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Writing Your Paper | |
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Let's talk about writing | |
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Understanding That Writing Is Thinking | |
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Using and Understanding This Book | |
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Being Aware of Writing Realities | |
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Attitudes and Myths about Writing | |
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Reconsidering Your Attitude about Writing | |
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Connecting Reading to Writing | |
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Writing Your Paper | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Prewriting | |
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Drafting | |
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Revising | |
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Proofreading | |
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Reflecting | |
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Writing your descriptive paragraphs | |
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Previewing Your Task | |
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Writing for College | |
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Writing in Your Profession | |
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Writing in Everyday Life | |
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Understanding Description | |
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Using Sensory Details | |
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Using Figurative Language | |
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Deciding on the Dominant Impression | |
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Ordering Your Descriptive Details | |
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Connecting Reading to Writing | |
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Preparing to read | |
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Increasing Your Vocabulary | |
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Reading Selection: “On Being Cripple“ | |
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Reading Connection | |
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Understanding the Reading | |
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Understanding the Structure, Style, and Tone | |
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Making a Personal Connection | |
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Writing Your Descriptive Paragraph | |
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Prewriting | |
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Discovering and Limiting Your Topic | |
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Prewriting Strategy: Listing and Freewriting | |
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Topics to Consider | |
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Identifying Your Audience | |
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Establishing Your Purpose | |
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Setting Your Tone | |
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Stating Your Dominant Impression | |
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Outlining Your Ideas | |
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Drafting | |
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Coherence: Using Transitions | |
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Revising | |
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Style Tip: Using a Variety of Sentence Lengths | |
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Problem-Solution | |
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Proofreading | |
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Common Error 1 Sentence Fragments | |
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Reflecting | |
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Writing Your Descriptive Narrative Essay | |
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Previewing Your Task | |
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Writing for College | |
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Writing in Your Profession | |
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Writing in Everyday Life | |
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Understanding Narrative | |
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Using the Elements of Plot | |
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The Beginning | |
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The Middle | |
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The End | |
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Supporting Your Narrative | |
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Using Descriptive Language | |
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Using Words to Describe Emotions | |
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Using Verbs Effectively | |
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Using Dialogue | |
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Connecting Reading to Writing | |
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Preparing to read | |
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Increasing Your Vocabulary | |
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Reading Selection: “The Struggle to be an All-American Girl“ | |
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Reading Connection | |
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Understanding the Reading | |
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Understanding the Structure, Style, and Tone | |
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Making a Personal Connection | |
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Writing Your Descriptive Narrative | |
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Prewriting | |
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Discovering and Limiting Your Topic | |
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Prewriting Strategy: Listing, Freewriting, and Questioning | |
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Topics to Consider | |
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Identifying Your Audience | |
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Establishing Your Purpose | |
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Setting Your Tone | |
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Formulating Your Thesis | |
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Outlining Your Ideas | |
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Drafting | |
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Paragraphing | |
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Writing Your Beginning | |
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Writing Your Middle | |
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Writing Your End | |
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Coherence: Using Transitions | |
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Revising | |
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Style Tip: Varying Sentence Structure | |
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Problem-Solution | |
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Proofreading | |
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Common Error 2 Editing for Shifts in Verb Tense | |
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Applying Previous Knowledge | |
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Reflecting | |
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Writing Your Expository Paragraphs | |
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Previewing Your Task | |
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Writing for College | |
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Writing in Your Profession | |
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Writing in Everyday Life | |
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Understanding the Expository Paragraph | |
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Expository Paragraph Structure | |
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The Topic Sentence | |
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The Topic and the Controlling Idea | |
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Limiting Your Topic | |
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Placement of the Topic Sentence | |
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The Support: Major and Minor | |
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Levels of Generality | |
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Developing Your Paragraph with Facts and Details | |
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Unity | |
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The Conclusion | |
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Connecting Reading to Writing | |
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Preparing to read | |
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Increasing Your Vocabulary | |
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Reading Selection: “The Fine Art of Letting Go“ | |
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Reading Connection | |
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Understanding the Reading | |
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Understanding the Structure, Style, and Tone | |
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Making a Personal Connection | |
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Writing Your Expository Paragraph | |
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Prewriting | |
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Discovering and Limiting Your Topic | |
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Prewriting Strategy: Freewriting and Questioning | |
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Topics to Consider | |
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Identifying Your Audience and Establishing Your Purpose | |
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Setting Your Tone | |
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Formulating Your Topic Sentence | |
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Outlining Your Ideas | |
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Drafting | |
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Writing Your Major and Minor Supports | |
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Coherence: Using Transitions | |
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Writing Your Conclusion | |
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Revising | |
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Style Tip: Subordinating Ideas | |
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Problem-Solution | |
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Proofreading | |
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Common Error l3 Fused Sentences | |
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Common Error 4 Comma Splices | |
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Applying Previous Knowledge | |
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Reflecting | |
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Developing Your Essay Through Illustration | |
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Previewing Your Task | |
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Writing for College | |
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Writing in Your Profession | |
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