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Write Time, Write Place: Sentences and Paragraphs helps students build a solid foundation of college writing skills. The text presents structured, sequential instruction and a variety of features that stimulate thinking, enhance learning, and provide a context for writing.
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Table of Contents
Read morePart 1 Writing the College Paragraph
Chapter 1 Writing in College
College Writing: Informal and Formal
Informal Writing
Formal Writing
Features of Formal Writing
Word Choices in Formal Writing
The Writing Process
Writing Assignments
Helpdesk
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
Comment on a Contemporary Issue
Write about an Image
College Success Tip: Transitioning to College: Advice from Students Who Have Been There
Chapter 2 Prewriting the College Paragraph
What Is an Academic Paragraph?
Paragraph Appearance
Parts of the Academic Paragraph
Prewrite
Understand Your Topic
Understand Your Purpose
Understand Your Audience
Understand Your Point of View
Prewrite to Develop Ideas for the Topic
Freewriting
Concept Mapping
Listing
Brainstorming
Narrow Your Topic
Write the Topic Sentence
What Is a Good Topic Sentence?
Writing Assignments
Help Desk
Group Activity: Using Prewriting Strategies
Reading and Writing across the Curriculum: Communication
Comment on a Contemporary Issue
Write about an Image
College Success Tip: Student Code of Conduct
Chapter 3 Organizing and Drafting the Paragraph
Develop Supporting Details
Examples
Descriptions
Steps
Reasons
Facts and Statistics
Avoid Opinions as Supporting Details
Ways to Develop Supporting Details
Organize Supporting Details
Time Order
Spatial Order
Order of Importance
Write a Plan
Scratch Outline
Graphic Organizer
Draft a Paragraph
Write the Concluding Sentence
Write the Title
Writing Assignments
Help Desk
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum: Film Study
Comment on a Contemporary Issue
Write About an Image
College Success Tip: How to Get Outside Help from Your Instructor
Chapter 4 Revising, Editing and Proofreading the Paragraph
Revise a Paragraph
Checking the Assignment
Revising One Element at a Time: SOCS
Support
Organization
Connectors and Transitions
Style
Christina’s Revised Paragraph
Editing and Proofreading
Editing
Proofreading
Writing Assignments
Help Desk
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum: Economics
Comment on a Contemporary Issue
Write About an Image
College Success Tip: Take Control of Your Time
Part 2 Paragraph and Essay Development
Chapter 5 Narration
What is Narration?
Narration in College Writing
The Narration Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Narration Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Narration Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: Manage Your Emotions
Chapter 6 Description
What is Description?
Description in College Writing
The Description Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Description Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Description Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: The Art of Overcoming Adversity in College
Chapter 7 Process
What is Process?
Process in College Writing
The How-to Process Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿How-to Process Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Process Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: Working While Going to College
Chapter 8 Illustration
What is Illustration?
Illustration in College Writing
The Illustration Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Illustration Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Illustration Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: Should You Take an Online Course?
Chapter 9 Comparison and Contrast
What is Comparison and Contrast?
Comparison and Contrast in College Writing
The Comparison and Contrast Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Comparison and Contrast Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Comparison and Contrast Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: Are You Prepared for Computer Problems?
Chapter 10 Classification
What is Classification?
Classification in College Writing
The Classification Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Classification Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Classification Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: I Tried Really Hard. Where’s My A?
Chapter 11 Cause and Effect
What is Cause and Effect?
Cause and Effect in College Writing
The Cause and Effect Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Cause and Effect Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Cause and Effect Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: Note Texting
Chapter 12 Definition
What is Definition?
Definition in College Writing
The Definition Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Definition Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Definition Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Chapter 13 Argument
What is Argument?
Argument in College Writing
The Argument Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Supporting Details
¿Argument Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Connectors and Transition Words and Expressions
The Concluding Sentence
At a Glance: Argument Paragraph Essentials
Paragraph Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: “I Don’t Need the Library–Everything’s on the Internet”
Chapter 14 Writing the College-Level Essay
What Is the College-Level Essay?
