Confidence in Writing

CONFIDENCE IN WRITING is a paragraph-to-essay developmental writing text that includes both student and professional readings to illustrate basic writing concepts and serve as models for analysis. Student examples show writing through various drafts, and illustrates invention, drafting, and revision concepts. Adopting a writing process approach, the text includes a handbook section that covers grammar and mechanics on the sentence level along with a short section on spelling improvement. The fourth edition of this fundamental textbook provides students with a process for planning, organizing, drafting, and revising paragraphs and essays.

Beginning with Paragraphs: Writing about an Object	p. 1
Continuing with Paragraphs: Writing about People	p. 16
Continuing with Paragraphs: Writing about a Place	p. 32
Using Paragraphs as Parts of Longer Pieces: Writing about an Activity	p. 46
Introducing the Essay: Recalling Events	p. 63
Developing the Essay: Explaining Ideas	p. 85
Mastering Patterns of Development	p. 110
Writing the Summary	p. 132
Additional Readings	p. 152
Handbook: The Conventions of Writing	p. 181
Parts of the Sentence	p. 183
Building Sentences	p. 200
Joining Ideas	p. 204
Four Sentence Types	p. 216
Fixing Sentence Problems	p. 220
Improving Sentence Style	p. 238
Punctuating Sentences	p. 248
Ways to Improve Spelling	p. 274
Corrected Versions of Editing Exercises	p. 284
Index	p. 291
Credits	p. 299
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