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Mosaics, focusing on essays / Kim Flachmann

By: Publication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xxii, 838 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780131850217 (pbk. : annotated instructor's ed.)
  • 0131850210(pbk. : annotated instructor's ed.)
  • 0131850199(Student edition)
Other title:
  • Focusing on essays
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.042 23 FLA
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CONTENTS

PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS
Chapter 1. Writing in college
Chapter 2. Prewriting
Chapter 3. Writing a Thesis Statement
Chapter 4. Developing Body Paragraphs
Chapter 5. Organizing your Essay
Chapter 6. Writing the Introduction, Conclusion and Title
Chapter 7. Revising
Chapter 8. Editing

PART II: WRITING EFFECTIVE ESSAYS
Chapter 9. Describing
Chapter 10. Narrating
Chapter 11. Illustrating
Chapter 12. Analysing a process
Chapter 13. Comparing and contrasting
Chapter 14. Dividing and classifying
Chapter 15. Defining
Chapter 16. Analysing causes and effects
Chapter 17. Arguing


PART III: THE ESSAY WITH SOURCES
Chapter 18. Recognizing an with Sources
Chapter 19. Avoiding Plagiarism
Chapter 20. Finding Sources
Chapter 21. How writing an Essay with Sources
Chapter 22. Services Learning
Chapter 23. Revising and Editing an Essay with Sources
Chapter 24. Writing workshop

PART IV: FROM READING TO WRITING
Chapter 25. Describing
Chapter 26. Narrating
Chapter 27. Illustrating
Chapter 28. Analysing a Process
Chapter 29. Comparing and Contrasting
Chapter 30. Dividing and Classifying
Chapter 31. Defining
Chapter 32. Analysing causes and effects
Chapter 33. Arguing


PART V. THE HANDBOOK
Introduction


UNIT 1. SENTENCE
Chapter 34. Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 35. Fragments
Chapter 36. Fused Sentences and Comma Splices

UNIT 2. VERBS
Chapter 37. Regular and Irregular Verbs
Chapter 38. Verb Tense
Chapter 39. Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 40. More on Verbs

UNIT 3. PRONOUNS
Chapter 41. Pronoun Problems
Chapter 42. Pronoun Reference and Point of View
Chapter 43. Pronoun Agreement

UNIT 4. MODIFIERS
Chapter 44. Adjectives
Chapter 45. Adverbs
Chapter 46. Modifiers Errors

UNIT 5. PUNCTUATION
Chapter 47. End Punctuation
Chapter 48. Commas
Chapter 49. Apostrophes
Chapter 50. Quotation Marks
Chapter 51. Other Punctuation Marks

UNIT 6. MECHANICS
Chapter 52. Capitalization
Chapter 53. Abbreviations and Numbers

UNIT 7. Effective sentences
Chapter 54. Varying Sentence Structure
Chapter 55. Parallelism
Chapter 56. Combining Sentences

UNIT 8. Choosing the Right Word
Chapter 57. Standard and Nonstandard English
Chapter 58. Easily Confused Words
Chapter 59. Spelling

Includes bibliographical references and index(p. 829 - 834)

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