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Improving Your Writing
Effective Sentence Crafting Models
The Cumulative Sentence
Video
Using Poetry as Model
Writing Exercises
EX 1: Toward Effective Description
EX 3: The Pyramid Story
EX 2: Alphabet Soup
EX 4: Verbs by Choice
Modeling from a Novel
3 Effective Claim Statement Models
EX 5: A Brief Exercise on Form
EX 7: Turning Prose into Poetry
Ex 6: Another Brief Exercise on Form
EX 8: Turning Prose Into Poetry
Children's Books as a Model
EX 9: Avoiding Overwording
The 5 Word Sentence
EX 11: Imitating Syntax and Style
What Makes a Sentence Beautiful
EX 13: Making Effective Claims
A Different Kind of Compound Construction
Video
EX 15: Imitating Mary Shelley
Using and Introductory Series for a Claim
Video
Using Dependent Clauses in a Claim
Video
EX 17:Dark and Stormy Night
EX 19: The Why America Essay
EX 21: Do You Think There's a Truth Here?
EX 10: The Wisdom of a Short Sentence
EX 12: Movie Trailer Intros
EX 14: Making Effective Claims(#2)
EX 16:Revising Mary Shelley
EX 18: Reverse Translation using Nursery Rhymes
EX 20:Using the Haiku to Sharpen Diction
EX 22: The Phatic Utterance
EX 23: Writing Aboard an Elevator
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