Writing Process | |
The Writing Situation | |
Assessment | |
Subject | |
Audience | |
Purpose | |
Invention | |
Journal keeping | |
Observing | |
Freewriting | |
Brainstorming | |
Clustering | |
Asking questions | |
Thesis and Organization | |
Thesis statement | |
Organization | |
Drafting | |
Starting to draft | |
Maintaining momentum | |
Sample first draft | |
Revising and Editing | |
Revising the whole essay | |
Sample revision | |
Editing the revised draft | |
Formatting and proofreading | |
Sample final draft | |
Collaborating | |
Preparing a writing portfolio | |
Paragraphs | |
Unity | |
Coherence | |
Development | |
Introductions and conclusions | |
Document Design | |
Academic papers | |
Principles of design | |
Elements of design | |
Illustrations | |
Readers with disabilities | |
Writing in and out of College | |
Academic Writing | |
Becoming an academic writer | |
Audience | |
Purpose | |
Structure and format | |
Language | |
Study Skills | |
Time management | |
Listening and note taking in class | |
Reading | |
Exams | |
Critical Thinking and Reading | |
Reading texts | |
Viewing images | |
Argument | |
Elements of argument | |
Reasonableness | |
Organization | |
Visual arguments | |
Sample argument | |
Online Writing | |
Electronic mail | |
Online collaboration | |
Web compositions | |
Oral Presentations | |
Organization | |
Delivery | |
Public Writing | |
Business letters and rFsumFsSample letter and rFsumF | |
Memos, reports, and proposalsSample memo, report, and proposal | |
Community work: flyers, newsletters, brochuresSample flyer, newsletter, and brochure | |
Clarity and Style | |
Emphasis | |
Effective subjects and verbs | |
Sentence beginnings and endings | |
Coordination | |
Subordination | |
Parallelism | |
With and, but, or, nor, yet | |
With both...and, not...but, etc. | |
In comparisons | |
With lists, headings, and outlines | |
Variety and Details | |
Sentence length | |
Sentence structure | |
Details | |
Appropriate and Exact Language | |
Appropriate language | |
Exact language | |
Completeness | |
Compounds | |
Needed words | |
Conciseness | |
Focusing on subject and verb | |
Cutting empty words | |
Cutting repetition | |
Reducing clauses and phrases | |
Cutting there is or it is | |
Combining sentences | |
Rewriting jargon | |
Sentence Parts and Patternsbasic Grammar | |
Parts of Speech | |
Nouns | |
Pronouns | |
Verbs | |
Adjectives and adverbs | |
Prepositions and conjunctions | |
Interjections | |
The Sentence | |
Subject and predicate | |
Predicate patterns | |
Phrases and Subordinate Clauses | |
Phrases | |
Subordinate clauses | |
Sentence Types | |
Simple sentences | |
Compound sentences | |
Complex sentences | |
Compound-complex sentencesVERBS | |
Forms | |
Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs | |
Sit/set; lie/lay; rise/raise | |
-s and -ed forms | |
Be, have, and other helping verbs | |
Verb + gerund or infinitive: stop eating vs. stop to eat | |
Verb + particle: look up, look over, | |
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