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| Preface: To the Instructor |
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| Part I Writing from the Top Down |
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Practice in developing the ability to read critically and to summarize; learning the fundamentals of the academic writing process through writing a short report; shaping texts and sentences. |
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Chapter 1 The Writing Process |
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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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Recognizing Verb Forms for Writing and Sentence Combining |
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42 | (2) |
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Shaping Sentences with Adjectives and Verb Forms |
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Shaping Sentences with Prepositional Phrases |
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Chapter 2 The Shape of Texts |
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Introductions and Thesis Statements |
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Students at Work: Introductions |
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Paragraphs: Proving Your Points |
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Topic Sentences and the Organization Process |
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Students at Work: Paragraphs |
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| Part II Discovering and Writing |
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Cases for reading and writing: pre-reading and post-reading; pre-writing and drafting; sentence combining and proofreading. |
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Chapter 3 Learning by Sorting It out |
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An Important Thinking Tool: Making Inferences |
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Good Inferences and Bad Inferences |
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77 | (3) |
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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? by John J. O'Connor |
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Females and Minorities in TV Ads in 1987 Saturday Children's Programs by Daniel Riffe, Helene Goldson, Kelly Saxton, and Yang-Chou Yu |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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U.S. Income Inequality Keeps on Rising by Robert B. Reich |
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Tomorrow's Jobs by Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor |
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103 | (1) |
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Learning What Our Magazines Tell About Us |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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Help or Hindrance? Women's Magazines Offer Readers Little but Fear, Failure by Mary Kay Blakely |
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We've Come a Long Way, but Magazines Stayed Behind by Susan Dudash, Student |
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108 | (4) |
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112 | (1) |
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How Do Advertisers Try to Manipulate Us? |
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113 | (1) |
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113 | (1) |
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Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals by Jib Fowles |
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114 | (10) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (1) |
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Joining Ideas to Show Basic Logical Relationships |
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127 | (1) |
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Subordinating Conjunctions |
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131 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Learning by Comparing |
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Comparing and Contrasting to Discover |
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Organizing Essays Based on Comparison and Contrast |
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144 | (2) |
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Controlling Political Campaign Expenses. Or Not. |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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Political Reform Issues by News Batch |
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148 | (1) |
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The Current State of Campaign Finance Laws by Trevor Potter |
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152 | (1) |
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The FEC: Administering and Enforcing Campaign Finance Law by Thomas E. Mann |
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159 | (1) |
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Canada Elections Act and Income Tax Act in Force January 2004 |
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164 | (1) |
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Revitalizing Democracy: Clean Election Reform Shows the Way Forward by Marc Breslow, Janet Groat, and Paul Saba |
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165 | (1) |
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Who's Buying Whom: How Money in Politics Really Works by Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman |
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Shut Up, They Explained by David Frum |
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183 | (1) |
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Governor Raises $17 Million in 6 Months by Matier and Ross |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (1) |
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Comparing American Families in the Past and Present |
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188 | (1) |
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189 | (1) |
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The Social Order in Colonial New England by Edmund S. Morgan |
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190 | (1) |
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The Role of Men and Women in Colonial New England by Edmund S. Morgan and Louis B. Wright |
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190 | (1) |
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The Role of Children in Colonial New England by Edmund S. Morgan |
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192 | (1) |
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Men Assuming Bigger Share at Home, New Survey Shows by Tamar Lewin |
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For First Time, Nuclear Families Drop Below 25% of Households by Eric Schmitt |
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196 | (2) |
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198 | (1) |
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Examining American and Asian Educational Methods |
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199 | (1) |
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New Math-Science Study Rates U.S. Students Mediocre at Best by William S. Robinson |
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200 | (1) |
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Why Are U.S. Kids Poor in Math? by Barbara Vobejda |
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202 | (1) |
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Japan's School System by James Kilpatrick |
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203 | (1) |
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We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom to Think by Kie Ho |
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204 | (1) |
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Strengths, Weaknesses, and Lessons of Japanese Education by James Fallows |
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206 | (1) |
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School Here in the United States and There in Vietnam, Student Essay |
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Some Public Schools Don't Make the Grade by Richard Morin |
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212 | (2) |
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The Health-Care Crisis: Examining Two Approaches to National Health |
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216 | (1) |
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The American Health-Care System |
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The French Health-Care System |
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U.S. Spends Most on Health, but France No. 1 in Treatment by Lauran Neergaard |
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The Upward Drift of Health-Care Expenses in France by Baudouin Bollaert |
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221 | (1) |
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The American Health Care Crisis by Sara Collins |
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223 | (1) |
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Name-brand Drug Costs Soar, Senior Groups Say by Washington Post |
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226 | (1) |
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The Incredible Shrinking Health Care Debate by Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman |
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226 | (1) |
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Drug Companies Increase Spending on Efforts to Lobby Congress and Governments by Robert Pear |
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230 | (1) |
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Why the U.S. Needs a Single Payer Health System by David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhander, |
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231 | (4) |
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235 | (1) |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (13) |
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Joining Ideas to Show Contrast and Concession |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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Summary of Comparison/Contrast Words |
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239 | (1) |
