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Steps in Composition
ISBN: 9780131100695 | 0131100696
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 12/8/2003
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For one/two-semester paragraph-to-essay level basic writing courses in Developmental Writing. This thematic text for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics and participatory exercises that require students to get fully involved by creating, changing, rewriting, or correcting. Using an integrated whole language approach and continual reinforcement of skills, the text shows respect for students' intelligence, maturity, ... MORE
| (Each chapter begins with Springboards to Thinking and ends with Refresher Exercise and Springboards to Writing.) | |
| Essay: ldquo;Rambos of the Roadrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Road Rage | |
| The Vocabulary of Road Rage | |
| Spelling: Methods to Improve Your Spelling | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Prewriting Techniques | |
| Purposes for Writing | |
| Audience | |
| The Topic Sentence | |
| Paragraph Development | |
| Essay: ldquo;Fire, Hope, and Charityrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of a Troubled Society | |
| The Vocabulary of a Healthy Society | |
| Spelling: Sound-Alikes | |
| Paragraph Development | |
| Ordering of Details in a Paragraph | |
| Revising a Paragraph | |
| Essay: ldquo;My Daughter Smokesrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Cigarette Addiction | |
| The Vocabulary of Cigarette Addiction | |
| Spelling: Spelling Rule - Changing y to i | |
| The Sentence Fragment | |
| Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences | |
| Essay: ldquo;Pursuit of Happinessrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Women in a Traditional Culture | |
| The Vocabulary of Women in Mainstream America | |
| Spelling: Proofreading | |
| Coordination | |
| Subordination | |
| A Special Case of Subordination | |
| Essay: ldquo;The Black Table Is Still Thererdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Racism | |
| The Vocabulary of Racism | |
| Spelling: Capitalization | |
| The -s Verb Ending | |
| Agreement of Subject and Verb | |
| Irregular Verbs | |
| The -ed Verb Ending | |
| Verb Tense Consistency | |
| Essay: ldquo;The Ugly Truth about Beautyrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Self-Image | |
| The Vocabulary of Self-Image | |
| Spelling: Commonly Confused Words | |
| Pronoun Choice | |
| Pronoun Agreement | |
| Pronoun Reference and Consistency | |
| Essay: ldquo;Teenagers in Dreamlandrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Today''s Adolescent Subculture | |
| The Vocabulary of Today''s Adolescent Subculture | |
| Spelling: Spelling Rule -ie and ei | |
| From Paragraph Principles to Essay Writing | |
| Finding a Writing Topic, Drafting a Thesis Statement, Forming Main Body Ideas | |
| The Introductory Paragraph | |
| The Concluding Paragraph | |
| Revising an Essay | |
| Essay: ldquo;Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way Aboutrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of the Pro-Choice Movement | |
| The Vocabulary of the Right-to-Life Movement | |
| Spelling: The Apostrophe | |
| The Comma | |
| Other Marks of Punctuation | |
| Essay: ldquo;Rapping Nastyrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Censorship | |
| The Vocabulary of Censorship | |
| Spelling: Plurals | |
| The Unified Essay | |
| Words of Transition | |
| Key Words: Deliberate Repetition | |
| Essay: ldquo;The Sins of the Parentsrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of the Troubled Family | |
| The Vocabulary of the Untroubled Family | |
| Spelling: To Split or Not to Split | |
| Using the Right Word | |
| Informal Language | |
| Essay: ldquo;Money and Freedomrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of the Financial World | |
| The Vocabulary of Avoiding Burnout | |
| Spelling: Spelling Rule - Dropping the Final e | |
| Parallelism, Misplaced Modifiers, Dangling Modifiers | |
| Essay: ldquo;The Shadow of a Strangerrdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of a Violent Society | |
| The Vocabulary of a Violent Society | |
| Spelling: Doubling | |
| The Descriptive Essay | |
| The Narrative Essay | |
| The Example Essay | |
| The Process Essay | |
| Essay: ldquo;The Way We Lierdquo; | |
| Reading Survey | |
| Vocabulary Building | |
| The Vocabulary of Lying | |
| The Vocabulary of Lying | |
| Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes | |
| The Comparison/Contrast Essay | |
| The Classification Essay | |
| The Cause and Effect Essay | |
| The Definition Essay | |
| The Argument Essay | |
| Critical Thinking - Logic | |
| Common Prefixes and Suffixes | |
| Spelling Demons | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
The eighth edition of this widely adopted text maintains the authors' proven formula for successful writing-the integration of reading, rhetoric, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary-and includes many refinements and new features to ensure that STEPS IN COMPOSITION remains the best resource available for writing classrooms.
With the addition of descriptive, narrative, example, comparison and contrast, classification, and cause and effect essays, STEPS IN COMPOSITION now covers nine patterns of essay development-making the text more complete than ever.
www.prenhall.com/troyka This free website for students provides additional thematically arranged readings online. For each reading, students can answer "Before You Read" and "Reading Survey" questions. There are also self-graded vocabulary quizzes, paragraph-editing exercises, and writing prompts for each selection.
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