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| Word Choice and Spelling | |
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| Your Own List of Misspelled Words | |
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| Words Often Confused (Set 1) | |
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| Words Often Confused (Set 2) | |
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| The Eight Parts of Speech | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Contractions | |
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| Possessives | |
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| Words That Can Be Broken into Parts | |
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| Rules for Doubling a Final Letters | |
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| Using a Dictionary | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Finding Subjects and Verbs | |
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| Locating Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Understanding Dependent Clauses | |
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| Correcting Fragments | |
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| Correcting Run-On Sentences | |
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| Identifying Verb Phrases | |
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| Using Standard English Verbs | |
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| Using Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
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| Maintaining Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Avoiding Shifts in Time | |
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| Recognizing Verbal Phrases | |
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| Correcting Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Following Sentence Patterns | |
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| Avoiding ClichTs, Awkward Phrases, and Wordiness | |
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| Correcting for Parallel Structure | |
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| Using Pronouns | |
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| Avoiding Shifts in Person | |
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| Punctuation and Capital Letters | |
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| Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Semicolon, Colon, Dash | |
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| Comma Rules 1, 2, and 3 Comma Rules 4, 5, and 6 | |
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| Quotation Marks and Underling/Italics | |
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| Capital Letters | |
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| Writing | |
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| What Is the Least You Should Know about Writing? Basic Structures | |
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| The Paragraph: Defining a Paragraph, Types of Paragraphs, Sample Paragraphs in an Essay | |
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| The Essay: The Five-Paragraph Essay and Beyond, Defining an Essay, A Sample Essay. Writing Skills | |
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| Writing in Your Own Voice: Narration, Sample Student Essay, Description | |
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| Finding a Topic: Look to Your Interests, Focused Free Writing, Clustering, Talking with Other Students | |
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| Organizing Ideas: Thesis Statements, Organizing an Essay, Topic Sentences, Organizing Body Paragraphs, Transitional Expressions | |
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| Supporting with Details: Types of Support, Sample Student Essay | |
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| Revising Your Papers: Sample Student Rough Draft, Revision Checklist, Exchanging Papers, Proofreading Aloud | |
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| Presenting Your Work: Paper Formats, Titles | |
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| Writing about What You Read: Writing a Reaction, Coming to Your Own Conclusions, Writing 100-Word Summaries | |
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| Answers | |
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| Index | |