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This book of all Michael Clay Thompson’s research paper comments supplements his three-volume\u00a0Advanced Academic Writing series\u00a0and also acts as a unique stand-alone resource for grading student academic papers.\u00a0The book is a\u00a0sine qua non<\/em>\u00a0for grading academic papers, a resource as useful to seasoned teachers as to homeschoolers coping with the issues for the first time.<\/p>\n

For the past forty-plus years, Michael has graded student papers and has written detailed comments on them. He soon tired of writing the same comments for the same mistakes year after year and began to put his comments into an archive that he could draw upon as he needed. Eventually this archive became extensive and comprehensive.<\/p>\n

Opus 40<\/em>\u00a0contains the archive of his comments, his approach to teaching students how to write formal papers, his approach to grading student papers, and his reflections on and explanations of the comments he has written about structure, grammar, format, punctuation, style, and more.\u00a0The book makes accessible in one place all the comments that are in the\u00a0Advanced Academic Writing<\/em>\u00a0books so that parents can use them when grading.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This is a second edition of this book.\u00a0It has two significant changes from the first edition. First, it contains many comments that Michael has rewritten as a result of his online teaching. Second, it reflects the current MLA guidelines, which are substantially changed from those that were in existence when the first edition was written. As a result of those changes, the information in the first edition is now wrong, and no one should continue to use the first edition.<\/p>\n

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