College writing skills

Designed to help students master essay writing, this work provides a wide variety of assignments and activities, both structured and open-ended. It focuses on the four essentials of writing - unity,

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Main Author: Langan, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore McGraw-Hill Higher Education 2000
Edition:Fifty edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Essay writing. An introduction to writing
  • The writing process
  • The first and second steps in essay writing
  • The third step in essay writing
  • The fourth step in essay writing
  • Four bases for revising
  • Patterns of essay development.
  • Introduction to essay development
  • Description
  • Narration
  • Examples
  • Process
  • Cause and effect
  • Comparison and contrast
  • Definition
  • Division and classification
  • Argumentation
  • Special skills. Taking essay exams
  • Writing a summary
  • Writing a report
  • Writing a résumé and job application letter
  • Using the library and the inernet
  • Writing a research paper
  • Handbook of sentence skills. Grammar: Subjects and verbs
  • Fragments
  • Run-ons
  • Regular and irregular verbs
  • Subject-verb agreement
  • Additional information about verbs
  • Pronoun agreement and reference
  • Pronoun types
  • Adjectives and adverbs
  • Misplaced modifiers
  • Dangling modifiers
  • Mechanics: Manuscript form
  • Capital letters
  • Numbers and applications
  • Punctuation: Apostrophe
  • Quotation Marks
  • Comma
  • Other punctuation marks
  • Word use: Spelling improvement
  • Commonly confused words
  • Effective word choice
  • Editing tests
  • ESL pointers.