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<title>How To Finish Essays Under Time Pressure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Got a short deadline for an essay? Don't panic. If you're angry or frustrated, lock yourself in the bathroom and scream your lungs out. Then, come back out and forget all those negative emotions. It's time to sit down and get to work.]]></description>
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<title>A Conservative Approach To The Revision Process</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In many ways, writing is a process of discovery. That's why you rarely produce your best material the first try. If you want to truly put out the best work you can manage, you'll need to devote ample time to revision.]]></description>
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<title>How Much Time Should You Devote To Revision?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In writing, the revision process is a must. Every writer needs to revise their writing piece for a better and a clearer outcome which tells what the topic is all about. Notice how most writings have been rejected.]]></description>
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<title>How To Improve Your Assertions By Using Examples</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Illustrating an assertion by the use of examples is one of the best ways to simplify complicated ideas. No matter how difficult to explain an issue is, it becomes easier to conceptualize when explained using illustrative examples.]]></description>
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<title>How To Develop Better Observation Skills</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Better observation skills often lead to improved writing. While it isn't likely to help the structure and mechanics of your papers (you'll have peachier prospects using a writing improvement software), it will bring a whole lot of other benefits into the kind of writing you produce.]]></description>
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<title>Marketing Language You'd Probably Want To Avoid In Non-Marketing Pieces</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Because we're inundated with seemingly endless amounts of marketing, it's not unusual to see its techniques find their way to our way of communicating. That would be fine when you're marketing copy. If you're preparing an essay for class or an email to a supervisor, though, the obvious marketing-style constructions are probably not the most appropriate use of language.]]></description>
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<title>Writing Case Studies In Engineering</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Engineering involves a lot of case studies. It's the nature of the field, as analyzing existing situations and objects play an important part to designing better ones.]]></description>
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<title>Three Steps To Your First Email Newsletter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:22:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Starting an email newsletter for customers and prospects? There are many things you can focus on when creating one. In fact, an entire book devoted exclusively to the topic wouldn't be so surprising.]]></description>
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<title>How To Use Anecdotes To Enrich Your Essays</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While not necessary in most forms of essay writing, anecdotes can prove valuable additions when you're trying to present a richer, more colorful discussion. Provided there, at least, tangentially related to your discussions, of course.]]></description>
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<title>How To Write For Your Audience In Academic Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In academic writing, learning who your audience is carries just as much importance as with any type of composition. Each category of audience, after all, will require a different approach.]]></description>
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<title>How To Send Proper Group Emails</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most people discourage sending group emails. Mostly, the volume of recipients just increases the likelihood that you will end up doing something wrong. This can lead to major problems in your part if you won't act right away on how to correct this bad doing. If you follow good practice, though, you can send out mass emails without any worries.]]></description>
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<title>Questions To Ask When Starting A Paper</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:17:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For some people, starting a paper is the hardest part of the writing process. Unlike editing and proofreading, after all, you won't get much help from your English writing assistant in that phase. That's why having a system you can default to during the early stages is key if you want to bring more stability to the way you write.]]></description>
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<title>How To Use Statistics In Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:12:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most writing only requires you to write with your own ideas and base on the information you gathered to support your arguments or your own opinion. It is more on convincing and informing your readers by telling them what your topic is all about and what message you need to impart to them regarding the subject that you are going to write.]]></description>
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<title>How To Set Up And Complete Quotations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Inserting a quotation is never enough. If you want it to make the most impact, you'll need to use it effectively. Think of it like your typical paragraph, as in there's a beginning and there's an end - the quotation acts as your main body.]]></description>
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<title>Five Bad Ways To Conclude An Essay</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Writing an essay won't take too much of your time depending upon the topic that you are tackling with. Most of the time, you'll find it hard how to end your essay up effectively. But it doesn't mean to say that you'll just write it without planning what to include and how it will look like in the end. Writing a conclusion also needs to follow important and effective guidelines to prevent you from writing it poorly.]]></description>
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<title>Risky Application Essays</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When you're writing an application essay and aren't too hot about your chances, there's one strategy you can resort to that can, hopefully, tilt things in your favor: taking risks. Granted, many guides to application essays will tell you to take risks. The best of those, however, will warn you that the "risk" portion is unnecessary if you've got your stuff together.]]></description>