Difference Between the Paragraph and the Essay
Parts of the College-Level Essay
Writing the College-Level Essay
The Introduction
The Body
The Conclusion
¿Essay Graphic Organizer
Essay Writing Assignments
College Success Tip: Failing a Course? Find Out Why and Take Action
Part 3 Building Powerful Sentences
Chapter 15 Simple Sentences: Subjects, Verbs, and Objects
What Is a Simple Sentence
Subjects
Noun Subjects
Pronoun Subjects
Compound Subjects
Action Verbs
Compound Verbs
Direct Objects
Nouns as Direct Objects
Personal Pronouns as Direct Objects
Compound Direct Objects
Indirect Objects
Personal Pronouns as Indirect Objects
Compound Direct Objects
At a Glance: Simple Sentences
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: The Power of Study Groups
Chapter 16 Simple Sentences: Be and Linking Verbs
The Verb Be
Subject, Be Verb and Adverb Sentence Pattern
Subject, Be Verb, and Subject Complement Sentence Pattern
Subject, Linking Verb, and Subject Complement Sentence Pattern
At a Glance: Simple Sentences with Be and Linking Verbs
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: When Things Get Tough, Withdraw or Stay?
Chapter 17 Questions, Commands, and Here/There Patterns
Question Sentences
Yes/No Questions
Information Questions
Questions with Helping Verbs
Question Word as Subject
Command Sentences
Here/There Sentences
At a Glance: Questions, Commands, and Here/There Patterns
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Group Work in the Classroom: Be a Team Player
Chapter 18 Compound Sentences
What Is a Compound Sentence?
Building Compound Sentences
Join Independent Clauses Using a Comma and
Coordinating Conjunction
Join Independent Clauses Using a Semicolon
Join Independent Clauses Using a Semicolon and a
Transition Word
At a Glance: Compound Sentences
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Eat to Learn
Chapter 19 Complex Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions
What Is a Complex Sentence?
Punctuating Dependent Clauses
Writing Complex Sentences Using Subordinating Conjunctions
Dependent Clauses Showing Reason and Purpose
Dependent Clauses Showing Time
Dependent Clauses Showing Contrast
Dependent Clauses Showing Condition
Dependent Clauses Showing Place
At a Glance: Complex Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Staying Safe on Campus
Chapter 20 Complex Sentences with Relative Pronouns
What Is a Complex Sentence with a Relative Pronoun Clause?
Writing Complex Sentences with Relative Pronoun Dependent Clauses
Relative Pronoun Dependent Clause Patterns
Punctuating Dependent Clauses with Relative Pronouns
Essential and Non-Essential Clauses
At a Glance: Complex Sentences with Relative Pronouns
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Getting a Degree Is a Long-term Project
Chapter 21 Correcting Sentence Fragments
What Is a Fragment?
Missing Subject Fragments
Missing or Incomplete Verb Fragments
Phrase Fragments
Prepositional Phrase Fragments
“Explaining” Phrase Fragments
Dependent Clause Fragments
At a Glance: Sentence Fragments
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Struggling with Self-Esteem? You’re Not Alone
Chapter 22 Correcting Comma Splices and Run-ons
What Are Comma Splices and Run-ons?
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-ons
Use a Period
Use a Comma and Coordinating Conjunction
Use a Semicolon
Use a Semicolon, Transition, and Comma
At a Glance: Sentence Fragments
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Develop Curiosity
Part 4 Building Verb Skills
Chapter 23 Present Tense and Present Progressive Tense
How to Use Present Tense
What Is Present Tense?
