Choices : A Basic Writing Guide with Readings
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Summary
Everyone writes better when writing on something of interest, yet students in a developmental writing class too often feel the course is completely separate from their own lives and goals. Drawing on more than 30 combined years of classroom experience, Kate Mangelsdorf and Evelyn Posey, authors ofDiscoveries,for the paragraph to essay course, give students concrete strategies for uncovering ideas that matter to them and then provide step-by-step guidance for turning these ideas into solid college essays and other writing projects. With a tone that is clear yet supportive,Choicesgives students detailed help with the skills needed for successful writing in college, from understanding writing as a process to taking essay exams, from using rhetorical strategies to conducting research. As ESL and developmental reading specialists, the authors are able to provide in-depth help in these crucial areas.Choicesnot only gives developing students the patient, detailed support they need but also helps them grow as thinkers and writers.
Author Biography
KATE MANGELSDORF is professor of English and director of rhetoric and developmental English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she has also been director of composition and associate dean of University College. She was formerly coordinator of ESL writing at the University of Arizona, and she has also taught at Yavapai Community College. Mangelsdorf has published articles in the Journal of Second Language Writing, English Language Teaching Journal, and Teaching English in the Two Year College.
EVELYN POSEY is the Dorrance D. Roderick Endowed Professor and chair of the department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has served as an associate vice president for instructional design and technology integration, associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, director of English education in the department of English, and director of the West Texas Writing Project. Posey has published articles in journals such as Computers and Composition, The Journal of Developmental Education, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
Together, Mangelsdorf and Posey collaborated on Discoveries: A Step-by Step Guide to Writing Paragraphs and Essays (Bedford/St. Martins, 2006).
EVELYN POSEY is the Dorrance D. Roderick Endowed Professor and chair of the department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has served as an associate vice president for instructional design and technology integration, associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, director of English education in the department of English, and director of the West Texas Writing Project. Posey has published articles in journals such as Computers and Composition, The Journal of Developmental Education, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
Together, Mangelsdorf and Posey collaborated on Discoveries: A Step-by Step Guide to Writing Paragraphs and Essays (Bedford/St. Martins, 2006).
Table of Contents
PART I. COMPOSING OURSELVES, WRITING FOR OTHERS
1. The Writing Process
Writing Assignment
Reading to Improve Writing
A Writer's Composing Process
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Step 5. Share Your Essay
One Student's Writing Process
Kwan Lu, ÒMediation, Not LawsuitsÓ
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
2. Crafting Paragraphs
Writing Assignment
Topic Sentences
Unity
Organization
Special Kinds of Paragraphs
One Student's Paragraph
]Melissa Ruiz, ÒAfter KatrinaÓ
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
]3. The Patterns of Development
Writing Assignment
Description
Narration
Examples
Process Explanation
Classification
Definition
Comparison and Contrast
Cause and Effect
]Argument
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
PART II. WRITING TO SHARE IDEAS
4. Explaining a Personal Change Using Description and Narration
Reading Essays about Personal Changes
A Significant Person
]Joshua Bell, ÒMy MaestroÓ
A Memorable Event
]James Dillard, ÒA Doctor's DilemmaÓ
An Important Period
Malcolm X, ÒPrison StudiesÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Brainstorming about a Significant Person
Relating a Memorable Event
Clustering about an Important Period
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Developing Your Ideas
Description
Narration
Building Your Essay
Revise Your Thesis Statement
Add Topic Sentences
Strengthen Your Focus
