Unit I: Getting Our Feet Wet
Chapter 1 Practicing the Writing Process
Chapter 2 Making the Most of Reading
Unit II: Working with the Paragraph
Chapter 3 Introducing the Paragraph
Chapter 4 Revising Paragraphs
Chapter 5 Picturing Places
Chapter 6 Telling Your Own Story
Chapter 7 Illustrating through Examples
Chapter 8 Creating and Explaining Groups
Chapter 9 Explaining Causes and Effects
Chapter 10 Explaining Activities: Doing Them, Understanding Them
Chapter 11 Explaining Similarities and Differences Unit III: Working with the Essay
Chapter 12 Introducing the Essay
Chapter 13 Revising Essays
Chapter 14 Expanding Paragraphs into Essays: Illustration, Classification,
Cause and Effect, Process Analysis, Comparison and Contrast
Chapter 15 Defining Ideas-Combining Patterns of Development
Chapter 16 Writing Persuasively-Combining Patterns of Development
Chapter 17 Taking Essay Exams-Combining Patterns of Development Unit IV: Polishing Style
Chapter 18 Creating Sentence Variety
Chapter 19 Choosing the Most Effective Word Unit V: Practicing Sentence Sense
Chapter 20 Working with Sentence Parts
Chapter 21 Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism
Chaper 22 Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments
Chapter 23 Verbs: Form and Agreement
Chapter 24 Pronouns: Reference and Agreement
Chapter 25 Adjectives and Adverbs: Words that Describe
Chapter 26 Commas and Other Punctuation
Chapter 27 Spelling and Sound-Alike Words
Chapter 28 ESL Concerns Unit VI: Additional Readings
Description
"The Great Tide Pool," excerpt from Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
Narration
"The Dare," by Roger Hoffman
Illustration
"Rambos of the Road," by Martin Gottfried
Classification
"The Ways of Meeting Oppression," by Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The Ten Most Memorable Bores" by Margot Miflin
Cause and Effect
"Two by Two, We'll Fill the Planet" by Benjamin Zuckerman
"Black Men and Public Spaces" by Brent Staples
Process Analysis
"How to Write a Letter," by Garrison Keillor
Comparison and Contrast
"Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts," by Bruce Catton
"A Nice Place to Visit" by Russell Baker
Definition
"Opposing Principles Help Balance Society"
"What Is a Dad?" by Bob Brannan
Persuasion
"Abortion, Right and Wrong," by Rachel Richardson Smith
"What Is Biodiversity and Why Should We Care about It? by Donella Meadows
Appendix 1: Working with Your Computer
Appendix 2: Improvement Chart
Appendix 3: Outline of a Writer's Grammar
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