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| Preface: To the Instructor |
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| Part I Writing from the Top Down |
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Reading Actively and Efficiently |
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Steps in Writing a Summary |
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An Experienced Writer Writes a Summary |
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Analyzing and Evaluating Your Information |
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Organizing and Finding Your Point |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (6) |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (16) |
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39 | (1) |
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Recognizing Verb Forms for Writing and Sentence Combining |
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41 | (3) |
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Shaping Sentences with Adjectives and Verb Forms |
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44 | (4) |
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Shaping Sentences with Prepositional Phrases |
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48 | (5) |
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53 | (18) |
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Introductions and Thesis Statements |
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53 | (3) |
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Students at Work: Introductions |
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56 | (3) |
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Paragraphs: Proving Your Points |
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59 | (2) |
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Topic Sentences and the Organization Process |
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61 | (3) |
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Students at Work: Paragraphs |
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64 | (3) |
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67 | (4) |
| Part II Discovering and Writing |
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Learning by Sorting It Out |
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An Important Thinking Tool: Making Inferences |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (1) |
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Good Inferences and Bad Inferences |
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75 | (2) |
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77 | (70) |
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80 | (1) |
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Analyzing Television for Children |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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What Are TV Ads Selling to Children? |
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81 | (2) |
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Females and Minorities in TV Ads in 1987 Saturday Children's Programs |
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83 | (3) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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U.S. Income Inequality Keeps on Rising |
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89 | (7) |
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Tomorrow's Jobs by Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Department of Labor |
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Benefits Dwindle Along with Wages for the Unskilled |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (3) |
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107 | (1) |
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Learning What Our Magazines Tell About Us |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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Help or Hindrance? Women's Magazines Offer Readers Little but Fear, Failure |
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109 | (3) |
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We've Come a Long Way, but Magazines Stayed Behind |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (1) |
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How Do Advertisers Try to Manipulate Us? |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals |
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118 | (10) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (1) |
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Joining Ideas to Show Basic Logical Relationships |
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131 | (4) |
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Subordinating Conjunctions |
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135 | (7) |
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142 | (5) |
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147 | (62) |
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Comparing and Contrasting to Discover |
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147 | (1) |
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Organizing Essays Based on Comparison and Contrast |
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148 | (21) |
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150 | (1) |
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Changing Tastes in Television: 1970 and Today |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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Network Prime-Time Programming |
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152 | (4) |
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156 | (1) |
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Comparing American Families in the Past and Present |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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The Social Order in Colonial New England |
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158 | (1) |
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The Role of Men and Women in Colonial New England |
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159 | (2) |
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The Role of Children in Colonial New England |
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161 | (2) |
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Men Assuming Bigger Share at Home, New Survey Shows |
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163 | (2) |
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For First Time, Nuclear Families Drop Below 25% of Households |
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165 | (2) |
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167 | (1) |
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Examining American and Asian Educational Methods |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (40) |
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New Math-Science Study Rates U.S. Students Mediocre at Best |
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169 | (1) |
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Why Are U.S. Kids Poor in Math? |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (2) |
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We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom to Think |
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173 | (1) |
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Strengths, Weaknesses, and Lessons of Japanese Education |
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174 | (6) |
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School Here in the United States and There in Vietnam, Student Essay |
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180 | (2) |
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Some Public Schools Don't Make the Grade |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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The Health-Care Crisis: Examining Two Approaches to National Health |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (3) |
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U.S. Spends Most on Health, but France No. 1 in Treatment |
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189 | (1) |
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A Hard Lesson about Socialized Medicine |
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190 | (1) |
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Why the U.S. Needs a Single Payer Health System |
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191 | (3) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (1) |
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Joining Ideas to Show Contrast and Concession |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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Summary of Comparison/Contrast Words |
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198 | (1) |
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Using Joining Words to Show Emphasis |
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199 | (10) |
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209 | (102) |
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209 | (3) |
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Evaluating Evidence and Shaping Your Argument |
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212 | (99) |
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216 | (1) |
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Deciding Carmen Herrera's Future |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (1) |
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Various Comments on Carmen's Dilemma by her counselor, parents, boyfriend, employer, friend, sister, brother |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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Should High School Students Work? |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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Part-Time Work Ethic: Should Teens Go for It? |
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221 | (4) |
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225 | (4) |
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Why Fast-Food Joints Don't Serve Up Good Jobs for Kids |
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229 | (4) |
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Why Not Ask the Students? Urban Teenagers Make the Case for Working |
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233 | (7) |
