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I found this excellent article at the Association of American Medical Colleges that explains how it all works. What I like about this article is that it goes over the history of the media coverage and explains why there are conspiracy theorists who claim that
For parallel construction, it helps to be able to identify the parts of a speech, phrases, and clauses in a sentence. If you can’t do this, then you need a very good ear for it. Parallel construction isn’t really a grammatical rule. It represents a
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As you all know, the news is full of terms that are not ever clearly defined. They shift like sand or wind in the hands of an unscrupulous author. I am talking about terms like socialism, communism, Marxism, capitalism, Critical Race Theory, white privilege, elitism,
I teach writing. So, one of the things I strive to adhere to is the “specificity principle” of learning. The specificity principle of learning simply means that how your learning should reflect the real world application of what you’re learning. For example, if you want
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