Steps to writing well 8 pdf

... antagonize, your reader. If you’re too angry or frustrated to maintain a reasonable tone, give yourself some time to cool off before writing. A respectful tone should not, on the other hand, ... wrong. Examples Thus, she resolved never to speak to him again. Thus she resolved never to speak to him again. Chapter 18 Major Errors in Grammar ERRORS WITH VERBS 18a Faulty Agreement...

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... accustomed to the law and order of the present day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav- eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmen dared to put to sea ... on a topic of your own choice. Construct your sentences to resemble one another, though with enough variety to avoid monotony. Specification, as in the paragraph by Hodding Carter (pa...

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... about Toronto? What can one? What has any- body ever said? It is impossible to give it anything but commen- dation. is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, ... ought to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. Georg...

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... single word. Each of these phrases is dead: Writing poetry requires experience as well as sensibility. A prereq- uisite to writing poetry is being able to write prose. dislike television. Most ... which to do it. BETTER: She will show us how to do it. He becomes self-conscious to the extent that he withdraws into himself. BETTER: He becomes so self-conscious that he withdraws...

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... in his angry overalls, too angry to come down tO luncheon. Harold Nicholson Oxymoron and Rhetorical Paradox When the oddity of a collocation becomes seemingly contra- dictory, it is called an ... suggests a cus- tomary action so generally followed that it has become a social norm; CUSTOM applies to a practice or usage so steadily associated with an individual or group as to have the f...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... a. To cease to sleep; become awake; awaken. Often used with up. b. To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness. 2. Regional. To keep watch or guard, especially over a corpse. 3. To be ... "pec- toral," "ventral," "dorsal." Scientific description like this is not easy to write. Given enough time to observe and the training to know what to...

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... Conclusion Template 1 78 Argument Conclusion Template 81 Conclusion Template 2 (Effect) 83 Strong Claim Conclusion Template 85 Conclusion Template 3 87 Advanced Conclusion Template 89 BODY OF PAPER ... something about tone as well as structure. The tone of these conclusion templates is humility, as opposed to the self-congratulation teachers more normally see. • ART, CRAF...

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