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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| Language: | English |
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Boston
McGraw Hill
2000
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| 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.