Exploring writing. Sentences and paragraphs /
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- USA Mc Graw hill 2008
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RIEF CONTENTS
PART 1 Writing: Skills and Process 1
1. An Introduction to Writing 3
2. The Writing Process 15
PART 2 Effective Paragraphs 46
49
3. Four Steps for Writing, Four Bases for Revising
4. Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development 84
5. Moving from Paragraph to Essay
125
PART 3 Sentence Skills 150
SECTION Sentences
6. Subjects and Verbs
154
7. Fragments
162
8. Run-Ons 179
9. Sentence Variety 1 195
SECTION II Verbs, Pronouns, and Agreement
10. Standard English Verbs
210
11. Irregular Verbs 219
12. Subject-Verb Agreement
230
13. Consistent Verb Tense 239
14. Additional Information about Verbs
243
15. Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Point of View
250
16. Pronoun Types
261
SECTION III Modifiers and Parallelism
17. Adjectives and Adverbs
274
18. Misplaced Modifiers
281
19. Dangling Modifiers
286
20. Faulty Parallelism
292
21. Sentence Variety II
300
SECTION IV Punctuation and Mechanics
22. Paper Format
315
23. Capital Letters
320
24. Numbers and Abbreviations
329 CONTENT
Bill Wine. "Rudeness at the Movies"
534 Alice Walker, "My Daughter Smokes" 540
Appendixes 561
Appendix A: Parts of Speech 548
Appendix B: ESL Pointers 559
Appendix C: Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test 571
Appendix D: Sentence Skills Achievement Test 577
Appendix E: Answers to Exercises in Part Three 582
Appendix F: A Writer's Journal 597
Credits 599
Index 601
CEFACE
To the Instructor
Exploring Writing
Emphasizing both process and practice, Exploring Writing Sendencre and Paragraphs will help students apply and advance their writing skills. Learn ing to write effective paragraphs, mast master essential sentence skills, and read critically are turning points for student writers these skills will prepare them to write essays in college and tackle many types of writing in the real world. Along the way, there are many small but important skills to develop using specific and concrete language, selecting good supporting details, writing an effective topic sentence, creating a convincing argument, orga nizing a paragraph in a way that best fits its purpose, and so on.
Four Bases
Exploring Writing asserts that four principles in particular are keys to el. fective composition: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. These s." are highlighted on four principles, es, or "bases, reinforced throughout the book. on the inside back cover and are
Unity means seeing the whole as the sum of its parts; in an Ufective essay, the student should make one point and stick to it.
Support stresses the importance of using specific evidence to back up that point.
Coherence focuses on the ways writers organize and connect this evidence, as well as how they transition between ideas.
Sentence skills demonstrate an attention to the craft of writing and its elements; clear, error-free sentences maximize the effectiveness of the other three bases.
Countless Possibilities
In this text, I encourage students to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored; while the four bases provide a founda-tion, there are many important factors in writing well. Chapter 1 asks stu-dents to examine their attitude toward writing, to write what they know-or can learn about-and to consider keeping a writing journal. Appendix F A Writer's Journal gives them room to start recording ideas.
Personal Discoveries
A writer's journey is as personal as it is practical; Exploring Writing ascribes to the belief that the best way to begin writing is with personal experience. After students have learned to support a point by providing material from