TY - BOOK AU - Long,Elizabeth Cloninger TI - Resources for writers with readings: from paragraph to essay SN - 0321414810 (pbk.) U1 - 808.0427 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Pearson/Longman KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Report writing KW - Readers N1 - Contents; Part one: Getting started Chapter 1: Your strengths as a writer Chapter 2: The bases of good writing: The four Cs Chapter 3: Writing for a reader and a reason Part two: The writing process Chapter 4: Prewriting: Coming up with ideas Chapter 5: Drafting: Writing a rough draft Chapter 6: Revising: Making changes in your draft Chapter 7: Editing: Checking for correctness etc. Part three: The elements of good writing Chapter 9: Writing an effective topic sentence Chapter 10: Using specific details for support and illustration Chapter 11: Organizing and liking ideas Chapter 12: Sensitive writing etc. Part four: Strategies for paragraph development Chapter 17: Providing illustrations and examples Chapter 18: Narrating an event or a story Chapter 19: Describing a scene, a person, or an object Chapter 20: Classifying and dividing etc. Part five: Writing essays Chapter 26: The essay and the thesis statement Chapter 27: Prewriting for and drafting your essay Chapter 28: Revising and editing your essay Part six: Writing for different purpose Chapter 29: Essay exams Chapter 30: Writing summaries Chapter 31: Writing to get a job Chapter 32: Proper format Part seven: Writing correct sentences Chapter 33: Prepositional phrases Chapter 34: Subjects and verbs Chapter 35: Clauses Chapter 36: Run-on sentences Chapter 37: Fragments etc. Part eight: Punctuation and mechanics Chapter 48: Commas Chapter 49: Apostrophes Chapter 50: Quotation marks Chapter 51: Other punctuation marks etc. ; Index : p. I.1-I.10. UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005035398.html ER -