Get Writing Sentences and Paragraphs

by Connelly, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780155063167
• ISBN10: 0155063162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-05
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This sentence to paragraph level developmental writing text will always give your students something to write about by offering four assignments in each chapter (even grammar chapters), assignments based on visual prompts, and guided question/revision strategy to help students focus their critical thinking skills. Complete handbook/reference section at end provides instant help for students. The book package includes Writing Now technology that offers self-assessment opportunities as well as online tutorials emphasizing improvement of writing skills. vMentor technology provides online synchronous tutoring.

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Part 1 Getting Started	1	(22)
Why Write?	2	(8)
Responding to Images	2	(1)
Writing Activity	3	(1)
Goals of This Book	4	(1)
Using Get Writing	4	(1)
Working Together	4	(1)
What Is Good Writing?	4	(1)
The Writing Context	5	(1)
Writing Activity	5	(1)
Strategies for Succeeding in Writing Courses	6	(1)
Critical Thinking	7	(1)
Responding to Images	8	(1)
Writing on the Web	9	(1)
Points to Remember	9	(1)
The Writing Process	10	(13)
Responding to Images	10	(1)
The Writing Process	11	(1)
Step 1: Prewrite	11	(4)
Strategies for Increasing Critical Thinking	12	(1)
Prewriting Techniques	12	(3)
Writing Activity	15	(1)
Step 2: Plan	15	(2)
Moving from Topic to Thesis	15	(1)
Working Together	16	(1)
Organizing Support	16	(1)
Creating an Outline	17	(1)
Writing Activity	17	(1)
Step 3: Write	18	(1)
Writing Activity	18	(1)
Step 4: Cool	18	(1)
Step 5: Revise	18	(1)
Using Peer Review	19	(1)
Peer Review Guidelines	19	(1)
Revising Activity	19	(1)
Step 6: Edit	20	(1)
Editing Activity	20	(1)
Avoid Plagiarism	20	(1)
Critical Thinking	21	(1)
Responding to Images	21	(1)
Writing on the Web	21	(1)
Points to Remember	22	(1)
Part 2 Developing Paragraphs	23	(144)
Developing Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas	24	(16)
Responding to Images	24	(1)
What Is a Paragraph?	25	(1)
What Do You Know?	26	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	27	(1)
What Have You Written?	27	(1)
Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas	28	(3)
Reading Topic Sentences	29	(1)
Writing Topic Sentences	29	(2)
Paragraphs without Topic Sentences	31	(2)
Revising Paragraphs	33	(1)
Working Together	33	(3)
Using Paragraph Breaks in Dialogue	36	(1)
Critical Thinking	37	(1)
What Have You Written?	38	(1)
What Have You Learned?	38	(1)
Responding to Images	38	(1)
Writing on the Web	39	(1)
Points to Remember	39	(1)
Supporting Topic Sentences with Details	40	(15)
Responding to Images	40	(1)
What Are Supporting Details?	41	(1)
What Do You Know?	41	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	41	(1)
What Have You Written?	42	(1)
Steps to Building Effective Paragraphs	42	(4)
Types of Support	46	(4)
Observations and Personal Experience	46	(1)
Examples	46	(1)
Facts	47	(1)
Statistics	48	(1)
Testimony (Quotations)	49	(1)
Blending Support	50	(2)
Working Together	52	(1)
Critical Thinking	53	(1)
What Have You Written?	53	(1)
Responding to Images	53	(1)
What Have You Learned?	53	(1)
Writing on the Web	54	(1)
Points to Remember	54	(1)
Developing Paragraphs Using Description	55	(18)
Responding to Images	55	(1)
What Is Description?	56	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	56	(1)
What Have You Written?	57	(1)
Creating Dominant Impressions	57	(1)
Exam Skills	58	(2)
Improving Dominant Impressions and Supporting Detail	60	(3)
Student Paragraphs	61	(1)
Putting Paragraphs Together	62	(1)
Readings	63	(5)
``Gaza Diary,'' Chris Hedges	63	(1)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	64	(1)
``My Ecumenical Father,'' Jose Antonio Burciaga	65	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	67	(1)
