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  2. Topic sentence - Wikipedia

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    In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. [1] [2] It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph. Also known as a focus sentence, a topic sentence encapsulates or organizes an entire paragraph. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often ...

  3. All India Secondary School Examination - Wikipedia

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    All India Secondary School Examination, commonly known as the class 10th board exam, is a centralized public examination that students in schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, primarily in India but also in other Indian-patterned schools affiliated to the CBSE across the world, taken at the end of class 10. The board ...

  4. AP English Language and Composition - Wikipedia

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    The College Board advises that students choosing AP English Language and Composition be interested in studying and writing various kinds of analytic or persuasive essays on non-fiction topics, while students choosing AP English Literature and Composition be interested in studying literature of various periods and mediums (fiction, poetry, drama ...

  5. Literacy in India - Wikipedia

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    An old analytical 1990 study estimated that it would take until 2060 for India to achieve universal literacy at then-current rate of progress. [4] The census of India pegged the average literacy rate to be 73% in 2011 while National Statistical Commission surveyed literacy to be 80.6% in 2017–18. Literacy rate in urban areas was 90%, higher ...

  6. Pilcrow - Wikipedia

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    As the symbol for a paragraph break, shown when display is requested. The pilcrow may indicate a footnote in a convention that uses a set of distinct typographic symbols in turn to distinguish between footnotes on a given page; it is the sixth in a series of footnote symbols beginning with the asterisk . [ 1 ] (

  7. Analytic–synthetic distinction - Wikipedia

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    The argument at bottom is that there are no "analytic" truths, but all truths involve an empirical aspect. In the first paragraph, Quine takes the distinction to be the following: analytic propositions – propositions grounded in meanings, independent of matters of fact. synthetic propositions – propositions grounded in fact.

  8. Rhetorical criticism - Wikipedia

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    Rhetorical criticism analyzes the symbolic artifacts of discourse—the words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films, etc. that people use to communicate. . Rhetorical analysis shows how the artifacts work, how well they work, and how the artifacts, as discourse, inform and instruct, entertain and arouse, and convince and persuade the audience; as such, discourse includes the ...

  9. Analytic philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Peter van Inwagen's 1983 monograph An Essay on Free Will [61] played an important role in rehabilitating libertarianism with respect to free will, in mainstream analytical philosophy. [62] In the book, he introduces the consequence argument and the term incompatibilism about free will and determinism , to stand in contrast to compatibilism ...