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29. a. Marianne had never been as far East as
Columbus, Ohio.
b. Marianne had never been as far east as
Columbus, Ohio.
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Practice
Choose the correctly capitalized version of each of the
following pairs.
25. a. Digging the Canal through Panama took
many years.
b. Digging the canal through Panama...
... have traveled on the Garden state Parkway, a
main highway in New Jersey.
b. I have traveled on the Garden State Parkway, a
main highway in New Jersey.
Proper Adjectives
Proper adjectives are adjectives—that ... Kahlo, a Mexican artist, painted many
self-portraits.
b. Frida Kahlo, a mexican artist, painted many
self-portraits.
22. a. The actress in the play tried to speak with a
Scottish accent.
b. The Actress ... meets all
three of the following criteria:
1. It has a verb (a word or phrase that explains an
action such as want, run, take, give, or a state of
being, such as am, is, are, was, were, be). Many
sentences...
... that
follow the ai and ia rules:
Words with ai Words with ia
Britain alleviate
captain brilliant
certain civilian
chieftain familiar
curtain guardian
fountain median
villain menial
Consonants
Silent ... communication skills including vocabu-
lary and spelling—are essential. A good vocabulary
increases your ability to understand reading material
and to express yourself in speaking and in writing.
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... that
analyzes a particular topic or book, while a
research paper involves analyzing raw data and
different facts and statistics from a variety of
sources. Once you have collected all your materi-
al, ... Emotional Versus Logical Appeals 69
LESSON 15 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion 73
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Take good, thorough notes from all your
sources.
Becoming a Detective
Part of writinga research paper is gathering your
materials and doing...
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29. a. Marianne had never been as far East as
Columbus, Ohio.
b. Marianne had never been as far east as
Columbus, Ohio.
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... determine the main idea of
what you read.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking.
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FINDING THE
MAIN IDEA
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Making Notes in the Margins
Recording your questions and reactions in the mar-
gins turns you from a passive receiver of information
into an active participant ina dialogue. (If you’re
reading...
...
Plotting Points on a Graph
You can plot points on a coordinate plane. Every point has two coordinates: an x coordinate and a y coordinate.
These coordinates are written as an ordered pair. It ... remember that a linear equation will always graph into a straight line.
There are other ways to determine if an equation is linear without graphing the equation. Equations of this
type can be put into ... Ax +By = C, where A and B are not both equal to zero. This is called the standard
form of a linear equation. In standard form, a linear equation can have no exponent greater than 1, cannot have
any...
... can apply during “application periods.”
PRACTICE 3
Now take a look at a passage similar to something you might read in a
local newspaper. The passage is divided into several short paragraphs in
the ...
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• Reading the pre-text
• Skimming ahead and jumping back
In addition, if your attention begins to fade, try reading aloud to engage
your ears as well as your eyes.
Skill...
... probably familiar with the basic format of the
traditional outline:
I. Main idea 1
A. Major detail
B. Major detail
1. Minor detail
2. Minor detail
II. Main idea 2
A. Major detail
B. Major detail
You ... of
making a linear outline of the main ideas of a text,
when you map, you make a diagram of the main points
in the text that you want to remember. The following
diagrams show the same information ... look:
Visual Modality
learning by seeing
Auditory Modality
learning by listening
Kinesthetic Modality
learning by doing
Visual Modality
learning by seeing
Auditory Modality
learning by listening
Kinesthetic...
... irregularity or
abnormality. Since average means usual or
commonplace, it is not a synonym.
30. c. having to do with animals. Simian means
ape-like or having to do with apes or mon-
keys. Since having ... (pra·mə·ti·zəm)
(noun)
a way of thinking or an attitude that stresses the
value of being practical, realistic, and useful
We were all glad he showed such at the
meeting and that he was not too idealistic
about achieving ... move
It was so hot last Sunday that I remained ;
I lay on the couch all day and enjoyed the air
conditioning.
insouciance (in sü·se¯·ən(t)s)
(noun)
carefree, unconcerned
Her at losing her job made...
... diving adventure in
Indonesia, I purchased some state of the art
radar gear.
45. If you want something done quickly, you
may ask for it ASAP.
46. At the new planetarium, I saw an amazing
laser ... accessed
randomly
3 the coding on many Web page
documents
6 local area network
8 a compact disc that contains
data a computer can read
9 self-contained underwater
breathing device
10 English as a second ... mean
your vocabulary and literacy won’t benefit from visit-
ing a scuba website to learn how all the gear is a self-
contained underwater breathing apparatus. Flipping
through Wired magazine or the...
... the main char-
acter ina drama or other literary work. In
ancient Greek drama, a protagonist is the
first actor to engage in dialogue. A protago-
nist is also a champion or leader of a cause.
Speed ... to any piece of writing. They serve to qualify and clarify the subject at
hand. Consider a mental image coming into focus as additional information is put forth: “There was
a man. There was an ... difficult variables entered into the
situation, his carefully mapped plans went
terribly .
bane (ba¯n)
(noun)
fatal injury or ruin; a cause of harm, ruin, or death; a
source of persistent annoyance...