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... American - Chinese girls had to whis- per to make ourselves American - feminine . Apparently we whispered even more softly than the Americans . Once a year the teachers referred my sister and me to speech therapy , but our voices would ...
... American - Chinese girls had to whis- per to make ourselves American - feminine . Apparently we whispered even more softly than the Americans . Once a year the teachers referred my sister and me to speech therapy , but our voices would ...
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... American , " Ellen Goodman ex- plores the reasons that blacks today have turned from the name that distin- guished them by color- " black " -to one that distinguishes them by ancestry- “ African - American . ” The next piece , “ From ...
... American , " Ellen Goodman ex- plores the reasons that blacks today have turned from the name that distin- guished them by color- " black " -to one that distinguishes them by ancestry- “ African - American . ” The next piece , “ From ...
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... American differs from that of African - Americans . Would you have read the essay differently if it had been written by an African - American ? Explain your answer . Rhetorical Considerations 1. Describe ways in which Goodman's style is ...
... American differs from that of African - Americans . Would you have read the essay differently if it had been written by an African - American ? Explain your answer . Rhetorical Considerations 1. Describe ways in which Goodman's style is ...
Contents
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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