Part I Reading and Writing for Success in College
Chapter 1 Reading and Writing as Critical Thinking
Chapter 2 Reading Critically
Chapter 3 Writing Critically
Chapter 4 Revising
Chapter 5 Editing
Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Paragraphs
Chapter 6 Describing
Chapter 7 Narrating
Chapter 8 Illustrating
Chapter 9 Analyzing a Process
Chapter 10 Comparing and Contrasting
Chapter 11 Dividing and Classifying
Chapter 12 Defining
Chapter 13 Analyzing Causes and Effects
Chapter 14 Arguing
Part III: Essays: Paragraphs in Context
Chapter 15 Recognizing an Essay
Chapter 16 How to Read an Essay
Chapter 17 How to Write an Essay
Chapter 18 Revising and Editing a Student Essay
Chapter 19 Revising and Editing Your Own Essay
Chapter 20 Writing Workshop
Part IV: The Handbook
Chapter 21 Introduction 359
Unit 1 Sentences
Chapter 22 Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 23 Fragments
Chapter 24 Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
Unit 2 Verbs
Chapter 25 Regular and Irregular Verbs
Chapter 26 Verb Tense
Chapter 27 Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 28 More on Verbs
Unit 3 Pronouns
Chapter 29 Pronoun Problems
Chapter 30 Pronoun Reference and Point of View
Chapter 31 Pronoun Agreement
Unit 4 Modifiers
Chapter 32 Adjectives
Chapter 33 Adverbs
Chapter 34 Modifier Errors
Unit 5 Punctuation
Chapter 35 End Punctuation
Chapter 36 Commas
Chapter 37 Apostrophes
Chapter 38 Quotation Marks
Chapter 39 Other Punctuation Marks
Unit 6 Mechanics
Chapter 40 Capitalization
Chapter 41 Abbreviations and Numbers
Unit 7 Effective Sentences
Chapter 42 Varying Sentence Structure
Chapter 43 Parallelism
Chapter 44 Combining Sentences
Unit 8 Choosing the Right Words
Chapter 45 Standard and Nonstandard English
Chapter 46 Easily Confused Words
Chapter 47 Spelling
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