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| Building The Foundation: The Writing Process | |
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| Why Write? | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Place to start | |
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| Prewriting and Planning Ideas | |
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| What is Prewriting? | |
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| Exploring and Generating Ideas | |
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| Free Writing | |
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| Questioning (Big Six Questions) | |
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| Visual Mapping: Lists, Outlines, and Cluster Maps | |
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| Reading, Journaling, and Discussing | |
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| Narrowing the Subject and Planning the Ideas | |
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| Assignment, Purpose, Audience | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Writing Stand Alone Paragraphs | |
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| Drafting a Stand Alone Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences | |
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| Supporting Sentences and Unity | |
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| Supporting Sentences and Coherence | |
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| Development Sentences | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Titles | |
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| Rewriting Stand Alone Paragraphs | |
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| Why Rewrite? Revising | |
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| Editing | |
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| Preparing Your Final Paragraph | |
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| Building Tightly Structured Paragraphs | |
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| Illustration: Building Paragraphs with Examples | |
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| Writing an Illustration Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences | |
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| Development Sentences: FRIEDs | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of an Illustration Paragraph | |
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| Cause and Effect: Building Paragraphs with Reasons and Results | |
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| Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences | |
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| Development Sentences: FRIEDs | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of a Cause and Effect Paragraph | |
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| Classification: Building Paragraphs with Classes | |
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| Writing a Classification Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences | |
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| Development Sentences: FRIEDs | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of a Classification Paragraph | |
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| Comparison/Contrast: Building Paragraphs with Similarities or Differences | |
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| Writing a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences | |
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| Development Sentences: FRIEDs | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph | |
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| Building Loosely Structured Paragraphs | |
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| Description: Building Paragraphs with Imagery | |
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| Writing a Description Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting and Development Sentences: Sensory Details | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of Description Paragraph | |
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| Narration: Building Paragraphs with Stories | |
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| Writing a Narration Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences and Development Sentences: BCOOL | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of a Narration Paragraph | |
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| Definition: Building Paragraphs with Clarifications | |
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| Writing a Definition Paragraph | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Supporting Sentences and Development Sentences | |
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| Concluding Sentence | |
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| Example of a Definition Paragraph | |
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| Building An Essay From Paragraphs | |
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| Writing an Essay | |
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| The Three Parts of an Essay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Body | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Example Paragraph to Essay | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Common Sentence Errors | |
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| Commonly Used Transitions | |