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Creative Writing

Date Title Contributors
03/16/2006 Celebrate St. Patrick's Day: Write Your Own Limerick Trish Wayne
04/21/2006 Write a Sonnet to Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday Kelli Trungale
04/01/2008 Celebrate Poetry Month: Write a Villanelle Karalyn Jones
04/15/2008 Celebrate Poetry Month: Write a Haiku Karalyn Jones
     

Inclusive Language

Date Title Contributors
05/18/2005 Avoiding Sexist Language Candice Chovanec Melzow
11/29/2005 Using Inclusive Language to Avoid Stereotypes W. Scott Harkey
     

Style

Date Title Contributors
11/15/2005 Avoiding Pretentious Words and Phrases: A Matter of Style Kelli Trungale
12/06/2005 Concise Sentences: Reducing Expletive Constructions Candice Chovanec Melzow
12/13/2005 Concise Sentences: Reducing Unnecessary Phrases Candice Chovanec Melzow
12/20/2005 Concise Sentences: Reducing Circumlocutions Candice Chovanec Melzow
12/27/2005 Concise Sentences: Using Active Verbs Candice Chovanec Melzow
02/14/2006 Avoiding Mixed Metaphors David Felts
04/11/2006 Using Pronouns to Establish Links Between Sentences W. Scott Harkey
04/18/2006 Avoiding Trite Language and Overused Expressions Candice Chovanec Melzow
04/03/2007 When It's Appropriate to Use You Candice Chovanec Melzow
04/24/2007 Beginning Sentences With Coordinate Conjunctions Dinah Crockett
05/29/2007 Varying Sentence Openings, Part I Kelli Trungale
06/5/2007 Varying Sentence Openings, Part II Kelli Trungale
09/18/2007 Repetition through Anaphora Sophia Stevens
04/29/2008 Sentence Inversion, Part 2: Stylistic Effects Sophia Stevens
06/17/2008 Using Epanorthosis Effectively Sophia Stevens
07/08/2008 Creating Emphasis by Constructing Cleft Sentences Sophia Stevens
07/22/2008 Using Contractions Appropriately Amy Hatmaker
07/29/2008 Eliminating Wordiness Sophia Stevens
09/03/2008 Using Epistrophe Sophia Stevens
09/16/2008 Fixing Choppy Sentences Sophia Stevens
11/04/2008 Untying the Not: Writing Positive Sentences Sophia Stevens
11/11/2008 Not to Discount Not: Necessary Negation Sophia Stevens
01/14/2009 Understanding Isocolon Sophia Stevens
02/11/2009 When to Replace Be Verbs Amy Hatmaker
08/26/2009 Formally Addressing US Federal Officials Sophia Stevens