Academic Writing and Rhetoric, Steps in the Writing Process

The Opacity of English, The Duality of English, The History of English

Poison Words, Bankrupt Words, Expletives, Phonological Contractions, Slang, Ecstatic Language, Phrasal Verbs, Informalities

Exam 1, Word Choice, Sentence Skills

Tautology, Pleonasm, Synonymous Pairs, Syntactic Expletives, Stating the Obvious, Overemphasizing Authority

Truisms, Platitudes, Clichés, Alliterations, Exaggerations, Superlatives, Incautious Language

Citation Styles, Academic Ethos

Paraphrasing, Interpretation vs. Fact, Types of Plagiarism

Confusions, Imprecisions, Overly Gendered Prose, Poison Words, Native-Speaker Bad Habits, Xenologisms

Faulty Parallelism, Neo-Classical Compounds

Short Quotations, Long Quotations, References