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Note to Students | |
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Note to Instructors | |
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Writing Essays | |
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Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone | |
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Determining Your Purpose | |
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Identifying Your Audience | |
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Setting Your Tone | |
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Reading Texts | |
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Previewing a Text | |
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Highlighting a Text | |
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Annotating a Text | |
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Reading Electronic Texts | |
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Writing a Critical Response | |
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Reading Visuals | |
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Analyzing and Interpreting Visuals | |
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Previewing a Visual | |
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Highlighting and Annotating a Visual | |
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Planning an Essay | |
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Understanding the Writing Process | |
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Computers and the Writing Process | |
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Understanding Your Assignment | |
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Choosing a Topic | |
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Finding Something to Say | |
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Using a Thesis to Shape Your Essay | |
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Understanding Thesis and Support | |
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Developing an Effective Thesis Statement | |
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Revising Your Thesis Statement | |
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Constructing an Informal Outline | |
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Drafting and Revising | |
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Writing a Rough Draft | |
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Moving from Rough Draft to Final Draft | |
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Using Specific Revision Strategies | |
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Editing and Proofreading | |
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Preparing a Final Draft | |
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Writing Paragraphs | |
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Writing Unified Paragraphs | |
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Writing Coherent Paragraphs | |
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Writing Well-Developed Paragraphs | |
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Patterns of Paragraph Development | |
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Writing Special Kinds of Paragraphs | |
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Thinking Critically and Writing Arguments | |
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Thinking Critically | |
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Distinguishing Fact from Opinion | |
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Evaluating Supporting Evidence | |
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Detecting Bias | |
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Using Logic | |
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Understanding Inductive Reasoning | |
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Understanding Deductive Reasoning | |
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Using Toulmin Logic | |
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Recognizing Logical Fallacies | |
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Writing an Argumentative Essay | |
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Planning an Argumentative Essay | |
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Using Evidence Effectively | |
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Organizing an Argumentative Essay | |
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Writing and Revising an Argumentative Essay | |
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Using Visuals as Evidence | |
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Using Visuals | |
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Evaluating Visuals | |
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Doing Research | |
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Writing a Research Paper | |
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Moving from Assignment to Topic | |
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Doing Exploratory Research and Formulating a Research Question | |
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Assembling a Working Bibliography | |
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Developing a Tentative Thesis | |
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Doing Focused Research | |
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Taking Notes | |
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Fine-Tuning Your Thesis | |
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Constructing an Outline | |
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Writing a Rough Draft | |
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Revising Your Drafts | |
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Preparing a Final Draft | |
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Finding Information | |
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Finding Information in the Library | |
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Finding Information on the Internet | |
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Doing Field Research | |
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Evaluating Sources | |
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Evaluating Library Sources | |
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Evaluating Internet Sources | |
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Summarizing. Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources | |
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Writing a Summary | |
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Writing a Paraphrase | |
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Quoting Sources | |
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Integrating Source Material into Your Writing | |
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Synthesizing Sources | |
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Understanding Synthesis | |
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Writing an Explanatory Synthesis | |
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Writing an Argumentative Synthesis | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Defining Plagiarism | |
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Avoiding Unintentional Plagiarism | |
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Avoiding Intentional Plagiarism | |
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Avoiding Other Kinds of Plagiarism | |
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Revising to Eliminate Plagiarism | |
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MLA Documentation Style | |
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Using MLA Style | |
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MLA-Style Manuscript Guidelines | |
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Model MLA-Style Research Paper | |
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Documenting Sources: APA and Other Styles | |
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APA Documentation Style | |
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Using APA Style | |
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APA-Style Manuscript Guidelines | |
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Model APA-Style Research Paper | |
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Chicago Documentation Style | |
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Using Chicago Humanities Style | |
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Chicago Humanities Manuscript Guidelines | |
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Model Chicago Humanities Research Paper (Excerpts) | |
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CSE and Other Documentation Styles | |
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Using CSE Style | |
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CSE-Style Manuscript Guidelines | |
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Model CSE-Style Research Paper (Excerpts) | |
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Using Other Documentation Styles | |
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Writing in the Disciplines | |
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Writing in the Humanities | |
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Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone | |
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Collaborative Work | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Conventions of Style, Format, and Documentation | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Research Sources | |
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Writing a Literary Analysis | |
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Reading Literature | |
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Writing about Literature | |
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Writing about Fiction | |
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Writing about Poetry | |
