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March 15, 2022March 4, 2022Rebekah O'Dell

Mini-Mentors for Making a Claim

My students have been working on their first pieces of serious analytical writing this year, and as they drafted I noticed two main issues with their claims: Many were not clearly or obviously stated Some were overly-simple, cliched, or, to be honest, boring Ever have these problems? (Always? Are you like me and you always […]

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