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In Harmony: Reading and Writing engages readers by presenting each chapter in the context of a resonant theme, such as interpersonal relationships, living between two worlds, and digital communication. Student and professional essays start each chapter and serve as the basis for instruction, illustration, and practice. Author Kathleen McWhorter emphasizes critical thinking throughout, which helps to prepare learners for their future courses or careers.

In Harmony, Third Edition, is the first book in a two¿-part series that shows reading and writing as a single process of understanding and expressing ideas – and how they really do work together in harmony. This volume concentrates on sentences and paragraphs; In Concert explores paragraphs and essays.

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Kathleen T. McWhorter is the author of more than a dozen textbooks, designed to help students succeed in college. Born in a rural farm community in Upstate New York, she went on to receive her EdD from SUNY Buffalo. For 34 years, she taught at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY, where she is a professor emerita of humanities. Through her textbooks, Dr. McWhorter has helped an estimated 500,000 students improve their reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills.

PART ONE – GETTING STARTED 

1. An Overview of the Reading Process (with Writing)

2. An Overview of the Writing Process (with Reading)

3. Vocabulary: Working with Words

PART TWO – READING AND WRITING PARAGRAPHS 

4. Main Ideas and Topic Sentences 

5. Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas

6. Patterns of Organization: Chronological Order, Process, Narration, and Description

7. Patterns of Organization: Example, Cause and Effect, and Comparison and Contrast 

8. Revision and Proofreading

PART THREE – READING, WRITING, AND REVISING ESSAYS

9. Reading and Thinking Critically About Text

10. Reading and Writing Essays

PART FOUR – SENTENCE BASICS AND GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS 

11. Complete Sentences Versus Sentence Fragments

12. Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices

13. Using Verbs Correctly

14. Combining and Expanding Your Ideas

15. Revising Confusing and Inconsistent Sentences

A Brief Grammar Handbook 

PART FIVE – THEMATIC READER: WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING

Credits 

Index 

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