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ISBN: 9780155063167 | 0155063162
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Copyright: 1/5/2005

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This sentence to paragraph level developmental writing text will always give your students something to write about by offering four assignments in each chapter (even grammar chapters), assignments based on visual prompts, and guided question/revision strategy to help students focus their critical thinking skills. Complete handbook/reference section at end provides instant help for students. The book package includes Writing Now technology that offers self-assessment opportunities as well as online tutorials emphasizing improvement of writing skills. vMentor technology provides online synchronous tutoring.

Preface

xix

Part 1 Getting Started

(22)

Why Write?

(8)

Responding to Images

(1)

Writing Activity

(1)

Goals of This Book

(1)

Using Get Writing

(1)

Working Together

(1)

What Is Good Writing?

(1)

The Writing Context

(1)

Writing Activity

(1)

Strategies for Succeeding in Writing Courses

(1)

Critical Thinking

(1)

Responding to Images

(1)

Writing on the Web

(1)

Points to Remember

(1)

The Writing Process

(13)

Responding to Images

(1)

The Writing Process

(1)

Step 1: Prewrite

(4)

Strategies for Increasing Critical Thinking

(1)

Prewriting Techniques

(3)

Writing Activity

(1)

Step 2: Plan

(2)

Moving from Topic to Thesis

(1)

Working Together

(1)

Organizing Support

(1)

Creating an Outline

(1)

Writing Activity

(1)

Step 3: Write

(1)

Writing Activity

(1)

Step 4: Cool

(1)

Step 5: Revise

(1)

Using Peer Review

(1)

Peer Review Guidelines

(1)

Revising Activity

(1)

Step 6: Edit

(1)

Editing Activity

(1)

Avoid Plagiarism

(1)

Critical Thinking

(1)

Responding to Images

(1)

Writing on the Web

(1)

Points to Remember

(1)

Part 2 Developing Paragraphs

(144)

Developing Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas

(16)

Responding to Images

(1)

What Is a Paragraph?

(1)

What Do You Know?

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas

(3)

Reading Topic Sentences

(1)

Writing Topic Sentences

(2)

Paragraphs without Topic Sentences

(2)

Revising Paragraphs

(1)

Working Together

(3)

Using Paragraph Breaks in Dialogue

(1)

Critical Thinking

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

What Have You Learned?

(1)

Responding to Images

(1)

Writing on the Web

(1)

Points to Remember

(1)

Supporting Topic Sentences with Details

(15)

Responding to Images

(1)

What Are Supporting Details?

(1)

What Do You Know?

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Steps to Building Effective Paragraphs

(4)

Types of Support

(4)

Observations and Personal Experience

(1)

Examples

(1)

Facts

(1)

Statistics

(1)

Testimony (Quotations)

(1)

Blending Support

(2)

Working Together

(1)

Critical Thinking

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Responding to Images

(1)

What Have You Learned?

(1)

Writing on the Web

(1)

Points to Remember

(1)

Developing Paragraphs Using Description

(18)

Responding to Images

(1)

What Is Description?

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Creating Dominant Impressions

(1)

Exam Skills

(2)

Improving Dominant Impressions and Supporting Detail

(3)

Student Paragraphs

(1)

Putting Paragraphs Together

(1)

Readings

(5)

``Gaza Diary,'' Chris Hedges

(1)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

(1)

``My Ecumenical Father,'' Jose Antonio Burciaga

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

(1)

Steps to Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

(1)

Selecting Topics

(2)

Working Together

(1)

Critical Thinking

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Responding to Images

(1)

Writing on the Web

(1)

Points to Remember

(1)

Developing Paragraphs Using Narration

(20)

Responding to Images

(1)

What Is Narration?

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Writing Narration: Making a Point

(2)

Exam Skills

(1)

Writing Narration: Using Transitions

(1)

Writing Narration: Using Dialogue

(4)

Student Paragraphs

(1)

Putting Paragraphs Together

(2)

Readings

(6)

``Tickets to Nowhere,'' Andy Rooney

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

(1)

``The Fender Bender,'' Ramon ``Tianguis'' Perez

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

(1)

Steps to Writing a Narrative Paragraph

(1)

Selecting Topics

(1)

Working Together

(1)

Critical Thinking

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Responding to Images

(1)

Writing on the Web

(1)

Points to Remember

(1)

Developing Paragraphs Using Example

(19)

Responding to Images

(1)

What Is an Example?

