PART ONE Writing: Skills and Process
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Writing Process
PART TWO Basic Principles of Effective Writing
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
4. The Third and Fourth Steps in Writing
5. Four Bases for Revising Writing
PART THREE Paragraph Development
6. Exemplification
7. Narration
8. Description
9. Process
10. Cause and Effect
11. Comparison or Contrast
12. Definition
13. Division-Classification
14. Argument
PART FOUR Essay Development
15. Introduction to Essay Development
16. Writing the Essay
17. Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles
18. Patterns of Essay Development
19. Special College Skills
20. Writing a Research Paper
PART FIVE Handbook of Sentence Skills SECTION I Grammar
21. Subjects and Verbs
22. Sentence Sense
23. Fragments
24. Run-Ons
25. Regular and Irregular Verbs
26. Subject–Verb Agreement
27. Additional Information about Verbs
28. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
29. Pronoun Types
30. Adjectives and Adverbs
31. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
SECTION II Mechanics
32. Manuscript Form
33. Capital Letters
34. Numbers and Abbreviations
SECTION III Punctuation
35. Apostrophe
36. Quotation Marks
37. Comma
38. Other Punctuation Marks
SECTION IV Word Use
39. Spelling Improvement
40. Commonly Confused Words
41. Effective Word Choice
42. Editing Tests
43. ESL Pointers
PART SIX Readings for Writers
INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS
LOOKING INWARD
OBSERVING OTHERS
CONFRONTING PROBLEMS
APPENDIXES
Create - Writing a Résumé and Cover Letter
Writing a Formal E-mail
Transition Words and Phrases
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