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Mosaics : Focusing on Sentences in Context

ISBN: 9780131893580 | 0131893580
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Part of a three-level developmental series that integrates critical thinking, reading, writing, revising, and editing, this book teaches theprocessesandskillscommon to all good academic writing.It includes both professional and student writing samples as well as a multitude of exercises and activities that address the writing process, writing effective sentences, sentences in context, and readings.This is for anyone looking to develop effective reading comprehension and writing skills.
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Prefacexix
PART I The Writing Process
1(60)
Writing Successful Sentences
2(3)
... MORE
Your Approach to Writing
2(1)
Writing Assignments
3(2)
Understanding the Writing Process
5(3)
Picture the Process
6(2)
Prewriting
8(7)
Thinking
8(5)
Planning
13(2)
Writing
15(9)
Writing the Topic Sentence
15(2)
Developing
17(3)
Organizing
20(2)
Drafting
22(2)
Revising
24(18)
Revising Checklist
24(18)
Editing
42(19)
Editing Checklist
42(1)
Your EQ (Editing Quotient)
43(9)
How to Edit
52(5)
Review of the Writing Process
57(4)
PART II Writing Effective Sentences
61(522)
Introduction: Parts of Speech, Phrases, and Clauses
63(1)
Parts of Speech
63(27)
Phrases
90(3)
Clauses
93(8)
UNIT 1 SENTENCES
Subjects and Verbs
101(13)
Subjects
102(4)
Verbs
106(5)
Chapter Review
111(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
113(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
113(1)
Fragments
114(23)
About Fragments
115(2)
Identifying and Correcting Fragments
117(17)
Chapter Review
134(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
135(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
135(2)
Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
137(23)
Identifying Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
138(4)
Correcting Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
142(11)
Chapter Review
153(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
155(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
155(1)
Unit Tests
156(2)
Unit Writing Assignments
158(2)
UNIT 2 VERBS
Regular and Irregular Verbs
160(18)
Regular Verbs
161(4)
Irregular Verbs
165(6)
Using Lie/Lay and Sit/Set Correctly
171(4)
Chapter Review
175(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
176(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
177(1)
Verb Tense
178(28)
Present Tense
179(3)
Past Tense
182(4)
Using Helping Words with Past Participles
186(3)
Using -ing Verbs Correctly
189(3)
Problems with be
192(3)
Problems with do
195(4)
Problems with have
199(3)
Chapter Review
202(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
204(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
205(1)
Subject-Verb Agreement
206(26)
Subject-Verb Agreement
207(3)
Words Separating Subjects and Verbs
210(4)
More Than One Subject
214(4)
Verbs Before Subjects
218(3)
Collective Nouns
221(3)
Indefinite Pronouns
224(4)
Chapter Review
228(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
230(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
231(1)
More on Verbs
232(14)
Consistent Verb Tense
233(4)
Using the Active Voice
237(3)
Chapter Review
240(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
241(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
242(1)
Unit Tests
242(2)
Unit Writing Assignments
244(2)
UNIT 3 PRONOUNS
Pronoun Problems
246(22)
Pronouns as Subjects
247(4)
Pronouns as Objects
251(3)
Possessive Pronouns
254(4)
Pronouns in Comparisons
258(3)
Demonstrative Pronouns
261(4)
Chapter Review
265(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
266(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
267(1)
Pronoun Reference and Point of View
268(13)
Pronoun Reference
269(5)
Shifting Point of View
274(3)
Chapter Review
277(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
279(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
280(1)
Pronoun Agreement
281(16)
Indefinite Pronouns
282(4)
Avoiding Sexism
286(4)
Chapter Review
290(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
291(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
292(1)
Unit Tests
293(1)
Unit Writing Assignments
294(3)
UNIT 4 MODIFIERS
Adjectives
297(19)
Using Adjectives
298(3)
Comparing with Adjectives
301(4)
Common Adjective Errors
305(4)
Using Good and Bad Correctly
309(3)
Chapter Review
312(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
314(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
315(1)
Adverbs
316(23)
Using Adverbs
317(3)
Comparing with Adverbs
320(5)
Adjective or Adverb?
