Description: SECTION I. 1. Prewriting and the Writing Process. 2. Special Concerns: Becoming Concrete and Specific and Establishing Point of View. 3. Description and Narration. 4. Special Concerns: Considering Diction and Addressing Audiences. 5. Exposition: Writing Definitions and Comparisons/Contrast Essays. 6. Special Concerns: Problems of Logic and Paragraph Organization. 7. Persuasion: Writing Cause and Effect Essays and Documented Arguments. SECTION II: SENTENCE COMBINING AND EDITING SKILLS. 8. Introduction to Sentence Structure. Unit 1: Basic Clause Patterns. Unit 2: Taking a Closer Look at Subjects. Unit 3: Taking a Closer Look at Predicates. Unit 4: The Modifiers. Unit 5: Review Exercises. 9. Strategies for Combining Clauses and Punctuating Sentences. Unit 1: Compound Sentences. Unit 2: Complex Sentences. Unit 3: Making and Punctuating Phrase/Clause Combinations. Unit 4: Other Useful Comma Rules. Unit 5: Reviewing Commas. Unit 6: Using Semicolons. Unit 7: Using Colons. Unit 8: Cumulative Review Exercises for the Comma, Semicolon, and Colon. Unit 9: Using Dashes. Unit 10: Cumulative Review of the Comma, Semicolon, and Dash. Unit 11: Miscellaneous Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Hyphens, and Apostrophes. 10. Solving Common Problems in Combining and Punctuating Sentences. Unit 1: Run-ons and Comma Splices. Unit 2: Fragments. Unit 3: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. Unit 4: Problems in Coordination and Parallelism. Unit 5: Passive Sentences. 11. Solving Problems at the Word Level. Unit 1: Subject-Verb Agreement. Unit 2: Consistency of Verb Tense. Unit 3: Adding -d and -ed Endings. Unit 4: Forming Plural Nouns. Unit 5: Pronoun Problems. Unit 6: Homonyms and Other Easily Confused Word Pairs. Unit 7: Capitalization. 12. Exercises in Sentence Combining.

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