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240 | (1) |
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Should People Keep Handguns at Home? |
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241 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
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242 | (1) |
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Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High- and Upper-Middle-Income Countries |
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242 | (7) |
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Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities |
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249 | (5) |
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Crime Is the Basic Problem, Not Guns |
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254 | (1) |
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Should You Carry a Gun? A New Study Argues for Concealed Weapons |
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255 | (2) |
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Taking Another Look at Right to Bear Arms |
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257 | (2) |
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259 | (4) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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Censorship of High School Newspapers |
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265 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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Pregnancy at Hazelwood High |
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266 | (1) |
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Divorce's Impact on Kids May Have Lifelong Effects |
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267 | (2) |
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A Limit on the Student Press |
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269 | (1) |
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High School Papers Grow Up |
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270 | (2) |
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High Court Gives a Civics Lesson |
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272 | (2) |
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Censorship: A Fact of Life Students Are Forced to Face |
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274 | (3) |
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277 | (1) |
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Should English Be the Official Language of the United States? |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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Argument in Favor of Proposition 63 |
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280 | (1) |
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Official English and English Plus: An Update |
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281 | (5) |
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Liberty and Language for All |
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286 | (2) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (2) |
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291 | (1) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Appositives |
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291 | (1) |
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Punctuating Noun Phrases in Sentences |
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291 | (9) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Adjective Clauses |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (9) |
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311 | (75) |
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Argument and Discussion in School and on the Job |
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311 | (1) |
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Writing Discussion Essays |
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312 | (74) |
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313 | (1) |
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Who Should Care for the Children? |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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Who's Taking Care of the Children? |
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314 | (3) |
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Home Day Care Providers Face Increasing Demand |
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317 | (1) |
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High Staff Turnover Imperils Child Care, Researcher Says |
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318 | (3) |
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321 | (1) |
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Canada Takes Steps Toward Universal Child Care |
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321 | (1) |
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Child Care Sacred as France Cuts Back the Welfare State |
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322 | (4) |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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The Motion Picture Production Code |
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328 | (2) |
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NC-17 Replaces X in Movie Ratings |
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330 | (1) |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (3) |
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337 | (1) |
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Is Hate Speech Free Speech? |
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338 | (1) |
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339 | (1) |
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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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339 | (1) |
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The Debate Over Placing Limits on Racist Speech Must Not Ignore the Damage It Does to Its Victims |
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340 | (4) |
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Free Speech on the Campus |
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344 | (5) |
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349 | (2) |
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Rethinking Campus Speech Codes |
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351 | (4) |
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355 | (1) |
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Should College Athletics Be Reformed? |
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355 | (1) |
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356 | (1) |
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Helping Top Athletes Meet Minimum Standards |
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356 | (3) |
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NCAA Stirs Debate---Are SATs Racist? |
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Cheers to John Thompson's Empty Chair |
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The Ivy League at 30: A Model for College Athletics or an Outmoded Antique? |
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363 | (3) |
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366 | (1) |
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366 | (2) |
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368 | (1) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Verbal Phrases |
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368 | (10) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Parallelism |
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378 | (8) |
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Writing the In-Class Essay |
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386 | (5) |
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386 | (2) |
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388 | (1) |
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388 | (3) |
| Part III Proofreading Skills Workbook |
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391 | (74) |
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Self-teaching assignments for common usage problems |
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392 | (1) |
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393 | (72) |
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Identifying Subjects and Verbs |
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395 | (6) |
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Agreement Between Subjects and Verbs |
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401 | (7) |
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Past Tense and Past Participles |
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408 | (5) |
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The Past-to-Present Tense (Present Perfect) |
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413 | (4) |
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The Past-Before-Past Tense (Past Perfect) |
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417 | (4) |
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421 | (3) |
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424 | (5) |
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429 | (9) |
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438 | (1) |
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439 | (2) |
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441 | (2) |
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Dropped Contractions of Is and Are |
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443 | (1) |
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444 | (4) |
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Forming Indirect Questions |
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448 | (1) |
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Apostrophes to Show Possession |
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449 | (5) |
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454 | (5) |
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459 | (6) |
| Credits |
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465 | (4) |
| Index |
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469 | (5) |
| Index of Authors and Titles |
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