NUMBERS REFER TO UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF PAGES ONLY

BASIC COURSE MATERIALS

For Course Syllabus go to http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/30316/course.html

 
1-16                             Table of Contents
17                              Experiential Learning
18-19                  Meditation and Guided Imagery
20-21                          Lyrics
22                                Einstein/Dass meditations
23-5                        Deep Relaxation
26-35                  Mindfulness
36                              Service Learning
37                              Discovery Learning
38                              Discovery Learning at U.T.
39-40                          Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst
41                             My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report
42-46                       Course Goals 
47                             Racial Harassment Policy;
48-49                       Sexual Harassment Policy;
50                             If I Am Heterosexual
51                             Ally Work
52-53                      LBGT Vocabulary
54-57                         "Toxic Masculinity"
58-59                       Drug + Alcohol Policy;
60-61                      The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class
62                              Employer survey: writing, collaboration, ethics,
63-67                       Revenge of the Right Brain
68-70                          Flunking out of College
71-72                      The New Curriculum
73                              Moyers Rebirth at U.T.
74                              Concentration vs. “multitasking”
75                             Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking
76                            Negative vs. Positive Attitude
                           [CF. Goleman on optimism in “Emotional Intelligence”
77-81                      Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.
82-83                       U.T. Counseling Center
84                               Stress Test
85                              Tips for Reducing Stress
86                             U.T. Stress Relief Site
87                              Everything  I  Wish  Someone  Had  Told  Me                            About College Before I Started: Why Are You Here?
88                              Texas Constitution: “for the promotion of                                            literature”
89                             U. T. Seal
90                              U. T. CORE PURPOSE (Ethics) and Core Values:
 Freedom, Discovery, Learning, Leadership, Responsibity, Individual Opportunity
91                             Diversity
92-94                       Perfectionism
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INSPIRATION
95                              Tower Motto: Ye Shall Know the Truth
96                             Blake, “London”
97-98                      Scallop Shell Symbolism
99                            The Mystery: Spoken by a Child
100                           Augustine, "Entering Into Joy"
101                             Kesey and Robbins, on the Mystery
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102                              Five Characteristics of  a Good  Student: Postive                                     Attitude...
103-104                      Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.
104                         Motivation; cf. Perfectionism
107                             Goal Setting
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COMMUNICATION
108-109                       Covey on listening +reading, writing, speaking
110                        Listening during Class Discussion
111                       Compassionate Listening
112                              Listening Instructions
113                              Have You Tried Listening?                          
 114-115                     Leading Class Discussion
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TIME MANAGEMENT + RESOURCES
116-117                      “Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage                                         Stress”
118-119                       Covey, Personal Planning System, from The                                         Eighth Habit
120-121                       Covey, Time Management form and example
122-123                      Overcoming Procrastination;
124-125                      Design Your Own Procrastination Plan
126                             Sanger Learning Skills Center
127                          Undergraduate Writing Center
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READING ASSIGNMENTS.

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WHAT COLLEGE CAN DO FOR YOU 

128-137              David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech 
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THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
138-139                Flawn, Address to the University, 1984
140-144                Newman, The Idea of a University, 5-7 [BRITISH]
145-147                 Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
148-149                     “Liberal Arts” defined
150-151                Newman and the Liberal Arts  [BRITISH]
152-153                Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”
154-155                 History for Dollars
156                          Well-­Rounded Docs
 
THE IDEA OF THIS UNIVERSITY
157                          Constitution
158                           Seal
 
THE IDEA OF PLAN II
159-162                 Plan II history and goals
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ETHICS FLAG


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University of Texas Ethics

"Ethics, (or morality) is the study of how people should act toward one another, other species, and natural systems" Ethical Challenges

163-170                Ethical Challenges [official UGS workbook for this flag]
171- 175                Honor Code of U.T.
                   see  also  Course Syllabus  + Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
 
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ETHICAL PROBLEMS?
The Example of Business
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176-177                 Enron + Madoff
188-121                 Enron vs. Empathy
182-127                 Wall Street
188-92                   When You Dial 911 and Wall                         Street Answers

ANSWERS: RELIGION?

