Chapters 6–12 also include a Writing Assignment and a Chapter Review | |
–8 include Unit Writing Assignments and a Unit Review | |
Writing Forceful Paragraphs | |
Exploring the Writing Process | |
The Writing Process | |
Subject, Audience, and Purpose | |
Guidelines for Submitting Written Work | |
Prewriting to Generate Ideas | |
Freewriting | |
Brainstorming | |
Clustering | |
Keeping a Journal | |
Developing Effective Paragraphs | |
Defining the Paragraph and the Topic Sentence | |
Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence | |
Generating Ideas for the Body of the Paragraph | |
Selecting and Dropping Ideas | |
Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline | |
Writing and Revising the Paragraph | |
Writing the Final Draft | |
Improving Your Paragraphs | |
More Work on Support: Examples | |
More Work on Arranging Ideas: Coherence | |
More Work on Revising: Exact and Concise Language | |
Turning Assignments into Paragraphs | |
Moving from Paragraph to Essay | |
Defining the Essay and the Thesis Statement | |
The Process of Writing an Essay Writers' Workshop: Discuss Your Name | |
Writing Complete Sentences | |
Subjects and Verbs | |
Defining and Spotting Subjects | |
Spotting Singular and Plural Subjects | |
Spotting Prepositional Phrases | |
Defining and Spotting Action Verbs | |
Defining and Spotting Linking Verbs | |
Spotting Verbs of More Than One Word | |
Avoiding Sentence Fragments | |
Writing Sentences with Subjects and Verbs | |
Writing Sentences with Complete Verbs | |
Completing the Thought Writers' Workshop: Discuss an Event That Influenced You | |
Using Verbs Effectively | |
Present Tense (Agreement) | |
Defining Agreement | |
Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO BE | |
Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO HAVE | |
Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO DO (+ NOT) | |
Changing Subjects to Pronouns | |
Practice in Agreement | |
Special Problems in Agreement | |
Past Tense | |
Regular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: TO BE | |
Review | |
The Past Participle in Action | |
Defining the Past Participle | |
Past Participles of Regular Verbs | |
Past Participles of Irregular Verbs | |
Using the Present Perfect Tense | |
Using the Past Perfect Tense | |
Using the Passive Voice | |
Using Past Participles as Adjectives | |
Progressive Tenses (TO BE + -ING Verb Form) | |
Defining and Writing the Present Progressive Tense | |
Defining and Writing the Past Progressive Tense | |
Using the Progressive Tenses | |
Avoiding Incomplete Progressives | |
Fixed-Form Helping Verbs and Verb Problems | |
Defining and Spotting the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs | |
Using the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs | |
Using CAN and COULD | |
Using WILL and WOULD | |
Writing Infinitives | |
Revising Double Negatives Writers' Workshop: Tell a Lively Story | |
Joining Ideas Together | |
Coordination | |
Subordination | |
Defining and Using Subordinating Conjunctions | |
Punctuating Subordinating Conjunctions | |
Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices | |
Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs | |
Defining and Using Semicolons | |
Defining and Using Conjunctive Adverbs | |
Punctuating Conjunctive Adverbs | |
Relative Pronouns | |
Defining and Using Relative Pronouns | |
Punctuating Ideas Introduced by WHO, WHICH, or THAT | |
-ING Modifiers | |
Using -ING Modifiers | |
Avoiding Confusing Modifiers Writers' Workshop: Describe a Detour off the Main Highway | |
Choosing the Right Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, or Preposition | |
Nouns | |
Defining Singular and Plural | |
Signal Words: Singular and Plural | |
Signal Words with OF | |
Pronouns | |
Defining Pronouns and Antecedents | |
Referring to Indefinite Pronouns | |
Referring to Collective Nouns | |
Referring to Special Singular Constructions | |
Avoiding Vague and Repetitious Pronouns | |
Using Pronouns as Subjects, Objects, and Possessives | |
Choosing the Correct Case after AND or OR | |
Choosing the Correct Case in Comparisons | |
Using Pronouns with -SELF and ûSELVES | |
Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Defining and Writing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
A Troublesome Pair: GOOD/WELL | |
Writing Comparatives | |
Writing Superlatives | |
Troublesome Comparatives and Superlatives | |
Demonstrative Adjectives: THIS/THAT and THESE/THOSE | |
Prepositions | |
Defining and Working with Prepositional Phrases | |
Troublesome Prepositions: IN, ON, and LIKE | |
Prepositions in Common Expressions Writers' Workshop: Tell How Someone Changed Your Life | |
Revising for Consistency and Parallelism | |
Consistent Tense | |
Consistent Person | |
Parallelism | |
Writing Parallel Constructions | |
Using Parallelism for Special Effects Writers' Workshop: Shift Your Audience and Purpose | |
Mastering Mechanics | |
Capitalization | |
Commas | |
Commas after Items in a Series | |
Commas after Introductory Phrases | |
Commas for Direct Address | |
Commas to Set Off Appositives | |
Commas for Parenthetical Expressions | |
Commas for Dates | |
Commas for Addresses | |
Commas for Coordination and Subordination | |
Apostrophes | |
Using the Apostrophe for Contractions | |
Defining the Possessive | |
Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Do Not Already End in -S) | |
Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Already End in -S) | |
Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
Defining Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
Punctuating Simple Direct Quotations | |
Punctuating Split Quotations | |
Ending Direct Quotations | |
Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work Writers' Workshop: Explain a Cause or an Effect | |
Improving Your Spelling | |
Spelling | |
Suggestions for Improving Your Spelling | |
Computer Spell Checkers | |
Spotting Vowels and Consonants | |
Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of One Syllable) | |
Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of More Than One Syllable) | |
Dropping or Keeping the Final E | |
Dropping or Keeping the Final Y | |
Choosing IE or EI | |
Commonly Misspelled Words | |
Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes Writers' Workshop: Examine Positive (or Negative) Values | |
Reading Selections and Quotation Bank Reading Selections | |
Effective Reading: Strategies for the Writer | |
Needed: Teaching Peace Literacy by Numbers | |
For Career Insight Try Talking to Neighbors | |
Playing a Violin with Three Strings | |
One Man's Kids | |
Another Road Hog with Too Much | |
You Can Take This Job and. . .Well, It Might Surprise You | |
A Homemade Education | |
Barbie at 35 | |
Papa, the Teacher | |
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