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Grassroots with Readings : The Writer's Workbook
ISBN: 9780495901235 | 0495901237
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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Using her unique M-A-P approach (Model-Analysis-Practice), Susan Fawcett's books have guided hundreds of thousands of students through the writing process, from foundations of grammar, mechanics, and spelling, through writing clear sentences and well-organized paragraphs. Her inductive approach; plentiful, high-interest student models and practices; and contemporary readings engage and motivate students. This edition of GRASSROOTS features improved grammar coverage and emphasizes proofreading, with a new Chapter 6 that teaches specific proofreading strategies and shows students how to recognize their personal "error patterns," track, and correct them. Every subsequent chapter offers a proofing strategy for the concept being taught. Full-color illustrations, including 45 photos, cartoons, and artworks, plus a new design, help students visualize and understand key concepts.
| Preface | |
| Writing Effective Paragraphs | |
| Each chapter in Unit 1 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights and Exploring Online | |
| Exploring the Writing Process | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Subject, Audience, and Purpose | |
| Guidelines for Submitting Written Work | |
| Prewriting to Generate Ideas | |
| Freewriting | |
| Brainst... MORE | |
| Clustering | |
| Keeping a Journal | |
| Developing Effective Paragraphs | |
| Defining the Paragraph and the Topic Sentence | |
| Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence | |
| Generating Ideas for the Body of the Paragraph | |
| Selecting and Dropping Ideas | |
| Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline | |
| Writing and Revising the Paragraph | |
| Writing the Final Draft | |
| Improving Your Paragraphs | |
| More Work on Support: Examples | |
| More Work on Arranging Ideas: Coherence | |
| More Work on Revising: Exact and Concise Language | |
| Turning Assignments into Paragraphs | |
| Moving from Paragraph to Essay | |
| Defining the Essay and the Thesis Statement | |
| The Process of Writing an Essay | |
| Proofreading to Correct Your Personal Errors | |
| Identifying and Tracking Your Personal Error Patterns | |
| Proofreading Strategies | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Discuss Your Name | |
| Writing Complete Sentences | |
| Each chapter in Unit 2 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Subjects and Verbs | |
| Defining and Spotting Subjects | |
| Spotting Singular and Plural Subjects | |
| Spotting Prepositional Phrases | |
| Defining and Spotting Action Verbs | |
| Defining and Spotting Linking Verbs | |
| Spotting Verbs of More Than One Word | |
| Avoiding Sentence Fragments | |
| Writing Sentences with Subjects and Verbs | |
| Writing Sentences with Complete Verbs | |
| Completing the Thought | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Discuss an Event That Influenced You | |
| Using Verbs Effectively | |
| Each chapter in Unit 3 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Present Tense (Agreement) | |
| Defining Agreement | |
| Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO BE | |
| Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO HAVE | |
| Troublesome Verb in the Present Tense: TO DO (+ NOT) | |
| Changing Subjects to Pronouns | |
| Practice in Agreement | |
| Special Problems in Agreement | |
| Past Tense | |
| Regular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
| Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
| Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: TO BE | |
| Review | |
| The Past Participle in Action | |
| Defining the Past Participle | |
| Past Participles of Regular Verbs | |
| Past Participles of Irregular Verbs | |
| Using the Present Perfect Tense | |
| Using the Past Perfect Tense | |
| Using the Passive Voice | |
| Using Past Participles as Adjectives | |
| Progressive Tenses (TO BE + -ING Verb Form) | |
| Defining and Writing the Present Progressive Tense | |
| Defining and Writing the Past Progressive Tense | |
| Using the Progressive Tenses | |
| Avoiding Incomplete Progressives | |
| Fixed-Form Helping Verbs and Verb Problems | |
| Defining and Spotting the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs. | |
| Using the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs | |
| Using CAN and COULD | |
| Using WILL and WOULD | |
| Writing Infinitives | |
| Revising Double Negatives | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Tell a Family Story | |
| Joining Ideas Together | |
| Each chapter in Unit 4 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Coordination | |
| Subordination | |
| Defining and Using Subordinating Conjunctions | |
| Punctuating Subordinating Conjunctions | |
| Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices | |
| Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs | |
