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The study of literature "is the place—there is no other in most schools—the place wherein the chief matters of concern are particulars of humanness—individual human feeling, human response, and human time, as these can be known through the written expression (at many literary levels) of men living and dead, and as they can be discovered by student writers seeking through words to name and compose and grasp their own experience. English [that is, literature] in sum is about my distinctness and the distinctness of other human beings.”

-Benjamin DeMott

2013-2014 Common App Essay

Resources are available at Princeton Review,  Veritas Prep, and many other places.

Past and Present Tense
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Archetypes in Literature

An interesting way of looking at Literary Criticism
This link to MROB is quite groovy
We all keep telling the same story...
Which archetype are you?
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Grammar
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SAT Grammar

Purdue OWL

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Revising sentence structures

Pronouns and Antecedents

Direct sentence-level help! Yay!

Good writing means good SAT scores


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The Little Red Writing Book

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This is a pretty amazing writing resource. Chapter two on sentencing could be an entire textbook by itself...

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Over-writing!!!

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Links to help us decode all of the cliched academic and business writing that is being pumped incessantly into our brain-stems...

The Academic Jargon Generator!

Businessmen do it...

Students do it...

Teachers do it...

But why does this jargon work?

"Audience" is key. Academic writing is very limited in its appeal.

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Some Specifics for Good Sentence Construction

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The Art of the Intro - Hook, Thesis, and the Source of our Ideas

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