A Student's Revised Draft
Jesus Ramirez, ÒBaseball MemoriesÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Coordinating Conjunctions
Correcting Run-On Sentences
A Student's Edited Essay
Jesus Ramirez, ÒBaseball MemoriesÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Significant Person
Thomas L. Friedman, ÒMy Favorite TeacherÓ
A Memorable Event
]Cheryl Peck, Ã’Fat Girls and
Lawn ChairsÓ
An Important Period
]Brent Staples, Ã’Black Men and
Public SpaceÓ
5. Examining a Culture Using Examples and Process Explanation
Reading Essays about Cultures
A Cultural Symbol
]Nora Okja Keller, Ã’My Mother's
FoodÓ
A Cultural Tradition
]Kevin Kling, Ã’Hook, Line, and
TelevisionÓ
A Cultural Hero
John Culhane, ÒOprah Winfrey: How Truth Changed Her LifeÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Clustering about a Cultural Symbol
Asking Questions about a Cultural Tradition
Freewriting about a Cultural Hero
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Developing Your Ideas
]Examples
Process Explanation
Building Your Essay
Write an Effective Introduction
Write a Powerful Conclusion
Connect Ideas
A Student's Revised Draft
Sandra Cordero, ÒEl Grito de DoloresÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Conjunctive Adverbs
Correcting Sentence Fragments
A Student's Edited Essay
Sandra Cordero, ÒEl Grito de DoloresÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Cultural Symbol
Gerald Hausman, ÒFeatherÓ
A Cultural Tradition
]Anastacia Marx de Salcedo,
Ã’Pass the Pernil, Save Room for
the TartaÓ
A Cultural Hero
]Jeremy Dorn, Ã’A Hero's Last
RideÓ
6. Investigating a Workplace Using Classification and Definition
Reading Essays about Work
An Occupation
The Editors of WetFeet.com, ÒCareer Profile: ScienceÓ
Workplace Communication
Perri Klass, ÒShe's Your Basic L.O.L. in N.A.D.Ó
A Job-Related Problem
]Donald Trump, ÒYou're Hired!Ó
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Freewriting about an Occupation
Brainstorming about Workplace Communication
Consulting Others about a Job-Related Problem
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Developing Your Ideas
Classification
]Definition
Building Your Essay
]Find Information to Strengthen
Your Support
]Outline Your Plan
]Correctly Use Research Material
A Student's Revised Draft
Kathy Chu, ÒHelping Children HealÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Subordinating Conjunctions
Correcting Pronoun Reference and Agreement
A Student's Edited Essay
Kathy Chu, ÒHelping Children HealÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
An Occupation
Tamera Helms, ÒLessons in ShrimpingÓ
Workplace Communication
Rita Warren Hess, ÒAmerican Workplace Slang and JargonÓ
A Job-Related Problem
Ellen Goodman, ÒThe Company ManÓ
7. Evaluating a Subject Using Comparison and Contrast
Reading Essays that Evaluate
Evaluation of a Product
]Leander Kahney, Ã’The Joy of
iPod: iCandy for the EarsÓ
Evaluation of a Performance
]Diane Heiman and Phyllis
Bookspan, Ã’Sesame Street:
Brought to You by the Letters
M-A-L-EÓ
Evaluation of a Place
]John Garvey, ÒChristo's ‘Gates':
An Unexpected PleasureÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Brainstorming about a Product
Asking Questions about a Performance
Freewriting about a Place
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
]Developing Your Ideas with
Comparison and Contrast
Building Your Essay
Express Your Judgment
Give Criteria
Provide Evidence
]Keep a Balanced Perspective
A Student's Revised Draft
Jody Albert, ÒAvoid Dryden HallÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Relative Clauses
]Correcting Comma Splices
A Student's Edited Essay
Jody Albert, ÒAvoid Dryden HallÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
Evaluation of a Product
]Ann Hodgman, Ã’No Wonder
They Call Me a BitchÓ
Evaluation of a Performance
]Anthony Beal, Ã’Let the Good
Times RollÓ
Evaluation of a Place
Nicholas Jennings, ÒA Palace of RockÓ
]8. Considering the Media Using Cause and Effect
Reading Essays about the Media
A Censorship Issue
]Michael Crowley, Ã’Let's Shut
Them All DownÓ
A Representation Issue
]Samuel L. Jackson, Ã’In
CharacterÓ
A Lifestyle Issue
]Brent Staples, Ã’What
Adolescents Miss When We Let
Them Grow Up in CybersapceÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Freewriting about a Censorship Issue
Brainstorming about a Representation Issue
Consulting Others about a Lifestyle Issue
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
]Developing Your Ideas with Cause
and Effect Analysis
Building Your Essay
Make a Claim
