Getting Ready to Write | |
Getting Ready to Learn About Writing | |
Thinking through the Writing Process | |
Using Patterns to Develop Paragraphs | |
Understanding the Paragraph | |
The DescriptiveParagraph | |
The NarrativeParagraph | |
The Process Paragraph | |
The Example Paragraph | |
The Classification Paragraph | |
The Comparison Contrast Paragraph | |
The Definition Paragraph | |
Cause and Effect Paragraph | |
The Persuasion Paragraph | |
How to Write an Essay | |
Understanding the Essay | |
Effective Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles | |
Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Essays | |
The Basic Sentence | |
Subjects, Verbs, and the Simple Sentence | |
Compound and Complex Sentences | |
Writing Clear Sentences | |
Sentence Variety | |
Sentence Clarity | |
Parallelism | |
Recognizing and Avoiding Errors | |
Comma Splices and Run-ons | |
Fragments | |
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
The Past Tense of Verbs | |
The Past Participle | |
Nouns and Pronouns | |
Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Punctuation and Mechanics | |
The Comma | |
The Apostrophe | |
Quotation Marks | |
End Punctuation: Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point | |
Capitalization | |
Understanding Expression | |
Revising for Effective Expression | |
Improving Your Spelling | |
Mastering Often Confused Words | |
Dialects and Standard English | |
Reading Selections Description | |
Snow United States Park Services | |
Design Submission to the Vietnam Memorial Competition NARRATION | |
from The Measure of a Man | |
A Spiritual Autobiography Amy Tan, Confessions PROCESS | |
Cyberschool Mark Twain, Old Age EXAMPLE/ILLUSTRATION | |
Why I Am Pale Nikki Giovanni, My Own Style CLASSIFICATION | |
Ways of Meeting Oppression | |
The Truth about Lying COMPARISON/CONTRAST | |
The Ugly Truth about Beauty Rachel Carson | |
A Fable for Tomorrow DEFINITION | |
The Fine Art of Sighing May Paumier Jones | |
Siena, Burnt, and Raw CAUSE/EFFECT E. B. White, Hunger Stephen King | |
Why We Crave Horror Movies PERSUASION Yuh J-Yeon | |
Let s Tell the Story of All America s Cultures | |
Statement on Rating the Ratings System | |
The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Statement for the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs | |
Hearing on Entertainment Ratings July 25, 2001 LAYERED PATTERNS | |
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Gary Soto, The Jacket | |
Using Sources in Your Writing | |
Writing with SUCCESS for an Essay Exam | |
The Writing Portfolio Index | |
Establishing Good Character | |
Securing Good Will Voice and Rhetorical Distance | |
Grammatical Person | |
Verb Tense and Voice | |
Word Size | |
Qualifiers | |
Punctuation Situated Ethos Rhetoric | |
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