Steps to Writing a Descriptive Paragraph	68	(1)
Selecting Topics	68	(2)
Working Together	70	(1)
Critical Thinking	71	(1)
What Have You Written?	71	(1)
Responding to Images	71	(1)
Writing on the Web	72	(1)
Points to Remember	72	(1)
Developing Paragraphs Using Narration	73	(20)
Responding to Images	73	(1)
What Is Narration?	74	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	74	(1)
What Have You Written?	75	(1)
Writing Narration: Making a Point	75	(2)
Exam Skills	77	(1)
Writing Narration: Using Transitions	77	(1)
Writing Narration: Using Dialogue	78	(4)
Student Paragraphs	79	(1)
Putting Paragraphs Together	80	(2)
Readings	82	(6)
``Tickets to Nowhere,'' Andy Rooney	82	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	84	(1)
``The Fender Bender,'' Ramon ``Tianguis'' Perez	85	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	87	(1)
Steps to Writing a Narrative Paragraph	88	(1)
Selecting Topics	89	(1)
Working Together	90	(1)
Critical Thinking	91	(1)
What Have You Written?	91	(1)
Responding to Images	92	(1)
Writing on the Web	92	(1)
Points to Remember	92	(1)
Developing Paragraphs Using Example	93	(19)
Responding to Images	93	(1)
What Is an Example?	94	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	94	(1)
What Have You Written?	95	(1)
Writing Example Paragraphs	95	(1)
Types of Examples	96	(1)
Using Hypothetical Examples	97	(1)
Writing Examples: Using Transitions	98	(1)
Key Transition Words	98	(1)
Exam Skills	99	(3)
Student Paragraphs	100	(1)
Putting Paragraphs Together	101	(1)
Readings	102	(5)
``The Company Man,'' Ellen Goodman	102	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	104	(1)
``Odd Enders,'' Larry Orenstein	105	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	107	(1)
Steps to Writing an Example Paragraph	107	(1)
Selecting Topics	108	(1)
Working Together	109	(1)
Critical Thinking	109	(1)
What Have You Written?	110	(1)
Responding to Images	110	(1)
Writing on the Web	110	(1)
Points to Remember	111	(1)
Developing Paragraphs Using Comparison and Contrast	112	(16)
Responding to Images	112	(1)
What Are Comparison and Contrast?	113	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	113	(1)
What Have You Written?	114	(1)
The Purposes of Comparison and Contrast	114	(2)
Writing to Explain	114	(1)
Writing to Convince	115	(1)
Organizing Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs	116	(1)
Subject-by-Subject	116	(1)
Point-by-Point	117	(1)
Exam Skills	117	(3)
Student Paragraphs	118	(1)
Putting Paragraphs Together	119	(1)
Readings	120	(5)
``Chinese Space, American Space,'' Yi-Fu Tuan	120	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	122	(1)
``Neat People vs. Sloppy People,'' Suzanne Britt	122	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	124	(1)
Steps to Writing a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph	125	(1)
Selecting Topics	125	(1)
Working Together	126	(1)
Responding to Images	127	(1)
Writing on the Web	127	(1)
Points to Remember	127	(1)
Developing Paragraphs Using Cause and Effect	128	(17)
Responding to Images	128	(1)
What Is Cause and Effect?	129	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	129	(1)
What Have You Written?	130	(1)
Cause and Effect: Critical Thinking	130	(2)
Exam Skills	132	(3)
Student Paragraphs	133	(1)
Putting Paragraphs Together	134	(1)
Readings	135	(6)
``Why We Crave Horror Movies,'' Stephen King	135	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	137	(1)
``I Refuse to Live in Fear,'' Diana Bletter	138	(2)
Critical Thinking and Discussion	140	(1)
Steps to Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph	141	(1)
Selecting Topics	141	(1)
Working Together	142	(1)
Critical Thinking	143	(1)
What Have You Written?	143	(1)
Responding to Images	143	(1)
Writing on the Web	144	(1)
Points to Remember	144	(1)
Toward the Essay	145	(9)
Responding to Images	145	(1)
What Is an Essay?	146	(1)
