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A UWF Writing Lab Mini-Lesson
Mini-Lesson #19
The girl (her name is Becca) is
terrified of thunderstorms.
The diagram (see page twelve)
shows Columbus, Georgia’s 2012
education budget.
Mr. Scott has coached football for
twenty-five years. (That’s longer
than I’ve been alive.) Although he
enjoys coaching all ages, he admits
that his favorite level to coach is
high school.
Medieval Europe was
a place both of “raids,
pillages, slavery, and
extortion” and of
“traveling merchants,
monetary exchange,
towns if not cities, and
active markets in grain”
(Townsend 10).*
* 2009 MLA Handbook
Her essay on the United
Nations discusses the
organization’s (1) general
history, (2) structure and
current members, and (3)
goals and activities.
Mr. McGregor said, “You [Peter
Rabbit] had better never come back
to my garden.”
Charles Dickens wrote, “Bring in the
bottled lightning [what is bottled
lightning?], a clean tumbler, and a
corkscrew.”
Thackeray said, “[I]f it [the world]
beats you sometimes, dare it again,
and it will succumb.” (Notice that the
I is placed in brackets at the
beginning of the quote; it was not
capitalized in the original quotation.)
Like Water for Chocolate
[Como agua para chocolate].
Screenplay by Laura Esquivel. Dir.
Alfonso Arau. Perf. Lumi Cavazos,
Marco Lombardi, and Regina
Torne. Miramax, 1993. Film*
In 1598, William
Shakespeare performed in
the play Every Man in His
Humour (by Ben Johnson
[1572-1637]), which was a
great success.