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The lessons in this tutorial cover the essential skills and strategies needed by college students to be able to evaluate and use claims and evidence in academic writing. Students will find instruction and practice detailing how to distinguish between faulty and valid arguments; how to use a variety of evidence to support reasoning, including specific examples, expert testimony, and facts and statistics; how to acknowledge and address other perspectives;...
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The lessons in this tutorial cover the essential pre-writing skills and strategies needed by college students for successful academic writing. Student will find instruction and practice detailing the writing process, writing assignment basics, effective prewriting strategies, strong thesis statements, and more.
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"Provides 30 complete winning scholarship essays with analysis of why they were successful, scholarship interview strategies, Q&A with scholarship judges, 12 essays that bombed and an essay-writing workshop that covers selecting a topic, creating an outline, writing and editing"--
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This second instantly scored practice can help college students looking to strengthen their core English skills for their classes and assignments. Includes 25 questions that cover diction and tone, including how to recognize and avoid jargon, euphemisms, pretentiousness, sexism, inflammatory language, and informality in your academic writing.
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This first instantly scored practice can help college students looking to strengthen their core English skills for their classes and assignments. Includes 25 questions that cover diction and tone, including how to recognize and avoid jargon, euphemisms, pretentiousness, sexism, inflammatory language, and informality in your academic writing.
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"Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing...
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This instantly scored practice can help college students looking to strengthen their core English skills for their classes and assignments. Includes 15 questions that cover revising your academic writing, with a focus on revising for clarity, organization, and catching and fixing common grammar and usage errors.
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This instantly scored practice can help college students looking to strengthen their core English skills for their classes and assignments. Includes 15 questions that cover revising your academic writing, with a focus on revising for clarity, organization, and catching and fixing common grammar and usage errors.
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This lessons in this tutorial cover the essential revision skills and strategies needed by college students for successful academic writing. Students will find instruction and practice detailing the revision process, from understanding the different stages of revision, considering the content, effective organization, sentence-level revisions, proofreading strategies, and more.
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Jane Austen takes the South volume Book 1
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"This hilarious Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice tells the story of two hard-headed Civil war historians who find that first impressions can be deceiving. Shelby Roswell, a Civil War historian and professor, is on the fast track to tenure--that is, until her new book is roasted by the famous historian Ransom Fielding in a national review. With her career stalled by a man she's never met, Shelby struggles to maintain her composure...
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"Get the skills you need to write like a scholar! While you may have done a lot of writing in high school, you'll need to go beyond just noting observations. In college, you'll read and interpret various works and use them to support your own assignments. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the main parts of scholarly writing, sources and citations, and where to turn to for help if you need it." --
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This comprehensive guide offers complete preparation to pass the GED RLA Test. Inside is an in-depth review of all reading comprehension, English, and writing concepts tested on the exam, along with test-like practice questions, writing prompts and complete answer explanations and sample essays.
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"This first full-length practice test will help you prepare for the GEDʼ Reasoning through Language Arts Test, with technology-enhanced items and an essay question like what you'll find on test day. Includes an instant diagnostic score report for the passage-based questions and examples of responses at different score levels, with a scoring guide, for the essay." --
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