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Logs
 Short
Assignments
 Readings
 Essay
One
 Essay
Two
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Reviews
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Sheets
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Group Discussions
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writing focuses on patterns of main ideas and support.  This
handout
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college textbooks and professional journals is not easy, but here is
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Quote or Not to Quote | 
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and why do college professors want you to include quotes in your
essays? 
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handout will give you the fundamentals on direct quoting and the
reasons
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handout will give you the fundamentals on indirect quoting and the
reasons
you would use a indirect quote rather than an direct quote. | 
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paraphrase is not a summary!  Find out the difference between
paraphrasing
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