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Odyssey : a guide to better writing / William J. Kelly, Deborah L. Lawton.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Longman, c2003.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: 80 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0321096266 (student ed. : alk. paper)
  • 0321096274 (annotated instructor's ed. : alk. paper)
  • 032107896
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.042 21 KEL
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Content
Chapter 1
Activity 1. The importance of writing skills to everyday Life
Activity 2. Writing as one of many Processes
Activity 3. Considering the Needs of Different readers

Chapter 2.
Activity 4. Rewriting as preparation
Activity 5. Talking as a form of prewriting
Activity 6. Prewriting in pairs

Chapter 3.
Activity 7. Narrowing Topic
Activity 8. When to Use Paragraph Breaks
Activity 9. Logical Sentence order in paragraphs

Chapter 4.
Activity 10. Chronology
Activity 11. Transitions within Paragraphs
Activity 12. Being Concise with your writing

Chapter 5.
Activity 13. Telling Stories as Narration
Activity 14. Biography
Activity 15. Writing and Remembering

Chapter 6.
Activity 16. Sensory Details
Activity 17. Objective or Factual Description
Activity 18. Using Detail and Description

Chapter 7.
Activity 19. Illustrating your point
Activity 20. Defining with Examples
Activity 21. Defining Appropriate Examples

Chapter 8.
Activity 22. Reviewing the Imperative Mode
Activity 23. Breaking a process into smaller units
Activity 24. Topic Strings

Chapter 9.
Activity 25. Improving your own definitions
Activity 26. Dictionary definitions
Activity 27. Slang and Colloquial

Chapter 10.
Activity 28. Listing Similarities and Differences
Activity 29. Selecting Criteria for comparison and contrast
Activity 30. Arrangement in Comparison and contrast paragraphs

Chapter 11.
Activity 31. Seeing cause and effect thinking in everyday life
Activity 32. Listing Effects
Activity 33. The dangers of oversimplification

Chapter 12
Activity 34. Dividing Topics into more Manageable Form
Activity 35. Using Classification to expand your topic
Activity 36. Consistency in Paragraph Division
etc.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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