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Using Joining Words to Show Emphasis |
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239 | (11) |
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Evaluating Evidence and Shaping Your Argument |
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253 | (5) |
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Deciding Carmen Herrera's Future |
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258 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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Various Comments on Carmen's Dilemma by her counselor, parents, boyfriend, employer, friend, sister, brother |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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Should High School Students Work? |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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Part-Time Work Ethic: Should Teens Go for It? by Dennis McLellan |
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262 | (1) |
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Why Fast-Food Joints Don't Serve Up Good Jobs for Kids by Amitai Etzioni |
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Why Not Ask the Students? Urban Teenagers Make the Case for Working by Katherine Cress |
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Should People Keep Handguns at Home? |
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282 | (1) |
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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
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Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High-and Upper-Middle-Income Countries by E.G. Krug, K.E. Powell, and L.L. Dahlberg |
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Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities by Drs. J.H. Sloan, A.L. Kellermann, D.T. Reay, J.A. Ferris, T. Koepsell, E.P. Rivara, C. Rice, L. Gray, and J. LoGerfo |
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Crime Is the Basic Problem, Not Guns by Wayne LaPierre |
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295 | (1) |
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Do Gun Laws Work? Study is Inconclusive by Kristen Wyatt |
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297 | (1) |
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Of Killer Pens and AK-47s by Micah Sifry and Nancy Watzman |
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298 | (1) |
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Why I Bought a Gun by Gail Buchalter |
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300 | (1) |
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303 | (1) |
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304 | (1) |
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Censorship of High School Newspapers |
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305 | (1) |
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306 | (1) |
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Pregnancy at Hazelwood High by Christine de Hass |
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306 | (1) |
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Divorce's Impact on Kids May Have Lifelong Effects by Shari Gordon |
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A Limit on the Student Press by Jean Seligmann and Tessa Namuth |
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309 | (1) |
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High School Papers Grow Up by Jerry Carroll |
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311 | (1) |
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High Court Gives a Civics Lesson by Fred M. Hechinger |
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Censorship: A Fact of Life Students Are Forced to Face by Jonathan Yardley |
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314 | (4) |
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318 | (1) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Appositives |
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320 | (1) |
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Punctuating Noun Phrases in Sentences |
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321 | (3) |
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Creating Noun Phrase Modifiers |
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324 | (6) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Adjective Clauses |
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330 | (2) |
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332 | (8) |
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Argument and Discussion in School and on the Job |
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340 | (1) |
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Writing Discussion Essays |
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341 | (1) |
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Who Should Care for the Children? |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (1) |
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Who's Taking Care of the Children? by Michael Ryan |
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343 | (1) |
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Home Day Care Providers Face Increasing Demand by Tammy Hansen |
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347 | (1) |
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High Staff Turnover Imperils Child Care, Researcher Says by Anastasia Hendrix |
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An Interview with Mary S. |
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Canada Takes Steps Toward Universal Child Care by Colin Nickerson |
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Child Care Sacred as France Cuts Back the Welfare State by Marlise Simons |
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356 | (1) |
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The Motion Picture Association Movie Rating System by Jack Valenti |
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358 | (1) |
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The Big Chill by Lois P. Sheinfeld |
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362 | (1) |
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The Rating Game by Paul Attanasio |
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365 | (1) |
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Give Movie Raters a PG, for Pigheadedness by Tom Shales |
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367 | (1) |
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A Major Studio Tests the (Sexy) Waters of NC-17 by Joel Topcik |
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Is Hate Speech Free Speech? |
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372 | (1) |
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373 | (1) |
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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
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373 | (1) |
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The Debate Over Placing Limits on Racist Speech Must Not Ignore the Damage It Does to Its Victims by Charles R. Lawrence III |
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Free Speech on the Campus by Nat Hentoff |
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378 | (1) |
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Hate Speech on Campus by Joseph S. Tuman |
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383 | (1) |
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Rethinking Campus Speech Codes by Ben Wildavsky |
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389 | (1) |
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Should College Athletics Be Reformed? |
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389 | (1) |
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Helping Top Athletes Meet Minimum Standards by Kate Zernike |
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391 | (1) |
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Graduation Rates at Top-Tier Football Programs Poor by Steve Wieberg |
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393 | (1) |
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2003 N.C.A.A. Tournament: Academics; Study Finds Top Teams Failing in the Classroom by Frank Litsky |
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394 | (1) |
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Big Spenders on Campus Spending Your Money by Selena Roberts |
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NCAA Board of Directors Adopts Landmark Academic Reform Package |
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Plan Creates Loopholes, Not Educated Athletes by Marc Isenberg |
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The Ivy League at 30: A Model for College Athletics or an Outmoded Antique? by Douglas Lederman |
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402 | (1) |
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404 | (18) |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Verbal Phrases |
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Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Parallelism |
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Chapter 7 Writing the In-Class Essay |
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| Part III Proofreading Skills Workbook |
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Self-teaching assignments for common usage problems. |
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1. Identifying Subjects and Verbs |
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2. Agreement Between Subjects and Verbs |
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3. Past Tense and Past Participles |
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4. The Past-to-Present Tense (Present Perfect) |
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5. The Past-Before-Past Tense (Past Perfect) |
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12. Dropped Contractions of Is and Are |
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13. Forming Direct Questions |
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14. Forming Indirect Questions |
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15. Apostrophes to Show Possession |
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| Credits |
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| Index |
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| Index of Authors and Titles |
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