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

(1)

What Have You Written?

(1)

Writing Example Paragraphs

(1)

Types of Examples

(1)

Using Hypothetical Examples

(1)

Writing Examples: Using Transitions

(1)

Key Transition Words

(1)

Exam Skills

(3)

Student Paragraphs

100

(1)

Putting Paragraphs Together

101

(1)

Readings

102

(5)

``The Company Man,'' Ellen Goodman

102

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

104

(1)

``Odd Enders,'' Larry Orenstein

105

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

107

(1)

Steps to Writing an Example Paragraph

107

(1)

Selecting Topics

108

(1)

Working Together

109

(1)

Critical Thinking

109

(1)

What Have You Written?

110

(1)

Responding to Images

110

(1)

Writing on the Web

110

(1)

Points to Remember

111

(1)

Developing Paragraphs Using Comparison and Contrast

112

(16)

Responding to Images

112

(1)

What Are Comparison and Contrast?

113

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

113

(1)

What Have You Written?

114

(1)

The Purposes of Comparison and Contrast

114

(2)

Writing to Explain

114

(1)

Writing to Convince

115

(1)

Organizing Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs

116

(1)

Subject-by-Subject

116

(1)

Point-by-Point

117

(1)

Exam Skills

117

(3)

Student Paragraphs

118

(1)

Putting Paragraphs Together

119

(1)

Readings

120

(5)

``Chinese Space, American Space,'' Yi-Fu Tuan

120

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

122

(1)

``Neat People vs. Sloppy People,'' Suzanne Britt

122

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

124

(1)

Steps to Writing a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph

125

(1)

Selecting Topics

125

(1)

Working Together

126

(1)

Responding to Images

127

(1)

Writing on the Web

127

(1)

Points to Remember

127

(1)

Developing Paragraphs Using Cause and Effect

128

(17)

Responding to Images

128

(1)

What Is Cause and Effect?

129

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

129

(1)

What Have You Written?

130

(1)

Cause and Effect: Critical Thinking

130

(2)

Exam Skills

132

(3)

Student Paragraphs

133

(1)

Putting Paragraphs Together

134

(1)

Readings

135

(6)

``Why We Crave Horror Movies,'' Stephen King

135

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

137

(1)

``I Refuse to Live in Fear,'' Diana Bletter

138

(2)

Critical Thinking and Discussion

140

(1)

Steps to Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph

141

(1)

Selecting Topics

141

(1)

Working Together

142

(1)

Critical Thinking

143

(1)

What Have You Written?

143

(1)

Responding to Images

143

(1)

Writing on the Web

144

(1)

Points to Remember

144

(1)

Toward the Essay

145

(9)

Responding to Images

145

(1)

What Is an Essay?

146

(1)

The Introduction

146

(1)

The Body

147

(1)

The Conclusion

147

(1)

Developing Topic Sentences in Outlines

148

(3)

Working Together

151

(1)

Critical Thinking

152

(1)

What Have You Written?

152

(1)

Responding to Images

152

(1)

Writing on the Web

153

(1)

Points to Remember

153

(1)

Writing at Work

154

(13)

Responding to Images

154

(1)

E-mail

155

(2)

Strategies for Writing E-mail

155

(2)

Resumes

157

(3)

Strategies for Writing Resumes

157

(3)

Cover Letters

160

(3)

Strategies for Writing Cover Letters

161

(2)

Working Together

163

(1)

Critical Thinking

164

(1)

Responding to Images

165

(1)

Writing on the Web

165

(1)

Points to Remember

165

(2)

Part 3 Writing Sentences

167

(104)

Recognizing the Power of Words

168

(14)

Responding to Images

168

(1)

The Power of Words

169

(1)

What Do You Know?

169

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

169

(1)

What Have You Written?

170

(1)

Use Correct Words

170

(2)

Use Effective Words

172

(1)

Use Concrete Nouns

173

(1)

Use Strong Verbs

173

(1)

Avoid Cliches

173

(2)

Use Appropriate Words

175

(1)

Use Appropriate Level of Diction

175

(1)

Use Appropriate Idioms

176

(1)

Be Aware of Connotations

177

(1)

Working Together

178

(1)

Critical Thinking

179

(1)

What Have You Learned?

