PART ONE: Basic Principles of Effective Writing

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Writing
Chapter 2: The Writing Process
Chapter 3: The First and Second Steps in Writing
Chapter 4: The Third Step in Writing
Chapter 5: The Fourth Step in Writing
Chapter 6: Four Bases for Revising Writing

PART TWO: Paragraph Development

Chapter 7: Introduction to Paragraph Development
Chapter 8: Exemplification
Chapter 9: Process
Chapter 10: Cause and Effect
Chapter 11: Comparison and Contrast
Chapter 12: Definition
Chapter 13: Division and Classification
Chapter 14: Description
Chapter 15: Narration
Chapter 16: Argument
Chapter 17: Additional Paragraph Assignments

PART THREE: Essay Development

Chapter 18: Writing the Essay

PART FOUR: Research Skills

Chapter 19: Using the Library and the Internet
Chapter 20: Writing a Research Paper

PART FIVE: Handbook of Sentence Skills

GRAMMAR
Chapter 21: Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 22: Sentence Sense
Chapter 23: Fragments
Chapter 24: Run-Ons
Chapter 25: Standard English Verbs
Chapter 26: Irregular Verbs
Chapter 27: Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 28: Pronoun Agreement and Reference
Chapter 29: Pronoun Types
Chapter 30: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 31: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

MECHANICS
Chapter 32: Paper Format
Chapter 33: Capital Letters
Chapter 34: Numbers and Abbreviations

PUNCTUATION
Chapter 35: Apostrophe
Chapter 36: Quotation Marks
Chapter 37: Comma
Chapter 38: Other Punctuation Marks

WORD USE
Chapter 39: Using the Dictionary
Chapter 40: Improving Spelling
Chapter 41: Vocabulary Development
Chapter 42: Commonly Confused Words
Chapter 43: Effective Word Choice
Chapter 44: ESL Pointers

PRACTICE
Chapter 45: Combined Mastery Tests
Chapter 46: Editing Tests