appear more interesting than life on the farm‚ and therefore drew them away from rural communities. Notice how each supporting sentence is a cause that explains the effect mentioned in the topic sentence. In the chart below are the main ideas of the above paragraph‚ to help you understand the relationships better: EFFECT (Topic Sentence) CAUSES (Supporting Sentences) Cities have grown very large. [There are several reasons for this.] Factory jobs attracted people. (Cities have grown
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1. A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them on systematic astronomical observation. (A) that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them (B) of the North American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them (C) of the development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians
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Spelling Commonly confused words Unknown words Grammar 1 issue Use of articles (1) Conditional sentences Use of conjunctions Modal verbs Use of adjectives and adverbs Show all Punctuation 1 issue Punctuation within a clause (1) Closing punctuation Punctuation between clauses Runon sentences and comma splices Special character punctuation Sentence Structure Sentence fragment Faulty parallelism Word order Style Check 3 issues Usage of colloquial speech (2) Wordiness (1)
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Janette Spinks Susan Johnson Nutrition Report 9 May 2002 Vegetarianism and Cancer Being a vegetarian is becoming more and more popular in today’s society with the need to be politically correct. As doctors look further in to this lifestyle they are finding more and more benefits to a person being a vegetarian. In an article entitled "Vegetarian Diets During Cancer Treatment" written by Donna Paglia‚ M.S.‚ R.D. discuss the benefits to being a vegetarian as far as cancer goes. Within
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C-word. If your reader cannot understand what you are trying to say | | |or if he/she has to reread a section of your document‚ you have failed to communicate. | | |Choose simple words/sentences—this is especially critical when describing complex ideas. | | |Make only one point at a time. | | |Offer frequent examples
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Closing remarks are very similar to the concluding paragraph of an essay. The opening paragraph introduces the topic. The closing remarks provide a concise summary of the points made in the talk. Frequently‚ in the closing remarks‚ is a statement of the next course of action. Some people use closing remarks to thanks sponsors and other researchers‚ but this can be done in the beginning of the talk. The closing remark may be what the audience will remember most about the talk. One or two short sentences
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paragraph? It is a group of sentences that introduces‚ presents and develops one main idea about the topic. And it can be divided into three major parts. A. The Topic Sentence • It is normally the first sentence of the paragraph. • It conveys the overall point of the paragraph. • It helps the writer focus on the idea written about. • It helps the reader know about what the paragraph is all about. B. The Supporting Details • They are sentences used to support the main idea
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purpose of capital letters and punctuation marks is simply to make reading easier. Without them‚ reading would be a constant puzzle; and we are all much too busy to work out puzzles every time we read. Notice how confusing the following sentence is when it is written without capital letters and punctuation marks: caesar entered on his head his helmet on his feet his sandals in his hand his sword on his forehead a frown and sat down Is the following an improvement? Caesar
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GUIDE TO FORMAL OUTLINING I. The outline should be in sentence form. A. That means that each section of the outline must be a complete sentence B. Each part may only have one sentence in it. II. Each Roman numeral should be a main section of the speech. A. Capital letters are main points of the thesis. 1. Numbers are sub-points under the capital letters. 2. Little letters are sub-points under the numbers. B. Sub-points need to correspond with the idea it is under. 1. This means that capital letters
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interrogative‚ imperative and exclamatory sentences. * Capitalize the first word in interjections and incomplete sentences. * Capitalize the first word in a quotation if the quotation is a complete sentence. Take note: When a quotation consists of one complete sentence in two parts‚ only one capital is needed. Ex. “How much longer‚” asked Mike‚ “are you going to need that book?” * Capitalize the first word after a colon if the word begins in a complete sentence. If the list follows the colon‚
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