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Making the Transition to College | |
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Getting Started | |
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Getting to Know Your Materials | |
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Getting to Know Your Classmates | |
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Working with classmates | |
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Getting Organized | |
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Setting Goals and Overcoming Obstacles | |
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Examining Attitudes and Expectations | |
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Setting Long-term Goals | |
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Setting Short-term Goals | |
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Problem Solving | |
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Beginning College Writing | |
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Using a Journal | |
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What Is a Writer's Journal? Your Journal | |
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Peer Journals | |
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Writing a Paragraph | |
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Understanding the Assignment | |
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Narrowing the Topic | |
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Determining the Writing Context | |
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Formulating a Topic Sentence | |
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Developing the Topic Sentence with Supporting Details | |
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Generating Ideas for Support | |
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Drafting | |
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Patterns of Development Narration | |
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Illustration or Example | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Cause and Effect | |
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Grammar, Mechanics, and Punctuation Skills | |
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Learning to Write Correctly | |
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Be Curious | |
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Rely on Your Resources | |
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Become a Skillful Learner | |
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Capitalization | |
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Sentence Beginnings | |
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Proper Nouns | |
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Problem Words | |
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List I | |
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List II | |
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Parts of Speech | |
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Nouns | |
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Pronouns | |
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Adjectives | |
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Verbs | |
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Adverbs | |
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Prepositions | |
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Conjunctions | |
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Interjections | |
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Word Choice | |
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Effective Word Choice | |
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Ineffective Word Choice | |
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Subject-Verb Identification | |
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Subjects | |
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Verbs | |
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Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Singular and Plural Subjects | |
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Subject-Verb Agreement Rules | |
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Verb Tense | |
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Forming the Past Tense and the Past Participle | |
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Using the Past Participle as an Adjective | |
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Avoiding Shifts in Tense | |
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Sentence Parts and Types | |
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Definition of a Sentence | |
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Definition of a Clause | |
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Definition of a Phrase | |
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Sentence Types | |
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Sentence Purposes | |
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Sentence Fragments | |
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Types of Fragments | |
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Identifying and Correcting Fragments | |
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Run-ons | |
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Types of Run-ons | |
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Identifying Run-ons | |
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Ways to Correct Run-ons | |
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Commas | |
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The Purpose of Using Commas | |
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The Two Most Important Comma Rules: Compound | |
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Sentences and Introductory Elements | |
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Other Useful Comma Rules: Transitions, Series, Dates | |
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Pronoun Agreement | |
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Pronoun Agreement | |
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Avoiding Shifts in Number and Person | |
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Apostrophes | |
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Contractions | |
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Possession | |
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Letters and Numerals | |
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Sentence Combining | |
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Coordination | |
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Subordination | |
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Using Coordination and Subordination | |
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Sentence Variety | |
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Sentence Variety Techniques | |
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Readings | |
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Successful Reading Strategies | |
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Active Reading | |
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Using a Reader's Journal | |
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Faith Andrews Bedford, Measles Mumps and Chicken Pox | |
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Leo Buscaglia, Papa, The Philosopher | |
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Jack Canfield, Consider This | |
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Sandra Cisneros, The First Job | |
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Annie Dillard, from An American Childhood | |
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, from The Bats | |
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Cathy Dyson, The Girl Who Helped the Samburu | |
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Daniel Eisenberg, The Coming Job Boom | |
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John Garrity, Too Good to Be True | |
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Jean Giono, from The Man Who Planted Trees | |
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Natalie Goldberg, from The Long Quiet Highway | |
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Karl Taro Greenfeld, Blind to Failure | |
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Langston Hughes, What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Bruce Springsteen, The River | |
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Cynthia Jabs, Saying Goodbye | |
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John Leo, When Life Imitates Video | |
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Mike Rose, from I Just Wanna Be Average | |
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Ellen Sherman, Boys to Men | |
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Brent Staples, From The Knock Out | |
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Appendixes | |
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ESL Appendix | |
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Spelling Appendix | |
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Creating a Portfolio | |
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Checklists | |