Forming the Present Tense
Spelling Verbs in the Present Tense
Learning Irregular Present Tense Verbs Be and Have
How to Use Present Progressive Tense
Forming the Present Progressive Tense
Spelling Verbs in the Present Progressive Tense
Comparing the Present and Present Progressive Tenses
At a Glance: Present and Present Progressive Verb Forms
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Feeling Alone? Find an Extracurricular Activity
Chapter 24 Past Tense and Past Progressive Tense
How to Use the Past Tense
Forming the Past Tense
Regular Verbs in the Past Tense
Spelling of Regular Past Tense Verbs
Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense
Irregular Past Tense Forms of Be
Irregular Past Tense Forms of Lie and Lay and Sit and Set
How to Use the Past Progressive Tense
Forming the Past Progressive Tense
Comparing the Past Tense and the Past Progressive Tenses
At a Glance: Past and Past Progressive Verb Forms
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Adapting to College Instructors
Chapter 25 Present Perfect Tense and Past Perfect Tense The Present Perfect Tense
Comparing Present Perfect Tense to the Past and Present
Tenses
Forming the Present Perfect Tense
Forming the Present Perfect Tense with Regular Past Participles
Forming the Present Perfect Tense with Irregular Past Participles
The Past Perfect Tense
Comparing Past Perfect to Past Tense
Forming the Past Perfect Tense with Regular Past Participles
Forming the Past Perfect Tense with Irregular Past Participles
Comparing Past Perfect and Past Progressive
At a Glance: Present Perfect and Past Perfect Tenses
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Adult Learners: You CAN Handle College
Chapter 26 Other Verb Forms
How to Use Future Tense
Forming the Future with Will
Using Would as Past Tense of Will
How to Use Other Helping Verbs
What Are the Other Helping Verbs?
Using Modals
Active and Passive Voice
Forming the Passive Voice
Using Passive Voice
At a Glance: Other Verbs
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Service Learning: Connecting Course Work to Community Work
Chapter 27 Subject-Verb Agreement
Identify Singular and Plural Nouns and Verbs
Singular and Plural Nouns
Singular and Plural Verbs
Present Tense Verbs
Helping Verbs
Make Singular Noun Subjects and Present Tense Verbs Agree
Recognizing Singular Noun Subjects That Do Not Seem Singular
Make Plural Subjects and Present Tense Verbs Agree
Recognizing Plural Noun Subjects That Seem Singular
Make Subjects and Verbs Agree When Other Words or Phrases Come Between them
Prepositional Phrases
Added Information Expressions
Make Compound and Collective Noun Subjects and Verbs Agree
Compound Subjects
Collective Noun Subjects
Make Subjects and Verbs Agree When Subjects Come After Verbs
Sentences Starting with Here or There
Questions
At a Glance: Subject-Verb Agreement
Writing Assignment
College Success Tip: Develop a Positive Habit
Part 5 Using Other Parts of Speech
Chapter 28 Nouns, Noun Markers, and Prepositions
What Is a Noun?
Common and Proper Nouns
Compound Nouns
Forming Plural Nouns
Regular Noun Plurals
Irregular Noun Plurals
Compound Noun Plurals
Collective Nouns
Mass Nouns
Expressing Quantity with Mass Nouns
Noun Markers
Articles: A, An, The
Choosing A or An
Demonstrative Pronouns: This, These/That, Those
This, These
That, Those
Indefinite Pronouns: Many, Much/Few, Less, Little
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Prepositional Phrases
Tricky Prepositions: On, At, In
At a Glance: Nouns, Noun Markers, and Prepositions
College Success Tip: Reach Out
Chapter 29 Pronouns
What Is a Pronoun?
Pronoun Case
Personal Pronouns as Subjects
Personal Pronouns after Linking Verbs
Personal Pronouns as Objects
Personal Pronouns as Direct Objects
Personal Pronouns as Indirect Objects
Personal Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions
-Self Pronouns as Objects
Personal Pronouns as Possessives
Possessive Pronouns as Subjects and Objects
Possessive Pronouns as Adjectives
At a Glance: Pronoun Cases
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Agreement with Compound Adjectives
Antecedents Joined by Or, Either/or, Neither/nor , or Not only/but also
Agreement with Collective Noun Antecedents
Agreement with Indefinite Pronoun Antecedents
Singular Indefnite Pronouns
Plural Indefinite Pronouns
Singular or Plural Indefinite Pronouns
Correcting Pronoun Shifts
Pronoun Reference
College Success Tip: Focus on the Positive
Chapter 30 Adjectives and Adverbs
What Is an Adjective?
