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Bestselling authors Kathleen McWhorter and Jane Aaron have joined forces to create a spiral, tabbed handbook with exercises for first-year composition students that will give them the real-world skills they need to succeed in college and in their writing courses.

The first tab opens with a practical, down-to-earth discussion of study skills, time management, reading strategies, and critical thinking – the essentials for good academic work and excellent papers. This handbook reaches out to all students who may not already possess a strong foundation for doing college-level work to help them become successful members of the college community.

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PART 1 - STRATEGIES FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS

1. Academic Success In and Out of the Classroom

2. Success in Your Writing Class

3. Reading & Learning Skills

4. Critical Thinking Skills

5. Preparing for and Taking Exams

PART 2 – THE WRITING PROCESS

6. Writing in College

7. Generating Ideas

8. Thesis and Organization

9. Drafting

10. Revising

11. Editing

12. Paragraphs

PART 3 – READING AND WRITING FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER

13. Reading and Writing Arguments

14. Reading and Writing About Literature

15. Presenting Writing

16. Online and Business Writing

17. Oral and Multimedia Presentations

PART 4 - GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

18. Parts of Speech

19. The Sentence

20. Phrases and Subordinate Clauses

21. Sentence Types

Verbs

22. Forms

23. Tenses

24. Moods

25. Voice

26. Subject-Verb Agreement

Pronouns

27. Forms

28. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

29. Reference

Modifiers

30. Adjectives and Adverbs

31. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Sentence errors

32. Sentence Fragments

33. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

34. Mixed Sentences

PART 5 – CLARITY AND STYLE

35. Emphasis

36. Parallelism

37. Variety and Details

38. Appropriate Words

39. Exact Words

40. Conciseness

PART 6 – PUNCTUATION

41. End Punctuation

42. Comma

43. Semicolon

44. Colon

45. Apostrophe

46. Quotation Marks

47. Other Marks

PART 7 - SPELLING AND MECHANICS

48. Spelling and the Hyphen

49. Capital Letters

50. Italics or Underlining

51. Abbreviations

52. Numbers

PART 8 - RESEARCH WRITING

53. Research Strategy

54. Finding Sources

55. Working with Sources

56. Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources

57. Writing the Paper

PART 9 - MLA DOCUMENTATION

PART 10 - APA DOCUMENTATION

PART 11 - GLOSSARIES AND INDEX

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