325(3)
Double Negatives
328(4)
Using Good/Well and Bad/Badly Correctly
332(4)
Chapter Review
336(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
337(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
338(1)
Modifier Errors
339(16)
Misplaced Modifiers
340(4)
Dangling Modifiers
344(4)
Chapter Review
348(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
349(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
350(1)
Unit Tests
350(2)
Unit Writing Assignments
352(3)
UNIT 5 PUNCTUATION
End Punctuation
355(13)
Period
356(3)
Question Mark
359(3)
Exclamation Point
362(3)
Chapter Review
365(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
366(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
367(1)
Commas
368(27)
Commas with Items in a Series
369(4)
Commas with Introductory Words
373(3)
Commas with Independent Clauses
376(4)
Commas with Interrupters
380(4)
Commas with Direct Quotations
384(3)
Other Uses of Commas
387(4)
Chapter Review
391(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
393(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
394(1)
Apostrophes
395(16)
Marking Contractions
396(4)
Showing Possession
400(3)
Common Apostrophe Errors
403(4)
Chapter Review
407(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
409(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
410(1)
Quotation Marks
411(15)
Direct Quotations
412(1)
Indirect Quotations
413(3)
Capitalizing and Using Other Punctuation Marks with Quotation Marks
416(4)
Quotation Marks Around Titles
420(3)
Chapter Review
423(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
424(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
425(1)
Other Punctuation Marks
426(21)
Semicolons
427(4)
Colons
431(4)
Dashes and Parentheses
435(5)
Chapter Review
440(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
441(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
442(1)
Unit Tests
443(1)
Unit Writing Assignments
444(3)
UNIT 6 MECHANICS
Capitalization
447(10)
Chapter Review
454(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
455(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
456(1)
Abbreviations and Numbers
457(17)
Abbreviations
458(4)
Numbers
462(4)
Chapter Review
466(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
468(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
468(1)
Unit Tests
469(3)
Unit Writing Assignments
472(2)
UNIT 7 EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
Varying Sentence Structure
474(16)
Add Introductory Words
475(3)
Reverse Words
478(2)
Move Sentence Parts
480(3)
Vary Sentence Type
483(3)
Chapter Review
486(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
488(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
489(1)
Parallelism
490(9)
Chapter Review
496(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
497(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
498(1)
Combining Sentences
499(27)
Simple Sentences
500(4)
Compound Sentences
504(3)
Complex Sentences
507(5)
Compound-Complex Sentences
512(5)
Chapter Review
517(2)
Editing a Student Paragraph
519(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
520(1)
Unit Tests
521(2)
Unit Writing Assignments
523(3)
UNIT 8 CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD
Standard and Nonstandard English
526(15)
Standard and Nonstandard English
527(2)
Nonstandard English
529(6)
Slang
535(3)
Chapter Review
538(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
539(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
540(1)
Easily Confused Words
541(18)
Easily Confused Words, Part I
542(5)
Easily Confused Words, Part II
547(4)
Easily Confused Words, Part III
551(5)
Chapter Review
556(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
557(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
558(1)
Spelling
559(24)
Spelling Hints
560(4)
Spelling Rules
564(4)
Most Commonly Misspelled Words
568(8)
Chapter Review
576(1)
Editing a Student Paragraph
577(1)
Editing Your Own Paragraph
578(1)
Unit Tests
578(3)
Unit Writing Assignments
581(2)
PART III Paragraphs: Sentences in Context
583(28)
Recognizing a Paragraph
584(2)
How to Read a Paragraph
586(6)
How to Write a Successful Paragraph
592(4)
Revising and Editing a Student Paragraph
596(6)
Revising and Editing Your Own Paragraph
602(6)
Writing Workshop
608(3)
PART IV From Reading to Writing
611(86)
Describing
612(10)
``A Day in the Homeless Life''
612(3)
Colette Russell
``Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood''
615(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Narrating
622(9)
``A Giant Step''
622(5)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
``The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl''
627(4)
Elizabeth Wong
Illustrating
631(9)
``A Question of Trust''
631(5)
Sherry Hemman Hogan
``Mortality''
636(4)
Bailey White
Analyzing a Process
640(11)
``Ferrying Dreamers to the Other Side''
640(4)
Tomas Robles
``Stress Free in 10 Minutes''
644(7)
Peter Jaret
Comparing and Contrasting
651(8)
``My Son, the Cross-Dresser''
651(4)
Lisen Stromberg
``The Ugly Truth About Beauty''
655(4)
Dave Barry
Dividing and Classifying
659(10)
``Dads''
659(4)
Annie Murphy Paul
``Why Do We Resist Learning?''
663(6)
John Roger
Peter McWilliams
Defining
669(12)
``The Perfect Trap''
669(8)
Monica Ramirez Basco
``Black and Latino''
677(4)
Roberto Santiago
Analyzing Causes and Effects
681(8)
``How the Navy Changed My Life''
681(3)
Bryan Johnson
``For My Indian Daughter''
684(5)
Lewis Sawaquat
Arguing
689(8)
``So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To''
689(3)
Roger Sipher
``It's a Job for Parents, Not the Government''
692(5)
John Romano
Appendixes697(9)
Credits706(2)
Index708

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