Everyday Writing Brief Contents
Part 1: Building Your Reading and Writing Skills
1. College Reading and Writing
2. Strategies for Reading
3. The Reading-Writing Connection: Summary and Response
4. The Writer’s Situation: Purpose, Audience and Context
5. Writing Strategies and Appeals
6. Getting Started
7. Drafting Your Paper
8. Revising Your Writing
Part 2: Putting Your Ideas into Practice: Writing Assignments
9. Writing to Share Experiences: Using Description and Narration
10. Writing to Inform: Using Examples and Process Explanation
11. Writing to Analyze: Using Division and Classification
12. Writing to Explain Why: Using Cause and Effect
13. Writing to Evaluate: Using Comparing and Contrasting
14. Writing to Persuade: Using a Multi-Modal Approach
Part 3: Special Writing Situations
15. Conducting Effective Research
16. Documenting Your Sources
17. Reports and Essay Exams
18. Email, Job Application Letters, and Resumes
Part 4: Handbook
19. Nouns
20. Verbs
21. Pronouns
22. Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
23. Definite and Indefinite Articles
24. Sentence Elements
25. Types of Sentences
26. Sentence Agreement
27. Improving Your Sentences
28. End Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
29. Commas
30. Other Punctuation Marks
31. Abbreviations and Numbers
32. Spelling
33. Word Choice
34. English Idioms
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