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<title>How To Review Your Use Of Evidence</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good evidence is crucial to making an argument's case. Without it, all you're left with are conjecture and rhetoric done over with an English writing program and nothing substantial to hang them on to. That's why reviewing the evidence is an important part of the editing process - it's the safest way to ensure that you've made solid ground to stand on.]]></description>
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<title>The Basics Of A Good Argument</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most writing will include some type of argument, whether it's an essay, a proposal or an email inviting a friend to an activity. Simply put, they're part of a majority of discourses in almost all walks of life. Arguments serve as your highlights in writing.]]></description>
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<title>When To Use Self-Referential Pronouns In Academic Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Because of their emphasis on objectivity, it's always good practice to avoid the use of the first-person pronouns, such as "I," "we," "me," "us," "my" and "our," in academic writing. However, there are cases where referencing in the first person actually makes sense and is allowed.]]></description>
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<title>Write And Get To The Point</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 10:35:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you've ever found yourself wondering how to start a piece to the extent that you're struggling to even begin, here's an idea: just get to the point. No, really. All the magical wordsmith wizardry is fine and all. If inspiration isn't striking, though, you better just step up and take it for yourself. And the quickest way to do that is to just get to the point.]]></description>
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<title>How To Seek Out Run-On Sentences</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, run-on sentences are easy to find. Other times, you have to work to catch them. If you'd like a more systematic way of finding run-on sentences in your writing, you can do it by testing a sentence.]]></description>
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<title>How to Edit a Fellow Writer's Work</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Looking to help a friend out with their work? It's common for writers to have fellow writers edit their piece - in fact, it's as widespread a practice as using a software to help with writing errors. Often, it happens as a reciprocal thing - you edit mine, I'll edit yours. If you're editing someone's paper, here are some very useful tips:]]></description>
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<title>WhiteSmoke 2011 Review</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WhiteSmoke 2011 is an all-in-one writing solution. It aims to improve your English writing, by analyzing the text you write as you actually type it in. It gives instant feedback, hints, offers word alternatives and sentence structuring recommendations, checks for proper punctuation and word usage.]]></description>
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<title>Papers For Film Studies Courses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here, you look at a film through the larger context of history. How did world events, advancements in science and other historical factors affect its creation? In turn, what kind of impact will it make in our culture and society, as a while?]]></description>
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<title>Seven Steps to a Strong Paragraph</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:05:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Need a structured way to write paragraphs for the main body of your essays? Of course you really should. Try this seven-step approach: Start with a topic sentence.]]></description>
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<title>Different Types of Revising</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:01:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Revising your paper is one of the most important activities in writing. Without it, you end up leaving much about the quality of your work to chance. And if you've written enough times, you'll know the numbers don't necessarily fall in your favor.]]></description>
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<title>What Do You Mean by Standard English?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:43:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[English comes in countless varieties, each of them no more "right" than the other. However, some variants will undoubtedly be more appropriate depending on your audience and purpose.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write Strong Introductions For Scientific Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:33:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Introductions are valuable in most any type of writing - even when producing scientific materials. In this type of writing, strong introductions contain four basic elements: purpose, background, hypothesis and your justification for the hypothesis' viability.]]></description>
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<title>Why Should You Revise?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:09:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes revising. You've already worked so hard on a draft, after all. Why should you have to do even more work after that?]]></description>
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<title>How to Write an Analysis Paper</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:05:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Need help sharpening your analytical writing skills? Analysis requires you to dissect something, breaking it down into parts and understanding how those individual components work to complete the whole.]]></description>
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<title>The Subtle Art of Precision</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:04:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you could use one principle to guide your choice of words and phrases when you write, let it be precision. Why? Because this act of being exact is the most important contributor to clarity.]]></description>
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<title>Preparing to Write a Lab Report</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:55:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing a lab report? Before you do, make sure you've adequately prepared for the task. If you don't know what you're going to write, after all, there's little chance anything you put down is going to make much sense.]]></description>
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<title>Five Fallacies to Remove in Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:55:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fallacies weaken arguments - it's as simple as that. Just like grammar and syntax problems (that you can correct with a software for English writing), learning to find them in your work can only help strengthen any position you take.]]></description>
