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, support, coherence and sentence skills - as keys to effective writing.
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Boston
McGraw Hill
2000
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| Edition: | Fifty edition |
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| 500 | |a Includes index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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