Successful College Writing Skills - Strategies - Learning Styles
, by McWhorter, Kathleen T.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780312676087 | 0312676085
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/7/2011
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writingoffers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter's unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.
Kathleen T. McWhorter is professor emerita of humanities and former director of the Learning Skills Center at Niagara County Community College. She has also been on the faculty of the State University College at Buffalo. She is the author of a number of books on reading and writing skills for developmental students, including Expressways: Writing Scenarios, Paragraph and Essay, Academic Reading, Seventh Edition, Efficient and Flexible Reading, Ninth Edition, Active Reading Skills, Third Edition, and Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading And Beyond, Fifth Edition, as well as a reader for composition classes, Seeing the Pattern: Readings for Successful Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).
* new to this edition Part 1 Academic Quick Start
1 Succeeding in College
Strategies for Success
Classroom Skills 2 Writing in College
Academic Writing: What to Expect
Why Strive to Improve Your Writing Skills?
Developing Strategies for Writing
Assessing Your Learning Style
LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY
Applying Your Learning Style to Your Writing 3 Reading in College
Getting Started
A GUIDE TO ACTIVE READING
Before Reading
*READING: American Jerk: Be Civil, or I’ll Beat You to a Pulp, Todd
Schwartz
While Reading
After Reading
Working with Text
*READING: Combat High, Sebastian Junger 4 Responding Critically to Text and Images
*Strategies for Critical Thinking and Reading
*Interpreting Visuals
A GUIDE TO RESPONDING TO TEXT
Summarize to Check Your Understanding
Link the Reading to Your Own Experiences
Analyze the Reading
Using Your Learning Style
How to Approach the Student Essays in This Book
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: “American Jerk”? How Rude! (but True), Karen Vaccaro (student essay) Part 2 Strategies for Writing Essays
5 Prewriting: How to Find and Focus Ideas
Choosing and Narrowing a Topic
Thinking about Your Purpose, Audience, and Point of View
Discovering Ideas to Write About
STUDENTS WRITE
Christine Lee’s Prewriting Strategies 6 Developing and Supporting a Thesis
What Is a Thesis Statement?
Developing Your Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis Statement with Evidence
STUDENTS WRITE
Christine Lee’s Working Thesis
Working with Text
*READING: Internet Addiction, Greg Beato 7 Drafting an Essay
The Structure of an Essay
Organizing Your Supporting Details
Using Transitions and Repetition to Connect Your Ideas
Writing Your Introduction, Conclusion, and Title
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: The Reality of Real TV, Christine Lee (student essay)
Working with Text
READING: Black Men and Public Space, Brent Staples 8 Writing Effective Paragraphs
The Structure of a Paragraph
Writing a Topic Sentence
Including Supporting Details
Using Transitions and Repetition
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: The Reality of Real TV, Christine Lee (student essay): Paragraph Excerpt
Working with Text 9 Revising Content and Organization
Why Revise?
Useful Techniques for Revision
Key Questions for Revision
Working with Classmates to Revise Your Essay
Using Your Instructor’s Comments
Considering Your Learning Style
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: A Trend Taken Too Far: The Reality of Real TV, Christine Lee (student essay): Complete Final Draft, with Reviewer’s Comments and an Excerpt from the Revised Draft 10 Editing Sentences and Words
Analyzing Your Sentences
Analyzing Your Word Choice
Suggestions for Proofreading
STUDENTS WRITE
Excerpt from Christine Lee’s Edited Second Draft, Final Editing and Proofreading Changes Part 3 Patterns of Development
11 Narration: Recounting Events
WRITING A NARRATIVE
What Is Narration?
READING: Right Place, Wrong Face, Alton Fitzgerald White
*READING: The Lady in Red, Richard LeMieux
Integrating a Narrative into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: Taking Back Control, Mina Raine (student essay)
READING A NARRATIVE
Working with Text: Reading Narratives
Thinking Critically about Narration
READING: Selling in Minnesota, Barbara Ehrenreich
*READING: Alien World, Alexander Zaitchik (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 12 Description: Portraying People, Places, and Things
WRITING A DESCRIPTION
What Is Description?
READING: Eating Chilli Peppers, Jeremy MacClancy
*READING: Out of the Woods, Susan Orlean
Integrating Description into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Heatstroke with a Side of Burn Cream, Ted Sawchuck (student essay)
READING A DESCRIPTION
Working with Text: Reading Descriptive Essays
Thinking Critically about Description
*READING: The Deer at Providencia, Annie Dillard
READING: Bloggers without Borders . . ., Riverbend (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 13 Illustration: Explaining with Examples
WRITING AN ILLUSTRATION ESSAY
What Is Illustration?
