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Graduate Resources |
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| Source: Moore, B.N. & Parker, R. (2001). Critical
thinking. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing
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| Humorous but valuable
advice.
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| Avoid clichés like the plague. |
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| Be more or less specific. |
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| NEVER generalize. |
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| The passive voice is to be ignored. |
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| Never ever be redundant. |
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| Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. |
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| Make sure verbs agrees with their subjects. |
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| Why use rhetorical questions? |
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| Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary. |
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| Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. |
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| And it's usually a bad idea to start a sentence with a
conjunction. |
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