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:
91 DiversityFreedom, Discovery, Learning, Leadership, Responsibity, Individual Opportunity
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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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, (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 Empathy425-426 Definition of Sympathy[SEE ALSO “Enron vs. Empathy”; “Roots of Empathy”; “Empathy vs. Video Games:; Rifkin, Dolby]
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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=================================================== 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 Environmental843-845 *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
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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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