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Here are some handouts created by the center staff in portable document format (.pdf). Feel free to make use of these resources.

	Knowing your audience is extermely important for a writer for effective communication with the reader. This handout provides a rhetorical framework for audience analysis.
	E-mail writing is a powerful ethos building medium in the cyberworld! This handout discusss various strategies on professional email writing in the academic community.
	This handout explores the various rhetorical devices that can be used to manipulate the audience and alerts the reader against them.
	Verbs certainly strengthen a person's writing. This handout explains how verbs help writers to write clearly. It also provides you with an activity to implement your learning.

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