179

(1)

Responding to Images

180

(1)

Writing on the Web

181

(1)

Points to Remember

181

(1)

Writing Sentences

182

(16)

Responding to Images

182

(1)

What Is a Sentence?

183

(1)

What Do You Know?

183

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

184

(1)

What Have You Written?

184

(1)

Parts of Speech

184

(1)

Subjects and Verbs

185

(9)

What Are Nouns?

186

(1)

What Are Pronouns?

187

(2)

Locating ``Hidden Subjects''

189

(1)

Prepositional Phrases

190

(1)

Verbs

191

(3)

Building Sentences: Independent and Dependent Clauses

194

(1)

Sentence Length

195

(1)

Working Together

195

(1)

Critical Thinking

196

(1)

What Have You Learned?

196

(1)

What Have You Written?

196

(1)

Responding to Images

197

(1)

Writing on the Web

197

(1)

Points to Remember

197

(1)

Avoiding Fragments

198

(12)

Responding to Images

198

(2)

What Do You Know?

200

(1)

What Are Fragments?

200

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

201

(1)

What Have You Written?

202

(1)

Correcting Fragments

203

(4)

Working Together

207

(1)

Critical Thinking

207

(1)

What Have You Written?

208

(1)

What Have You Learned?

208

(1)

What Have You Written?

208

(1)

Responding to Images

209

(1)

Writing on the Web

209

(1)

Points to Remember

209

(1)

Building Sentences Using Coordination and Subordination

210

(18)

Responding to Images

210

(1)

What Do You Know?

211

(1)

What Are Coordination and Subordination?

212

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

213

(1)

What Have You Written?

213

(1)

Types of Sentences

213

(1)

Coordination

214

(5)

Coordinating Conjunctions

215

(1)

Adverbial Conjunctions

215

(4)

Working Together

219

(1)

Subordination

219

(4)

What Are You Trying to Say?

223

(1)

What Have You Written?

224

(1)

Critical Thinking

224

(1)

What Have You Written?

224

(2)

Responding to Images

226

(1)

What Have You Learned?

226

(1)

Writing on the Web

227

(1)

Points to Remember

227

(1)

Repairing Run-ons and Comma Splices

228

(16)

Responding to Images

228

(1)

What Are Run-ons?

229

(1)

What Do You Know?

230

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

230

(1)

What Have You Written?

231

(1)

Run-ons: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices

231

(1)

Fused Sentences

231

(1)

Comma Splices

231

(1)

Identifying Run-ons

232

(1)

Repairing Run-ons: Minor Repairs

233

(1)

Critical Thinking: Run-ons Needing Major Repairs

234

(1)

Methods of Repairing Run-ons

235

(1)

Working Together

236

(4)

Working Together

240

(1)

Critical Thinking

241

(1)

What Have You Written?

241

(1)

Responding to Images

242

(1)

What Have You Learned?

242

(1)

Writing on the Web

243

(1)

Points to Remember

243

(1)

Correcting Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

244

(15)

Responding to Images

244

(1)

What Are Modifiers?

245

(1)

Dangling Modifiers

245

(1)

What Do You Know?

245

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

246

(1)

What Have You Written?

247

(1)

Avoiding Dangling Modifiers

247

(1)

Testing for Dangling Modifiers

248

(4)

Misplaced Modifiers

252

(3)

Working Together

255

(1)

Critical Thinking

256

(1)

What Have You Written?

256

(1)

What Have You Learned?

256

(1)

Responding to Images

257

(1)

Writing on the Web

257

(1)

Points to Remember

258

(1)

Understanding Parallelism

259

(12)

Responding to Images

259

(1)

What Is Parallelism?

260

(1)

What Do You Know?

260

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

261

(1)

What Have You Written?

261

(1)

Overcoming Parallelism Errors

262

(5)

Working Together

267

(1)

Critical Thinking

268

(1)

What Have You Written?

268

(1)

Responding to Images

268

(1)

What Have You Learned?

