Grassroots with Readings : The Writer's Workbook

by Fawcett, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780495901235
• ISBN10: 0495901237
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Using her unique M-A-P approach (Model-Analysis-Practice), Susan Fawcett's books have guided hundreds of thousands of students through the writing process, from foundations of grammar, mechanics, and spelling, through writing clear sentences and well-organized paragraphs. Her inductive approach; plentiful, high-interest student models and practices; and contemporary readings engage and motivate students. This edition of GRASSROOTS features improved grammar coverage and emphasizes proofreading, with a new Chapter 6 that teaches specific proofreading strategies and shows students how to recognize their personal "error patterns," track, and correct them. Every subsequent chapter offers a proofing strategy for the concept being taught. Full-color illustrations, including 45 photos, cartoons, and artworks, plus a new design, help students visualize and understand key concepts.

Table of Contents

Preface

Writing Effective Paragraphs

Each chapter in Unit 1 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights and Exploring Online

Exploring the Writing Process

The Writing Process

Subject, Audience, and Purpose

Guidelines for Submitting Written Work

Prewriting to Generate Ideas

Freewriting

Brainstorming

Clustering

Keeping a Journal

Developing Effective Paragraphs

Defining the Paragraph and the Topic Sentence

Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence

Generating Ideas for the Body of the Paragraph

Selecting and Dropping Ideas

Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline

Writing and Revising the Paragraph

Writing the Final Draft

Improving Your Paragraphs

More Work on Support: Examples

More Work on Arranging Ideas: Coherence

More Work on Revising: Exact and Concise Language

Turning Assignments into Paragraphs

Moving from Paragraph to Essay

Defining the Essay and the Thesis Statement

The Process of Writing an Essay

Proofreading to Correct Your Personal Errors

Identifying and Tracking Your Personal Error Patterns

Proofreading Strategies

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Discuss Your Name

Writing Complete Sentences

Each chapter in Unit 2 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Subjects and Verbs

Defining and Spotting Subjects

Spotting Singular and Plural Subjects

Spotting Prepositional Phrases

Defining and Spotting Action Verbs

Defining and Spotting Linking Verbs

Spotting Verbs of More Than One Word

Avoiding Sentence Fragments

Writing Sentences with Subjects and Verbs

Writing Sentences with Complete Verbs

Completing the Thought

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Discuss an Event That Influenced You

Using Verbs Effectively

Each chapter in Unit 3 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Present Tense (Agreement)

Defining Agreement

Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO BE

Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO HAVE

Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO DO (+ NOT)

Changing Subjects to Pronouns

Practice in Agreement

Special Problems in Agreement

Past Tense

Regular Verbs in the Past Tense

Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense

Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: TO BE

Review

The Past Participle in Action

Defining 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

Using Past Participles as Adjectives

Progressive Tenses (TO BE + -ING Verb Form)

Defining and Writing the Present Progressive Tense

Defining and Writing the Past Progressive Tense

Using the Progressive Tenses

Avoiding Incomplete Progressives

Fixed-Form Helping Verbs and Verb Problems

Defining and Spotting the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs.

Using the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs

Using CAN and COULD

Using WILL and WOULD

Writing Infinitives

Revising Double Negatives

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Tell a Family Story

Joining Ideas Together

Each chapter in Unit 4 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Coordination

Subordination

Defining and Using Subordinating Conjunctions

Punctuating Subordinating Conjunctions

Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices

Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs

Defining and Using Semicolons

Defining and Using Conjunctive Adverbs

Punctuating Conjunctive Adverbs

Relative Pronouns

Defining and Using Relative Pronouns

Punctuating Ideas Introduced by WHO, WHICH, or THAT

-ING Modifiers

Using -ING Modifiers

Avoiding Confusing Modifiers

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Describe a Detour off the Main Highway

Choosing The Right Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Or Preposition

Each chapter in Unit 5 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Nouns

Defining Singular and Plural

Signal Words: Singular and Plural

Signal Words with OF

Pronouns

Defining Pronouns and Antecedents

Referring to Indefinite Pronouns

Referring to Collective Nouns

Referring to Special Singular Constructions

Avoiding Vague and Repetitious Pronouns

Using Pronouns as Subjects, Objects, and Possessives

Choosing the Correct Case After AND or OR

Choosing the Correct Case in Comparisons

Using Pronouns with -SELF and -SELVES

Adjectives and Adverbs

Defining and Writing Adjectives and Adverbs

A Troublesome Pair: GOOD/WELL

Writing Comparatives

Writing Superlatives

Troublesome Comparatives and Superlatives

Demonstrative Adjectives: THIS/THAT and THESE/THOSE

Prepositions

Defining and Working with Prepositional Phrases

Troublesome Prepositions: IN, ON, and LIKE

Prepositions in Common Expressions

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Tell How Someone Changed Your Life

Revising for Consistency and Parallelism

Each chapter in Unit 6 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Consistent Tense

Consistent Person

Parallelism

Writing Parallel Constructions

Using Parallelism for Special Effects

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Shift Your Audience and Purpose

Mastering Mechanics

Each chapter in Unit 7 tincludes end-of-chapter elements Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Capitalization

Commas

Commas After Items in a Series

Commas After Introductory Phrases

Commas for Direct Address

Commas to Set Off Appositives

Commas for Parenthetical Expressions

Commas for Dates

Commas for Addresses

Commas for Coordination and Subordination

Apostrophes

Using the Apostrophe for Contractions

Defining the Possessive

Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Do Not Already End in -S)

Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Already End in -S)

Direct and Indirect Quotations

Defining Direct and Indirect Quotations

Punctuating Simple Direct Quotations

Punctuating Split Quotations

Ending Direct Quotations

Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Explain a Cause or an Effect

Improving Your Spelling

Each chapter in Unit 8 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online

Spelling

Suggestions for Improving Your Spelling

Computer Spell Checkers

Spotting Vowels and Consonants

Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of One Syllable)

Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of More Than One Syllable)

Dropping or Keeping the Final E

Changing or Keeping the Final Y

Choosing IE or EI

Commonly Misspelled Words

Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes

Writing Assignments

Review

Writers' Workshop: Examine Positive (or Negative) Values

Reading Selections and Quotation Bank

Reading Selections

Effective Reading Strategies for the Writer

"Daring to Dream Big"

"Mrs. Flowers"

"Superman and Me"

"Hot Dogs and Wild Geese"

"Beauty Is Not Just Smaller Than Life"

"A Day in the Life of an Emergency Room Nurse"

"You Can Take This Job and... Well, It Might Surprise You"

"The Gift"

"Quitting Hip-Hop"

"Stuff"

"Another Road Hog with Too Much Oink"

"Montgomery, Alabama, 1955"

"In This Arranged Marriage, Love Came Later"

"A Homemade Education"

"Playing a Violin with Three Strings"

"The Jacket"

"Four Directions"

"The Hidden Life of Bottled Water"

"Papa, the Teacher"

"Emotional Intelligence"

Quotation Bank

Parts of Speech Review

Some Guidelines for Students of English as a Second Language

Acknowledgments

Index

Index of Rhetorical Modes

Index to the Readings

Rhetorical Index to the Readings

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