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  2. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Example of Use Dele: Delete: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ Begin new paragraph: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ no: Remove paragraph break: Caret [a] (Unicode U+2038, 2041, 2380) ‸ or ⁁ or ⎀ Insert # Insert space: Close up (Unicode U+2050) ⁐ Tie words together, eliminating a space: I was reading the news⁐paper this morning ...

  3. Prewriting - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] [6] Student writers find motivation especially difficult because they are writing for a teacher or for a grade, instead of a real audience. [7] Often teachers try to find a real audience for students by asking them to read to younger classes or to parents, by posting writing for others to read, by writing a blog, or by writing on real ...

  4. File:A higher English grammar (IA higherenglishgra00bainrich).pdf

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    California Digital Library higherenglishgra00bainrich (User talk:Fæ/IA books#Fork20) (batch #56512) File usage No pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed).

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English adjectives, as with other word classes, cannot in general be identified as such by their form, [24] although many of them are formed from nouns or other words by the addition of a suffix, such as -al (habitual), -ful (blissful), -ic (atomic), -ish (impish, youngish), -ous (hazardous), etc.; or from other adjectives using a prefix ...

  6. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is an expression that has a figurative meaning often related, but different from the literal meaning of the phrase. Example: You should keep your eye out for him. A pun is an expression intended for a humorous or rhetorical effect by exploiting different meanings of words. Example: I wondered why the ball was getting bigger. Then it ...

  7. File:Basic Writing.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: pdf version of englisch wikibook on basic writing This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).

  8. George Hillocks Jr. - Wikipedia

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    His primary research interests centered on the teaching of writing, literature, and language in middle and high school English classes, and on large-scale writing assessment. When not teaching and writing, he was an accomplished bagpipe player, performing frequently for Chicago audiences and in international competitions. George Hillocks as a youth

  9. English writing style - Wikipedia

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    An English writing style is a combination of features in an English language composition that has become characteristic of a particular writer, a genre, a particular organization, or a profession more broadly (e.g., legal writing).