READING: Rambos of the Road, Martin Gottfried
*READING: Sustainability on the Menu, Carl Pino
Integrating Illustration into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Conforming to Stand Out: A Look at American Beauty, Nick Ruggia (student essay)
READING AN ILLUSTRATION ESSAY
Working with Text: Reading Illustration Essays
Thinking Critically about Illustration
*READING: Snoopers at Work, Bill Bryson
*READING: Hey Mom, Dad, May I Have My Room Back? Cristina Rouvalis (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 14 Process Analysis: Explaining How Something Works or Is Done
WRITING A PROCESS ANALYSIS
What Is Process Analysis?
*READING: How to Interview, Monster.com *READING: Inside the Engine, Tom and Ray MagliozziIntegrating Process Analysis into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Feed Your Friends . . . and Their Friends . . . and Their Friends: Chili for Fifty, Eric Michalski (student essay)
READING A PROCESS ANALYSIS
Working with Text: Reading Process Analysis Essays
Thinking Critically about Process Analysis
*READING: Dater's Remorse, Cindy Chupack *READING: Shitty First Drafts, Anne Lamott (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 15 Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences
WRITING A COMPARISON OR CONTRAST ESSAY
What Are Comparison and Contrast?
READING: Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion Our Most Intelligent Newspaper? Greg Beato
READING: Dearly Disconnected, Ian Frazier
Integrating Comparison and Contrast into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Border Bites, Heather Gianakos (student essay)
READING COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
Working with Text: Reading Comparison or Contrast Essays
Thinking Critically about Comparison and Contrast READING: His Marriage and Hers: Childhood Roots, Daniel Goleman
READING: Defining a Doctor, with a Tear, a Shrug, and a Schedule, Abigail Zuger (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 16 Classification and Division: Explaining Categories and Parts
WRITING A CLASSIFICATION OR DIVISION ESSAY
What Are Classification and Division?
READING: My Secret Life on the McJob: Fast Food Managers, Jerry Newman
READING: A Brush with Reality: Surprises in the Tube, David Bodanis
Integrating Classification or Division into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Immigration: Legal and Illegal, Sunny Desai (student essay)
READING A CLASSIFICATION OR DIVISION ESSAY
Working with Text: Reading a Classification or Division Essay
Thinking Critically about Classification and Division
READING: The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe, Carolyn Foster Segal (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 17 Definition: Explaining What You Mean
WRITING A DEFINITION
What Is a Definition?
READING: Freegans: They Live Off What We Throw Away, Jan Goodwin
READING: Dude, Do You Know What You Just Said? Mike Crissey
Integrating Definitions into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: Guerrilla Street Art, Kate Atkinson (student essay)
READING DEFINITIONS
Working with Text: Reading Definitions
Thinking Critically about Definition
*READING: The Appeal—and Danger—of War Porn, Jessica Ramirez (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 18 Cause and Effect: Using Reasons and Results to Explain
WRITING A CAUSE-AND-EFFECT ESSAY
What Are Causes and Effects?
READING: Can Diet Help Stop Depression and Violence? Jurriaan Kamp
READING: Sprawl Is Harmful to Wildlife, Jutka Terris
Integrating Cause and Effect into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: An Early Start, Harley Tong (student essay)
READING CAUSE-AND-EFFECT ESSAYS
Working with Text: Reading Causal Analyses
Thinking Critically about Cause and Effect
*READING: Why Class Matters in Campus Activism, Courtney E. Martin
READING: Hitting the “Granite Wall,” Gary M. Stern (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments Part 4 Reading and Writing Arguments
19 Reading Arguments
The Basic Parts of an Argument
READING: When Volunteerism Isn’t Noble, Lynn Steirer
General Strategies for Reading Arguments
*READING: Organ Donation: A Life-Saving Gift, Quinne Sember (student essay)
Strategies for Following the Structure of an Argument
Thinking Critically about Argument
Applying Your Skills: Additional Readings
*READING: How and Why to Stop Multitasking, Peter Bregman
*READING: In Defense of Multitasking, David Silverman 20 Writing Arguments
WRITING AN ARGUMENT
What Is an Argument?
