Writer's World : Sentences and Paragraphs (with NEW MyWritingLab with Pearson EText Student Access Code Card)

by Gaetz, Lynne; Phadke, Suneeti

• ISBN13: 9780321850478
• ISBN10: 0321850475
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2012-04-25
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Writer's Worldseries was written to address the diverse needs of today's students: students whose first language is not English, students who respond favorably to visuals, and students who have varying skill levels.

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I. THE WRITING PROCESS

Chapter 1: Exploring

Chapter 2: Developing

Chapter 3: Revising & Editing

Chapter 4: Paragraph Patterns

Chapter 5: Writing the Essay

PART II: EDITING HANDBOOK

Section 1: Some Parts of Speech

Chapter 6: Nouns, Determiners and Prepositions

Chapter 7: Pronouns

Section 2: Problems with Verbs

Chapter 8: Subjects and Verbs

Chapter 9: Present and past Tenses

Chapter 10: Past Participles

Chapter 11: Progressive Tenses

Chapter 12: Other Verb Forms

Section 3: Verb Agreement and Consistency

Chapter 13: Subject-Verb Agreement

Chapter 14: Tense Consistency

Section 4: Effective Sentences

Chapter 15: Compound Sentences

Chapter 16: Complex Sentences

Chapter 17: Sentence Variety

Section 5: Common Sentence Errors

Chapter 18: Fragments

Chapter 19: Run-Ons

Chapter 20: Faulty Parallel Structure

Section 6: Modifiers

Chapter 21: Adjectives & Adverbs

Chapter 22: Mistakes with Modifiers

Section 7: Word Use and Spelling

Chapter 23: Exact Language

Chapter 24: Spelling

Chapter 25: Commonly Confused Words

Section 8: Punctuation and Mechanics

Chapter 26: Comma Usage

Chapter 27: The Apostrophe

Chapter 28: Quotation Marks and Capitalization

Section 9: Editing

Chapter 29: Editing Practice

PART III: READING STRATEGIES AND SELECTIONS

Chapter 30: Reading Strategies and Reading Selections

Reading Strategies

Reading Selections