PART 1 Essay Writing 1. An Introduction to Writing 2. The Writing Process 3. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing 4. The Third Step in Essay Writing 5. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing 6. Four Bases for Revising Essays 7. Developing an Essay PART 2 Patterns of Essay Development 8.
Description 9. Narration 10. Exemplification 11. Process 12. Cause and/or Effect 13. Comparison and/or Contrast 14. Definition 15. Division-Classification 16.
Argument PART 3Researching, Writing and Documenting 17. Information Literacy 18. Summarizing and Paraphrasing 19. Writing a Source-Based Essay 20. Writing a Research Essay Part 4Handbook of Sentence Skills Section I: Grammar 21. Subjects and Verbs 22. Fragments 23. Run-Ons 24.
Regular and Irregular Verbs 25. Subject-Verb Agreement 26. More about Verbs 27. Pronoun Agreement and Reference 28. Pronoun Types 29. Adjectives and Adverbs 30. Misplaced Modifiers 31. Dangling Modifiers Section II: Mechanics and Punctuation 32.
Capital Letters 33. Numbers and Abbreviations 34. Apostrophe 35. Quotation Marks 36. Comma Section III: Word Use 37. Commonly Confused Words 38. Effective Word Choice Section IV: Tests 39. Editing Tests PART 5Readers for Writers Building Self Awareness from Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson Shame Dick Gregory I Became Her Target Roger Wilkins Stepping into the Light Tanya Savory Cultivating a Resilient Spirit Bren é Brown The Certainty of Fear Audra Kendall One Hundred Years of the Secret Garden Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Education and Learning Single-Sex Schools: An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come Diane Urbina How to Make it in College, Now That You''re Here Brian O''Keeney College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening? David Daniels Brainology Carol S.
Dweck Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr The Quiet Struggle of College Students with Kids Gillian B. White Challenging Societal Values The Professor Is a Dropout Beth Johnson Chief Seattle''s Speech of 1854 Chief Seattle Mayor of Rust Sue Halpern Is Sex All That Matters? Joyce Garity Moving Beyond Pain bell hooks When a Classmate Is a Former Inmate Juleyka Lantigua-Williams INDEX.