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    Choices in Writing

    Sentence structure, word choice, grammars, punctuation

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    Emphasizing the Main Point

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    Paying Attention to Audience

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    Not Harder (or More): Becoming a Strategic Graduate Writer
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    Writing Center

    621 W Lombard Street Room 307
    Baltimore, MD 21201

    Isabell C. May, PhD
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    410-706-7725 writingcenter@umaryland.edu

    Summer Schedule

    We will be reopening in late June/early July for regularly scheduled consultations.

    Please check back at a later date.

    In the meantime, contact us at writingcenter@umaryland.edu with any questions.

     

     


    James E. Wright
    Associate Director

    james.wright@umaryland.edu
    University of Maryland Baltimore

    The University of Maryland, Baltimore is the founding campus of the University System of Maryland.

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