The Practical Writer (with InfoTrac)

THE PRACTICAL WRITER provides both developmental and first-year composition students with a step-by-step approach to writing, from the one-paragraph essay to the five-paragraph essay to the research paper.

Section One A Model for Writing

1

(2)

Part 1 The One-Paragraph Essay (Stage I)

3

(52)

Overview of the One-Paragraph Essay (Stage I)

5

(9)

Support: Examples, Statistics, Statements by Authorities

14

(14)

Topic Sentence

28

(8)

Unity

36

(4)

Coherence

40

(9)

Tips on the Writing Process

49

(6)

Part 2 The One-Paragraph Essay (Stage II)

55

(20)

Overview of the One-Paragraph Essay (Stage II)

57

(7)

Support: Subtopic Sentences

64

(11)

Checklist for the One-Paragraph Essay

73

(2)

Part 3 The Five-Paragraph Essay

75

(52)

Overview of the Five-Paragraph Essay

77

(14)

Alternative Techniques of Layout

91

(8)

Thesis Statement with Blueprint

99

(8)

Central Paragraphs

107

(9)

Introduction

116

(4)

Conclusion

120

(7)

Checklist for the Five-Paragraph Essay

125

(2)

Section Two Beyond the Model Essay

127

(2)

Part 4 More Patterns of Development

129

(38)

Comparison and Contrast

131

(10)

Cause and Effect

141

(11)

Classification

152

(9)

Process

161

(6)

Part 5 The Research Paper

167

(144)

Overview of the Research Paper

169

(38)

Finding Support

207

(21)

Taking and Organizing Notes

228

(13)

Organizing Your Thoughts and Support

241

(14)

Using Borrowed Material in Your Paper

255

(12)

Parenthetical Documentation

267

(9)

Works Cited

276

(35)

Section Three Improving Your Punctuation and Expression

311

(2)

Part 6 Punctuation

313

(54)

Definitions

315

(9)

Sentence Fragment

324

(5)

Comma Splice and Fused Sentence

329

(5)

Comma

334

(10)

Semicolon

344

(4)

Colon

348

(4)

Dash

352

(3)

Apostrophe

355

(4)

Quotation Marks

359

(8)

Part 7 Expression

367

(67)

Subordination

369

(6)

Sentence Variety

375

(8)

Parallelism

383

(11)

Misused Modifiers

394

(7)

Subject-Verb Agreement

401

(9)

Pronoun Agreement

410

(8)

Passive Voice

418

(8)

Word Choice

426

(8)

Appendixes

434

(12)

A Theme Format

434

(2)

B Commonly Confused Words

436

(6)

C Glossary of Grammatical Terms

442

(4)

Index

446

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