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		<title>New paraphrasing video series</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 20:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, I&#8217;ve been posting video presentations on our website, and the most popular has been the video on paraphrasing and plagiarism. Well, I&#8217;ve updated this video, and there&#8217;s now a 3-part series on the topic, covering: good use of sources definitions of plagiarism types of reference and citation techniques for paraphrasing and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=451&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye from Nigel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week, I&#8217;ll be leaving UNC-Chapel Hill to take up a new position as an assistant professor in the English Language Institute at the University of Delaware, starting in June. So, this is my last post to ESL on the Hill. The contents of this blog &#8220;belong&#8221; to the Writing Center, and it will continue [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=446&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Word choice: sparse, scarce, rare, scant(y)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One last language post for me to end this semester, as well as my blogging on this site. We discussed the adjective in this sentence in a writing group yesterday: Such dataset is rather scarce especially in large scale. Part of the problem we found is that the dataset itself isn&#8217;t scarce  &#8211;  it&#8217;s the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=442&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The purpose is to &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We discussed this sentence in a writing group this week: *The purpose of IDEA is providing &#8230; (IDEA = Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) The non-finite -ing form providing is incorrect here: the sentence should read: The purpose of IDEA is to provide &#8230; This type of sentence occurs with a linking verb such as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=432&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two deadlines this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please remember that today, April 15, is tax day. If you have to file a federal and/or state income tax return (and even most international students do), then make sure you get to the post office today, or file online. The April 15 deadline is for your return to be postmarked &#8212; that means the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=437&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;As well as&#8221; &#8212; revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of as well as is the grammar question that won&#8217;t go away! Here&#8217;s my original blog posting explaining the usage of this phrase to join words and clauses. However, I didn&#8217;t answer a question that came up in a writing group yesterday about using as well as in a list. So, here goes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=430&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Word choice: solve or resolve?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting question &#8212; what&#8217;s the difference between solve and resolve? The dictionary doesn&#8217;t tell us much &#8212; OALD gives: solve: to find a way of dealing with a problem or difficult situation; to find the correct answer or explanation for sth resolve (formal): to find an acceptable solution to a problem or difficulty [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=428&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://eslonthehill.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/st-patricks-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This Wednesday, March 17, is St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland &#8212; that&#8217;s a Catholic tradition in which certain saints (people who are recognized for dedicating their lives to their religion) are believed to protect certain countries or activities. St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is an important day in Ireland, but it&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=424&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clocks change on Sunday!</title>
		<link>http://eslonthehill.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/clocks-change-on-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daylight Savings Time begins in most of the U.S. (and definitely in North Carolina!) thia Sunday, March 14. You need to move your clocks forward one hour when you go to bed on Saturday night. If you can&#8217;t remember which way to change your clocks, use this helpful play on words: &#8220;spring forward; fall back.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=417&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Separatists, rebels, and other problems of word choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Spring Break, and I finally have time to catch up on answers to interesting language questions from the writing groups. In one group, we were looking at a piece of writing about the political situation in Russia, and we discussed the differences between these words, which all refer to groups that use violence against [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eslonthehill.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7579964&#038;post=414&#038;subd=eslonthehill&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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