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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The confident writer</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kanar, Carlo</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Hougton Mifflin Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxv, 530 p.: ill.; 24cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: The Writting process: Understanding the essay: An overview -- Using prewriting strategies -- Improving your paragraph skills -- Stating your thesis -- Revising your essays -- Editing your essays -- Using the library, doing research -- Patterns as options: Using narration -- Using description -- Explaining a process -- Choosing classification or division -- Comparing and contrasting -- Explaining causes and effects -- Using definition -- Arguing persuasively -- More choices: a collection of readings -- The selective writer: Appendix A: Basic choices: The parts of speech -- Appendix B: Sentence effectiveness choices -- Punctuation choices for special problems -- Word choice. </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Carol Kanar</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <classification authority="lcc">PE 1408.K13</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0618131132</identifier>
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