Provide Pro Points
Respond to Con Points
Organize Pro and Con Points
A Student's Revised Draft
Reginald Jones, ÒNewspaper Ad Sparks ControversyÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Introductory Phrases
Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems
A Student's Edited Essay
Reginald Jones, ÒNewspaper Ad Sparks ControversyÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Censorship Issue
Judy Blume, ÒIs Harry Potter Evil?Ó
A Representation Issue
]Mark Andrejevic, Ò‘Reality'
Camera Goes from Candid to
CruelÓ
A Lifestyle Issue
]Janna Malamud Smith,
ÒOnline but Not AntisocialÓ
]9. Making a Difference Using Argument
Reading Essays about Problems and Solutions
A Health Problem
]Greg Critser, ÒDon't Eat the FlanÓ
An Education Problem
]Laura D'Andrea Tyson,
ÒNeeded: Affirmative Action for the PoorÓ
An Environmental Problem
]Patrick Moore, Ã’Going Nuclear:
A Green Makes the CaseÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Relating Aloud about a Health Problem
Freewriting about an Education Problem
Reading about an Environmental Problem
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
]Developing Your Ideas with
Argument
State the Problem
Provide Evidence
Propose a Solution
Building Your Essay
]Avoid Faulty Logic
]Persuade Your Readers
]Use a Reasonable Tone
A Student's Revised Draft
Li Chiang, ÒTollroad on the Information SuperhighwayÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Appositives
Correcting Shifts in Person
A Student's Edited Essay
Li Chiang, ÒTollroad on the Information SuperhighwayÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Health Problem
Elizabeth M. Whelan, ÒPerils of ProhibitionÓ
An Education Problem
]Mary Sherry, Ã’In Praise of the
F WordÓ
An Environmental Problem
]Mark Hertsgaard, Ã’A Global
Green DealÓ
PART III. WRITING FOR DIFFERENT SITUATIONS
10. Keeping Journals
Writing Assignment
Why Writers Keep Journals
Lucy Calkins, from The Art of Teaching Writing
Personal Journals
Dialogue Journals
Learning Logs
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
]11. Writing Summaries
]Writing Assignment
]Writing a Summary
]Chapter Checklist
]Reflecting on Your Writing
12. Conducting Primary, Library, and Internet Research
Writing Assignment
Preparing to Conduct Research
Primary Research
Secondary Research
Sample Research Paper
Leslie Lozano, ÒCulture ShockÓ
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
13. Taking Timed Writing Tests
Writing Assignment
The Essay Exam
In-Class Timed Writing in Response to a Reading
Multiple-Choice Writing Tests
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
]14. Writing RŽsumŽs and Cover Letters
]Writing Assignment
]The RŽsumŽ
]The Cover Letter
]Chapter Checklist
]Reflecting on Your Writing
PART IV. HANDBOOK WITH EXERCISES
15. Writing Sentences
A. Subjects
B. Verbs
C. Subject-Verb Agreement
]16. Expanding Sentences
]A. Phrases
]B. Clauses
C. Pronouns
D. Adjectives
E. Adverbs
]17. Combining Sentences
]A. Coordination
]B. Subordination
]C. Sentence-Combining Exercises
18. Improving Sentences
A. Sentence Fragments
B. Run-On Sentences
C. Comma Splices
D. Misplaced Modifiers
E. Dangling Modifiers
F. Active and Passive Voice
]G. Parallelism
]19. Improving Word Choice
]A. Vocabulary
]B. Unnecessary Repetition
]C. Wordiness
20. Improving Spelling
A. Spelling Rules
]B. Commonly Misspelled Words
]C. Commonly Confused Words
21. Improving Punctuation
A. Commas
B. Semicolons
C. Colons
D. End Punctuation
E. Apostrophes
F. Quotation Marks
22. Improving Mechanics
A. Capital Letters
]B. Italics
C. Abbreviations
D. Numbers
23. Guide for Multilingual Writers
A. Articles
B. Count and Noncount Nouns
C. Prepositions
D. Omitted or Repeated Subjects
E. Word Order
F. Verbs
] new to this edition
1. The Writing Process
Writing Assignment
Reading to Improve Writing
A Writer's Composing Process
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Step 5. Share Your Essay
One Student's Writing Process
Kwan Lu, ÒMediation, Not LawsuitsÓ
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
2. Crafting Paragraphs
Writing Assignment
Topic Sentences
Unity
Organization
Special Kinds of Paragraphs
One Student's Paragraph
]Melissa Ruiz, ÒAfter KatrinaÓ
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
]3. The Patterns of Development
Writing Assignment
Description
Narration
Examples
Process Explanation
Classification
Definition
Comparison and Contrast
Cause and Effect
]Argument
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
PART II. WRITING TO SHARE IDEAS