READING: Abolish the Penny, William Safire
*READING: Eating Meat for the Environment, Lisa M. Hamilton
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: Pull the Plug on Explicit Lyrics, James Sturm (student essay)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments Part 5 Writing with Sources
21 Planning a Paper with Sources
When Should You Use Sources?
Planning Your Paper
Choosing and Evaluating Useful Sources
Analyzing and Thinking Critically about Sources
Working with Text: Reading Sources 22 Finding Sources and Taking Notes
An Overview of Library Sources
Doing Research on the World Wide Web
Extracting Information from Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
Conducting Field Research
Finding Sources for Your Own Topic 23 Writing a Paper Using Sources
Organizing and Writing Your First Draft
Integrating Information from Sources
Revising Your Research Paper
Preparing Your Final Draft
Documenting Your Sources: MLA Style
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Do Animals Have Emotions? Nicholas Destino (student essay): MLA style
Documenting Your Sources: APA Style
*STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Schizophrenia: Definition and Treatment, Sonia Gomez (student essay): APA style Part 6 Academic and Business Applications
24 Reading and Writing about Literature
READING: The Bean Eaters, Gwendolyn Brooks
A General Approach to Reading Literature
The Language of Literature
Analyzing Short Stories
READING: The Secret Lion, Alberto Ríos
READING: The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin
Analyzing Poetry
READING: Two Look at Two, Robert Frost
READING: Filling Station, Elizabeth Bishop
What Is Literary Analysis?
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: The Keeping of “The Secret Lion,” Andrew Decker (student essay) 25 Essay Examinations and Portfolios
ESSAY EXAMINATIONS
Preparing for Essay Exams
Taking Essay Exams
STUDENTS WRITE
Essay Exam Response
Thinking Critically about Essay Exams
PORTFOLIOS
Creating a Writing Portfolio
STUDENTS WRITE
The Portfolio Assignment
Sample Reflective Essay 26 Oral Presentations and Business Writing
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Giving Oral Presentations
*BUSINESS WRITING
Preparing a Résumé and Job Application Letter
Writing a Memo
Using Electronic Media for Business Writing
*STUDENTS WRITE
Résumé, Micah Jackson
Job Application Letter, Blake Huan
Business Memo, Rajat Dmeeni
Business E-mail, Kaitlyn Botano Part 7 Handbook: Writing Problems and How to Correct Them
(not included in brief version)
REVIEW OF BASIC GRAMMAR
WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES
USING PUNCTUATION CORRECTLY
MANAGING MECHANICS AND SPELLING
ESL TROUBLESPOTS
1 Succeeding in College
Strategies for Success
Classroom Skills 2 Writing in College
Academic Writing: What to Expect
Why Strive to Improve Your Writing Skills?
Developing Strategies for Writing
Assessing Your Learning Style
LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY
Applying Your Learning Style to Your Writing 3 Reading in College
Getting Started
A GUIDE TO ACTIVE READING
Before Reading
*READING: American Jerk: Be Civil, or I’ll Beat You to a Pulp, Todd
Schwartz
While Reading
After Reading
Working with Text
*READING: Combat High, Sebastian Junger 4 Responding Critically to Text and Images
*Strategies for Critical Thinking and Reading
*Interpreting Visuals
A GUIDE TO RESPONDING TO TEXT
Summarize to Check Your Understanding
Link the Reading to Your Own Experiences
Analyze the Reading
Using Your Learning Style
How to Approach the Student Essays in This Book
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: “American Jerk”? How Rude! (but True), Karen Vaccaro (student essay) Part 2 Strategies for Writing Essays
5 Prewriting: How to Find and Focus Ideas
Choosing and Narrowing a Topic
Thinking about Your Purpose, Audience, and Point of View
Discovering Ideas to Write About
STUDENTS WRITE
Christine Lee’s Prewriting Strategies 6 Developing and Supporting a Thesis
What Is a Thesis Statement?
Developing Your Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis Statement with Evidence
STUDENTS WRITE
Christine Lee’s Working Thesis
Working with Text
*READING: Internet Addiction, Greg Beato 7 Drafting an Essay
The Structure of an Essay
Organizing Your Supporting Details
Using Transitions and Repetition to Connect Your Ideas
Writing Your Introduction, Conclusion, and Title
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: The Reality of Real TV, Christine Lee (student essay)
Working with Text
READING: Black Men and Public Space, Brent Staples 8 Writing Effective Paragraphs
The Structure of a Paragraph
Writing a Topic Sentence
Including Supporting Details
Using Transitions and Repetition
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: The Reality of Real TV, Christine Lee (student essay): Paragraph Excerpt
Working with Text 9 Revising Content and Organization
Why Revise?
