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		<title>What about pineapple? Count and Non-Count Nouns</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/05/24/what-about-pineapple-count-and-non-count-nouns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESL Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[count nouns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[count nouns and groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[count nouns vs. non-count nouns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[count nouns with prepositional phrases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some parts of grammar that native speakers just accept and never think about . . . until we start teaching. Today, I’m getting a lesson of my own about nouns that we can count and those that get lumped together—count vs. non-count. The weird thing is that some of them fall into both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESL Corner: Adjectives and Adverbs – What’s the difference?</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/04/26/esl-corner-adjectives-and-adverbs-whats-the-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adjectives and adverbs for the ESL writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice for the ESL writer using adjectives and adverbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESL writers struggling with adjectives and adverbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[placement of adjectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[punctuation with adjectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules for adjectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules for adverbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what do adjectives modify]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what do adverbs modify]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[English language writers use adjectives and adverbs to describe things. Unfortunately, the words are not interchangeable and can pose some problems for ESL writers. Unlike many other languages, English places adjectives before nouns &#8211; not after. And ESL writers can struggle with irregular adverbs as well as punctuation with adjectives. So here&#8217;s some guidance for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists: Twitter is Research Too</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/04/22/scientists-twitter-is-research-too/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/04/22/scientists-twitter-is-research-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predatory publishing practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientistst and social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unscrupulous publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[well-written scientific reporting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Sunday edition of the New York Times featured a word of warning to scientists who aggressively pursue publication in a variety of new venues. The article, “Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too),” outlines a series of practices it describes as predatory, and decries the fate of the unwary scientist who falls into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESL Corner: Perfect and Continuous Tenses</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/04/10/esl-corner-perfect-and-continuous-tenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESL Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice for ESL writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future continuous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future perfect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future perfect continuous]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[past perfect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[past perfect continous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perfect and continuous tenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[present continuous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[present perfect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[present perfect continous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive tense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simple future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simple past]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When English language writers wish to reference a block of time collectively—last week, later, Saturday afternoon—they treat it as one point in time.  This applies to simple past and simple future.  English language writers use simple present for things done routinely or habitually. Think of simple present as this point in life or even this point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain Language: A Division of Labor</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/25/plain-language-a-division-of-labor/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/25/plain-language-a-division-of-labor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Explorations of Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[definitions of plain language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language and literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language experts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language for lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language implementation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language practitioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain language principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plainlanguage.gov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing for the web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Definitions of Plain Language on PlainLanguage.gov include those by legal writer Bryan Garner, scholar Robert Eagleson, software creator Nick Wright, technical communicator Beth Mazur, and essayist George Orwell. Such diversity illustrates the difficulty we have implementing plain language today. How should plain language practitioners define plain language and establish guidelines for its implementation with such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scientific Paper and Modes of Discourse</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/13/the-scientific-paper-and-modes-of-discourse/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/13/the-scientific-paper-and-modes-of-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Explorations of Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexander bain and the modes of discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classical rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deliberative forensic epideictic rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modes of discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific writing for publication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One strategy composition teachers have used since the earliest days of the art is to ask students to decide upon a mode of discourse. Classical rhetoricians had three: deliberative, forensic, and epideictic. In modern parlance, if you’re writing about why or how something should be done, it’s deliberative. If you’re attempting to determine whether or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Writing Skills and Grammar for Your Résumé</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/11/the-importance-of-writing-skills-and-grammar-for-your-resume/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/11/the-importance-of-writing-skills-and-grammar-for-your-resume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creating an effective resume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essential elements in a good resume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[having a good resume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[point of a resume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resume writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to résumé writing, a surprisingly large number of people agonise about the little things like what size margins to keep or whether to underline a particular term. Things like this are often not too important because when a recruiter is scanning your résumé, they probably won’t imagine how it would have looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subject / Verb Agreement for ESL Writers</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/08/subject-verb-agreement-for-esl-writers/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/03/08/subject-verb-agreement-for-esl-writers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESL Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[english language writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESL subject verb agreement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future tense of verbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simple past verb tense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simple present verb tense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[singular and plural verbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subject verb agreement for ESL writers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Subject/verb agreement in English language writing obviously means that the subject actually does what the sentence states. For example: A car’s engine runs when it’s turned on, but a car does not run down the street. It goes down the street. I write my name, but I don’t write a pencil. I write my name with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commas and the ESL Writer</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/02/07/commas-and-the-esl-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/02/07/commas-and-the-esl-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESL Corner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Commas are the bane of many writers. Native speakers often trip over this punctuation mark, and ESL students struggle with it even more. So in this post, I will try to reduce this enigma to its essential parts. NOTE: This post is strictly for writing in American Standard English. The Queen’s English sometimes differs. The rule many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Writing Skills the Right Way</title>
		<link>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/02/05/teaching-writing-skills-the-right-way/</link>
		<comments>http://corporatewritingpro.com/2013/02/05/teaching-writing-skills-the-right-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to teach writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teach writing to subject matter experts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching government biologists how to write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I teach government biologists how to write more clearly. And for the past six months, I’ve been knee-deep in curriculum design. So I thought now would be a good time to share some wisdom from the trenches, the lessons I continue to learn about how to teach writing in ways that are efficient, effective, and engaging. While these [...]]]></description>
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