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"What is Defamiliarization?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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"The AI Future": A Student Guide for AI in College Writing

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Shared 1 month ago

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"AI Modeling": A Student Guide for AI in College Writing

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Shared 2 months ago

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"AI Writing Techniques": A Student Guide for AI in College Writing

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"The AI Dilemma": A Student Guide for AI in College Writing

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"Is Writing a BS Job?": A Student Guide for AI in College Writing

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Shared 2 months ago

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"What is Free Verse?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 10 months ago

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"What is Diction in Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is the Environmental Uncanny?": The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is a Setting in Cli-Fi?": The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is a Protagonist in Cli-Fi?": The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is a Narrative Arc in Cli-Fi?": The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is Cli-Fi?": An Introduction to the Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature

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Shared 1 year ago

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Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Returning the Gift: the nature writer in a time of climate catastrophe"

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is a Bildungsroman?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is Young Adult Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is a Climax in Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What Is (AND ISN'T) Standard Written English?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 1 year ago

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"What is a Parody?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is a Vignette?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is Science Fiction?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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Celebrating 25K Subscribers: Goofy Outtakes from the Oregon State Guide to Literary Terms

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Shared 2 years ago

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The Wonder and the Worry || Official Teaser Trailer

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Shared 2 years ago

542 views

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"What is Verisimilitude?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is an Elegy?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is an Ode?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is an Idiom?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What Is Mood in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What Is Syntax in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is a Trope?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What Is a Comma Splice?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 2 years ago

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"How to Use Apostrophes": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is the Difference Between Tone and Mood?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"How to Use a Colon": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 2 years ago

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"What is Close Reading?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 2 years ago

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"How to Use a Semicolon": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What is Tone in Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What is a Soliloquy?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is Singular They?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is Code-Meshing?" Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Are Dialects?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What is a Foil?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is Gender-Neutral Language?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is Parallelism?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What is Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is Passive Voice?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is the Oxford Comma (And Is It Really Optional)?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What is a Protagonist?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 3 years ago

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"When NOT to Use Commas": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"When To Use Commas": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What is a Motif?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is a Clause in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 3 years ago

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"What Is a Phrase in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 4 years ago

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Welcome Back to SWLF

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Shared 4 years ago

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"What is an Ars Poetica?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 4 years ago

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"What is an Epic?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 4 years ago

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"What is Alliteration?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 4 years ago

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"What Is a Predicate in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 4 years ago

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"What Is a Subject in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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Shared 4 years ago

19K views

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"What is an Allusion?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Shared 4 years ago

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