Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode Preface PART 1 Fundamentals of Effective Writing 1. An Introduction to Writing 2. The Four Bases and the Writing Process 3. The First and Second Steps in Writing 4. The Third Step in Writing 5. The Fourth Step in Writing 6. Four Bases for Revising Writing PART 2 Paragraph Development 7. Description 8.

Narration 9. Exemplification 10. Process 11. Cause and/or Effect 12. Comparison and/or Contrast 13. Definition 14. Division-Classification 15. Argument PART 3 Essay Development 16.

Writing the Essay PART 4 Source-Based Writing in the Digital Age 17. Information Literacy 18. Using Sources to Write Papers PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills Section I Grammer 19. Subjects and Verbs 20. Sentence Sense 21. Fragments 22. Run-Ons 23. Regular and Irregular Verbs 24.

Subject-Verb Agreement 25. More about Verbs 26. Pronoun Agreement and Reference 27. Pronoun Types 28. Adjectives and Adverbs 29. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Section II Mechanics 30. Capital Letters 31. Numbers and Abbreviations Section III Punctuation 32.

Apostrophes 33. Quotation Marks 34. Commas 35. Other Punctuation Marks Section IV Word Use 36. Commonly Confused Words 37. Effective Word Choice Section V Practice 38. Editing Tests PART 6 Readings for Writers INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS GOALS AND VALUES EDUCATION AND SELF-AWARENESS HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETY APPENDIXES A. Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test B.

Sentence-Skills Achievement Test C. Answers to Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test INDEX INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE.