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| Preface | |
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| Familiarization Exercise for How | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Punctuation Labels | |
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| Comma Placement, Series | |
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| Comma Placement, Parenthetical Expressions | |
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| Comma Placement, Direct Address | |
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| Comma Placement, Appositives | |
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| Comma Placement, Dates and Time Zones | |
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| Comma Placement, Addresses | |
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| Comma Placement, Coordinating Conjunctions | |
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| Comma Placement, Independent Adjectives | |
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| Comma Placement, Introductory Clauses | |
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| Comma Placement, Introductory Phrases | |
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| Comma Placement, Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses | |
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| Comma Placement, Contrasting and Contingent Expressions; Omitted Words | |
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| Comma Placement, Clarity | |
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| Comma Placement, Short Quotations | |
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| Semicolon Placement, No Conjunction | |
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| Semicolon Placement, With Conjunction | |
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| Semicolon Placement, With Transitional Expressions | |
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| Semicolon Placement, Series and Enumerations | |
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| Colon Placement, Formally Enumerated or Listed Items; Explanatory Sentences | |
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| Dash Placement-Parenthetical Elements, Appositives, and Summaries | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Proper Nouns and Adjectives | |
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| Abbreviations, Numbered or Lettered Items | |
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| Personal and Professional Titles | |
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| Literary or Artistic Works; Academic Subjects, Courses, and Degrees | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Practice Guides | |
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| Numbers | |
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| General Rules | |
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| Related Numbers | |
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| Money and Percentages; With Words and Abbreviations | |
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| Weights and Measures; Dates and Periods of Time | |
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| Practice Guide | |
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| Grammar and Usage | |
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| Noun Plurals | |
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| Noun Possessives | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Hyphenating and Dividing Words | |
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| Compound Adjectives | |
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| End-of-Line Divisions | |
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| Abbreviations and Symbols | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Contractions | |
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| Words Often Confused and Misused | |
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| Practice Exercises for A/An Through Aisle/Isle | |
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| Practice Exercises for All Ready/Already Through Appraise/Apprise | |
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| Practice Exercises for As/Like Through Bolder/Boulder | |
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| Practice Exercises for Born/Borne Through Cite/Sight/Site | |
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| Practice Exercises for Close/Cothes/Cloths Through Decent/Descent/Dissent | |
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| Practice Exercises for Defer/Differ Through Every Day/Everyday | |
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| Practice Exercises for Every One/Everyone Through Flaunt/Flout | |
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| Practice Exercises for Flew/Flu/Flue Through Human/Humane | |
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| Practice Exercises for Hypercritical/Hypocritical Through Lessee/Lesser/Lessor | |
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| Practice Exercises for Lessen/Lesson Through Ordinance/Ordnance | |
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| Practice Exercises for Overdo/Overdue Through Pray/Prey | |
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| Practice Exercises for Precede/Proceed Through Scene/Seen | |
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| Practice Exercises for Set/Sit Through Than/Then | |
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| Practice Exercises for That/Which Through Your/You're | |
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| Additional Practice Exercises for Affect/Effect | |
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| Elements of Writing Style | |
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| Planning the Message | |
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| Using Words Effectively | |
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| Creating Sentences | |
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| Varying Your Sentence Beginnings | |
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| Using the Active and the Passive Voice | |
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| Emphasizing and Deemphasizing Ideas | |
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| Balancing Ideas Through Parallel Structure | |
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| Spelling, Proofreading, and Editing | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Editing | |
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| Address Format and Forms of Address | |
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| Address Format | |
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| Forms of Address | |
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| E-mail Messages, Business Letters, and Memorandums | |
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| E-Mail Messaging | |
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| Formatting Business Letters and Memorandums | |
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| Employment Application Documents | |
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| Online Career Centers | |
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| Resumes | |
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| The Internet and Its Resources | |
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| Accessing Web Resources | |
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| Indexing for Filing | |
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| Indexing and Alphabetizing | |
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| Key to Familiarization Exercise for How | |
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| Key to Practice Exercises | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Grammar and Usage | |
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| Hyphenating and Dividing Words | |
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| Abbreviated Forms | |
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| Words Often Confused and Misused | |
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| Elements of Writing Style | |
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| Proofreading and Editing | |