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Toor, Rachel. "6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words". Write Your Way In, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. 80-90. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226383927-009
Toor, R. (2017). 6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words. In Write Your Way In (pp. 80-90). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226383927-009
Toor, R. 2017. 6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words. Write Your Way In. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 80-90. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226383927-009
Toor, Rachel. "6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words" In Write Your Way In, 80-90. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226383927-009
Toor R. 6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words. In: Write Your Way In. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2017. p.80-90. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226383927-009
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