Getting Started | |
Your Strengths as a Writer | |
The Bases of Good Writing: The Four Cs | |
Practice with the Four Cs | |
Writing for a Reader and a Reason | |
The Writing Process | |
Prewriting: Coming Up With Ideas | |
Drafting: Writing a Rough Draft | |
Revising: Making Changes in Your Draft | |
Editing: Checking for Correctness | |
Putting the Writing Process Steps Together | |
The Elements of Good Writing | |
Writing an Effective Topic Sentence | |
Using Specific Details for Support and Illustration | |
Organizing and Linking Ideas | |
Writing Correct Sentences | |
Strategies for Paragraph Development | |
Providing Illustrations and Examples | |
Narrating an Event or Story | |
Describing a Scene, Person, or Object | |
Classifying and Dividing | |
Explaining a Process | |
Comparing and Contrasting | |
Explaining Cause and Effect | |
Defining Terms | |
Arguing a Position | |
Writing Essays | |
The Parts of an Essay | |
Prewriting for and Drafting Your Essay | |
Revising and Editing Your Essay | |
Writing for Different Purposes | |
Essay Exams | |
Writing Summaries | |
Writing to Get a Job | |
Writing Correct Sentences | |
Prepositional Phrases | |
Subjects and Verbs | |
Clauses | |
Run-On Sentences | |
Fragments | |
Regular Verbs | |
Irregular Verbs | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
Verb Tense and Tense Consistency | |
Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Reference, and Point of View | |
Pronoun Types | |
Simple Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Misplaced Modifiers | |
Dangling Modifiers | |
Errors in Parallelism | |
Commas | |
Apostrophes | |
Quotation Marks | |
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