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| Introduction Mini-lesson Basics | |
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| Lessons About Topics Writing Territories | |
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| Launching the Writing Workshop Questions for Memoirists | |
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| Heart Mapping Where Poetry Hides Problems to Explore in Fiction | |
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| Twenty Actions Itches to Scratch in Essays | |
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| Lessons About Principles What is Writing? | |
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| The Rule of So What? Thoughts and Feelings | |
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| The Rule of Write about a Pebble Narrative Leads | |
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| Good Titles Polishing Final Copies | |
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| What Readers Need Thinking on Paper | |
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| Planning Sheets Can a Reader See It, Hear It, Feel It? | |
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| A Movie behind Your Eyelids | |
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| How a Thesaurus Can Help Troubleshooting | |
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| Surefire Ways to Weaken Your Writing | |
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| The Really Bad Words Too-Long and Too-Short Paragraphs | |
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| The Missing I Passive Sentences Exclamation Points | |
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| Hopefully Stories That End "The End" | |
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| Hopefully Stories That End "The End" | |
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| Lessons About Genres Ineffective and Effective Memoirs | |
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| A Course of Study: Fiction What's Easy about Writing Bad Fiction? | |
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| What's Hard about Writing Good Fiction? | |
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| The Main Character Questionnaire Considerations in Creating a Character | |
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| Short Story Structure Ways to Develop a Character | |
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| A Course of Study: How Free-Verse Poetry Works | |
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| The Power of I Beware the Participle Leads | |
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| Begin Inside Conclusions | |
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| End Strongly Breaking Lines and Stanzas and Punctuating Cut to the Bone | |
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| Use Repetition Two Things at Once Troubleshooting | |
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| Some Poetic Forms Sestinas and Tritinas Irregular Odes | |
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| Haiku Thirteen-Ways Poems Memoir Poems Gifts of Writing Effective Book Reviews | |
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| A Course of Study: Essays Effective Essays | |
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| Teasing Out Criteria How Do I Scratch the Itch? | |
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| Write with Information Order the Information Leads for an Essay | |
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| Experiment with Essay Conclusions Ted L. Nancy | |
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| Letters and Other Genres for Humorists Test Writing as a Genre | |
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| Lessons About Conventions | |
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| The Individual Proofreading List | |
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| Busines Letter Format and Addressing an Envelope | |
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| A Brief History of the English Language Troubleshooting | |
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| Spelling Essentials Weekly Word Studies | |
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| Personal Survival Words Proofreading for Spelling | |
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| The Truth about I before E Some Foreign Words | |
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| Used in English Texts Root Words and Prefixes Suffixes | |
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| To Double or Not? Other Suffix Rules That Mostly Work | |
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| A Brief History of Some Common Punctuation Marks | |
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| Essential Punctuation Information Troubleshooting: Convention Confusions | |
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| How to Correct Coma Splices How to Punctuate Dialogue Homonyms | |
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| Four Capitlization Confusions Writing Numbers | |
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| Indicating Titles Me or I? | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Student Memoirs | |
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| Student Short Fiction | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Student Book Reviews | |
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| Resources for Writing Mini-lessons | |