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<title>Two Ways to Organize a Comparison-Contrast Essay</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:50:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing for a contrast and/or comparison essay is challenging. If you end up messing with your paragraphs or ideas, you can always organize it well. There are more than two ways to organize a comparison/contrast essay.]]></description>
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<title>The 7 C's of Business Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:49:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having some hard times in business writing? For some reasons, you just don't have to. There is always a solution to every problem and in your part, you can look for simple ways to help you out in your writing tasks.]]></description>
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<title>Evidence is Not Enough to Support Your Arguments</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:37:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to making an argument, evidence is not enough. You can introduce evidence after evidence for all the reader could care. Until you explain why and how this evidence forwards your argument, there's little chance it will help your case.]]></description>
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<title>Characteristics of a Good Paragraph</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:32:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not all the paragraphs are the same. Some are good, others border on clutter. How do you make your paragraphs fall on the side of the former and avoid the traps of the latter?]]></description>
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<title>Business Writing Characteristics</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:15:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Effective writing means fashioning constructions that work for its intended purpose. As such, business writing brings different requirements when lined up against other types of composition, whether they be in fiction, academe or other settings.]]></description>
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<title>How to Revise at the Sentence Level</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:11:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It writing, it is advisable that you need to revise your first draft to secure your writing's effectiveness and quality. And all you have to do is to revise each sentences in your paragraphs well. When revising at the sentence level, your goal should go beyond making your sentences correct (all you need is a decent writing check software for that).]]></description>
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<title>Writing an Analytical Research Paper</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:07:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In many classes, you'll be focusing your research writing on two types of papers: argumentative and analytical. The former seeks to convince the reader of a specific position, while the latter is designed to offer an interpretation of a topic and its various implications.]]></description>
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<title>Learning From Good Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:25:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Want to learn to write better? Pay attention to the stuff you read and analyze what makes them good.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write Better College Essays</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:10:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[School essays require a lot of work. That's why getting bad marks after you've worked so hard in one is just downright grating.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write Thoughtful Conclusions</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:09:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Conclusions give you a chance to leave the reader with a thoughtful closing to a discussion. That's why it makes sense to write your conclusions as more than a mere restatement of your thesis and a concise retelling of your primary ideas.]]></description>
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<title>How to Give Your Readers Breathing Room</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:01:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Run-on sentences make reading your writing more difficult than it has to be. Not only does your main point get in danger of being lost amidst a mass of words, it becomes terribly taxing to read without pause too. I bet you, even the most lenient English software will point it out during a grammar check.]]></description>
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<title>Business Writing - Positive Messages</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:53:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most business writing is intended to deliver a message. Not all of these messages are equal - some are considerably more difficult to relay than others.]]></description>
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<title>Improving Your Writing - Prioritizing Higher-Order Concerns</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:33:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you're looking to improve your skills in the field of writing, the best approach is to go from top to bottom. That means taking care of higher order concerns, before proceeding to the small details.]]></description>
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<title>Six Things You Can Make Your Paragraphs Do</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:25:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Paragraphs can do magical things in the hands of the right wordsmith. Since you're reading a grammar checking website (instead of producing flawless prose with the help of a quality writing software), we're assuming that's not you. At least, not yet.]]></description>
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<title>How to Use Reverse Outlining to Reorganize Your Draft</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:06:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are many approaches you can take when reorganizing your draft. In fact, some of the advanced writing software have facilities that suggest changes on this end. Reverse outlining, however, remains one of the simplest and most intuitive of these strategies.]]></description>
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<title>How to Organize an Evaluation Paper</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:01:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When deciding on how to organize a paper, most writers are best served turning their attention to on an outline. We've discussed that type of work many times before, as we've been huge fans of outlining as a way to streamline the work when you're actually writing.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write Papers For Technical Courses</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Technical courses, such as engineering and computer science, are never exempt from writing. In fact, those enrolled in them will likely be doing a lot of writing too, except they'll consist of a different set of assignments, compared to literature or history class.]]></description>
