The Writer’s Response Text A Reading-Based Approach to College Writing

Part I. The Reading-Writing Conversation 1. Writing with Central Idea 2. Reading for the Central Idea 3. Supporting the Central Idea 4. Unity and Coherence Part II. Writing about Reading 5. Summarizing and Responding to Reading 6. Evaluating Reading Selections 7. Synthesizing Ideas from Reading Selections 8. Arguing from Several Reading Selections Part III. Editing Skills 9. Some Basic Editing Terms 10. Sentence Fragments 11. Fused Sentences and Comma Splices 12. Consistency in Verb Tense and Verb Voice 13. Subject-Verb Agreement 14. Pronoun Agreement and Reference 15. Pronoun Case 16. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 17. Comma Usage 18. Semicolons and Colons 19. The Apostrophe 20. Quotation Marks 21. Titles 22. Clear and Concise Sentences Part IV. Additional Readings for Writing