Focus on writing paragraphs and essays /
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- USA Bedford / St. Martin`s 2008
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Brief Contents
WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS
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Chapter 1
Sentence Fragments
316
UNIT 1
WRITING PARAGRAPHS
Chapter 99
Satject-Verb Agreement. Shifts.
310
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Chapter 21 Шogical
Chapter 1
Understanding the Writing Process,
Chapter 94
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
2
Checte
TESTing Your Paragraphs
28
UNIT 6
UNDERSTANDING BASIC GRAMMAR
UNIT 2
PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT
379
40
Chapter 25
Verbs Past Tense
080
Chapter 3
Using Exemplifleation......
50
Chapter 26
Verbs: Past Participles.
Chapter 4
Using Narration......
62
Chapter 27
Nouns and Pronouns.
408
Chapter 5
Using Description
72
Chapter 28
Adjectives and Adverbs..
434
Chapter 6
Using Process...
82
Chapter 29
Grammar and Usage for ESL
Chapter 7
Using Cause and Effect......
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Writers
446
Chapter 8
Using Comparison and Contrast... 106
Chapter 9
Using Classification
122
UNIT 7
UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION, MECHANICS, AND SPELLING
Chapter 10
Using Definition...
132
Chapter It
Using Argument.
144
485
Chapter 30
Using Commas.
486
UNIT 3
WRITING ESSAYS
159
Chapter 31
Using Apostrophes
504
Chapter 12
Writing an Essay.
Chapter 13
Writing Introductions and
160
Chapter 32
Using Other Punctuation Marks....514
Chapter 33
Understanding Mechanics
520
Conclusions
194
Chapter 34
Understanding Spelling
5-40
REVISING AND EDITING YOUR WRITING
BECOMING A CRITICAL READER
565
205
UNIT 8
READING ESSAYS
565
UNIT 4
WRITING SENTENCES
205
Chapter 35
Reading for College
566
Chapter 14
Writing Simple Sentences
200
Chapter 36
Readings for Writers 570
Chapter 15
Writing Compound Sentences
220
Chapter 16
Writing Complex Sentences
238
APPENDIXES
Chapter 17 Chapter 18
Writing Varied Sentences.....
252
Using Parallelism
272
A Strategies for College Success
625
Chapter 19
Using Words Effectively 280
B. Using Research in Your Writing
639
Taking Standardized Assessment Tests 609
HIT 5
SOLVING COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS
299
Word Power: Your Personal Vocabulary
Chapter 20
Run-Ons
300
List
664
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Preface for Instructors
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When we set out to write a new paragraph-to-essay developmental text, we knew what we wanted to accomplish. We wanted Focus on Writing: Para-graphs and Essays to reflect two of our central beliefs: first, that in college, writing comes first and second, that students learn writing and grammar skills best in the context of their own writing. We also knew that we had an opportunity to bring developmental textbooks to another level to recog-nize who is taking basic writing classes today and to engage them in a new and different way. Our students may be basic writers, but they live in a world of images. We wanted to engage our students with a highly visual book and a contemporary design that reflected the most recent pedagogy about reaching basic writers. We conducted usability testing in classrooms to see how students responded to our books' designs and layouts. Consequently, the pages of Focus on Writing have clean, open margins, with the most important information moved directly into the body of the text, and an up-to-date look that takes the needs of today's basic writing students seriously. We also wanted this book to be accessible to all basic writers: the text explana tions and instructions are clear and streamlined throughout to make them as transparent as possible.
Still, Focus on Writing is most importantly a writing text. For this reason, the book begins with thorough coverage of the writing process and includes extensive writing practice throughout the text. Most chapters open with a writing prompt that asks students to respond to an evocative and contempo rary visual. Students practice not only by working through effective exer-cises but also by applying each chapter's concepts to their own original writing, giving them a sense of ownership of their work. We included lots of grammar support to help basic writers understand and apply the fundamen-tals of good writing, and our up-to-date exercise topics relate to students as citizens of the world beyond the college campus.
Further, because we know that the issues of the developmental class room are not limited to writing, Focus on Writing offers other resources such