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<title>Learning to Evaluate - A Critical Part of Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evaluation is a part of our daily lives. When we read a book, watch a movie or listen to a song, we normally pass on our judgments about it, usually during conversation with others. Because of our familiarity with the process, it has become a regular part of many types of our writing too - almost as integral to it as a certified writing software.]]></description>
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<title>How to Add Action and Clarity to Your Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You can tell if your writing is dry when there is no actions and clarity within your content to enhance your ideas. It will only make your writing dull and incomplete if you miss out these two important factors which help you in writing effective and successful contents. Want to add vibrancy and more vivid imagery to your writing?]]></description>
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<title>Sentence Fragments - It's Everyone's Problem</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sentence fragments, do you know how to deal with it? Many writers really don't know how to use a complete sentence well and they always end up in writing fragmented sentences.]]></description>
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<title>How to Avoid Poor Reasoning in Your Essays</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Everyone's prone to making errors in reasoning, especially when you're writing your paper against a looming deadline. However, there are ways you can police your reasoning after writing your first draft, so that you ensure a sound and logical argument.]]></description>
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<title>How to Choose Words That Suit the Necessary Level of Usage</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:51:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Different kinds of writing require different choices of words. Essays and reports tend to drive you towards more formal usage, while narratives and humorous stories might benefit more from a looser control of language.]]></description>
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<title>How to Project Your Own Voice on Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:50:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A strong voice gives your writing personality - one that can easily be identified as yours. Having it sets your work apart from the mass of generic blocks of text that bring no special appeal.]]></description>
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<title>Things to Consider When Writing Your Thesis Statement</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The thesis statement serves as one of the most unifying aspects of a paper. Not only does it introduce your topic to the reader, it holds the various parts together, summarizes your main arguments and suggest a direction for the development of your ideas.]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Support an Argument</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:49:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making a claim is not enough. In order for your paper to have a full argument, you will need to support it with evidence and logical reasoning, avoiding errors and fallacies while you're at it.]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Your Writing More Precise</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:48:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Precision is a valuable quality for most types of writing. Being able to convey meaning in exact terms makes reading any type of document considerably easier. In contrast, inexact language forces the reader to approximate your point, opening the way to possible areas for misunderstanding.]]></description>
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<title>How to Keep Paragraphs Focused on a Single Topic</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:45:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fashioning good paragraphs is a learned skill. Knowing exactly when to lengthen a paragraph and when to break it up can leave a marked difference in how easy to follow your writing becomes.]]></description>
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<title>Peer Editing - A Few Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:44:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Banking on your friends to help with editing a piece you've written is one of the surest ways to get a pair of fresh eyes on it (yes, this can do wonders for your writing, especially when paired with an effective writing software). Of course, you'll normally have to do your own share of editing others' work if you want them to return the favor, so having a working guideline of what you need to do should help you work through their drafts in an optimal manner.]]></description>
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<title>Working With Topic Sentences</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:37:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Good paragraphs are unified around a main point, with all sentences included pointing to that major idea in some way. To keep the reader from guessing what that singular main point is, you lay it out clearly using a topic sentence.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write an Analytical Essay</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:31:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When writing an analytical piece, the author's most important work is offering up an interpretation of all the materials gathered. That means making your own inferences from your different sources, leading up to a final conclusion.]]></description>
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<title>Combining the Three Types of Persuasion in Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:07:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you think that there is something that lacks the quality of your persuasive writing? Like, after you read your writing piece and it feels like you are not contented with what you just read? By looking at the brighter side, you will eventually realize the missing elements in your writing.]]></description>
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<title>How to Organize Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:39:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once you've done your research and settled for a primary theme, it's time to work on organizing your ideas in a way that can serve your writing. For the most part, you would like to come up with an arrangement that allows you to flesh out your arguments, while making it easy for readers to follow.]]></description>
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<title>Why Five-Paragraph Essays May Not Be Best For College Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:39:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The five-paragraph structure is among the most popular formats for essay writing. As a simplified version of academic writing, it uses a streamlined process that lets you state an idea and support it with evidence.]]></description>
