Description: 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 PART THREE: ESSAY DEVELOPMENT 17. 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. 18. Using the Library and the Internet 19. Writing a Research Paper 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 43. Commonly Confused Words 44. Effective Word Choice 45. ESL Pointers Practice 46. Combined Mastery Tests 47. Editing Tests Sentence-Skills Achievement Test PART SIX: SEVENTEEN READING SELECTIONS Introduction to the Readings Goals and Values All the Good Things by Sister Helen Mrosla Rowing the Bus by Paul Logan Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong Adolescent Confusion by Maya Angelou Tickets to Nowhere by Andy Rooney What Good Families Are Doing Right by Delores Curran Education and Self-Improvement Do It Better! by Ben Carson, M.D. with Cecil Murphey Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name by James Lincoln Collier Old Before Her Time by Katherine Barrett Let's Really Reform Our Schools by Anita Garland How They Get You to Do That by Janny Scott Dealing with Feelings by Rudolph F. Verderber Human Groups and Society Television Changed My Family Forever by Linda Ellerbee Rudeness at the Movies by Bill Wine Bullies in School by Kathleen Berger People Need People by S. Leonard Syme A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson Appendix: Answers and Charts Answers to Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test and Introductory Projects Charts Acknowledgments Index

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