193-194                 Paul’s First Letter to Timothy:
             Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas:
            (the root of evil is greed)?
195-197                 Billy Graham et al
198-203                 Pope Francis
204-210                 Buddhism in the Business                                     School?

ANSWERS: ETHICAL CAPITALISM?

211                Sisodia, Ethical Capitalism
212               Cox, Ethics in Business Education
213-218         Harvard students’ MBA Ethics Oath
219-220                 A Humane Revolution
221-222                 Humane Business             
223-230                  Cruetlty-Free Companies
231-235                Consumer voting with forks        
236-239                Example: Perdue Chickens
240-247                 Example: EcoDairy Farm
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ANSWERS? EMOTIVE BUSINESS ETHICS
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248-249                 Covey bio
250-257                 Covey, Principled Leadership: Service, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand Focusing on that which is greater than the ego Conscience, Character, …..Left Brain/Right Brain

258-269                 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: The Whole-­‐Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence, Compassion and Conscience Ethos, Pathos, Logos Character

see also Emotive Ethics below

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FUNDAMENTALS OF EMOTIVE ETHICS

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BASIC EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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270                          Know Thyself
271-274                 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides                         of the Brain
275-277               Emotional Intelligence
278- 280               Harmonizing Emotion and                                 Thought
281-282                 “The Man Without Feelings”
283-4                 “The Roots of Empathy”
                        [see also "Empathy" below]
285-287                 Empathy vs Video Games
288                    David Lee Powell, Plan II student?
289                          Molesters and Sociopaths
290                           “I Am a Rock”;
290                           “Comfortably Numb”
291-294                “Turn It Off”.

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EMOTIONAL LITERACY

295-297                 Feedback and Emotional Intelligence
298-305                Emotion Words checklist
306                           Children’s Feeling Words
307                           Vocabulary of Emotions
308                           Intensity of Feelings Chart
309-310               Writing Emotions
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THE BASIC EMOTIONS? LOVE VS. FEAR

311-314                 Emotive Ethics
315-317                  Living in the NOW free of fear
318-327                    Transforming Fear
328-329                    The Role of Love in                                             Education: Buscaglia
330- 332                  Brooks, Love and Learning
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FINDING THE WORDS

333-339                 The Word Love in English and                         Greek 
340                          The words “Loving-Kindness”                         and Metta
341-                         Metta and the other                                         brahmaviharas
342-344              Harris on the brahmaviharas
345-347                        A Metta meditation 
348                           Judeo-Christian love and                                     caritas; love vs. fear
349                     Native American love vs. fear
350                           The term biophilia
351-391                    The term empathy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization:
Intro.;   Adam Smith revised;    The new psychology of empathy + global empathic consciousness;  Mirror neurons and resonance circuitry; Darwin; Deep play; Empathic roots of language;   animal models;  India, Jainism, Buddhism; reason and emotion, Schopenhauer, Kant;  animal welfare; group therapy and self-help groups, Moreno; fellow species, biophilia,  global empathy

392-398                 Dolby, Rethinking Multicultural Education: the New Empathy and Social Justice
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POSITIVE NON-BINARY EMOTIONS
399-400                 Love +Joy
401-402                 Peacefulness + “Know Thyself”
403-404                 Enjoyment; Acceptance
405-407                 Enthusiasm
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 RELATED TERMS
408                             Definition of “Sentimentality”
409- 411                Definition of Passion
412-413                 Definition of Compassion
414-418                  Compassionate Grief
419-421                 Definitions of Humane, Human,
422-423                 Definition of Animal
424                           Definition of Empathy
[SEE ALSO “Enron vs. Empathy”; “Roots of Empathy”; “Empathy vs. Video Games:; Rifkin, Dolby]
425-426                 Definition of Sympathy
427                          Definition of Sympathetic Imagination

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RELATED PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
428-432                 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents
433                           The Ethics of Sympathy: summary
434-435                 Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams, Table of Contents
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THE CHALLENGE: LOVE VS FEAR, AGAPE VS THANATOS, COMPASSION VS SADISM

436-440                    Bump, "Biophobia, Sadism, and the Divided Self"
441-449                Golding, Lord of the Flies:                                     "Piggy" [BRITISH]
450-456               Hogarth, "Four stages of cruelty"                                and animal cruelty [BRITISH]
457                        Terrorism and animal cruelty
458-462                Animal Cruelty sundrome
463-                        Crush videos protected
464-466                The New Sadism
467-471                Yale and Stanford Experiments
472-506                        Zimbardo report

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 COMPASSION IN ACTION:

HOW CAN I HELP?