268

(1)

Writing on the Web

269

(1)

Points to Remember

269

(2)

Part 4 Understanding Grammar

271

(86)

Subject-Verb Agreement

272

(16)

Responding to Images

272

(1)

What Is Subject-Verb Agreement?

273

(1)

What Do You Know?

273

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

273

(1)

What Have You Written?

274

(1)

Grammar Choices and Meaning

274

(2)

Special Nouns and Pronouns

276

(8)

Group Nouns

276

(1)

Hidden Subjects

277

(2)

``Either . . . Or'' Subjects

279

(1)

Indefinite Pronouns

280

(1)

Relative Pronouns: Who, Which, and That

281

(3)

Critical Thinking

284

(1)

What Have You Written?

284

(1)

Working Together

285

(1)

Responding to Images

285

(1)

What Have You Learned?

286

(1)

Writing on the Web

286

(1)

Points to Remember

286

(2)

Verb Tense, Mood, and Voice

288

(19)

Responding to Images

288

(1)

What Do You Know?

289

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

289

(1)

What Have You Written?

290

(1)

What Is Tense?

290

(1)

Helping Verbs

290

(2)

Regular and Irregular Verbs

292

(4)

Problem Verbs: Lie/Lay, Rise/Raise, Set/Sit

296

(2)

Shifts in Tense

298

(1)

Working Together

299

(1)

Active and Passive Voice

300

(1)

Grammar Choices and Meaning

300

(2)

Other Verb Problems

302

(1)

Could Have, Must Have, Should Have, Would Have

302

(1)

Double Negatives

303

(1)

Critical Thinking

303

(1)

What Have You Written?

303

(1)

Responding to Images

304

(1)

What Have You Learned?

304

(1)

Writing on the Web

305

(1)

Points to Remember

305

(2)

Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Case

307

(19)

Responding to Images

307

(1)

What Are Pronouns?

308

(1)

What Do You Know?

308

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

308

(1)

What Have You Written?

309

(1)

Types of Pronouns

309

(1)

Using Pronouns

310

(1)

Pronoun Reference

311

(2)

Using They without an Antecedent

313

(1)

Pronoun Agreement

314

(1)

Singular and Plural Nouns and Pronouns

314

(1)

Avoiding Sexism

315

(2)

Methods of Avoiding Sexism

315

(1)

Using They to Avoid Sexism

316

(1)

Avoiding Shifts in Point of View

317

(1)

Using the Right Case

318

(4)

Pronoun Cases

318

(1)

Plural Constructions

319

(1)

Between

319

(1)

Comparisons

320

(1)

The Verb To Be

320

(1)

Who and Whom

320

(1)

This and That, These and Those

321

(1)

They and Them

321

(1)

Unnecessary Pronouns

321

(1)

Working Together

322

(1)

Critical Thinking

323

(1)

What Have You Written?

323

(1)

What Have You Learned?

323

(1)

Responding to Images

324

(1)

Writing on the Web

324

(1)

Points to Remember

325

(1)

Adjectives and Adverbs

326

(18)

Responding to Images

326

(1)

What Are Adjectives and Adverbs?

327

(1)

What Do You Know?

327

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

328

(1)

What Have You Written?

328

(1)

Understanding Adjectives

328

(3)

Commas and Adjectives

331

(1)

Understanding Adverbs

331

(2)

Grammar Choices and Meaning

333

(2)

Good/Well, Bad/Badly

334

(1)

Comparisons

335

(2)

Avoiding Double Comparisons

337

(1)

Using Superlatives

337

(2)

Working Together

339

(1)

Critical Thinking

340

(1)

What Have You Written?

340

(1)

What Have You Learned?

340

(1)

Responding to Images

341

(1)

Writing on the Web

342

(1)

Points to Remember

342

(2)

Using Prepositions

344

(13)

Responding to Images

344

(1)

What Are Prepositions?

345

(1)

What Do You Know?

346

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

346

(1)

What Have You Written?

347

(2)

Commonly Confused Prepositions

349

(1)

Locating Prepositions

350

(1)

Working Together

351

(3)

Critical Thinking

354

(1)

What Have You Written?

354

(1)

Responding to Images

354

(1)

Writing on the Web

355

(1)

What Have You Learned?

355

(1)

Points to Remember

355

(2)

Part 5 Using Punctuation and Mechanics

357

(68)

Using Commas and Semicolons

358

(19)

Responding to Images

358

(1)

What Are Commas and Semicolons?

