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Ishmael Reed
Richard Rodriguez
Carl Sagan
Richard Selzer
Gloria Steinem
Jonathan Swift
Amy Tan
Deborah Tannen
Paul Theroux
Lewis Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Barbara Tuchman
Mark Twain
Alice Walker
E.B. White
Marie Winn
Virginia Woolf
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Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Quoting
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In the writing space below, practice paraphrasing an important passage from the essay you have been assigned. Remember to keep the essential information from the original without using the author's original vocabulary or style. Substitute vocabulary, rearrange sentence structure, and change the length and order of sentences.
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