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Writing about Drama | |
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Writing a Literary Argument | |
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Planning a Literary Argument | |
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Supporting Your Literary Argument | |
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Organizing a Literary Argument | |
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Model Literary Argument | |
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Writing in the Social Sciences | |
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Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone | |
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Collaborative Work | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Conventions of Style, Format, and Documentation | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Research Sources | |
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Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences | |
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Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone | |
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Collaborative Work | |
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Writing Assignments | |
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Conventions of Style, Format, and Documentation | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Research Sources | |
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Creating Documents in a Digital Age | |
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Writing in a Digital Environment | |
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Considering Audience and Purpose | |
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Writing in a Wired Classroom | |
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Writing Collaboratively Online | |
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Designing Effective Documents | |
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Creating an Effective Visual Format | |
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Using Headings | |
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Constructing Lists | |
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Using Visuals | |
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Using Desktop Publishing | |
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Designing a Web Site | |
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Planning a Web Site | |
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Creating a Web Site | |
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Selecting and Inserting Visuals | |
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Planning Navigation | |
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Linking Content | |
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Editing and Proofreading | |
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Posting Your Web Site | |
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Creating Wiki Web Sites | |
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Developing Strategies for Academic and Professional Success | |
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Creating a Writing Portfolio | |
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Assembling a Print Portfolio | |
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Assembling an Electronic Portfolio | |
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Writing a Reflective Statement | |
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Evaluating Writing Portfolios | |
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Writing Essay Exams | |
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Planning an Essay Exam Answer | |
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Shaping an Essay Exam Answer | |
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Writing and Revising an Essay Exam Answer | |
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Writing Paragraph-Length Essay Exam Answers | |
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Writing for the Public and the Community | |
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Writing Media Releases | |
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Writing Proposals | |
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Designing Brochures | |
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Designing Flyers | |
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Writing for Service-Learning Courses | |
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Writing for the Workplace | |
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Writing Business Letters | |
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Writing Letters of Application | |
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Writing Follow-Up Emails | |
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Designing Print Resumes | |
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Designing Electronic Resumes | |
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Writing Memos | |
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Writing Emails and Using Voice Mail | |
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Making Oral Presentations | |
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Getting Started | |
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Planning Your Speech | |
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Preparing Your Presentation Notes | |
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Preparing Visual Aids | |
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Rehearsing Your Speech | |
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Delivering Your Speech | |
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Answering Audience Questions | |
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Sentence Style | |
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Building Simple Sentences | |
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Constructing Simple Sentences | |
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Identifying Phrases and Clauses | |
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Expanding Simple Sentences | |
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Building Compound and Complex Sentences | |
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Building Compound Sentences | |
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Building Complex Sentences | |
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Writing Varied Sentences | |
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Varying Sentence Length | |
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Combining Choppy Simple Sentences | |
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Breaking Up Strings of Compound Sentences | |
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Varying Sentence Types | |
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Varying Sentence Openings | |
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Varying Standard Word Order | |
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Writing Emphatic Sentences | |
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Conveying Emphasis through Word Order | |
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Conveying Emphasis through Sentence Structure | |
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Conveying Emphasis through Parallelism and Balance | |
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Conveying Emphasis through Repetition | |
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Conveying Emphasis through Active Voice | |
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Writing Concise Sentences | |
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Eliminating Wordiness | |
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Eliminating Unnecessary Repetition | |
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Tightening Rambling Sentences | |
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Solving Common Sentence Problems | |
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Revising Fragments | |
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Recognizing Fragments | |
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Revising Dependent Clause Fragments | |
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Revising Phrase Fragments | |
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Revising Detached Compounds | |
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Using Fragments Intentionally | |
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Revising Run-Ons | |
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Recognizing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
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Correcting Comma Spikes and Fused Sentences | |
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Revising Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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Revising Misplaced Modifiers | |
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Revising Intrusive Modifiers | |
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Revising Dangling Modifiers | |
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Revising Faulty Parallelism | |
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Using Parallelism Effectively | |
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Revising Faulty Parallelism | |
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Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences | |
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Revising Unwarranted Shifts | |
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Revising Mixed Constructions | |
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Revising Faulty Predication | |
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Revising Incomplete or Illogical Comparisons | |
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Using Worlds Effectively | |
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Choosing Words | |