4. Explaining a Personal Change Using Description and Narration
Reading Essays about Personal Changes
A Significant Person
]Joshua Bell, ÒMy MaestroÓ
A Memorable Event
]James Dillard, ÒA Doctor's DilemmaÓ
An Important Period
Malcolm X, ÒPrison StudiesÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Brainstorming about a Significant Person
Relating a Memorable Event
Clustering about an Important Period
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Developing Your Ideas
Description
Narration
Building Your Essay
Revise Your Thesis Statement
Add Topic Sentences
Strengthen Your Focus
A Student's Revised Draft
Jesus Ramirez, ÒBaseball MemoriesÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Coordinating Conjunctions
Correcting Run-On Sentences
A Student's Edited Essay
Jesus Ramirez, ÒBaseball MemoriesÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Significant Person
Thomas L. Friedman, ÒMy Favorite TeacherÓ
A Memorable Event
]Cheryl Peck, Ã’Fat Girls and
Lawn ChairsÓ
An Important Period
]Brent Staples, Ã’Black Men and
Public SpaceÓ
5. Examining a Culture Using Examples and Process Explanation
Reading Essays about Cultures
A Cultural Symbol
]Nora Okja Keller, Ã’My Mother's
FoodÓ
A Cultural Tradition
]Kevin Kling, Ã’Hook, Line, and
TelevisionÓ
A Cultural Hero
John Culhane, ÒOprah Winfrey: How Truth Changed Her LifeÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Clustering about a Cultural Symbol
Asking Questions about a Cultural Tradition
Freewriting about a Cultural Hero
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Developing Your Ideas
]Examples
Process Explanation
Building Your Essay
Write an Effective Introduction
Write a Powerful Conclusion
Connect Ideas
A Student's Revised Draft
Sandra Cordero, ÒEl Grito de DoloresÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Conjunctive Adverbs
Correcting Sentence Fragments
A Student's Edited Essay
Sandra Cordero, ÒEl Grito de DoloresÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Cultural Symbol
Gerald Hausman, ÒFeatherÓ
A Cultural Tradition
]Anastacia Marx de Salcedo,
Ã’Pass the Pernil, Save Room for
the TartaÓ
A Cultural Hero
]Jeremy Dorn, Ã’A Hero's Last
RideÓ
6. Investigating a Workplace Using Classification and Definition
Reading Essays about Work
An Occupation
The Editors of WetFeet.com, ÒCareer Profile: ScienceÓ
Workplace Communication
Perri Klass, ÒShe's Your Basic L.O.L. in N.A.D.Ó
A Job-Related Problem
]Donald Trump, ÒYou're Hired!Ó
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Freewriting about an Occupation
Brainstorming about Workplace Communication
Consulting Others about a Job-Related Problem
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
Developing Your Ideas
Classification
]Definition
Building Your Essay
]Find Information to Strengthen
Your Support
]Outline Your Plan
]Correctly Use Research Material
A Student's Revised Draft
Kathy Chu, ÒHelping Children HealÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Subordinating Conjunctions
Correcting Pronoun Reference and Agreement
A Student's Edited Essay
Kathy Chu, ÒHelping Children HealÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
An Occupation
Tamera Helms, ÒLessons in ShrimpingÓ
Workplace Communication
Rita Warren Hess, ÒAmerican Workplace Slang and JargonÓ
A Job-Related Problem
Ellen Goodman, ÒThe Company ManÓ
7. Evaluating a Subject Using Comparison and Contrast
Reading Essays that Evaluate
Evaluation of a Product
]Leander Kahney, Ã’The Joy of
iPod: iCandy for the EarsÓ
Evaluation of a Performance
]Diane Heiman and Phyllis
Bookspan, Ã’Sesame Street:
Brought to You by the Letters
M-A-L-EÓ
Evaluation of a Place
]John Garvey, ÒChristo's ‘Gates':
An Unexpected PleasureÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Brainstorming about a Product
Asking Questions about a Performance
Freewriting about a Place
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
]Developing Your Ideas with
Comparison and Contrast
Building Your Essay
Express Your Judgment
Give Criteria
Provide Evidence
]Keep a Balanced Perspective
A Student's Revised Draft
Jody Albert, ÒAvoid Dryden HallÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Relative Clauses
]Correcting Comma Splices
A Student's Edited Essay
Jody Albert, ÒAvoid Dryden HallÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
Evaluation of a Product
]Ann Hodgman, Ã’No Wonder
They Call Me a BitchÓ
Evaluation of a Performance
]Anthony Beal, Ã’Let the Good
Times RollÓ
Evaluation of a Place
Nicholas Jennings, ÒA Palace of RockÓ
]8. Considering the Media Using Cause and Effect
