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| the thesis of an author's argument |
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| organizing people, places, or things into categories according to their differing characteristics to make them more understandable |
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| an expression that is ineffective due to overuse |
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| a quality of good writing that results when all sentences, paragraphs, and longer divisions of an essay are naturally connected |
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| writing that is characteristic of spoken language |
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| the implied meaning of a word |
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| the dictionary definition of a word |
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| reasoning from a stated premise to a necessary conclusion by moving from the general to the specific |
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| conversation recorded in a piece of writing |
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