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| Preface for Students |
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PART I: THE PROCESS OF INQUIRY |
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Acquiring the Inquiry Habit |
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Start with Questions Before Answers |
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Exercise 1.1: Twenty Ways to See a Blackbird |
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Use an Open-Ended Process |
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Choose an Inquiry Strategy |
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Investigate in a Rhetorical Context |
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7 | (2) |
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Exercise 1.2: Practice with the Strategy of Inquiry |
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7 | (2) |
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9 | (2) |
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11 | (26) |
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Exercise 2.1: Autobiography of a Reader |
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Exercise 2.2: What Makes a ``Good Reader''? |
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12 | (1) |
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Inquiring Minds and Intellectual Couch Potatoes |
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13 | (2) |
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Start with Questions before Answers |
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Reading Behaviors and Perspectives |
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17 | (1) |
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Techniques for Strategic Reading |
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18 | (10) |
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Choose an Inquiry Strategy |
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19 | (2) |
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Understand the Rhetorical Context |
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21 | (1) |
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Avoid Making Pastel Islands |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (2) |
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Exercise 2.3: Practicing Dialectical Thinking |
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24 | (2) |
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Exercise 2.4: Responding to Difficult Texts |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (8) |
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Exercise 2.5: Reading Images |
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28 | (5) |
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Exercise 2.6: Reading Graphics |
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33 | (3) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (12) |
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Exercise 3.1: Your Ways of Knowing |
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Entitled to Your Own Opinion |
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39 | (3) |
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Exercise 3.2: Knowing What Is Appropriate Evidence |
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40 | (2) |
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Not Entitled to an Opinion |
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42 | (1) |
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Opinions in an Uncertain World |
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43 | (2) |
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Exercise 3.3: Practice with Believing and Doubting |
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44 | (1) |
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At Issue: Should Educators Use Commercial Sevices to Combat Plagiarism? |
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45 | (2) |
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47 | (2) |
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PART II: FORMS FOR DISCOVERY |
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The Researched Essay: ``Essaying'' as a Mode of Inquiry |
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49 | (105) |
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No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch |
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51 | (6) |
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57 | (10) |
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67 | (9) |
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Did NASA Fake the Moon Landing? |
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76 | (17) |
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93 | (14) |
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Dinosaur Dreams: Reading the Bones of America's Psychic Mascot |
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107 | (13) |
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120 | (14) |
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Let Them Eat Fat: The Heavy Truths About American Obesity |
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134 | (12) |
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Student Essay: An Experience in Acronyms |
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146 | (8) |
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The Personal Academic Essay: Boundary Crossing as a Mode of Inquiry |
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154 | (86) |
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154 | (1) |
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Objectivity and the Research Ideal |
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155 | (3) |
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Tandem Readings: Business |
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158 | (1) |
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Learning About Work from Joe Cool |
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158 | (8) |
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Storytelling and Organizational Studies: A Critique of ``Learning About Work from Joe Cool'' |
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166 | (5) |
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Learning About Work from Creative Nonfiction |
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171 | (2) |
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Response to Commentaries on ``Learning About Work from Joe Cool'' |
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173 | (4) |
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Tandem Readings: Anthropology |
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177 | (1) |
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Grief and a Headhunter's Rage |
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178 | (9) |
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The Politics of Headhunting, 1945--1954 |
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187 | (13) |
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Tandem Readings: English Studies |
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200 | (1) |
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Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother |
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201 | (13) |
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Every Husband's Right: Sex Roles in Mari Sandoz's Old Jules |
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214 | (13) |
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Student Essay: In Search of Grace |
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227 | (13) |
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The Ethnographic Essay: Ethnography as a Mode of Inquiry |
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240 | (81) |
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Exposing the Web of Culture |
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242 | (2) |
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Exercise 6.1: Under Our Very Noses: Subcultures in the United States |
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243 | (1) |
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Ethnographic Ways of Seeing |
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244 | (2) |
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Approaches to Field Notes |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (8) |
