What is included with this book?
Getting Started | |
The Power of Language | |
The Challenge Ahead | |
Writing Paragraphs and Essays | |
First Steps: Generating Ideas | |
Writing a Paragraph | |
The Structure of the Paragraph | |
Writing an Essay | |
The Structure of the Essay | |
Rhetorical Patterns | |
Description | |
Narration | |
Illustration or Example | |
Process Analysis | |
Cause and Effect | |
Comparison and Contrast | |
Definition | |
Classification | |
Summary | |
Analysis and Division | |
Argument and Persuasion | |
Writing Elements & Skills | |
Parts of Speech | |
Spelling | |
Problem Words | |
Capitalization | |
Word Choice | |
Identifying Subjects and Verbs | |
Subject/Verb Agreement | |
Verb Tenses | |
Sentence Types | |
Fragments | |
Run-ons | |
Sentence Combining | |
Sentence Variety | |
Commas | |
Apostrophes | |
Pronoun Agreement | |
Pronoun Reference and Case | |
Semicolons & Colons | |
Modifiers | |
Parallelism | |
Proofreading for English Errors | |
READINGS | |
"Why White Lies Hurt," | |
"Not in Our Town," | |
"Friends and Healers," | |
"It's a Flat World After All," | |
"Growing Through a Phase," | |
"What's Your Emotional IQ?" | |
"Jordan is Never Afraid of Failure," | |
"Crack and the Box," | |
"Breaking Bad Habits: How to Stop Doing the Same Destructive Thing Over . . . and Over?and Over," | |
"Commencement Address at Stanford University," | |
"Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," | |
"Invisible Hand," | |
"Why Happy Families are Different," | |
Excerpt from I JUST WANT TO BE AVERAGE | |
"Helping Children Through Divorce," | |
"A Brother's Murder," | |
Odd-numbered Answer Key | |
Using Journals | |
ESL Rules | |
MLA Documentation Style | |
Rules & Tools | |
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