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        • Reading about Writing
        • A Brief Guide to Plain Writing
          • 1) Understanding Complete Sentences
          • 2) Expressing Action
          • 3) Expressing Concurrent Action
          • 4) Expressing Sequential Action
          • 5) Expressing Contrast
          • 6) Expressing Comparison
          • 7) Expressing Conditional Statements
          • 8) Understanding Transitional Language
          • 9) Understanding Purpose and Structure
          • 10) Understanding Description
          • 11) Understanding Persuasion
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Reading about Writing

1) “A Susurration of Palms,” by Thomas Swick for Oxford American (2013)

2) “I Couldn’t Write Silence,” by Andre Aciman for Vanity Fair (2018)

3) “Mother Tongue,” by Lucas Loredo for Oxford American (2018)

4) “Atlanta Hellride,” by Noel Gallagher Shannon for Oxford American (2018)

5) “Doomed Love at the Taco Stand,” by Hunter S. Thomas for Time (2001)

6) “Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious,” by Nick Romeo for The New Yorker (2017)

7) “The Problem with One-Night Stands in Locked-Down Boston, by Dan McCarthy for Esquire (2013)

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