Part I: Getting Ready to Write
1. Preparing to Learn About Writing
2. Thinking Through the Writing Process
Part II: Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Paragraphs
3. Understanding the Paragraph
4. The Descriptive Paragraph
5. The Narrative Paragraph
6. The Process Paragraph
7. The Example Paragraph
8. The Classification Paragraph
9. The Comparison and Contrast Paragraph
10. The Definition Paragraph
11. The Cause and Effect Paragraph
12. The Persuasive Paragraph
Part III: How to Write an Essay
13. Understanding the Essay
14. Effective Titles, Introductions, and Conclusions
15. Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Essays
16. Research Strategies and Resources
Part IV: The Basic Sentence
17. Nouns and Pronouns
18. Adjectives and Adverbs
19. Verbs
20. Subjects, Verbs, and Simple Sentences
21. Compound and Complex Sentences
Part V: Editing the Basic Sentence
22. Editing Run-ons: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
23. Editing Fragments into Sentences
24. Editing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
25. Editing for Subject-Verb Agreement: Present Tense
Part VI: Revising to Improve Expression
26. Revising for Sentence Variety
27. Revising for Sentence Clarity: Person, Point of View, Number, and Tense
28. Revising for Parallelism
29. Revising for Effective Expression
Part VII: Punctuation and Mechanics
30. The Comma
31. The Apostrophe
32. Quotation Marks
33. End Punctuation: Period, Question Mark, and Exclamation Point
34. Capitalization
35. Improving Your Spelling
Part VIII: Reading Selections
What's the Point of Reading to Write?
Effective Strategies for Responding to Reading Selections
Nineteen Reading Selections
Description
Rupert Brooke, Niagara Falls
Maya Lin, Maya Lin’s Design Submission to the Vietnam Memorial Competition
Narration
Luis J. Rodriguez, Latino Heritage Month: Who We Are . . . And Why We Celebrate?
Amy Tan, Confessions
Process
Rebecca J. Donatelle, Managing Stress in College
Ernest Hemingway, Camping Out
Illustration
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale
Buzz Bissinger Football’s Bloodiest Secret
Classification
D. J. Henry,The Fundamentals of Forgiveness
Melissa Guitron, I Am Enough
Comparison—Contrast
Deborah Tannen, The Talk of the Sandbox; How Johnny and Suzy’s Playground Chatter Prepares Them for Life at the Office
Sergio Troncoso The Loss of Juárez: How Has the Violence in Juárez Changed Border Culture?
Definition
Jo Goodwin-Parker, What is Poverty?
Jan Hoffman, Cool at 13, Adrift at 23
Cause—Effect
Michael S. Malone, Through Young Eyes
Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
Persuasion
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Lecture——The Nobel Peace Prize 2014
Bonnie Taub-DIx, Hungry vs. Healthy: The School Lunch Controversy
Argument
Libby Page, Can Virtual Classrooms Beat Face-to-Face Interaction?
Text Credits 670
Photo Credits 671
Index 673
1917 Words/9.3 GE/1200L
629 Words/11.3 GE/1290L
1125 Words/13.6 GE/1340L
649 Words/4.4 GE/800L
2520 Words/10.2 GE/1080L
1053 Words/7.9 GE/1160L
2091 Words/10.4 GE/1200L
1418 Words/9.9 GE/
