Introduction
About the Book
Becoming a Better Writer
Writing Assignments
Visual Writing Prompts (insert)
Part One: Fifteen Basic Skills
Preview
1: Parts of Speech
2: Subjects and Verbs
3: Irregular Verbs
4: Subject-Verb Agreement
5: Sentence Types
6: Fragments I
7: Fragments II
8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I
9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II
10: The Comma
11: The Apostrophe
12: Quotation Marks
13: Homonyms
14: Capital Letters
15: Parallelism
Part Two: Extending the Skills
Preview
16: Preparing a Paper
17: Punctuation Marks
18: Pronoun Forms
19: Pronoun Problems
20: Adjectives and Adverbs
21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
22: Word Choice
23: Numbers and Abbreviations
24: More about Subjects and Verbs
25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement
26: More about Verbs
27: Even More about Verbs
28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices
29: More about Commas
30: More about Apostrophes
31: More about Quotation Marks
32: More about Homonyms
33: More about Capital Letters
Part Three: Proofreading
Preview
34: Basics about Proofreading
35: Ten Proofreading Tests
Part Four: Related Matters
Preview
36: Spelling Improvement
37: Dictionary Use
Index
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