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D. End-Stop Punctuation (Item #28) ........................................................................................ 40 E. Dashes (Items #29–30) ......................................................................................................... 40 F. Quotation Marks (Item #31) .................................................................................................... 41 G. Apostrophes (Items #32–34) ................................................................................................. 41 H. Punctuating for Clarity Exercise (Item #35) ........................................................................ 41 VI. LESSON 4 | PRODUCTION OF WRITING AND KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE........................................................................................................ 42 A. Production of Writing (Items #1–12) ..................................................................................... 42 1. Strategy ......................................................................................................... 43 a) Appropriate Supporting Material (Item #1, #10) .................................................................................43, 45 b) Effective Opening, Transitional, and Concluding Sentences (Item #2, #7, #11) ......................................................43, 45 c) Main Idea (Item #3, #12) .............................................................43, 45 d) Audience (Item #4) ............................................................................. 43 2. Organization................................................................................................. 43 a) Sentence-Level Structure (Item #9) ...............................................45 b) Paragraph-Level Structure (Item #5) ............................................. 43 c) Passage-Level Structure (Item #6, #8) .................................. 44–45 B. Knowledge of Language ...................................................................................................... 45 1. Conciseness (Items #13–18) ......................................................................46 2. Clarity of Meaning (Item #19) ....................................................................46 3. Idiomatic Expression (Item #20) ..............................................................46 VII. LESSON 5 | GENERAL STRATEGIES.................................................................... 47 VIII. QUIZZES ....................................................................................................................51 A. Directed Study Quiz (Items #1–32) ...............................................................................52–63 B. Timed Quiz (Items #1–29) ..............................................................................................64–68 IX. REVIEW..................................................................................................................... 69

X. STRATEGY SUMMARY........................................................................................... 79