| Defining and Using Semicolons | |
| Defining and Using Conjunctive Adverbs | |
| Punctuating Conjunctive Adverbs | |
| Relative Pronouns | |
| Defining and Using Relative Pronouns | |
| Punctuating Ideas Introduced by WHO, WHICH, or THAT | |
| -ING Modifiers | |
| Using -ING Modifiers | |
| Avoiding Confusing Modifiers | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Describe a Detour off the Main Highway | |
| Choosing The Right Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Or Preposition | |
| Each chapter in Unit 5 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Nouns | |
| Defining Singular and Plural | |
| Signal Words: Singular and Plural | |
| Signal Words with OF | |
| Pronouns | |
| Defining Pronouns and Antecedents | |
| Referring to Indefinite Pronouns | |
| Referring to Collective Nouns | |
| Referring to Special Singular Constructions | |
| Avoiding Vague and Repetitious Pronouns | |
| Using Pronouns as Subjects, Objects, and Possessives | |
| Choosing the Correct Case After AND or OR | |
| Choosing the Correct Case in Comparisons | |
| Using Pronouns with -SELF and -SELVES | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Defining and Writing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| A Troublesome Pair: GOOD/WELL | |
| Writing Comparatives | |
| Writing Superlatives | |
| Troublesome Comparatives and Superlatives | |
| Demonstrative Adjectives: THIS/THAT and THESE/THOSE | |
| Prepositions | |
| Defining and Working with Prepositional Phrases | |
| Troublesome Prepositions: IN, ON, and LIKE | |
| Prepositions in Common Expressions | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Tell How Someone Changed Your Life | |
| Revising for Consistency and Parallelism | |
| Each chapter in Unit 6 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Consistent Tense | |
| Consistent Person | |
| Parallelism | |
| Writing Parallel Constructions | |
| Using Parallelism for Special Effects | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Shift Your Audience and Purpose | |
| Mastering Mechanics | |
| Each chapter in Unit 7 tincludes end-of-chapter elements Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Capitalization | |
| Commas | |
| Commas After Items in a Series | |
| Commas After Introductory Phrases | |
| Commas for Direct Address | |
| Commas to Set Off Appositives | |
| Commas for Parenthetical Expressions | |
| Commas for Dates | |
| Commas for Addresses | |
| Commas for Coordination and Subordination | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Using the Apostrophe for Contractions | |
| Defining the Possessive | |
| Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Do Not Already End in -S) | |
| Using the Apostrophe to Show Possession (in Words That Already End in -S) | |
| Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
| Defining Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
| Punctuating Simple Direct Quotations | |
| Punctuating Split Quotations | |
| Ending Direct Quotations | |
| Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Explain a Cause or an Effect | |
| Improving Your Spelling | |
| Each chapter in Unit 8 includes end-of-chapter features Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review, and Exploring Online | |
| Spelling | |
| Suggestions for Improving Your Spelling | |
| Computer Spell Checkers | |
| Spotting Vowels and Consonants | |
| Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of One Syllable) | |
| Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of More Than One Syllable) | |
| Dropping or Keeping the Final E | |
| Changing or Keeping the Final Y | |
| Choosing IE or EI | |
| Commonly Misspelled Words | |
| Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes | |
| Writing Assignments | |
| Review | |
| Writers' Workshop: Examine Positive (or Negative) Values | |
| Reading Selections and Quotation Bank | |
| Reading Selections | |
| Effective Reading Strategies for the Writer | |
| "Daring to Dream Big" | |
| "Mrs. Flowers" | |
| "Superman and Me" | |
| "Hot Dogs and Wild Geese" | |
| "Beauty Is Not Just Smaller Than Life" | |
| "A Day in the Life of an Emergency Room Nurse" | |
| "You Can Take This Job and... Well, It Might Surprise You" | |
| "The Gift" | |
| "Quitting Hip-Hop" | |
| "Stuff" | |
| "Another Road Hog with Too Much Oink" | |
| "Montgomery, Alabama, 1955" | |
| "In This Arranged Marriage, Love Came Later" | |
| "A Homemade Education" | |
| "Playing a Violin with Three Strings" | |
| "The Jacket" | |
| "Four Directions" | |
| "The Hidden Life of Bottled Water" | |
| "Papa, the Teacher" | |
| "Emotional Intelligence" | |
| Quotation Bank | |
| Parts of Speech Review | |
| Some Guidelines for Students of English as a Second Language | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index | |
| Index of Rhetorical Modes | |
| Index to the Readings | |
| Rhetorical Index to the Readings | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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