VIII. Effective Sentences (Chapters 38-42)

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Examples of wordy sentences (p. 713) More on parallelism and coherence (p. 735) More examples of end-weight (p. 738) Contast and correlative conjunctions (p. 740) The flexibility of "rules" about style (p. 749)

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Audio: Choosing active and passive voice (p. 714) Audio: Identifying writing problems (p. 720) Audio: More on combining sentences (p. 724) Audio: The beauty of correlative constructions (p. 733) Audio: Making parallel elements stand out (p. 735) Audio: Making a sentence memorable (p. 738) Audio: Contrast and end-weight (p. 740) Audio: How a lack of sentence variety creates monotony (p. 744)

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Video: Revising for clarity (p. 712) Video: Achieving parallelism (p. 729) Video: A student's perspective on her writing (p. 738) Video: A demonstration of how to achieve variety (p. 743)

Exercises

Exercise 38.1 Exercise 38.2 Chapter: 38 For Collaboration, Page No 721 Exercise 39.1 Exercise 40.1 Exercise 40.3 Exercise 41.1 Exercise 41.2 Exercise 42.1

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