The Introduction	146	(1)
The Body	147	(1)
The Conclusion	147	(1)
Developing Topic Sentences in Outlines	148	(3)
Working Together	151	(1)
Critical Thinking	152	(1)
What Have You Written?	152	(1)
Responding to Images	152	(1)
Writing on the Web	153	(1)
Points to Remember	153	(1)
Writing at Work	154	(13)
Responding to Images	154	(1)
E-mail	155	(2)
Strategies for Writing E-mail	155	(2)
Resumes	157	(3)
Strategies for Writing Resumes	157	(3)
Cover Letters	160	(3)
Strategies for Writing Cover Letters	161	(2)
Working Together	163	(1)
Critical Thinking	164	(1)
Responding to Images	165	(1)
Writing on the Web	165	(1)
Points to Remember	165	(2)
Part 3 Writing Sentences	167	(104)
Recognizing the Power of Words	168	(14)
Responding to Images	168	(1)
The Power of Words	169	(1)
What Do You Know?	169	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	169	(1)
What Have You Written?	170	(1)
Use Correct Words	170	(2)
Use Effective Words	172	(1)
Use Concrete Nouns	173	(1)
Use Strong Verbs	173	(1)
Avoid Cliches	173	(2)
Use Appropriate Words	175	(1)
Use Appropriate Level of Diction	175	(1)
Use Appropriate Idioms	176	(1)
Be Aware of Connotations	177	(1)
Working Together	178	(1)
Critical Thinking	179	(1)
What Have You Learned?	179	(1)
Responding to Images	180	(1)
Writing on the Web	181	(1)
Points to Remember	181	(1)
Writing Sentences	182	(16)
Responding to Images	182	(1)
What Is a Sentence?	183	(1)
What Do You Know?	183	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	184	(1)
What Have You Written?	184	(1)
Parts of Speech	184	(1)
Subjects and Verbs	185	(9)
What Are Nouns?	186	(1)
What Are Pronouns?	187	(2)
Locating ``Hidden Subjects''	189	(1)
Prepositional Phrases	190	(1)
Verbs	191	(3)
Building Sentences: Independent and Dependent Clauses	194	(1)
Sentence Length	195	(1)
Working Together	195	(1)
Critical Thinking	196	(1)
What Have You Learned?	196	(1)
What Have You Written?	196	(1)
Responding to Images	197	(1)
Writing on the Web	197	(1)
Points to Remember	197	(1)
Avoiding Fragments	198	(12)
Responding to Images	198	(2)
What Do You Know?	200	(1)
What Are Fragments?	200	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	201	(1)
What Have You Written?	202	(1)
Correcting Fragments	203	(4)
Working Together	207	(1)
Critical Thinking	207	(1)
What Have You Written?	208	(1)
What Have You Learned?	208	(1)
What Have You Written?	208	(1)
Responding to Images	209	(1)
Writing on the Web	209	(1)
Points to Remember	209	(1)
Building Sentences Using Coordination and Subordination	210	(18)
Responding to Images	210	(1)
What Do You Know?	211	(1)
What Are Coordination and Subordination?	212	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	213	(1)
What Have You Written?	213	(1)
Types of Sentences	213	(1)
Coordination	214	(5)
Coordinating Conjunctions	215	(1)
Adverbial Conjunctions	215	(4)
Working Together	219	(1)
Subordination	219	(4)
What Are You Trying to Say?	223	(1)
What Have You Written?	224	(1)
Critical Thinking	224	(1)
What Have You Written?	224	(2)
Responding to Images	226	(1)
What Have You Learned?	226	(1)
Writing on the Web	227	(1)
Points to Remember	227	(1)
Repairing Run-ons and Comma Splices	228	(16)
Responding to Images	228	(1)
What Are Run-ons?	229	(1)
What Do You Know?	230	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	230	(1)
What Have You Written?	231	(1)
Run-ons: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices	231	(1)
Fused Sentences	231	(1)
Comma Splices	231	(1)
Identifying Run-ons	232	(1)
Repairing Run-ons: Minor Repairs	233	(1)
Critical Thinking: Run-ons Needing Major Repairs	234	(1)
Methods of Repairing Run-ons	235	(1)
Working Together	236	(4)
Working Together	240	(1)
Critical Thinking	241	(1)
What Have You Written?	241	(1)
Responding to Images	242	(1)
What Have You Learned?	242	(1)
Writing on the Web	243	(1)
Points to Remember	243	(1)
Correcting Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers	244	(15)
