Real Writing Essentials

by Moore, Miriam; Anker, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781319153441
• ISBN10: 1319153445
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-02-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Become a stronger reader, writer, and thinker as Real Writing Essentials gives you confidence in your academic writing skills through added support developing stronger paragraphs and essays.

Table of Contents

A Note to Students
Preface

Part One: College Thinking, Reading, and Writing
1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Making Connections
2. Getting Ready to Write: Form, Process, and Purpose
3. Organizing Your Main Point and Support: Arranging Your Ideas
4. Drafting and Revising Paragraphs and Essays: Putting Your Ideas Together

Part Two: Writing Different Kinds of Paragraphs and Essays
5. Narration: Writing That Tells Important Stories
6. Illustration: Writing That Gives Examples
7. Description: Writing That Creates Pictures with Words
8. Process Analysis: Writing That Explains How Things Happen
9. Classification: Writing That Sorts Things into Groups
10. Definition: Writing That Tells What Something Means
11. Comparison and Contrast: Writing That Shows Similarities and Differences
12. Cause and Effect: Writing That Explains Reasons or Results
13. Argument: Writing That Persuades
14. Research

Part Three: Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
15. Basic Grammar
16. The Four Most Serious Errors
17. Other Grammar and Style Concerns
18. Punctuation and Capitalization

Index
Useful Editing and Proofreading Marks