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errors of

sexism and

Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Proof

Proofreading

Proquest Central

Prose, tone-deaf

PsycInfo

PubMed

Punctuation

quotations and

Qualifying, of claims

Qualitative evidence

Quantitative evidence

Queries

Question(s)

agree/disagree

asking with sources

begging

about plagiarism

reformulating

research

thesis statement as

Quotations

ellipses and

framing

integrating

punctuation and

splicing

Quoting

citing sources after

paraphrasing and

of sources

Ranking

Reacting

Reaction paper

Reading

critical

fast

for gist

against the grain

with the grain

as lens

between the lines

as model

owning

as physical activity

proofreading

rhetorically

sympathetic

three lives of

writing about

Reasoning

circular

deductive

from evidence

with metaphors

practical

syllogistic

Toulmin model of

Reciprocity

Recursive

Red herring

Redundancy

in conclusions

Referee

References

ambiguous

broad

Cited References

list of

Refutations

Relativism

Relevance

Repetitions

listing of

parallelism and

ranked

Rephrasing

Representativeness

Research

environments

productive

questions

statistical

Response

causes of

context of

evaluative

non-evaluative

personal

Restriction

Restrictive clause

Reviews

Revising Prose (Lanham)

Revision

for correctness

differences within similarity and

The Method and

strategies of

style and

10 on 1 and

of thesis statement

Rewording

Rhetoric

analysis and

classical

disciplinary formats

of form

reading and

of sentences

traditional modes of

Rhetorical awareness

Rhetorical Grammar (Kolln)

Rhetorical stance

Rich, Adrienne

Ricks, Christopher

Risky Business (film)

The Rituals of Dinner (Visser)

“Road map” paragraph

Rogerian argument

Rogers, Carl

Rosenberg, Pearl

Run-on sentences

Salon.com

SATs

Scholarly journals

Scholes, Robert

Scientific papers

introductions in

Scientific writing

Sciutto, Mark

Scope

reducing

Search engines

Secondary sources

Second-best example

Second person

pros/cons of

“Seems to be about X”

Semicolons

Send-off

Sentence(s)

basic types of

climactic

complex

complex-compound

compound

coordinate

cumulative

as delivery systems

emphasis in

focusing on

fragments

functions of

fused/run-on

gaps between

in paragraphs

parts of

periodic

rhetoric of

shape of

simple

structure

style of

subordinate

summary

“go to,”

topic

weight of

September

Seventeen

Sexism

Shakespeare, William

Shaughnessy, Mina

Shklovsky, Victor

“Should” statements

Similarity within difference

Simple cause/complex effect

Simple sentence

The Simpsons

Slate

Slippery slope

Smith, Adam

SocAbs. See Sociological Abstracts

Social context, meanings and

Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)

Sources

acknowledging

analysis and

anxiety over

articles as

asking questions with

books as

citing

conversing with

definition and

as departure point

disagreeing

documenting

electronic

finding

integrating

juxtaposing

method of

online

organization of

paraphrasing

perspectives on

plagiarism and

primary

quoting

secondary

speaking

Specifying

Speeches

political

Spelling errors

Splices

commas and

of quotations

Standardized testing

Standard Written English

Static verbs

Statistics

evidence an

interpreting

research and

Stephen, Lesley

Strands

Straw man

Strunk, William, Jr

Style

basics of

change in

choices and

colloquial

definition of

of documentation

experimenting with

formal

generalizations about

meaning and

Official

personal

prescriptive

revising for

of sentences

thought and

“Style and Good Style” (Beardsley)

Subheads

Subject

Subject-verb agreement

Subordinate clauses

Subordinate paragraphs

Subordinate sentences

Subordinating conjunctions

Subordination

meaning and

of