Responding to Images	244	(1)
What Are Modifiers?	245	(1)
Dangling Modifiers	245	(1)
What Do You Know?	245	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	246	(1)
What Have You Written?	247	(1)
Avoiding Dangling Modifiers	247	(1)
Testing for Dangling Modifiers	248	(4)
Misplaced Modifiers	252	(3)
Working Together	255	(1)
Critical Thinking	256	(1)
What Have You Written?	256	(1)
What Have You Learned?	256	(1)
Responding to Images	257	(1)
Writing on the Web	257	(1)
Points to Remember	258	(1)
Understanding Parallelism	259	(12)
Responding to Images	259	(1)
What Is Parallelism?	260	(1)
What Do You Know?	260	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	261	(1)
What Have You Written?	261	(1)
Overcoming Parallelism Errors	262	(5)
Working Together	267	(1)
Critical Thinking	268	(1)
What Have You Written?	268	(1)
Responding to Images	268	(1)
What Have You Learned?	268	(1)
Writing on the Web	269	(1)
Points to Remember	269	(2)
Part 4 Understanding Grammar	271	(86)
Subject-Verb Agreement	272	(16)
Responding to Images	272	(1)
What Is Subject-Verb Agreement?	273	(1)
What Do You Know?	273	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	273	(1)
What Have You Written?	274	(1)
Grammar Choices and Meaning	274	(2)
Special Nouns and Pronouns	276	(8)
Group Nouns	276	(1)
Hidden Subjects	277	(2)
``Either . . . Or'' Subjects	279	(1)
Indefinite Pronouns	280	(1)
Relative Pronouns: Who, Which, and That	281	(3)
Critical Thinking	284	(1)
What Have You Written?	284	(1)
Working Together	285	(1)
Responding to Images	285	(1)
What Have You Learned?	286	(1)
Writing on the Web	286	(1)
Points to Remember	286	(2)
Verb Tense, Mood, and Voice	288	(19)
Responding to Images	288	(1)
What Do You Know?	289	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	289	(1)
What Have You Written?	290	(1)
What Is Tense?	290	(1)
Helping Verbs	290	(2)
Regular and Irregular Verbs	292	(4)
Problem Verbs: Lie/Lay, Rise/Raise, Set/Sit	296	(2)
Shifts in Tense	298	(1)
Working Together	299	(1)
Active and Passive Voice	300	(1)
Grammar Choices and Meaning	300	(2)
Other Verb Problems	302	(1)
Could Have, Must Have, Should Have, Would Have	302	(1)
Double Negatives	303	(1)
Critical Thinking	303	(1)
What Have You Written?	303	(1)
Responding to Images	304	(1)
What Have You Learned?	304	(1)
Writing on the Web	305	(1)
Points to Remember	305	(2)
Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Case	307	(19)
Responding to Images	307	(1)
What Are Pronouns?	308	(1)
What Do You Know?	308	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	308	(1)
What Have You Written?	309	(1)
Types of Pronouns	309	(1)
Using Pronouns	310	(1)
Pronoun Reference	311	(2)
Using They without an Antecedent	313	(1)
Pronoun Agreement	314	(1)
Singular and Plural Nouns and Pronouns	314	(1)
Avoiding Sexism	315	(2)
Methods of Avoiding Sexism	315	(1)
Using They to Avoid Sexism	316	(1)
Avoiding Shifts in Point of View	317	(1)
Using the Right Case	318	(4)
Pronoun Cases	318	(1)
Plural Constructions	319	(1)
Between	319	(1)
Comparisons	320	(1)
The Verb To Be	320	(1)
Who and Whom	320	(1)
This and That, These and Those	321	(1)
They and Them	321	(1)
Unnecessary Pronouns	321	(1)
Working Together	322	(1)
Critical Thinking	323	(1)
What Have You Written?	323	(1)
What Have You Learned?	323	(1)
Responding to Images	324	(1)
Writing on the Web	324	(1)
Points to Remember	325	(1)
Adjectives and Adverbs	326	(18)
Responding to Images	326	(1)
What Are Adjectives and Adverbs?	327	(1)
What Do You Know?	327	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	328	(1)
What Have You Written?	328	(1)
Understanding Adjectives	328	(3)
Commas and Adjectives	331	(1)
Understanding Adverbs	331	(2)
Grammar Choices and Meaning	333	(2)
Good/Well, Bad/Badly	334	(1)
Comparisons	335	(2)
Avoiding Double Comparisons	337	(1)
Using Superlatives	337	(2)
Working Together	339	(1)
Critical Thinking	340	(1)
What Have You Written?	340	(1)
What Have You Learned?	340	(1)