Useful Techniques for Revision
Key Questions for Revision
Working with Classmates to Revise Your Essay
Using Your Instructor’s Comments
Considering Your Learning Style
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: A Trend Taken Too Far: The Reality of Real TV, Christine Lee (student essay): Complete Final Draft, with Reviewer’s Comments and an Excerpt from the Revised Draft 10 Editing Sentences and Words
Analyzing Your Sentences
Analyzing Your Word Choice
Suggestions for Proofreading
STUDENTS WRITE
Excerpt from Christine Lee’s Edited Second Draft, Final Editing and Proofreading Changes Part 3 Patterns of Development
11 Narration: Recounting Events
WRITING A NARRATIVE
What Is Narration?
READING: Right Place, Wrong Face, Alton Fitzgerald White
*READING: The Lady in Red, Richard LeMieux
Integrating a Narrative into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: Taking Back Control, Mina Raine (student essay)
READING A NARRATIVE
Working with Text: Reading Narratives
Thinking Critically about Narration
READING: Selling in Minnesota, Barbara Ehrenreich
*READING: Alien World, Alexander Zaitchik (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 12 Description: Portraying People, Places, and Things
WRITING A DESCRIPTION
What Is Description?
READING: Eating Chilli Peppers, Jeremy MacClancy
*READING: Out of the Woods, Susan Orlean
Integrating Description into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Heatstroke with a Side of Burn Cream, Ted Sawchuck (student essay)
READING A DESCRIPTION
Working with Text: Reading Descriptive Essays
Thinking Critically about Description
*READING: The Deer at Providencia, Annie Dillard
READING: Bloggers without Borders . . ., Riverbend (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 13 Illustration: Explaining with Examples
WRITING AN ILLUSTRATION ESSAY
What Is Illustration?
READING: Rambos of the Road, Martin Gottfried
*READING: Sustainability on the Menu, Carl Pino
Integrating Illustration into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Conforming to Stand Out: A Look at American Beauty, Nick Ruggia (student essay)
READING AN ILLUSTRATION ESSAY
Working with Text: Reading Illustration Essays
Thinking Critically about Illustration
*READING: Snoopers at Work, Bill Bryson
*READING: Hey Mom, Dad, May I Have My Room Back? Cristina Rouvalis (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 14 Process Analysis: Explaining How Something Works or Is Done
WRITING A PROCESS ANALYSIS
What Is Process Analysis?
*READING: How to Interview, Monster.com *READING: Inside the Engine, Tom and Ray MagliozziIntegrating Process Analysis into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Feed Your Friends . . . and Their Friends . . . and Their Friends: Chili for Fifty, Eric Michalski (student essay)
READING A PROCESS ANALYSIS
Working with Text: Reading Process Analysis Essays
Thinking Critically about Process Analysis
*READING: Dater's Remorse, Cindy Chupack *READING: Shitty First Drafts, Anne Lamott (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 15 Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences
WRITING A COMPARISON OR CONTRAST ESSAY
What Are Comparison and Contrast?
READING: Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion Our Most Intelligent Newspaper? Greg Beato
READING: Dearly Disconnected, Ian Frazier
Integrating Comparison and Contrast into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Border Bites, Heather Gianakos (student essay)
READING COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
Working with Text: Reading Comparison or Contrast Essays
Thinking Critically about Comparison and Contrast READING: His Marriage and Hers: Childhood Roots, Daniel Goleman
READING: Defining a Doctor, with a Tear, a Shrug, and a Schedule, Abigail Zuger (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 16 Classification and Division: Explaining Categories and Parts
WRITING A CLASSIFICATION OR DIVISION ESSAY
What Are Classification and Division?
READING: My Secret Life on the McJob: Fast Food Managers, Jerry Newman
READING: A Brush with Reality: Surprises in the Tube, David Bodanis
Integrating Classification or Division into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Immigration: Legal and Illegal, Sunny Desai (student essay)
READING A CLASSIFICATION OR DIVISION ESSAY
Working with Text: Reading a Classification or Division Essay
Thinking Critically about Classification and Division
READING: The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe, Carolyn Foster Segal (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 17 Definition: Explaining What You Mean
WRITING A DEFINITION
What Is a Definition?
