Writing first : practice in context : with readings / Laurie G. Kirszner, and Stephen R. Mandell.
Publication details: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2000.Description: xxviii, 594 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 0312193807
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| 808/.042 BRO 1 Focus on Florida : writing paragraphs and essays / | 808/.042 FOW The Little, Brown handbook / | 808/.042 GER 1 Writing and learning / | 808/.042 KIR 1 Writing first : practice in context : with readings / | 808/.042 LAN 1 Sentence skills : a workbook for writers / | 808/.042 LAN 1 The writing process : a concise rhetoric, reader, and handbook / | 808/.042 LAN 2 Sentence skills : a workbook for writers / |
CONTENTS
WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS
UNIT 1: FOCUS ON PARAGRAPHS
writing a paragraph
fine-tuning your paragraph
UNIT 2: PATTERNS OF PARAGRAH DEVELOPMENT
exemplification
narration
description
process
cause and effect
comparison and contrast
classification
definition
argument
UNIT 3: FOCUS ON ESSAYS
writing an essay
introductions and conclusions
patterns of essay development
REVISING AND EDITING YOUR WRITING
UNIT 4: WRITING EFFECTIVE SENTENCE
writing simple sentences
writing compound sentences
writing complex sentences
achieving sentence variety
using parallelism
using words effectively
UNIT 5: SOLVING COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS
Run-ons and comma splices
sentence fragments
subject-verb agreement
illogical shifts
dangling and misplaced modifiers
UNIT 6: UNDERSTANDING BASIC GRAMMAR
verbs: past tense
verbs: past participles
nouns and pronouns
adjectives and adverbs
grammar and usage issues foe ELS writes
UNIT 7: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION, MECHANICS, AND SPELLING
using commas
using apostrophes
understanding spelling
BECOMING A CRITICAL READER
UNIT 8: READING ESSAYS
reading critically
readings for writers
Includes index p.587-594
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