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<title>How to Present Strong Evidence</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:38:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making a point is one thing. Backing those points up with corresponding evidence is a whole other.]]></description>
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<title>How to Budget Your Writing Space</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:28:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is writing space really that important? When you're working with page or word count limits, it's important to plan your writing to ensure that you manage to stay within requirements. The best way to do this is to arrange, in advance, how much space you will allot for each part of the paper.]]></description>
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<title>The Structure of Good Introductions</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:41:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Want to write powerful introductions? Of course, you do. It's the first part of your writing that the reader will see, after all, setting the stage for the body of your discussion.]]></description>
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<title>Developing Your Writing Style by Learning From the Best</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:27:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For the most part, a confident and mature writing voice is honed from years of servicing the craft. As such, it isn't surprising to find younger writers struggle to find their own personality in words.]]></description>
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<title>Writing in Biology Class</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:23:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Biology classes have specific requirements in the kinds of writing you're likely to do, just like every other subject you enroll in during college. In particular, though, most writing assignments you'll get tasked with will fall under one of these categories:]]></description>
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<title>How to Craft a Proper Argument</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:14:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finding an argument to write your paper around need not to be an especially trying moment. You only need an argument, after all, not the greatest point of contention since the right to suffrage. Sure, many students panic when crafting one. Luckily, that doesn't mean you have to.]]></description>
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<title>Types of Essays to Expect in History Classes</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:11:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Taking a history class? Writing assignments usually come hand-in-hand with being enrolled in one. Here are types of writing you should look forward to doing.]]></description>
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<title>How to Check Paragraph Coherence</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:38:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clear writing has as much to do with well-connected and coherent paragraphs, as much as it does with correct grammar. That's why the best English writing checkers often incorporate as much structural checks as they can into their algorithms.]]></description>
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<title>Style For Science Writers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:07:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In any science writing, it has a different style than any other kinds or writing. It has a different approach which always serve its purpose. But just like any form of writing, it still follows the basic rules of writing a content.]]></description>
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<title>How to Hit Word Count Limits</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:34:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ideally, you want to write with however many words it realistically takes to discuss a topic. This can be very few or this can be a lot, depending, obviously, on the issue you're tackling.]]></description>
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<title>Techniques For Writing Effective Conclusions</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:53:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your conclusion offers your paper the last chance to talk about your views on a subject. It gives you an opportunity to have your final say in the issues you raised and tie any loose ends together.]]></description>
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<title>How to Never Confuse Your Readers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:45:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A confused reader is an unhappy reader. So unhappy, in fact, that they'll forget anything good about your piece, only remembering that part where you left them scratching their heads and putting down the page.]]></description>
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<title>Good Writing is Like a Good Song</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:42:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you tried to write a song of your own? Normally, you tend to write a great song which will turn out to be a better cover.]]></description>
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<title>Why Your Thesis Needs to Be Written Well</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:35:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We know, writing isn't your major. Regardless, your thesis needs to be written well. How can you be graded, after all, if the examiners can't understand a lick of the research you've done?]]></description>
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<title>How to Use Appropriate Diction in University Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Expressing your ideas in university writing involves more than effective language and correct grammar. In many ways, it's also about the right choice of words.]]></description>
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<title>The Steps of Pre-Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:29:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What exactly should you do during the pre-writing stage? Like many aspects of writing, this can vary depending on who's doing the work. If you're looking to test out new approaches to your craft, though, you may want to try your hand at these five different steps.]]></description>
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<title>How to Let Boilerplate Material Simplify Your Writing Tasks</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:28:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the best way to write something is to not write it. Instead, the right approach may be to simply copy and paste it from stuff you've previously written.]]></description>