READING: Freegans: They Live Off What We Throw Away, Jan Goodwin
READING: Dude, Do You Know What You Just Said? Mike Crissey
Integrating Definitions into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: Guerrilla Street Art, Kate Atkinson (student essay)
READING DEFINITIONS
Working with Text: Reading Definitions
Thinking Critically about Definition
*READING: The Appeal—and Danger—of War Porn, Jessica Ramirez (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments 18 Cause and Effect: Using Reasons and Results to Explain
WRITING A CAUSE-AND-EFFECT ESSAY
What Are Causes and Effects?
READING: Can Diet Help Stop Depression and Violence? Jurriaan Kamp
READING: Sprawl Is Harmful to Wildlife, Jutka Terris
Integrating Cause and Effect into an Essay
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: An Early Start, Harley Tong (student essay)
READING CAUSE-AND-EFFECT ESSAYS
Working with Text: Reading Causal Analyses
Thinking Critically about Cause and Effect
*READING: Why Class Matters in Campus Activism, Courtney E. Martin
READING: Hitting the “Granite Wall,” Gary M. Stern (patterns combined)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments Part 4 Reading and Writing Arguments
19 Reading Arguments
The Basic Parts of an Argument
READING: When Volunteerism Isn’t Noble, Lynn Steirer
General Strategies for Reading Arguments
*READING: Organ Donation: A Life-Saving Gift, Quinne Sember (student essay)
Strategies for Following the Structure of an Argument
Thinking Critically about Argument
Applying Your Skills: Additional Readings
*READING: How and Why to Stop Multitasking, Peter Bregman
*READING: In Defense of Multitasking, David Silverman 20 Writing Arguments
WRITING AN ARGUMENT
What Is an Argument?
READING: Abolish the Penny, William Safire
*READING: Eating Meat for the Environment, Lisa M. Hamilton
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
*READING: Pull the Plug on Explicit Lyrics, James Sturm (student essay)
Applying Your Skills: Additional Essay Assignments Part 5 Writing with Sources
21 Planning a Paper with Sources
When Should You Use Sources?
Planning Your Paper
Choosing and Evaluating Useful Sources
Analyzing and Thinking Critically about Sources
Working with Text: Reading Sources 22 Finding Sources and Taking Notes
An Overview of Library Sources
Doing Research on the World Wide Web
Extracting Information from Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
Conducting Field Research
Finding Sources for Your Own Topic 23 Writing a Paper Using Sources
Organizing and Writing Your First Draft
Integrating Information from Sources
Revising Your Research Paper
Preparing Your Final Draft
Documenting Your Sources: MLA Style
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Do Animals Have Emotions? Nicholas Destino (student essay): MLA style
Documenting Your Sources: APA Style
*STUDENTS WRITE
READING: Schizophrenia: Definition and Treatment, Sonia Gomez (student essay): APA style Part 6 Academic and Business Applications
24 Reading and Writing about Literature
READING: The Bean Eaters, Gwendolyn Brooks
A General Approach to Reading Literature
The Language of Literature
Analyzing Short Stories
READING: The Secret Lion, Alberto Ríos
READING: The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin
Analyzing Poetry
READING: Two Look at Two, Robert Frost
READING: Filling Station, Elizabeth Bishop
What Is Literary Analysis?
A GUIDED WRITING ASSIGNMENT
STUDENTS WRITE
READING: The Keeping of “The Secret Lion,” Andrew Decker (student essay) 25 Essay Examinations and Portfolios
ESSAY EXAMINATIONS
Preparing for Essay Exams
Taking Essay Exams
STUDENTS WRITE
Essay Exam Response
Thinking Critically about Essay Exams
PORTFOLIOS
Creating a Writing Portfolio
STUDENTS WRITE
The Portfolio Assignment
Sample Reflective Essay 26 Oral Presentations and Business Writing
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Giving Oral Presentations
*BUSINESS WRITING
Preparing a Résumé and Job Application Letter
Writing a Memo
Using Electronic Media for Business Writing
*STUDENTS WRITE
Résumé, Micah Jackson
Job Application Letter, Blake Huan
Business Memo, Rajat Dmeeni
Business E-mail, Kaitlyn Botano Part 7 Handbook: Writing Problems and How to Correct Them
(not included in brief version)
REVIEW OF BASIC GRAMMAR
WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES
USING PUNCTUATION CORRECTLY
MANAGING MECHANICS AND SPELLING
ESL TROUBLESPOTS
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