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: | |
John Haines, ldquo;Snowrdquo; United States Park Services | |
ldquo;Maya Linrsquo;s Design Submission to the Vietnam Memorial Competitionrdquo; | |
Narration: bull; Sidney Poitier, fromThe Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography bull; Amy Tan, &ldquo | |
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