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9780131893481

Mosaics : Focusing on Paragraphs in Context

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  • ISBN13:

    9780131893481

  • ISBN10:

    0131893483

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

This book is part of a three-part developmental series that integrates critical thinking, reading, and writing. The focus is on paragraphs as the book progresses from a discussion of the writing process (Part I) to guidelines for writing paragraphs in each rhetorical mode (Part II) to a look at writing essays (Part III) to an anthology of reading selections (Part IV) to a complete handbook of grammar and usage (Part V). Professonals looking to develop effective writing development skills.

Table of Contents

The Writing Process
Getting Started
Prewriting
Writing
Revising
Editing
Writing Effective Paragraphs
Describing
Narrating
Illustrating
Analyzing a Process
Comparing and Contrasting
Dividing and Classifying
Defining
Analyzing Causes and Effects
Arguing
Essays: Paragraphs in Context
Recognizing an Essay
How to Read an Essay
How to Write an Essay
Revising and Editing a Student Essay
Revising and Editing Your Own Essay
Writing Workshop
From Reading to Writing
Describing
Amy Tan, Magpies
Longing to Die of Old Age
Narrating
Eleven
Choosing the Path With Honor
Illustrating
ldquo;Dianerdquo;, Homeless Woman Living in a Car
Walk on By
Analyzing a Process
Getting Out of Debt (And Staying Out) Russell Freedman, Coming Over
Comparing and Contrasting
The Barrio
A Fable for Tomorrow
Dividing and Classifying
Rapport: How to Ignite It
Categories of Time Use
Defining
Workers
Jo Goodwin Parker, What is Poverty?
Analyzing Causes and Effects
Shedding the Weight of My Dad's Obsession
Life Sentences
Arguing
Why Study English?
Hate Crime Laws are Necessary
The Handbook
Introduction: Parts of Speech, Phrases, Clauses
Sentences
Subjects and Verbs
Fragments
Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
Unit Tests
Verbs
Regular and Irregular Verbs
Verb Tense
Subject-Verb Agreement
More on Verbs
Unit Tests
Pronouns
Pronoun Problems
Pronoun Reference and Point of View
Pronoun Agreement
Unit Tests
Modifiers
Adjectives
Adverbs
Modifier Errors
Unit Tests
Punctuation
End Punctuation
Commas
Apostrophes
Quotation Marks
Other Punctuation Marks
Unit Tests
Mechanics
Capitalization
Abbreviations and Numbers
Unit Tests
Effective Sentences
Varying Sentence Structure
Parallelism
Combining Sentences
Unit Tests
Choosing the Right Word
Standard and Nonstandard English
Easily Confused Words
Spelling
Unit Review
Appendixes
Credits
Index
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