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The American Man at Age Ten |
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254 | (12) |
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Connie and the Sandman Ladies |
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266 | (12) |
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278 | (7) |
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Snake Handling and Redemption |
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285 | (16) |
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Subcultures, Pop Music, and Politics: Skinheads and ``Nazi Rock'' in England and Germany |
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301 | (10) |
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Student Essay: Mary Kay: American Dream in a Bottle |
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311 | (10) |
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Fields of Writing: Making Sense of Formal Research |
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321 | (104) |
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An Outsider at the Dog Show |
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322 | (1) |
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Case Study: Dissecting Academic Articles |
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323 | (4) |
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Exercise 7.1: Can a Man and Woman Just Be Friends? |
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324 | (1) |
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Michelle's Inquiry: The Story Begins with an Itch |
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325 | (2) |
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Entering the Conversation: A Psychology Article |
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327 | (1) |
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Challenges Confronting Cross-Sex Friendships: Much Ado About Nothing? |
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328 | (31) |
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Exercise 7.2: Reader Reflections |
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358 | (1) |
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What's Alien and What's Not |
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358 | (1) |
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Men and Women at Work: A Business Article |
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359 | (1) |
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Love Without Sex: The Impact of Psychological Intimacy Between Men and Women at Work |
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360 | (16) |
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Exercise 7.3: Reader Reflections |
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375 | (1) |
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Romance and Attraction: Three Communication Studies Articles |
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376 | (1) |
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``I Like You . . . as a Friend'': The Role of Attraction in Cross-Sex Friendship |
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377 | (15) |
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392 | (2) |
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Cross-Sex Friends and ``Marriage Work'' |
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394 | (4) |
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Exercise 7.4: Reader Reflections |
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397 | (1) |
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How Social Context Affects Friendships: A Sociology Article |
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398 | (1) |
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Friendship, Sociology, and Social Structure |
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398 | (10) |
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Exercise 7.5: Reader Reflections |
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408 | (1) |
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Blame it on the Sexual Revolution: An English Studies Article |
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408 | (1) |
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Dangerous Acquaintances: The Correspondence of Margaret Fuller and James Freeman Clarke |
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409 | (16) |
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Exercise 7.6: Reader Reflections |
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421 | (1) |
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How Does the Story End? Reflections on Michelle's Inquiry Project |
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421 | (4) |
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Reading and Writing Across Disciplines: The Ethics of Publishing Disturbing Photos |
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425 | (71) |
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Encounters with Disturbing Photographs |
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425 | (5) |
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Exercise 8.1: First Thoughts, First Feelings |
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427 | (3) |
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Case Study 26: Photojournalism and Tragedy |
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430 | (4) |
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Code of Ethics of the National Press Photographers Association |
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434 | (4) |
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Images of Horror from Fallujah |
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438 | (9) |
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Representing Contemporary War |
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447 | (13) |
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460 | (11) |
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Tragedy of the Common: Markedness and the Creation of Mundane Tragedy |
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471 | (9) |
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Images of Violence: A Transcript |
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480 | (11) |
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Student Essay: After the Shock Is Gone |
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491 | (5) |
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Appendix: Documenting Sources: MLA and APA Guidelines |
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496 | (15) |
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496 | (1) |
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497 | (1) |
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497 | (1) |
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498 | (7) |
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498 | (1) |
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The Basics of Using Parenthetical Citations |
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498 | (1) |
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Preparing the ``Works Cited'' Page |
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499 | (1) |
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500 | (1) |
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500 | (1) |
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501 | (1) |
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Sample Periodical Citations |
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502 | (2) |
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504 | (1) |
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504 | (1) |
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505 | (6) |
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505 | (1) |
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The Basics of Using Parenthetical Citations |
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505 | (1) |
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Preparing the ``References'' List |
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506 | (1) |
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506 | (3) |
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Citing Electronic Sources |
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509 | (1) |
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509 | (2) |
| Credits |
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