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| Getting Started | |
| Exploring the Writing Process | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Subject, Audience, and Purpose | |
| Prewriting to Generate Ideas | |
| Freewriting | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Clustering | |
| Asking Questions | |
| Keeping a Journal | |
| Writers' Workshop: Using Just One of Your Five Senses, Describe a Place | |
| Discovering the Paragraph | |
| The Process of Writing Paragraphs | |
| Defining and Looking at the Paragraph | |
| Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence | |
| Generating Ideas for the Body | |
| Selecting and Dropping Ideas | |
| Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline | |
| Writing and Revising the Paragraph | |
| Achieving Coherence | |
| Coherence Through Order | |
| Coherence Through Related Sentences | |
| Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures to Grow Up Fast | |
| Developing the Paragraph | |
| Illustration Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing an Illustration Paragraph Suggested Topic Sentences for Illustration Paragraphs | |
| Narration Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Narrative Paragraph Suggested Topics for Narrative Paragraphs | |
| Description Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Descriptive Paragraph Suggested Topics for Descriptive Paragraphs | |
| Process Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Process Paragraph Suggested Topics for Process Paragraphs | |
| Definition | |
| Single-Sentence Definitions | |
| The Definition Paragraph Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Definition Paragraph Suggested Topics for Definition Paragraphs | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| The Contrast and Comparison Paragraphs Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Contrast or Comparison Paragraph Suggested Topics for Contrast or Comparison Paragraphs | |
| The Comparison-Contrast Paragraph Working Through the Comparison-Contrast Paragraph Suggested Topics for Comparison-Contrast Paragraphs | |
| Classification Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Classification Paragraph Suggested Topics for Classification Paragraphs | |
| Cause and Effect Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph Suggested Topics for Cause and Effect Paragraphs | |
| Persuasion Thinking and Writing Together Exploring Online Checklist: The Process of Writing a Persuasive Paragraph Suggested Topics for Persuasive Paragraphs | |
| Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers | |
| Writing the Essay | |
| The Process of Writing an Essay | |
| Looking at the Essay | |
| Writing the Thesis Statement | |
| Generating Ideas for the Body | |
| Ordering and Linking Paragraphs in the Essay | |
| Writing and Revising Essays Checklist: The Process of Writing an Essay Suggested Topics for Essays Exploring Online | |
| Types of Essays | |
| The Illustration Essay | |
| The Narrative Essay | |
| The Descriptive Essay | |
| The Process Essay | |
| The Definition Essay | |
| The Comparison or Contrast Essay | |
| The Classification Essay | |
| The Cause and Effect Essay | |
| The Persuasive Essay | |
| The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title | |
| The Introduction | |
| The Conclusion | |
| The Title | |
| Special College Skills: Summary and Quotation | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Writing a Summary Checklist: The Process of Writing a Summary | |
| Using Direct and Indirect Quotation | |
| Strengthening an Essay with Research | |
| Improving an Essay with Research | |
| Finding and Evaluating Outside Sources: Library and Internet | |
| Adding Sources to Your Essay and Documenting Them Correctly | |
| Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination | |
| Budgeting Your Time | |
| Reading and Understanding the Essay Question | |
| Choosing the Correct Paragraph or Essay Pattern | |
| Writing the Topic Sentence or the Thesis Statement Checklist: The Process of Answering an Essay Question | |
| Writers' Workshop: Analyze a Social Problem | |
| Improving Your Writing | |
| Revising for Consistency and Parallelism | |
| Consistent Tense | |
| Consistent Number and Person | |
| Parallelism Exploring Online | |
| Revising for Sentence Variety | |
| Mix Long and Short Sentences | |
| Use a Question, a Command, or an Exclamation | |
| Vary the Beginnings of Sentences | |
| Vary Methods of Joining Ideas | |
| Avoid Misplaced and Confusing Modifiers | |
| Review and Practice | |
| Revising for Language Awareness | |
| Exact Language: Avoiding Vagueness | |
| Concise Language: Avoiding Wordiness | |
| Fresh Language: Avoiding Triteness | |
| Figurative Language: Similes and Metaphors | |
| Putting Your Revision Skills to Work | |
| Writers' Workshop: Examine the Bright (or Dark) Side of Family Life | |
| Reviewing the Basics | |
| The Simple Sentence | |
| Defining and Spotting Subjects | |
| Spotting Prepositional Phrases | |
| Defining and Spotting Verbs Exploring Online | |
| Coordination and Subordination | |
| Coordination | |
| Subordination | |
| Semicolons | |
| Conjunctive Adverbs | |
| Review Exploring Online | |
| Avoiding Sentence Errors | |
| Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices | |
| Avoiding Fragments Exploring Online | |
| Present Tense (Agreement) | |
| Defining Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Three Troublesome Verbs in the Present Tense: To Be, To Have, To Do | |
| Special Singular Constructions | |
| Separation of Subject and Verb | |
| Sentences Beginning with There and Here | |
| Agreement in Questions | |
| Agreement in Relative Clauses Exploring Online | |
| Past Tense | |
| Regular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
| Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
| A Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: To Be | |
| Troublesome Pairs in the Past Tense: Can/Could, Will/Would Exploring Online | |
| The Past Participle | |
| Past Participles of Regular Verbs | |
| Past Participles of Irregular Verbs | |
| Using the Present Perfect Tense | |
| Using the Past Perfect Tense | |
| Using the Passive Voice (To Be and the Past Participle) | |
| Using the Past Participle as an Adjective Exploring Online | |
| Nouns | |
| Defining Singular and Plural | |
| Signal Words: Singular and Plural | |
| Signal Words with Of Exploring Online | |
| Pronouns | |
| Defining Pronouns and Antecedents | |
| Making Pronouns and Antecedents Agree | |
| Referring to Antecedents Clearly | |
| Special Problems of Case | |
| Using Pronouns with -Self and -Selves Exploring Online | |
| Prepositions | |
| Working with Prepositional Phrases | |
| Prepositions in Common Expressions Exploring Online | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Defining and Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| The Comparative and the Superlative | |
| A Troublesome Pair: Good/Well Exploring Online | |
| The Apostrophe | |
| The Apostrophe for Contractions | |
| The Apostrophe for Ownership | |
| Special Uses of the Apostrophe Exploring Online | |
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