Composing With Confidence: Writing Effective

(Includes Writers Toolkit CD-ROM) This paragraph-to-essay text features high interest, interconnected exercises designed to engage students. Includes 10 additional readings.

Detailed Contents

vii

Rhetorical Contents

xvii

The Writing Process

xxi

Hints and Help for Writers

xxii

Preface

xxv

UNIT I The Writing---and Composing---Process

1

(62)

The Reasons for Writing

3

(8)

The Composing Process

11

(18)

Composing a Powerful Paragraph

29

(16)

Composing an Effective Essay

45

(18)

UNIT II Strengthening Writing

63

(78)

Developing Ideas

64

(14)

Achieving Coherence

78

(19)

Writing Directly and Vividly

97

(18)

Creating Sentence Variety

115

(26)

UNIT III Composing Types of Paragraphs and Essays

141

(144)

Composing a Description

142

(15)

Composing Narratives

157

(14)

Explaining a Process

171

(18)

Drawing Comparisons and Contrasts

189

(17)

Making Classifications

206

(15)

Composing Definitions

221

(16)

Examining Causes or Effects

237

(16)

Persuading an Audience

253

(17)

Writing Essay Exams

270

(15)

UNIT IV Troubleshooting

285

(200)

Writing Complete Sentences

287

(19)

Joining Sentences through Coordination and Subordination

306

(22)

Checking Subject---Verb Agreement and Noun Plurals

328

(19)

Checking Past-Tense and Past-Participle Forms

347

(20)

Achieving Consistency

367

(17)

Using Pronouns

384

(18)

Strengthening Modifiers

402

(15)

Using Apostrophes, Hyphens, and Capital Letters

417

(17)

Checking Punctuation

434

(23)

Checking Soundalike and Lookalike Words

457

(28)

Reading Selections

485

(47)

Glossary

532

(5)

Credits

537

(1)

Index

538

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Composing With Confidence: Writing Effective Paragraphs and Essays

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