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Targeting technique, 110-11
Taste, in descriptive writing, 125

Telling vs. showing in narrative essays, 139-40

Tense, verb shifts in, 411-15

necessary, providing, 414-15

unnecessary, avoiding, 412-13

verb tense chart, 411-12
verb tense timeline, 411

Textspeak (txtspk), 461-63

that, in run-on sentences, 333, 335

themselves, themself, theirself, theirselves, 479

then, than, 479

there, their, they’re, 479
There is, sentences beginning with, 434-35

Thesis. See also Thesis points; Thesis statement

checklist for revision, 109

progressive writing assignment, 56-57

Thesis link, 76-77
Thesis points

comparisons, 91-92

evaluating, 48-52

ideas that are too broad, 49-50

ideas that are too narrow, 51-52
overlap, avoiding, 48-49

examples, 86-91

listed, 41-46

advantages of, 41-42

at beginning of thesis statement, 44