Part One A General Introduction to English Writing I. Writing in Our World II. Types of Writing 1. Narration 2. Description 3. Exposition III. Writing Well 1. Writing for Your Readers 2. Good Writing Part Two From Sentence to Paragraph I. Sentence Structure 1. Elements of a Sentence 2. Kinds of Sentences 3. Clause Connectors 4. Coordination and Subordination 5. Parallelism II. Paragraph Structure 1. The Basic Paragraph 2. Four Elements of the Paragraph 3. Mechanics in Writing a Paragraph III. Basic Paragraph-Building Skills 1. Taking Four Pre-Writing Steps 2. Making Our Topic Sentence a Helpful Guide 3. Loading Our Topic Sentence with a Strong Controlling Idea 4. Writing a Helpful Outline in Advance 5. Gaining Unity 6. Gaining Coherence from Logical Order 7. G aining Coherence from Transitions 8. Gaining Better Unity and Coherence from Punctuation IV. Sentence Problems 1. Sentence Fragments Fragments Without Verbs Fragments Without Subjects Fragments Without Subjects and/or Verbs Fragments of Dependent Clauses 2. Choppy Sentences 3. Run-Together Sentences 4. Stringy Sentences 5. Confusing Shifts Confusing Shifts in Person Confusing Shifts in Tense confusing Shifts in Subject and Voice confusing Shifts in Mood or Speech confusing Shifts in Number Mixed Sentence construction 6. Incomplete Constructions Careless Omissions Incomplete Comparisons 7. Ambiguous Pronoun Reference A Pronoun with Two or More Possible Antecedents A Pronoun Without Clearly Expressed Antecedent The Pronouns It, They, and You with Indefinite Antecedents The Pronouns This, That and Which Referring to General Ideas A Pronoun Too Far Away from Its Antecedent 8. Dangling Modifiers Dangling Participial Modifiers Dangling Gerunds in Prepositional Phrases Dangling Infinitive Modifiers Dangling Abbreviated Clauses 9. Misplaced Modifiers Misplaced Prepositional Phrases Misplaced Adjective Clauses Misplaced Adverbial Modifiers 10. Wordiness Needless Repetition Needless Expansion Awkward Cliches Overwritten Style Part There From Paragraph to Theme I. Introduction II. Three Kinds of Paragraphs 1. The Introductory Paragraph 2. The Body Paragraph 3. The Concluding Paragraph III. Basic Theme-Building Skills 1. Getting the Theme Well-Unified with an Effective Thesis Statement 2. Getting the Theme Coherent with Transitions Between Paragraphs 3. Developing the Theme Under the Guidance of a Well-Organized Outline Process Theme in Time Order Descriptive Theme in Order of Importance Theme of Classification in Order of Importance Theme of Comparison and Contrast in Order of Importance Theme of Cause and Effect in Order of Importance Theme of Exemplification in Time Order, or Order of Importance IV. Sample Themes Observed Part Four Summary and Book Report I. Summary Writing II. Book Report Writing Correction Symbols Partial Answers to Exercises Bibliography
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