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Clouse: Jumpstart
Jumpstart!: A Workbook for Writers, 2/e
Barbara Fine Clouse


Table of Contents

Part 1: Developing Your Writing Process and Writing Paragraphs and Essays

Chapter 1: Your Writing Process
Chapter 2: Writing a Paragraph
Chapter 3: Writing an Essay

Part 2: Understanding the Sentence

Chapter 4: Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 5: Coordination
Chapter 6: Subordination
Chapter 7: Sentence Fragments
Chapter 8: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices

Part 3: Understanding Verbs

Chapter 9: The Present Tense/Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 10: The Past Tense
Chapter 11: The Perfect Tenses/Active and Passive Voice
Chapter 12: The Progressive Tenses
Chapter 13: Tense Shifts

Part 4: Understanding Pronouns

Chapter 14: Pronouns
Chapter 15: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Chapter 16: Other Pronoun Problems

Part 5: Understanding Modifiers and Prepositions

Chapter 17: Adjective, Adverbs, and Articles
Chapter 18: Using Participles and Infinitives to Describe
Chapter 19: Prepositions

Part 6: Improving Sentences

Chapter 20: Achieving Parallelism
Chapter 21: Special Sentence Structure Problems
Chapter 22: Varying Sentence Openers

Part 7: Spelling Correctly

Chapter 23: Spelling
Chapter 24: Frequently Confused Words

Part 8: Capitalizing and Punctuating

Chapter 25: Capitalization and Endmarks
Chapter 26: Commas
Chapter 27: Apostrophes
Chapter 28: Punctuating Direct Quotations