How to Use This Book |
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Guessing |
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About Brian Leaf |
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Acknowledgments |
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Pretest |
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Skills 1 The Intro Paragraph |
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Skills 2 The SAT Reading Meditation |
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20 | (2) |
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Skills 3 "Plethora" Most Nearly Means |
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22 | (4) |
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26 | (2) |
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Skills 5 What Are You Trying to "Suggest"? |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (14) |
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Vocab I Compliment or Insult? Drills |
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35 | (2) |
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Vocab II Superbad Vocabulary Drills |
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37 | (4) |
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Vocab III Deodorant and Spanish Class Drills |
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41 | (2) |
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Vocab IV Splitting Words Drills |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (4) |
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54 | (2) |
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Skills 12 Gretchen Is "Such" a Good Friend |
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56 | (4) |
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60 | (4) |
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Skills 14 How to Be a Reading Ninja |
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64 | (6) |
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Skills 15 Subject/Verb Agreement |
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70 | (2) |
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Skills 16 Subject/Verb Agreement Tricks |
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72 | (2) |
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Skills 17 Pronoun Clarity and Agreement |
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74 | (2) |
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Skills 18 Correct Transition Word |
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76 | (2) |
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Skills 19 Brave, Honest, and Relaxed |
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78 | (2) |
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80 | (2) |
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Skills 21 Relaxing Commas |
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82 | (2) |
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Skills 22 Are You Independent? |
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84 | (4) |
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Skills 23 Correct Preposition |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (2) |
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Skills 25 A Few More Rules |
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92 | (2) |
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Skills 26 Direct, to the Point, Not Redundant |
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94 | (2) |
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Skills 27 Misplaced Phrases |
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96 | (2) |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (2) |
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Skills 32 Adverbs End in "ly" |
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106 | (2) |
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Skills 33 Jedi Master Yoda |
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108 | (2) |
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Skills 34 Combining Sentences |
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110 | (2) |
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Skills 35 How to Think Like a Grammar Genius |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (4) |
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120 | (2) |
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Skills 38 Dude's Got Style! |
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122 | (2) |
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Skills 39 Craft Your Thesis |
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124 | (2) |
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Skills 40 Intro Paragraph |
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126 | (2) |
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Skills 41 Transition Sentences |
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128 | (2) |
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Skills 42 Body Paragraph I |
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130 | (2) |
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Skills 43 Body Paragraph II |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (2) |
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Skills 45 What's the Problem? |
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136 | (2) |
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Skills 46 Stretch the Dough |
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138 | (2) |
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140 | (2) |
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Skills 48 Other Stuff That Matters |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (2) |
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Skills 50 How to Be a Writing Monster |
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146 | (2) |
Bonus Skill: Writing the Perfect Essay |
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Tavi's Terrific Essay |
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149 | (1) |
Easy, Medium, Hard, and Guessing Revisited |
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150 | (1) |
Now What? |
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151 | (1) |
Posttest |
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Solutions |
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