English Skills Information Center: Table of Contents


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	Student Edition
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English Skills, 8/e

John Langan, Atlantic Community College

ISBN: 0072962763
Copyright year: 2006

PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE WRITING

1. An Introduction to Writing

2. The Writing Process

3. The First and Second Steps in Writing

Step 1: Begin with a Point

Step 2: Support the Point with Specific Evidence, Practice in Making and Supporting a Point

4. The Third Step in Writing

Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence, Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence

5. The Fourth Step in Writing

Step 4: Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences

Revising Sentences

Editing Sentences

Practice in Revising Sentences

6.Four Bases for Revising Writing

Base 1: Unity

Base 2: Support

Base 3: Coherence

Base 4: Sentence Skills

Practice in Using the Four Bases

PART TWO: PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT

7. Introduction to Paragraph Development

8. Providing Examples

9. Explaining a Process

10. Examining Cause and Effect

11. Comparing or Contrasting

12. Defining a Term

13. Dividing and Classifying

14. Describing a Scene or Person

15. Narrating an Event

16. Arguing a Position

17. Additional Paragraph Assignments

PART THREE: ESSAY DEVELOPMENT

18. Writing the Essay

What Is an Essay?

Important Points about the Essay

Essays to Consider

Planning the Essay

Writing an Exam Essay

Essay Writing Assignments

PART FOUR: RESEARCH SKILLS

19. A Quick Guide to Research

PART FIVE: HANDBOOK OF SENTENCE SKILLS
Grammar

20. Subjects and Verbs

21. Sentence Sense

22. Fragments

23. Run-Ons

24. Standard English Verbs

25. Irregular Verbs

26. Subject-Verb Agreement

27. Pronoun Agreement and Reference

28. Pronoun Types

29. Adjectives and Adverbs

30. Misplaced Modifiers

31. Dangling Modifiers

Mechanics

32. Paper Format

33. Capital Letters

34. Numbers and Abbreviations

Punctuation

35. Apostrophe

36. Quotation Marks

37. Comma

38. Other Punctuation Marks

Word Use

39. Using the Dictionary

40. Improving Spelling

41. Vocabulary Development

42. Commonly Confused Words

43. Effective Word Choice

44. ESL Pointers

Practice

45. Combined Mastery Tests

46. Editing Tests

Sentence-Skills Achievement Test

Appendix: Answers and Charts

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