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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Choosing the Most Effective Word

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her by clicking the "E-mail Your Answers" button. You can also e-mail a copy to yourself as a record of your work. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.



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Directions: Consult this cliché website. What’s going on here? Do you find it funny? Where is the humor coming from here? What is the place of clichés in college essays?

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Directions: Find a slang dictionary online and count the number of slang words and terms for the word "gun." Are you surprised at the number? Why or why not? What is the place of slang in college essays?









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