Responding to Images	341	(1)
Writing on the Web	342	(1)
Points to Remember	342	(2)
Using Prepositions	344	(13)
Responding to Images	344	(1)
What Are Prepositions?	345	(1)
What Do You Know?	346	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	346	(1)
What Have You Written?	347	(2)
Commonly Confused Prepositions	349	(1)
Locating Prepositions	350	(1)
Working Together	351	(3)
Critical Thinking	354	(1)
What Have You Written?	354	(1)
Responding to Images	354	(1)
Writing on the Web	355	(1)
What Have You Learned?	355	(1)
Points to Remember	355	(2)
Part 5 Using Punctuation and Mechanics	357	(68)
Using Commas and Semicolons	358	(19)
Responding to Images	358	(1)
What Are Commas and Semicolons?	359	(1)
What Do You Know?	359	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	359	(1)
What Have You Written?	360	(1)
Comma	360	(9)
Comma Uses	361	(8)
Avoiding Unnecessary Commas	369	(1)
Guide to Eliminating Unnecessary Commas	369	(1)
Semicolon	370	(2)
Working Together	372	(1)
Critical Thinking	373	(1)
What Have You Written?	374	(1)
Responding to Images	374	(1)
Writing on the Web	374	(1)
What Have You Learned?	374	(1)
Points to Remember	375	(2)
Using Other Marks of Punctuation	377	(18)
Responding to Images	377	(1)
What Are the Other Marks of Punctuation?	378	(1)
What Do You Know?	378	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	378	(1)
What Have You Written?	379	(1)
Apostrophe	379	(4)
Quotation Marks	383	(2)
Colon	385	(1)
Parentheses	386	(1)
Brackets	386	(1)
Dash	387	(1)
Hyphen	387	(1)
Ellipsis	388	(1)
Slash	389	(1)
Question Mark	389	(1)
Exclamation Point	389	(1)
Period	389	(1)
Working Together	390	(1)
Critical Thinking	391	(1)
What Have You Written?	392	(1)
Responding to Images	392	(1)
Writing on the Web	392	(1)
What Have You Learned?	392	(1)
Points to Remember	393	(2)
Using Capitalization	395	(10)
Responding to Images	395	(1)
What Is Capitalization?	396	(1)
What Do You Know?	396	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	396	(1)
What Have You Written?	397	(1)
Rules for Capitalization	397	(5)
Working Together	402	(1)
Critical Thinking	402	(1)
What Have You Written?	402	(1)
Improving Your Writing	402	(1)
Responding to Images	403	(1)
Writing on the Web	403	(1)
What Have You Learned?	403	(1)
Points to Remember	404	(1)
Correcting Spelling Errors	405	(20)
Responding to Images	405	(1)
What Do You Know?	406	(1)
What Are You Trying to Say?	407	(1)
What Have You Written?	407	(1)
Steps to Improving Spelling	408	(1)
Commonly Misspelled Words	408	(1)
Forty Commonly Misspelled Words	409	(1)
Commonly Confused Words	409	(3)
Ten Most Commonly Confused Words	410	(2)
Forming Plurals	412	(3)
Adding Endings	415	(5)
Past-Tense Spellings	415	(1)
Spelling Other Endings	416	(4)
Working Together	420	(1)
Working Together	420	(1)
Critical Thinking	421	(1)
What Have You Written?	421	(1)
Responding to Images	421	(1)
Writing on the Web	422	(1)
What Have You Learned?	422	(1)
Points to Remember	422	(2)
Improving Spelling	424	(1)
HANDBOOK	425	(36)
Basic Sentence Structure	427	(2)
Phrases and Clauses	427	(1)
Types of Sentences	427	(1)
Parts of Speech	428	(1)
Sentence Errors	429	(3)
Fragments	429	(1)
Run-ons	430	(2)
Modifiers	432	(1)
Dangling Modifiers	432	(1)
Misplaced Modifiers	433	(1)
Faulty Parallelism	433	(2)
Verbs	435	(4)
Subject-Verb Agreement	435	(1)
Verb Tense	436	(2)
Problem Verbs	438	(1)
Shifts in Tense	439	(1)
Pronouns	439	(3)
Reference	439	(1)
Agreement	440	(2)
Adjectives and Adverbs	442	(1)
Comma	443	(3)
Semicolon	446	(1)
Apostrophe	446	(1)
Quotation Marks	447	(1)
Colon	448	(1)
Parentheses	448	(1)
Brackets	448	(1)
Dash	449	(1)
Hyphen	449	(1)
Ellipsis	449	(1)
Slash	450	(1)
Question Mark	450	(1)
Exclamation Point	451	(1)
Period	451	(1)
Capitalization	451	(2)
Spelling	453	(6)
Commonly Confused Words	453	(3)
Commonly Misspelled Words	456	(3)
Two Hundred Topics for College Writing	459	(2)
Answers	461	(26)
Credits	487	(2)
Index	489