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Donovan,
I hope things go well in school this year.  I would recommend that you write more and often. 
Please contact me when you need some assistance or feel our tutoring sessions will be useful.
If you want, we can spend an entire hour reviewing the basic grammar you need to improve.
I have included some new exercises and vocabulary.  I understand your frustration, but
with continuing effort we can help you learn to use your strengths and mitigate the effects
of your weaknesses.  And the basic grammar, syntax, and format information you need
will become only more essential each term. 
Best regards, Tim

Please let me know what your schedule is this fall, and when would be a good time for a session. 
I understand your financial concerns, and will be happy to work with you on whatever schedule
you prefer.  Look forward to hearing from you soon.  You can always contact me at this e-mail,
or via telephone to schedule, confirm, or cancel (with 24 hours notice) appointments.  503-697-1670   tim@writingresource.org/  If I do not hear from you, I will contact you in October to see
how your term is going.
 
   1. Read the editorial section of the newspaper and choose one article which
deals with a topic which interests you.  Prepare an essay that summarizes
the main ideas, identifies the author's point of view, and gives your own
opinion on the topic.
 2.   Here are 21 vocabulary words: 
 
 daunt to abate the courage of; discourage   make fearful
rudimentary of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary  basic
 credulous disposed to believe too readily; gullible eager to believe
 lucid easily understood; intelligible easy to understand
 sacrosanct regarded as sacred and inviolable sacred
     
 docile ready and willing to be taught; teachable easily taught
 impartial not partial or biased; unprejudiced fair
 precedent an act of instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances earlier example
 figurative based on or making use of figures of speech; metaphorical based on figures of speech
acquisition acronym activation activism actualize adaptability
adjacent adolescent adoption advocate adverse advisory

Here is your following set of words for making sentences.  These are College Level Vocabulary
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  Word List this is the entire list of words for our study this year.  These are words you should know at your level of education, and we will make certain that you are able to use them effectively.  Increasing vocabulary is a very useful thing for schoolwork, career, and life in general.

  .:VirtualSalt 1062 Vocabulary Words

                  
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