Reading Essays about the Media
A Censorship Issue
]Michael Crowley, Ã’Let's Shut
Them All DownÓ
A Representation Issue
]Samuel L. Jackson, Ã’In
CharacterÓ
A Lifestyle Issue
]Brent Staples, Ã’What
Adolescents Miss When We Let
Them Grow Up in CybersapceÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Freewriting about a Censorship Issue
Brainstorming about a Representation Issue
Consulting Others about a Lifestyle Issue
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
]Developing Your Ideas with Cause
and Effect Analysis
Building Your Essay
Make a Claim
Provide Pro Points
Respond to Con Points
Organize Pro and Con Points
A Student's Revised Draft
Reginald Jones, ÒNewspaper Ad Sparks ControversyÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Introductory Phrases
Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems
A Student's Edited Essay
Reginald Jones, ÒNewspaper Ad Sparks ControversyÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Censorship Issue
Judy Blume, ÒIs Harry Potter Evil?Ó
A Representation Issue
]Mark Andrejevic, Ò‘Reality'
Camera Goes from Candid to
CruelÓ
A Lifestyle Issue
]Janna Malamud Smith,
ÒOnline but Not AntisocialÓ
]9. Making a Difference Using Argument
Reading Essays about Problems and Solutions
A Health Problem
]Greg Critser, ÒDon't Eat the FlanÓ
An Education Problem
]Laura D'Andrea Tyson,
ÒNeeded: Affirmative Action for the PoorÓ
An Environmental Problem
]Patrick Moore, Ã’Going Nuclear:
A Green Makes the CaseÓ
Writing Assignment
Step 1. Explore Your Choices
Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose
Gathering Ideas
Relating Aloud about a Health Problem
Freewriting about an Education Problem
Reading about an Environmental Problem
Step 2. Write Your Discovery Draft
Choosing a Topic
Sharing Your Ideas
Step 3. Revise Your Draft
]Developing Your Ideas with
Argument
State the Problem
Provide Evidence
Propose a Solution
Building Your Essay
]Avoid Faulty Logic
]Persuade Your Readers
]Use a Reasonable Tone
A Student's Revised Draft
Li Chiang, ÒTollroad on the Information SuperhighwayÓ
Step 4. Edit Your Sentences
Combining Sentences Using Appositives
Correcting Shifts in Person
A Student's Edited Essay
Li Chiang, ÒTollroad on the Information SuperhighwayÓ
Step 5. Share Your Essay
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
Additional Readings
A Health Problem
Elizabeth M. Whelan, ÒPerils of ProhibitionÓ
An Education Problem
]Mary Sherry, Ã’In Praise of the
F WordÓ
An Environmental Problem
]Mark Hertsgaard, Ã’A Global
Green DealÓ
PART III. WRITING FOR DIFFERENT SITUATIONS
10. Keeping Journals
Writing Assignment
Why Writers Keep Journals
Lucy Calkins, from The Art of Teaching Writing
Personal Journals
Dialogue Journals
Learning Logs
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
]11. Writing Summaries
]Writing Assignment
]Writing a Summary
]Chapter Checklist
]Reflecting on Your Writing
12. Conducting Primary, Library, and Internet Research
Writing Assignment
Preparing to Conduct Research
Primary Research
Secondary Research
Sample Research Paper
Leslie Lozano, ÒCulture ShockÓ
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
13. Taking Timed Writing Tests
Writing Assignment
The Essay Exam
In-Class Timed Writing in Response to a Reading
Multiple-Choice Writing Tests
Chapter Checklist
Reflecting on Your Writing
]14. Writing RŽsumŽs and Cover Letters
]Writing Assignment
]The RŽsumŽ
]The Cover Letter
]Chapter Checklist
]Reflecting on Your Writing
PART IV. HANDBOOK WITH EXERCISES
15. Writing Sentences
A. Subjects
B. Verbs
C. Subject-Verb Agreement
]16. Expanding Sentences
]A. Phrases
]B. Clauses
C. Pronouns
D. Adjectives
E. Adverbs
]17. Combining Sentences
]A. Coordination
]B. Subordination
]C. Sentence-Combining Exercises
18. Improving Sentences
A. Sentence Fragments
B. Run-On Sentences
C. Comma Splices
D. Misplaced Modifiers
E. Dangling Modifiers
F. Active and Passive Voice
]G. Parallelism
]19. Improving Word Choice
]A. Vocabulary
]B. Unnecessary Repetition
]C. Wordiness
20. Improving Spelling
A. Spelling Rules
]B. Commonly Misspelled Words
]C. Commonly Confused Words
21. Improving Punctuation
A. Commas
B. Semicolons
C. Colons
D. End Punctuation
E. Apostrophes
F. Quotation Marks
22. Improving Mechanics
A. Capital Letters
]B. Italics
C. Abbreviations
D. Numbers
23. Guide for Multilingual Writers
A. Articles
B. Count and Noncount Nouns
C. Prepositions
D. Omitted or Repeated Subjects
E. Word Order
F. Verbs
] new to this edition
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