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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,800 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=613&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tense use for research papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is written by one of our contributors: BL. A general guideline for using tense would be this: use the tense according to the actual time of the event. It is not that simple, of course (what is?). The tenses can be mixed; it always depends on what you want to communicate to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=600&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Reading to Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I ask my students to write about a text they have read (summarizing, paraphrasing, critiquing, etc.), many are often dumbfounded and end up copying parts of the text instead of talking about them.  In the figure below, you will see the necessary steps you have to take when working with a text. What to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=558&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing and Synthesizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exercise 1 Reorganize the information about three popular tourist destinations in the U.S.A. in the table answer the questions that follow. Las Vegas New York City Orlando &#8211; Bellagio Hotel &#8211; Casinos &#8211; Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition &#8211; Cirque du Soleil shows &#8211; Nevada &#8211; Hot and dry &#8211; New York &#8211; High living expenses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=534&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conjunctive Adverbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comprehensive and very useful pages from Leeds, B. (2001). TWE and application essays. Korea: Academic Press.  Click on each image to enlarge. For a discussion on metalanguage (talking to the reader in your writing), go to http://eflwriting4life.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/metalanguage/ For cohesion and coherence, go to http://eflwriting4life.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/cohesion-and-coherence/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=220&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vocabulary in Academic Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karnchanoke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Sentences 1 to 10, choose the words in the right column that reduce the informality of the sentences in the left column.  The words chosen should appropriately replace the italicized words.  You may need to change the form of the verbs to make the new sentences grammatical.  For Sentences 11 to 15, improve the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=467&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar in Academic Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exercise 1 The following passage is about giant pandas.  Read each paragraph and determine what is grammatically incorrect.  Discuss whether the errors are vital for the reader’s understanding of the text. Text adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Panda Paragraph A The Giant Panda is bear native in central-western and southwestern Chaina. The Giant Panda was previously thought to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=462&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cohesion and Coherence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cohesion and coherence, or connecting ideas between sentences and paragraphs, are the most important elements of any piece of writing, be it personal, business, or academic. Read the two versions of a report a student hands in to her professor about a conference she went to.  Which one do you think is better and why?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=413&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic writing is a type of writing with its own conventions (language and style).  It is the genre that is commonly used in academia (the academic community: colleges, universities, research institutes, etc.).  It is used for class reports, journal articles, conference articles (proceedings), theses and dissertations, and books.  Here is a good definition of academic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=446&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Language and Style in Academic Writing: Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the sentences in each pair and try to guess why all the b&#8216;s (and the c in No. 15) are more appropriate in academic writing. Source: Resources. (n.d.). 1. a. Her paper made a tremendous contribution to the field. b. Her paper made a major contribution to the field. 2. a. The community managed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflwriting4life.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13466822&amp;post=411&amp;subd=eflwriting4life&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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