Introduction to Writing | |
About Writing | |
Ways to Help Yourself Become a Better Writer | |
Benefits of Becoming a Better Writer | |
The Writing Process | |
Prewriting | |
Organizing | |
Drafting | |
Revising | |
Editing | |
Working in Small Groups | |
Using Computers | |
Putting it all Together | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Internet Activities | |
Writing Sentences and Paragraphs | |
Writing Skills: Topic Sentences and Paragraphs | |
The Topic Sentence | |
The Paragraph | |
Something to Think About, Something to Write About | |
Childhood by Dr. Linda Coble Quotations: Additional Ideas on Childhood | |
Paragraphs for Discussion and Analysis | |
Student Writing | |
Summer at Aunt Clara and Uncle Frank+s Farm | |
Playhouse Under the Orange Tree | |
Concentration Camp | |
Fort Leonard Wood | |
Munich | |
London, Jack, An Eyewitness Account of the San Francisco Earthquake, excerpt from an article | |
Rae Bains, Martin Luther King, excerpt from a book | |
Making a World of Difference, excerpt from article in Experienced Engineer | |
Edwin Way Teale, Birds of an Old Farm, excerpt from article | |
Grammar for Effective Writing: Basic Sentence Skills | |
Parts of Speech | |
Finding Prepositional Phrases | |
Finding Subjects and Verbs | |
Recognizing Sentence-Structure Errors | |
Recognizing Singular & Plural Pronouns | |
Maintaining Consistent Verb Tense | |
Putting it All Together | |
Cumulative Unit Exercise | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Final Checklist | |
Internet Activities | |
Being a Sensitive Writer | |
Writing Skills: Interaction of Topic, Purpose, Audience, and Voice | |
Topic and Purpose Influence Voice | |
Purpose and Audience Influence Voice | |
Word Choice Alters Voice | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Something to Think About, Something to Write About | |
Space to Sing | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Quotations: Additional Ideas on Prejudice | |
Writing Assignment | |
Peer Review | |
Paragraphs and Essays for Discussion and Analysis | |
Student Writing | |
The Nursing Home | |
Subways | |
Growing Up Chicana | |
Professional Writing | |
Dear Dad, excerpt from a book | |
Getting Off the Roller Coaster | |
Grammar for Effective Writing: Consistent Point of View | |
Determining Point of View | |
Maintaining Consistent Point of View | |
Revising Inconsistent Point of View | |
Putting It All Together | |
Cumulative Unit Exercise | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Final Checklist | |
Internet Activities | |
Organizing Ideas and Writing them Clearly | |
Writing Skills: The Thesis Sentence | |
Thesis Sentence That States the Direction | |
Thesis Sentence That States the Direction and Previews Main Points | |
Coordinate and Subordinate Ideas in Thesis Sentences | |
Overlapping Coordinate Ideas | |
Parallel Grammatical Form in Thesis Sentences | |
Generating a Thesis Sentence | |
Arranging the Order of Divisions or Subtopics | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Something to Think About, Something to Write About | |
Drawing the Lines | |
Your College Years | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Quotations: Additional Ideas on Independence | |
Writing Assignment | |
Working Individually | |
Peer Review | |
Essays for Discussion and Analysis | |
Student Writing | |
Respect | |
Being a Student | |
Golf | |
Professional Writing | |
Building a Better Home, excerpt from article | |
Grammar for Effective Writing: Eliminating Fragments, Run-On Sentences, and Comma Splices | |
Fragments | |
Run-On Sentences Ways to Revise Run-On Sentences | |
Comma Splices Ways to Revise Comma Splices | |
Putting It All Together | |
Cumulative Unit Exercise | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Working in a Group | |
Writing Assignments/Working in a Group | |
Working Individually | |
Final Checklist | |
Internet Activities | |
Writing with more Depth and Variety | |
Writing Skills: Writing Examples | |
The Purpose of Examples | |
Sources of Examples | |
Generating Examples Through Freewriting and Brainstorming | |
Extended Examples and Shorter, Interrelated Examples | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Something to Think About, Something to Write About | |
Would You Know a Computer If You Met One? | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Quotations: Additional Ideas on Technology and Quality of Life | |
Writing Assignment | |
Working Individually | |
Peer Review | |
Paragraphs and Essays for Discussion and Analysis | |
Student Writing | |
Legacy by Renee Robbe A Surprising Experience | |
What Have You Done to Help Someone? | |
Responsibility | |
Professional Writing | |
Wandering Through Winter, excerpt from book | |
Overheard on a Train Trip Through England, excerpt from book | |
Courtship Through the Ages, excerpt from book | |
Grammar for Effective Writing: Sentence Variety+Forming and Punctuating Compound Sentences | |
Sentence Variety+Forming and Punctuating Compound Sentences | |
Putting it All Together | |
Cumulative Unit Exercise | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Writing Assignment/Working in a Group | |
Working Individually to Write an Essay | |
Peer Review | |
Final Checklist | |
Internet Activities | |
Reaching an Audience by Creating Interest | |
Writing Skills: Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs | |
The Purpose of Introductory Paragraphs | |
Developing Introductory Paragraphs | |
Composing Introductory Pargraphs | |
Developing the Hook | |
Creating a Transition to the Thesis Statement | |
The Purpose of Concluding Paragraphs | |
Recognizing Weak Conclusions | |
Recognizing and Writing Strong Conclusions | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Something to Think About, Something to Write About | |
Women in Science and Engineering | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Quotations: Additional Ideas on Personal Challenges | |
Writing Assignments/Working with a Partner | |
Working on Your Own | |
Peer Review | |
Essays for Discussion and Analysis | |
Student Writing | |
Dancer | |
Qualities I Appreciate About My Dad | |
A Good Manager | |
The Right Thing to Do | |
Living in Another Country | |
Grammar for Effective Writing: Sentence Variety+Using Complex Sentences | |
Independent and Dependent Clauses | |
Putting It All Together | |
Cumulative Unit Exercise | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Writing Assignment / Working in a Group | |
Working Individually | |
Final Checklist | |
Internet Activities | |
Making Ideas Flow Clearly | |
Writing Skills: Coherence | |
Creating Coherence Within Paragraphs | |
Creating Coherence Between Paragraphs | |
Collaborative Activity | |
Something to Think About, Something to Write About | |
Harley a Bad Word to Say | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Quotations: Additional Ideas on Kindness and Gratitude | |
Writing Assignment | |
Working Together | |
Working Individually | |
Peer Review | |
Essays for Discussion and Analysis | |
Student Writing | |
Home: Just How Safe Is It? | |
Education | |
Never Again Homeless | |
Professional Writing | |
The Strategy of Futureness, excerpt from book | |
Mechanics for Effective Writing: Reviewing Punctuation | |
Using Commas | |
Using Quotation Marks | |
Using Apostrophes | |
Using Underlining | |
Using Parentheses | |
Punctuating Sentences | |
Putting It All Together | |
Cumulative Unit Exercise | |
Collaborative Activity: Memory Made Manageable | |
Collaborative Writing Project: Working and Learning Together | |
Writing Assignment / Working Individually | |
Peer Review | |
Final Checklist | |
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