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		<title>Page Breaks in MS WORD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 To start a new page, instead of hitting the ENTER key repeatedly until you get to the right spot, just use CTRL-ENTER. The advantage of this is that not only is it quicker and easier, but if the length of the preceding text changes, your page break will stay where it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=53</link>
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		<title>How to make right-aligned page headers in MS WORD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 With your document open, click on the View menu and select Header and Footer. Any text you&#8217;ve typed in the body of your document will become greyed out, and a dotted boundary will appear around the header area of the page (or the footer, if you&#8217;re closer to the bottom of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Appendixes in APA Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 Here are some things to remember about appendixes in APA format: The plural of appendix, as far as APA is concerned, is appendixes, NOT appendices. If there&#8217;s only one appendix, it doesn&#8217;t get a letter label. The text should say &#8220;see Appendix,&#8221; not &#8220;see Appendix A.&#8221; Multiple appendixes should be lettered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Secondary Citations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 Once in a while you&#8217;ll find yourself in the position of using information from a secondary source. A secondary source is when you read an article that cites information from another source, and you use that information in your paper. In this case, you need to credit the original author without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Page Numbers in Citations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 When are APA citations supposed to include page numbers? According to the APA guide (5th ed., pp. 120-121), when you are using a direct quote you need to provide the location in its original source of the text you are quoting. If you are paraphrasing the content of a source publication, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=6</link>
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		<title>Reference, Citation, or Quote?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 Students new to APA style often confuse these terms, so here&#8217;s a quick guide to what&#8217;s what: A quote is when you exactly reproduce someone else&#8217;s words in your text. In the following example, the quote is shown in bold type: Coping strategies are &#8220;a means of dealing with stress to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=5</link>
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		<title>Use Your Dictionary&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or I will pull over and take photographs to publish on the Web. privet [priv-it] –noun any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, esp. L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge. [Origin: 1535–45; orig. uncert.] privet. (n.d.). Dictionary.com unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved September 30, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Lists in APA Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 This is mostly for all the NUR206 students working on papers with lists of nursing diagnoses, client outcomes, etc. who are wondering how to use APA format correctly to do it. (The rest of you are welcome to read it too, though!) After scouring the APA guide (5th ed.) for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Internet Terms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 Internet references and terms are a source of confusion in writing, since they are so new, at least in relation to the rest of the English language. Here are some guidelines that might be helpful: The words Internet and Web are proper nouns, and are capitalized. Web site (two words) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Beginnings, Middles and Endings: A Framework for Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Rogers &#8217;07 As chaotic as life may seem at times, there is an order to the universe that is reflected in everything that exists. This order means that things don&#8217;t generally happen in a random sequence; instead they tend to start at the beginning, progress through the middle, and finish at the ending. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pdxwritingcenter.org/?p=61</link>
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