507-508                 Ram Dass, introduction
GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG: Thich Nhat Hanh [VIETNAM]
509-521                 biography and five mindfulness trainings
522-528                quotations
529-531                 best books
534-535                         “Please Call Me By My True Names”
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VOLUME 2

=================================================== CALISTHENICS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION:

EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER SPECIES  I

"Ethics, (or morality) is the study of how people should act toward one another, other species, and natural systems"
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY:  NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS OF EXTENDING THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION TO OTHER ANIMALS
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POWER ANIMALS [CD FLAG: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICA: THE FIRST NATION]
             534-                         Animism
             535- 539                Shamanism
             540-542                Totem Poles
543-546              Totemism and Power Animals,some definitions
547 -557                Animal Speak
558-561                Spirit Animals
562-563                Power Animals table of contents
564                 Animal Spirit Guides table of contents
565                  Bless Me Ultima [CD flag: HISPANIC]; and Harry Potter,
566                Power Animals in Black Elk Speaks
566-589        Black Elk Speaks
590-594         Vizenor,  Interior Landscapes           
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SHAPESHIFTING

[CD FLAG: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICA: THE FIRST NATION]
595                SkinWalker
596                 Totem Animals and Medicine
597-598         Shapeshifting           
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GLOBAL CULTURES
SHAPESHIFTING IN OTHER CULTURES
598                throughout world history        
599-600          Asian reincarnation ASIA
601-602            Fairy tales and other transformations, including The Odyssey and the Golden Ass  GREECE

603-610          Ovid, Metamorphoses  ROMAN
611-613            The Alice books BRITAIN
614-639              Kafka, The Metamorphosis GERMANY
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A EUROPEAN EXAMPLE: Hopkins' "The Windhover"
640                Hopkins's Defintion of Poetry
641                 Bump, Hopkins Bio BRITAIN
641              "The Windhover + As kingfishers"
643-653            Bump, "The Windhover"
AMERICAN CONTRAST:
654           Jeffers
655            "Hurt Hawks + Vulture"
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TEXAS TOTEM ANIMAL
657-660                 Dobie  introduction
661-679                J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
680                        Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
681-696                 Longhorns at U.T.
687-688                 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
689-690                 Texas Longhorn: origins
691-698              Learning from Longhorns
TOTEM ANIMAL ORIGINS:
699-702                       Cattle in Ancient History EGYPT, GREECE
703-706                 Cattle in INDIA
707                         Cattle in Judaism, Islam,MIDDLE EAST               
708                         Cattle in ancient EGYPT,Celts, GREECE
709-711                    Cattle in modern ASIA
712-714                    Cattle in Hinduism INDIA
715-719                    Cattle in Jainism  INDIA
720                          Cattle in The Odyssey GREECE
721-722                 The Sacred Calf in Exodus THE BIBLE, MIDDLE EAST
723-730            Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
731-763           Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon , HRC MSS.
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ETHICS IN ASIA, etc. 
764-768            Context: Buddhism
769                     Herman Hesse GERMANY
770-815              Siddhartha   GERMANY
816                     Breughel, Fall of Icarus BELGIUM                
817-818               Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"  BRITAIN
818                        Williams, "Landscape ...." AMERICA                    
819-823                  Compassion in World History
824                           Jain Guidelines
825-828                 Jainism and Environmental Ethics
829-833                 Ahimsa
834                           Gandhi
835-837                Jain Ahimsa in Practice
838-842                 Mahavira’s Environmental

843-845                *Learning from Eastern Thought
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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

COMPASSION "TEST":

846-882                 Monson, Earthlings transcript
RELATED TEXTS:
883-888                     I. B . Singer, The                                               Slaugtherer POLAND
889-906                    I B Singer's Eternal                                             Treblinka POLAND
907-909                       Biophobia and the                                             Holocaust
910-916                      Industrial Agriculture
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN FICTION
917- 928                         The JUNGLE
929-930                        Bump, Recent fiction

AUDIENCE RESPONSE
931-932                        Bump, Emotive Ethics                                     and Earthlings
933-934                         Bump, Denial and Apathy
935-937                     Moral Dystopia”

PRACTICAL ETHICS: WHAT HAVE OTHERS DONE?
Make documentaries [see Earthlings above + Cowspiracy, Speciesism, Write, teach literature:......]

