Mosaics Focusing on Sentences in Context

Name: Mosaics Focusing on Sentences in Context
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ISBN: 9780131893580

ISBN-10: 0131893580

ISBN-13: 9780131893580

Edition: 3rd 2005

Authors: Kim Flachmann

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Part of a three-level developmental series that integrates critical thinking, reading, writing, revising, and editing, this book teaches theprocessesandskillscommon to all good academic writing.It includes both professional and student writing samples as well as a multitude of exercises and activities that address the writing process, writing effective sentences, sentences in context, and readings.This is for anyone looking to develop effective reading comprehension and writing skills.

Book details

List price: $96.80
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English



(NOTE:All chapters begin with Introduction and conclude with Chapter Review, Editing a Student Paragraph, and Editing Your Own Paragraph, except for chapters 1 through 7, and 33 through 47.)



The Writing Process






Your Approach to Writing


Writing Assignments



Understanding the Writing Process


Picture the Process






Thinking


Planning






Writing the Topic Sentence


Developing


Organizing


Drafting






Revising Checklist






Editing Checklist


Your EQ (Editing Quotient)


How to Edit






Introduction: Parts of Speech, Phrases, and Clauses


Parts of Speech


Phrases


Clauses


Unit 1


Sentences






Subjects


Verbs






About Fragments


Identifying and Correcting Fragments






Identifying Fused Sentences and Comma Splices


Correcting Fused Sentences and Comma Splices


Unit 1


Tests


Unit Writing Assignments


Unit 2


Verbs






Regular Verbs


Irregular Verbs


UsingLie/LayandSit/SetCorrectly






Present Tense


Past Tense


Using Helping Words with Past Participles


Using-ingVerbs Correctly


Problems withbe.Problems withdo.Problems withhave






Subject-Verb Agreement


Words Separating


Subjects and Verbs


More than One Subject


Verbs Before Subjects


Collective Nouns


Indefinite Pronouns






Consistent Verb Tense


Using the Active Voice Unit 2


Tests


Unit Writing Assignments


Unit 3


Pronouns






Pronouns as Subjects


Pronouns as Objects


Possessive Pronouns


Pronouns in Comparisons


Demonstrative Pronouns






Pronoun Reference


Shifting Point of View






Indefinite Pronouns


Avoiding Sexism


Unit 3


Tests


Unit Writing Assignments


Unit 4


Modifiers






Using Adjectives


Comparing with Adjectives


Common Adjective Errors


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