Theme: Addiction Assignment: Autobiographical or Biographical Essay Prewriting: Freewriting Organizing: Creating a Narrative Revising: Describing Character Using Past Unreal Conditionals Editing: Choosing Word Forms Theme: Aging Assignment: Opinion Essay Prewriting: Critical Listing Organizing: Reviewing the Basic Features of an Essay Revising: Analyzing Introductions and Thesis Sentences Using Noun Clauses Editing: Correcting Run-on Sentences Theme: Personality Assignment: Descriptive Essay Prewriting: Making aFlowchart Organizing: Supporting Main Ideas Revising: Cohesion Between Paragraphs Using Identifying and Nonidentifying Adjective Clauses Editing: Subject-Verb Agreement Theme: Our Environment——Water Assiment: Cause-and-Effect Essay Prewriting: Making a Flowchart Organizing: Focusing on Cause or Effect Revising: Writing Unified Essays Using Discourse Connectors to Express Cause and Effect Editing: Identifying Sentence Structure Theme: Cross-cultural Insights Assignment: Comparison and Contrast Essay Prewriting: Creating a Venn Diagram Organizing: Analyzing Methods of Organization Revising: Writing Thesis Statements Comparing and Contrasting Ideas with Adverb Clauses Editing: Varying Sentence Types Theme: Business Assignment: Descriptive Essay Prewriting: Clustering Organizing: Sequencing Main Ideas Revising: Writing Effective Conclusions Using Infinitives and Gerunds Editing: Using Transition Words Theme: The Military Assignment: Persuasive Essay Prewriting: Focused Freewriting Organizing: Using Persuasive Reasons to Support Your Point of View Revising: Supporting Your Reasons with Examples Incorporating Direct and Indirect Speech Editing: Punctuating Direct Quotes Theme: The Arts Assignment: Narrative Essay Prewriting: Questioning Yourself Organizing: Starting Narratives Revising: Using Descriptive Language Using the Passive Voice Editing: Using Parallel Structure Theme: First Amendment Issues Assignment: Argumentative Essay Prewriting: Choosing a Technique Organizing: Including Counterarguments and Refutations Revising: Writing Persuasive Introductions Using Tenses Correctly Editing: Proofreading Answer Key