359

(1)

What Do You Know?

359

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

359

(1)

What Have You Written?

360

(1)

Comma

360

(9)

Comma Uses

361

(8)

Avoiding Unnecessary Commas

369

(1)

Guide to Eliminating Unnecessary Commas

369

(1)

Semicolon

370

(2)

Working Together

372

(1)

Critical Thinking

373

(1)

What Have You Written?

374

(1)

Responding to Images

374

(1)

Writing on the Web

374

(1)

What Have You Learned?

374

(1)

Points to Remember

375

(2)

Using Other Marks of Punctuation

377

(18)

Responding to Images

377

(1)

What Are the Other Marks of Punctuation?

378

(1)

What Do You Know?

378

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

378

(1)

What Have You Written?

379

(1)

Apostrophe

379

(4)

Quotation Marks

383

(2)

Colon

385

(1)

Parentheses

386

(1)

Brackets

386

(1)

Dash

387

(1)

Hyphen

387

(1)

Ellipsis

388

(1)

Slash

389

(1)

Question Mark

389

(1)

Exclamation Point

389

(1)

Period

389

(1)

Working Together

390

(1)

Critical Thinking

391

(1)

What Have You Written?

392

(1)

Responding to Images

392

(1)

Writing on the Web

392

(1)

What Have You Learned?

392

(1)

Points to Remember

393

(2)

Using Capitalization

395

(10)

Responding to Images

395

(1)

What Is Capitalization?

396

(1)

What Do You Know?

396

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

396

(1)

What Have You Written?

397

(1)

Rules for Capitalization

397

(5)

Working Together

402

(1)

Critical Thinking

402

(1)

What Have You Written?

402

(1)

Improving Your Writing

402

(1)

Responding to Images

403

(1)

Writing on the Web

403

(1)

What Have You Learned?

403

(1)

Points to Remember

404

(1)

Correcting Spelling Errors

405

(20)

Responding to Images

405

(1)

What Do You Know?

406

(1)

What Are You Trying to Say?

407

(1)

What Have You Written?

407

(1)

Steps to Improving Spelling

408

(1)

Commonly Misspelled Words

408

(1)

Forty Commonly Misspelled Words

409

(1)

Commonly Confused Words

409

(3)

Ten Most Commonly Confused Words

410

(2)

Forming Plurals

412

(3)

Adding Endings

415

(5)

Past-Tense Spellings

415

(1)

Spelling Other Endings

416

(4)

Working Together

420

(1)

Working Together

420

(1)

Critical Thinking

421

(1)

What Have You Written?

421

(1)

Responding to Images

421

(1)

Writing on the Web

422

(1)

What Have You Learned?

422

(1)

Points to Remember

422

(2)

Improving Spelling

424

(1)

HANDBOOK

425

(36)

Basic Sentence Structure

427

(2)

Phrases and Clauses

427

(1)

Types of Sentences

427

(1)

Parts of Speech

428

(1)

Sentence Errors

429

(3)

Fragments

429

(1)

Run-ons

430

(2)

Modifiers

432

(1)

Dangling Modifiers

432

(1)

Misplaced Modifiers

433

(1)

Faulty Parallelism

433

(2)

Verbs

435

(4)

Subject-Verb Agreement

435

(1)

Verb Tense

436

(2)

Problem Verbs

438

(1)

Shifts in Tense

439

(1)

Pronouns

439

(3)

Reference

439

(1)

Agreement

440

(2)

Adjectives and Adverbs

442

(1)

Comma

443

(3)

Semicolon

446

(1)

Apostrophe

446

(1)

Quotation Marks

447

(1)

Colon

448

(1)

Parentheses

448

(1)

Brackets

448

(1)

Dash

449

(1)

Hyphen

449

(1)

Ellipsis

449

(1)

Slash

450

(1)

Question Mark

450

(1)

Exclamation Point

451

(1)

Period

451

(1)

Capitalization

451

(2)

Spelling

453

(6)

Commonly Confused Words

453

(3)

Commonly Misspelled Words

456

(3)

Two Hundred Topics for College Writing

459

(2)

Answers

461

(26)

Credits

487

(2)

Index

489

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