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<title>Things You Should Do After the Main Body</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:23:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most people write their work from top to bottom, starting from the introduction and ending with the conclusion. It's logical and makes the process simple. Unfortunately, that's hardly the best way of putting a piece together.]]></description>
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<title>Content, Style and Correctness - Getting it Right</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:19:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you are done writing your first draft, check your work again and determine whether you are doing the right thing with your writing tasks. Three things matter most in any type of writing intended for an audience: content, style and correctness. Getting those three things right is paramount to your work's success.]]></description>
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<title>How to Quote Effectively</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:17:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Quoting has been a serious problem by most writers nowadays. If you don't have any idea on how to quote a statement or a line from a reliable source, then don't take any risk of inserting it in your content. You have to be sure enough on what to do in order to avoid any problems that it can bring.]]></description>
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<title>Ten Steps to Organized Business Reports</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:17:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing a report? Follow these steps to put it together in an organized and structured manner.]]></description>
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<title>Style For Business Writers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:12:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Think you don't need a style guide because all the writing you do is centered around business duties? Think again. Style is more than a fancy way of writing, after all. In fact, employing one consciously for all business writing should help you communicate your message clearly to your audience.]]></description>
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<title>Five Ways Poor Logic Can Show Up in Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:05:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people love to read meaningful passages or contents. However, there are those who love to read logical contents that can hook up their attentions easily. Depending on how most expert writers write the concept of their topic, it has to be strong enough to feed their readers with contentment and understanding and that requires deep concentration in writing your own content.]]></description>
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<title>Six Tenets of Plain Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:03:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No doubt, you've heard many folks harp on about the virtues of plain writing. I can't say I blame them. If everyone wrote in such plain, easy-to-read manner, after all, we'd have considerably much less confusion in the world. No kidding.]]></description>
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<title>How to Evaluate Your Own Essays</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:56:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Think your essay's finished after a final draft and a bout with a powerful writing software? Good for you. If you'd like to get the best marks possible, you may want to try evaluating it, simulating what the teacher will do when they're grading it.]]></description>
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<title>How to Sound Credible in Persuasive Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:34:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being credible isn't just about having titles attached to your name. In many written documents, you can have few of the credentials compared to others, yet continue to be credible. How? By sounding the part.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write Stylish Sentences</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:24:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Almost every reader will vote for clarity over style, so if you can get the former right, your writing is already decent. However, giving your work some amount of grace and elegance is one of the best ways to get readers to pay attention.]]></description>
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<title>How to Write Well by Preventing Bad Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:12:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some people say great writing can't be taught, it can only be developed. You may or may not have a shot at being a great writer. Regardless, the first step to get there is to pull yourself from the rut of bad writing.]]></description>
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<title>Beginning From a Single Idea</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:01:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All writing comes from a single idea, expanded into various branches. And that process is exactly what you need to embrace the moment you start.]]></description>
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<title>A Few Ways to Write With Humor</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:55:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing with humor can be effective in your writing only if you know how to choose your words well. It doesn't really have to be too insulting or offensive since you have to deal with your readers of any age and status. Want to elicit a few chuckles to go with the document you're writing?]]></description>
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<title>Trim the Fat Off Your University Essays</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:41:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have professors been giving your essays back with the comment that you're going too heavy in the words? If they are, then your writing is probably bordering on obese - you need to trim off the fat to get in shape.]]></description>
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<title>Business Writing - Knowing When to Write</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:39:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In business settings, being able to write effectively is often just as important as knowing when to write. It's true. Sometimes, the best recourse is to not write at all and choose other avenues for communication.]]></description>
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<title>How Clear is Your Writing?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:52:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is your draft clear enough to make it as your final revision? Here's a ten-point checklist you can use to gauge how well it communicates your ideas.]]></description>
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<title>How to Think Like a Writer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you have bigger dreams to be a professional writer? If you really want to be a writer, you have to start thinking like a writer.]]></description>
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