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

As an individual
, in addition to daily choices:
938                    Eiseley, “Starfish Story”
939-942               Write for the Daily Texan, Start                             Petitions
        [see also project four: Leadership Vision]

 In a group

943                           Local Protestors

In a group in politics
944                 California  ballot

In the courts
946-949              Iowa
950                    Seattle

In a forprofit corporation  [see above]

nonprofit corporation: example, PETA  ??????
951- 953               PETA origin
954-955                 “10 actions”
956-960                 “Companion Animals”
     [961-966                  "Is Your Pet Lonely and        Bored"?]
967-971                 “Laboratory Animals”
972-973                “Vivisection in Schools”

international
974                          Declaration on Animal Welfare
975                         Declaration of Animal Rights
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RELATED TOPIC introduced in Earthlings: RACISM

CALISTHENICS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION:

EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER HUMANS

[CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICA]


SPECIESISM AND RACISM
976            Jeremy Bentham .
977-978    Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat .
979-999    The Dreaded Comparison
1000             Alice Walker intro
1001-1004   Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?"
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1005             Racism and U.T.'s South Mall Statues
1006-7     Racism and Simkins Residence Hall.
1008-1009            Fear of Slave Revolts
1010- 1012           Racism and ASPCA
1013             Toni Morrison
1014-1037     Bump, “Racism and Appearance”
1038-1045     Bump, “Family Systems Therapy”
1046-1051     Free Speech at Amherst
1052-1057    ‘White Debt

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EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER SPECIES IN WORLD LITERATURE II, 

GLOBAL CULTURE:  SOUTH AFRICAN
1058-1059                Coetzee, introduction
1060-1075                 Coetzee, The Lives of                                 Animals: Philosophy
1076-1088                Coetzee, The Lives of                                 Animals: Poetry
1089-1090                 Marjorie Garber commentary
1091-1114                Holocaust analogy analysis
1115-1117                 Holocaust comparison quotations,
1118-1121                Peter Singer commentary
1122-1128                Wendy Doniger commentary
1129-1136                 Barbara Smuts commentary
1137-1138                 Rilke, “Panther”                                                     GERMANY       
1139-1140                 Hughes Intro
1141                           “Jaguar” BRITAIN
1142                          “Jaguar II” BRITAIN
1143                           Rilke, “Black Cat”                                                     GERMANY
1144-1145                 Rilke   8th Eleg GERMANY
 
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WRITING FLAG


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PROJECTS ONE AND TWO
1146-1150                Project One Instructions
1151- 1159                Project Two Instructions

 
REQUIRED CITATIONS: CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING OR .......?


David Abrams, Becoming Animal
 ETHICS IN ACTION: SHELTER ANIMALS
1160-                     Hempel     “In the Animal Shelter  AMERICA
1161-1165                 Hempel, “At  the Gates of the Animal Kingdom”
  1166-1167               Taylor Animal Shelter 

FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF VIEW
  1168-1179                Maggie    AMERICA                      
   1180-1185               Letters from Pups
                   
LITERATURE
1186                          Rick Bass, Intro.
1187-1197                 Rick  Bass’s  “The  Odyssey,” AMERICA

POEMS ABOUT DOGS
1198-1218
 
FROM THE CAT'S POINT OF VIEW
[1137-1138                 Rilke, “Panther”                                                     GERMANY       
1139-1140                 Hughes Intro
1141                           “Jaguar” BRITAIN
1142                          “Jaguar II” BRITAIN
1143                           Rilke, “Black Cat”  ]
          
