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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College

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Contents:

Chapter 1: Practicing the Writing Process
Chapter 2: Making the Most of Reading
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
Chapter 12: Introducing the Essay
Chapter 13: Revising Essays
Chapter 14: Expanding Paragraphs into Essays
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
Chapter 18: Creating Sentence Variety
Chapter 19: Choosing the Most Effective Word
Chapter 20: Working with Sentence Parts
Chapter 21: Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism
Chapter 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
Additional Reading 1: "The Great Tide Pool", excerpt from Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
Additional Reading 2: "The Dare," by Roger Hoffman
Additional Reading 3: "Rambos of the Road," by Martin Gottfried
Additional Reading 4: "The Ways of Meeting Oppression," by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Additional Reading 5: "The Ten Most Memorable Bores," by Margot Mifflin
Additional Reading 6: "Two by Two, We'll Fill the Planet," by Benjamin Zuckerman
Additional Reading 7: "Black Men and Public Spaces," by Brent Staples
Additional Reading 8: "How to Write a Letter," by Garrison Keillor
Additional Reading 9: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts," by Bruce Catton
Additional Reading 10: "A Nice Place to Visit," by Russell Baker
Additional Reading 11: "What Is a Dad?" by Bob Brannan
Additional Reading 12: "Opposing Principles Help Balance Society," by Sydney J. Harris
Additional Reading 13: "Abortion, Right and Wrong," by Rachel Richardson Smith
Additional Reading 14: "What Is Biodiversity and Why Should We Care about It?" by Donella Meadows