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College writing resources with readings / Elizabeth Cloninger Long.

By: Publication details: New York : Pearson/Longman, c2007.Description: xviii, 862 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 032117223X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.042 22 LON
LOC classification:
  • PE1413 .L655 2007
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Book Open Access Book Open Access Engineering Library 808.042 LON 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available BUML24020622
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Contents
Part One Getting Started
Chapter 1: Your Strengths as a Writer
Chapter 2: Having a Reader and a Reason: Understanding Audience and Purpose
Chapter 3: The Bases of Good Writing: The Four Cs
Part Two The Writing Process
Chapter 4: Prewriting
Chapter 5: Drafting: Writing a Rough Draft
Chapter 6: Making Changes: Revision
Chapter 7: Editing: Checking for Correctness
Part Three The Elements of Good Writing
Chapter 8: Overview of the Essay and the Thesis Statement
Chapter 9: Essay Paragraphs
Chapter 10: Supporting Your Ideas
Chapter 11: Organizing and Linking Ideas
Chapter 12 Sensitive Language (old Chapter 50)
Chapter 13 Confusing Words (old Chapter 51)
Chapter 14 Choosing the Best Word (old Chapter 52)
Chapter 15 Improving Your Spelling (old Chapter 53)
Chapter 16 Varying Your Sentences (old Chapter 54)
Chapter 17 Format
Part Four Strategies for Essay Development
Chapter 18: Providing Illustrations and Examples
Chapter 19: Narrating an Event or Story
Chapter 20 : Describing a Scene, Person, or Object
Chapter 21 : Classifying and Dividing
Chapter 22 : Explaining a Process
Chapter 23 : Comparison and Contrast
Chapter 24 : Cause and Effect Development
Chapter 25 : Definition
Chapter 26 : Arguing a Position
Chapter 27 \ Using More than One Organizational Strategy
Part Five Writing for Different Purposes
Chapter 28 : Writing an In-Class Essay
Chapter 29 : Writing Summaries and Reports
Chapter 30 : Writing to Get a Job
Part Six Research
Chapter 31: Searching for, Evaluating, and Integrating Information
Chapter 32: Writing a Research Essay
Part Seven Writing Correct Sentences
Grammar diagnostic
Chapter 33: Prepositional Phrases
Chapter 34: Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 35 : Clauses
Chapter 36 : Run-On Sentences
Chapter 37 Fragments
Chapter 38 : Regular Verbs
Chapter 39 : Irregular Verbs
Chapter 40 : Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 41 : Verb Tense and Tense Consistency
Chapter 42 : Pronoun Types
Chapter 43 : Pronoun Agreement
Chapter 44 : Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 45 : Misplaced Modifiers
Chapter 46 : Dangling Modifiers
Chapter 47: Errors in Parallelism
Punctuation Diagnostic
Chapter 48: Commas
Chapter 49 Apostrophes
Chapter 50 : Quotation Marks
Chapter 51 : Other Punctuation Marks
Chapter 52 : Capitalization
Chapter 53 : Abbreviations and Numbers
Chapter 54: ESL Tips
Part Eight Readings
Part Nine Lab Manual

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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