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- 01-01-2016
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Cliches sap the life out of a story just like a whiff of sewage can ruin a supper party. This resource shows students that it’s much better to tell simply and specifically what happened. Included here are some phrases that long ago grew stale and hackneyed and an encouragement for students to eliminate them from their writing.
Cliches sap the life out of a story just like a whiff of sewage can ruin a supper party. This resource shows students that it’s much better to tell simply and specifically what happened. Included here are some phrases that long ago grew stale and hackneyed and an encouragement for students to eliminate them from their writing.
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Writing
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Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade, Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
Purging Clichés, Redundancies, and Euphemisms
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