Real Essays Essentials From Drafting to Revising

Become a stronger reader, writer, and thinker as Real Essays Essentials gives you confidence in your academic writing skills through added support developing stronger paragraphs and essays.

A Note for Students
Preface

PART ONE: College Thinking, Reading, and Writing
1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Making Connections
2. Getting Ready to Write: Audience, Purpose, Form, and Process
3. Organizing Your Main Point and Support: Giving Ideas Structure
4. Drafting and Revising: Putting Your Ideas Together

PART TWO: Writing Different Kinds of Essays
5. Narration: Writing That tells Stories
6. Illustration: Writing That Shows Examples
7. Description: Writing That Creates Pictures with Words
8. Process Analysis: Writing That Explains How Things Happen
9. Classification: Writing That Sorts Things into Groups
10. Definition: Writing That Tells What Something Means
11. Comparison and Contrast: Writing That Shows Similarities and Differences
12. Cause and Effect: Writing That Explains Reasons or Results
13. Argument: Writing That Persuades

PART THREE: Doing Research
14. Research Essays: Using Outside Sources

PART FOUR: Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
15. Basic Grammar: An Overview
16. The Four Most Serious Errors
17. Other Grammar and Style Concerns
18. Punctuation and Capitalization

Index
Useful Editing and Proofreading Marks

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