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Mon Jun-06-05 11:44 PM
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Tom Yossarian Joad
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Mon Jun-06-05 11:48 PM
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1. The Holt Handbook on line. |
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http://go.hrw.com/hhb/Shall we find a link for Strunk & White as well?
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alcibiades_mystery
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Mon Jun-06-05 11:48 PM
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2. What's the point here? |
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Mon Jun-06-05 11:49 PM
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Who cares? I'm I going to get a low point because I didn't do my grammer right? :eyes:
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Tue Jun-07-05 12:01 AM
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What's funny is that most current-day writing instruction would recognize just what you're saying, and look askance at the notion that those types of paragraphs are the ONLY types that should be used. That is, it recognizes the different formal structures used on message boards, and certainly doesn't prescribe ONE formal structure for all kinds of writing (which would be a ridiculous lesson to teach anyway). The whole fetishization of that kind of paragraph (there are many kinds of paragraphs) is amusing, to say the least.
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Tue Jun-07-05 12:11 AM
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5. No, you're going to get a bad grade because you didn't |
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spell "grammar" right. :D :D :D :D :D
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:30 AM
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:31 AM
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Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 08:31 AM by Roland99
:P
Now, as punishment, I want you to write a 1,000-word essay on why GWB is a good president.
:rofl:
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Tue Jun-07-05 12:26 AM
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6. are you fuckin serious |
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i suppose you want proper sentence structures too. not gonna happen, lol lol, really am in a fit of giggle. you be funny.
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Tue Jun-07-05 12:54 AM
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:28 AM
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8. So, for example, "Cheerleading is a sport" |
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First you place it in a class, and demonstrate how it fits the predicates for that class, then you distinguish it from the other members of the class.
Or, you could do what's called an enumerative definition whereby you pile up the to-be-defined's features.
Definitions are rhetorical.
You could also do classification paragraphs, contrast paragraphs, comparison paragraphs, etc. Any of the modes that were taught for entirte papers could also be used in paragraphs. The "topic sentence+ support+ conclusion sentence" paragraph structure is just one of many, and one that is not used very often.
Where do you "logically" break a paragraph in a piece of fiction, for example, and what should the paragraph contain?
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