Getting Started | |
The Bases of Good Writing: The Four Cs | |
Writing for a Reader and Reason | |
The Writing Process | |
Prewriting: Coming up with Ideas | |
Drafting: First to Final Drafts | |
Making Changes: Revision | |
Editing for Clarity and Correctness | |
Putting the Writing Process Steps Together | |
The Elements of Good Writing | |
Writing an Effective Topic Sentence | |
Using Specific Examples for Support and Illustration | |
Organizing and Linking Your Ideas | |
Writing from Visuals | |
Choosing the Best Words for Sensitive Writing | |
Improving Your Spelling | |
Expanding Your Vocabulary | |
Strategies for Paragraph Development | |
Illustration and Example | |
Narration | |
Description | |
Classification and Division | |
Process Analysis | |
Compare and Contrast | |
Cause and Effect | |
Definition | |
Argument | |
Writing Essays | |
The Essay and the Thesis Statement | |
Prewriting for and Drafting an Essay | |
Revising an Essay | |
Writing for Different Purposes | |
Essay Exams | |
Writing Summaries | |
Writing to Get a JobOnline Chapter: Writing a Research Essay | |
Writing Correct SentencesGrammar diagnostic test | |
Prepositional Phrases | |
Subjects and Verbs | |
Clauses | |
Run-On Sentences | |
Fragments | |
Regular Verbs | |
Irregular Verbs | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
Verb Tense and Tense Consistency | |
Pronoun Types | |
Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Reference, and Point of View | |
Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Misplaced Modifiers | |
Dangling Modifiers | |
Errors in Parallelism | |
Punctuation and Mechanics | |
Commas | |
Apostrophes | |
Quotation Marks | |
Other Punctuation Marks: Colons and Semi-colons, Parentheses, Dashes, and Hyphens | |
Capitalization | |
Numbers and Abbreviations | |
Words that Look Alike and Sound Alike | |
Sentence Combining for Sentence Variation | |
Tips for Second-Language Writers | |
Readings for Informed WritingTips for Reading EffectivelyThematic units :Our EducationOur ValuesHow We Live | |
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