1219- 1221               Cat Sense
ANCIENT WORSHIP OF CATS
1222-1224                "In Ancient  Egypt, Greece,                     and  Rome," Dorothy Stuart
  1225-1229                "The Cat in Ancient Egypt"
1230                "What Happens to Cats," Herodotus
1232                          Siamese Temple Cats ;
                                 The Origin of the Cat in Islam
1233                           Cat Eye folklore  BELGIUM
CAT COMPANIONS IN ANCIENT ART
1234                          TiYi, Egypt, 1500s B.C.
1235                          Penby, Egypt, 1200s B.C
1236                          Southern Italy, 4th c. B.C
LATER CAT COMPANIONS
1237                          Mahomed + Belgian "Cat's                             Prayer"
1238-1239                "Jeffry," Christopher Smart,                         18th c  BRITAIN
1240                           "Never Again," Doris                                 Lessing  BRITAIN
1241                          "Killing Willie," Mary                                     Hemingway  AMERICA
CAT TEACHERS OF ZEN
1242                          Zen Masters, Ekhart Tolle
1243                           "Miao," Dilys Laing
FROM THE CAT’S POINT OF VIEW
1244                          "Kitten's Recollections," A.                         N. Wilson  BRITAIN
1245                           "From the Laws of Cats,"                     Karel Capek CZECH REPUBLIC
1246                           “Hiddigeigei," J. V. Von                         Scheffel  GERMANY
1247                           “Simon," Frederick Pollock                         BRITAIN
1248                          "Cat of the House," Ford                                     Madox Ford BRITAIN
1249                          “The Ballad of Tough Tom,"                                 Paul Gallico  AMERICA
1250-1253               “Diary of a Cat," Edwina S.                             Babcock  AMERICA
CAT EPITAPHS
1254                          “Duchesse du Maine” Sir                                 Edmind Gosse  BRITAIN
1255                           “Epitaphium Felis”
                                Jortin BRITAIN
 
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WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

 
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1256-1257                 High School to College                                     Writing Transition
1258-1259                 Researching
1260-1261                 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
   
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WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

 
PHRASES IN BOLD = CODE FOR PEER AND INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUES
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O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the         Prose  +V = 4. Integration of Verbal and         Visual                         Rhetoric

1262                           Writing Well is Thinking                                     Well
1263-4                       Rhetorical Fallacies
1265                           Yeats, “Hammer Your                             Thoughts”; IRELAND
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RETHINK REWRITE  ALSO  = ^ [coherence]

1266                           Forster, “Only Connect”  ALSO ^ [coherence] BRITAIN
1267-1268              Creating a Strong Thesis
1269                       Structure of a Professional Research Paper
1270                        “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of    ALSO ^ [coherence]
1271                       Introductions and Conclusions        ALSO ^ [coherence]
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^ = 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW

1272-1273           Flow and Transitions     ALSO O
1274                       COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper
1275                        Transitional     Expressions
 1276                       Focusing on Transitions 

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P= 7.  PUNCTUATION:
1277-1287           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons
1288-1289           Quick Guide to Commas  
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DOC= 6. DOCUMENTATION

1290-1293           Chicago Manual of Style: Endnotes Only; No Bibliography; Consecutive endnote numbers with no repeats;  specific page nos. required for all print source citations ;
do not use automatic citations systems unless they match this one EXACTLY
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Our papers came back bloodied with red marks –most lavishly the withering "ww" for "wrong word."Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel (page 201) AMERICA

W= 8. WORD CHOICE + S= 3. SPECIFICITY:

1294                        Hemingway on Rewriting
1295-1296           Hemingway's Farewell to Arms summary AMERICA
1297-1320           Hemingway's Farewell to Arms: 47 endings
1321-1322           Verbs that Take Prepositions
1323                       Rough Guide to Preposition
1324                        Revisions    Checklist
1325-1326           Saying What You Mean
1327-1328                        Diction and                                             Conciseness
s

USE THE Oxford English Dictionary:
https://login.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oed.com%2f
 
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C= 9. CONCISENESS
1327-1328          Diction and Conciseness   ALSO  W= 8.
1329-1330           Eliminating Wordiness  ALSO  W= 8.
1331                       Readability and Clarity  ALSO  W= 8.
1332                        Tips for Improving Readability  ALSO  W= 8.  
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P =PROOFREADING
1333-1335          Proofreading
1336                     Why spell checkers are not enough
 
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LATE ADDITIONS
1337                   EQ in Local Schools

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