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College Writing Skills
ISBN: 9780073384092 | 0073384097
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/23/2007
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The seventh edition of John Langan'sCollege Writing Skillsfocuses on the essay using Langan's renowned clear writing style, as well as his wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. For this new edition, John Langan has added a variety of fresh elements to his proven approach.
| Essay Writing | |
| An Introduction to Writing Point and Support Structure of the Traditional Essay Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay Writing as a Skill Writing as a Process of Discovery Writing as a Way to Communicate with Others Keeping a Journal Using a Computer Review Activities Using This Text | |
| The Writing Process Prewriting Writing a First Draft Revision Editing Review Activities | |
| The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing Step 1: Begin with a Po... MORE | |
| The Third Step in Essay Writing Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence | |
| The Fourth Step in Essay Writing Revising Sentences Editing Sentences Practice in Revising Sentences | |
| Four Bases for Revising Essays | |
| Unity | |
| Support | |
| Coherence | |
| Sentence Skills Practice in Using the Four | |
| Patterns Of Essay Development | |
| Introduction To Essay Development | |
| Description Reading: Lou's Place | |
| Narration Reading: The Yellow Ribbon | |
| Examples Reading: Dad | |
| Process Reading: How to Do Well On A Job Interview | |
| Cause and Effect *Reading: Taming the Anger Monster | |
| Comparison and Contrast *Reading: Born to Be Different? | |
| Definition Reading: Television Addiction | |
| Division and Classification Reading: Wait Divisions | |
| Argument Reading: Ban The Things. Ban Them All | |
| Special Skills | |
| Taking Essay Exams | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Writing a Report | |
| Writing a | |
| Using the Library and the Internet | |
| Writing a Research Paper | |
| Handbook Of Sentence Skills Grammar | |
| Subjects and Verbs | |
| Fragments | |
| Run-ons | |
| Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Additional Information about Verbs | |
| Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
| Pronoun Types | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Misplaced Modifiers | |
| Dangling Modifiers MECHANICS | |
| Manuscript Form | |
| Capital Letters | |
| Numbers and Abbreviations PUNCTUATION | |
| Apostrophe | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Comma | |
| Other Punctuation Marks WORD USE | |
| Spelling Improvement | |
| Commonly Confused Words | |
| Effective Word Choice | |
| Editing Tests | |
| ESL Pointers | |
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