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    • APTS: Audience
      • APTS: Purpose
        • APTS: Tone
          • APTS: Style
          • Audience Analysis Workshop
            • 2. Audience Identity
              • 3. Audience Needs
                • 4. Audience Attitudes
                  • 5. Audience Knowledge
                    • 6. Audience Reading Conditions
                      • 7. Turn in Tickets Here
                        • 8. Using Your Results
                        • Comma Confidence
                          • 2 Comma Confidence
                            • 3 Comma Confidence
                            • Effective Quotations 1
                              • Effective Quotations 2
                                • Effective Quotations 3
                                  • Effective Quotations 4

                                  Writing Tips Index

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                                  APA Heading Levels
                                     The five APA heading levels, when to use them, and advice

                                  APA Visuals
                                       APA requirements for tables and figures

                                  APTS: Audience, Purpose, Tone. and Style
                                       Four tips about the important choices necessary for a document that works

                                  Audience Analysis Workshop
                                       Five "tickets to success" for a writer to consider before planning a document.

                                  Comma Confidence
                                       Examining independent clause patters and conjunctions

                                  Course Style Guide
                                      My guide for formatting memos, letters, instructions, and reports, for editing register, grammar, puncutation, and mechanics, and for understanding document analysis via my CAP Lecture

                                  Effective Quotations
                                       Six tips on effectively using quotations in writing, academic or workplace.

                                  First Person Problems (I-I-I)
                                       Tips for dealing with excessive first person especially in cover letters

                                  Kinneavy's Discourse Triangle
                                      Four page Rhettime Library entry for James L. Kinneavy showing the four aims of discourse

                                  Memo Format
                                       How to format a memo with illustrated example

                                  Process: Narrowing a Subject to an Argument Thesis
                                       Steps for going from a general subject to a specific topic, thesis, and document plan.

                                  Writing Process
                                       Starting, Research & Planning, Drafting & Testing, and Publishing

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                                  Updated January 16, 2012