The writers world : paragraphs and essays / Lynne Gaetz, and Suneeti Phadke.
Publication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2006.Edition: Annotated instructor's editionDescription: xiii, 632p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + CD-ROMISBN:- 0131409468
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Table of Contents
Part I The Writing Process
Chapter 1 Exploring
The paragraph and the essay
What is exploring
Topic
E.tc
Chapter 2 Developing
What is developing
Narrow the topic
The topic sentence
E.TC
Chapter 3 Revising and editing
What is revising and editing
revise for unity
E.tc
Chapter 4 Illustration
What is illustration?
The illustration paragraph
E.tc.
Chapter 5 Narration
Explore topics
What is narration
The narrative paragraph
E.tc
Chapter 6 Description
Explore topics
What is description
E.tc
Chapter 7 Process
What is a process
The process paragraph
E.tc
Chapter 8 Definition
Explore topics
What is definition
Chapter 9 Classification
Explore topics
What is classification
E.tc
Chapter 10 Comparison and contrast
Explore topics
What is comparison and contrast
E.tc
Chapter 11 Cause and effect
Explore topics
What is cause and effect
E.tc
Chapter 12 Argument
Explore topics
What is argument
Chapter 13 Writing the essay
Explore topics
the thesis statement
E.tc
Chapter 14 Essay patterns
The illustration essay
The narrative essay
E.tc
Chapter 15 Enhancing your writing with research
What is research
research for academic writing
Chapter 16 Simple sentences
identify subjects
identify prepositional phrases
Etc.
Chapter 17 Compound sentences
compare simple and compound sentences
combine sentences using coordinating conjunctions
Chapter 18 Complex sentences
What is a complex sentence
use subordinating conjunctions
E.tc
Chapter 19 sentence variety
What is sentence variety
Combine sentences
E.tc
Chapter 20 Fragments and Run-ons
Fragments
Run-ons
Chapter 21 Faulty parallel structure
What is parallel structure
Identify faulty parallel structure
Chapter 22 Present and past tenses
What is verb tense
The simple present tense
E.tc
Chapter 23 Past participles
Past participles
The present perfect tense
E.tc
Chapter 24 Other verb forms
problems with progressive forms
nonstandard forms
E.tc
Chapter 25 Subject- verb agreement
Basic subject verb agreement rules
More than one subject
E.tc
Chapter 26 Tense consistency
consistent verb tense
Chapter 27 Nouns, determiners, and prepositions
singular and plural nouns
count nouns and non count nouns
E.tc
Chapter 28 Pronouns
Pronoun case
Relative pronouns
E.tc
Table of contents
Chapter 29 Adjectives and adverbs
Chapter 30 Mistakes with modifiers
Chapter 31 Exact language
Chapter 32 spelling and commonly confused words
Chapter 33 Commas
What is a Comma?
Commas in a Series
Commas After Introductory Words or Phrases
Commas Around Interrupting Words and Phrases
Commas in Compound Sentences
Commas in Complex Sentences
Chapter 34 The apostrophe, quotation marks, and titles
The apostrophe
Quotation marks
punctuation of titles
Chapter 35 Capitalisation and other punctuation marks
Capitalization
Other punctuation marks
Chapter 36 Editing paragraphs and essays
Part v: Reading strategies and selections
Chapter 37 From reading to writing
reading strategies
reading selections
Includes Index p. 475-488
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