthetical words and short phrases | |
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| Not with restrictive clauses, phrases, or appositives | |
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| Not before the first or after the last item of a series | |
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| The Semicolon | |
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| Connecting independent clauses not linked by a coordinating conjunction | |
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| Separating elements that contain commas | |
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| Not with unequal grammatical parts | |
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| The Apostrophe | |
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| Indicating ownership and other relationships | |
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| Marking omissions in contractions, numbers, and words | |
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| Forming plurals of letters, numbers, abbreviations, and words referred to as words | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| With direct quotations, including dialogue | |
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| With titles of short works | |
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| For tone or emphasis of specific words | |
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| With other punctuation marks | |
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| The Period and Other | |
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| Punctuation Marks | |
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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 colon | |
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| The dash | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Ellipsis points | |
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| The slash | |
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| Spelling and Diction | |
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| Spelling, the Spell Checker, and Hyphenation | |
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| Spell checkers | |
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| Spelling and pronunciation | |
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| Spelling words that sound alike | |
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| Prefixes and suffixes | |
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| Confusion of ei and ie | |
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| Hyphenation | |
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| Good Usage | |
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| Usage and the rhetorical situation | |
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| Writing in a clear, straightforward style | |
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| Appropriate word choice | |
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| Inclusive (nonprejudiced) language | |
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| Benefits of dictionaries | |
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| Using a thesaurus | |
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| Exactness | |
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| Choosing accurate words | |
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| Using fresh expressions | |
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| Understanding idioms | |
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| Using first and second person effectively | |
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| Providing clear definitions | |
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| Conciseness | |
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| Making every word count | |
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| Eliminating needless words | |
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| Avoiding unnecessary repetition | |
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| Using pronouns and elliptical constructions effectively | |
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| Clarity and Completeness | |
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| Adding necessary articles, conjunctions, and prepositions | |
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| Including all necessary verbs and auxiliaries | |
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| Making complete comparisons | |
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| Completing intensifiers | |
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| Effective Sentences | |
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| Sentence Unity | |
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| Relating ideas clearly | |
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| Choosing and arranging details | |
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| Avoiding mixed metaphors and mixed | |