Adjectives that Describe Nouns
Adjectives that Limit Nouns
Placement of Adjectives
Order of Adjectives
Participles as Adjectives
Present Participles as Adjectives
Past Participles as Adjectives
Using Commas with Adjectives
What Is an Adverb?
Placement of Adverbs
Placing Adverbs that Tell When
Commonly Confused Adjectives and Adverbs
Comparative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs
Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms
At a Glance: Adjectives and Adverbs
College Success Tip: What’s Your Emotional IQ?
Chapter 31 Other Modifiers
What Is a Modifier?
Place Prepositional Phrases Correctly
Place Present and Past Participial Phrases Correctly
Present Participial Phrases
Past Participial Phrases
Place Dependent Clauses Correctly
At a Glance: Other Modifiers
College Success Tip: How Much Sharing is Too Much?
Part 6 Building Punctuation and Capitalization Skills
Chapter 32 Commas
Commas with Items in a Series
Commas after Introductory Words and Phrases
Transition Words and Phrases
Commas with Adverbs
Commas with Phrases
Commas with Nonessential Words and Phrases
Commas with Appositives
Other Comma Uses
Commas with Dates
Commas with Addresses
Commas with Names
Commas with Numbers
At a Glance: Commas
Chapter 33 Semicolons and Colons
What Is a Semicolon?
What Is a Colon?
At a Glance: Semicolons and Colons
Chapter 34 Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
What Is an Apostrophe?
Apostrophes to Show Ownership
Showing Ownership with Nouns
Singular Nouns
Plural Nouns
Comparing Plural Nouns and Possessive Nouns
Compound Nouns and Subjects
Showing Ownership with Pronouns
Commonly Confused Possessive Pronouns and Contractions
What Are Quotation Marks?
Double Quotation Marks
Single Quotation Marks
Double Quotation Marks to Set Off Exact Words (Direct Quotations)
Double Quotation Marks with Questions
Double Quotation Marks for Titles of Short Works and Parts of Whole Works
At a Glance: Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
Chapter 35 Capitalization, Abbreviations, and Numbers
What Is Capitalization?
Capitalize the First Word in a Sentence
Capitalize Proper Nouns
Capitalize Titles of Works
What Are Abbreviations?
Use Acronyms
Abbreviate Titles before or after Proper Names
Abbreviate Years and Hours
Words to Write Out in Academic Writing
What Are Numbers?
Spell Out Numbers
Rules for Academic Writing
At a Glance: Capitalization, Abbreviations, and Numbers
Part 7 Achieving Balance in Writing
Chapter 36 Consistency
Consistency in Person and Number
Consistency in Person
Consistency in Number
Pronoun Shifts
Consistency in Verb Tense
At a Glance: Consistency
Chapter 37 Parallelism
What Is Parallelism?
Parallelism with Coordinating Conjunctions
Faulty Parallelism with Coordinating Conjunctions
Parallelism with Correlative Conjunctions
Faulty Parallelism with Correlative Conjunctions
Parallelism with Comparisons
Faulty Parallelism with Comparisons
At a Glance: Parallelism
Part 8 Reading
Chapter 38 Active Reading
What Are College Reading Materials?
What Is Active Reading?
Stage 1: Get Ready to Read
Take Prereading Notes
Stage 2: Read to Understand
Check for Understanding
Take Notes While Reading
Stage 3: Remember and React to the Reading
Remembering the Reading: Recite or Write
Reacting to the Reading: Reader Response
At a Glance: Active Reading
Reading Selections
Earth Science: Lost and Found at Sea
Edward J. Tarbuck and Frederick K. Lutgens, excerpt from Prentice-Hall Earth Science, “Shoes and Toys as Drift Meters”
Rob Lammle, “Amazing Messages in Bottles”
Sociology: Getting By in the United States
John Macionis, excerpt from Sociology, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”
Katherine S. Newman,excerpt from No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
Nutrition: What’s Hiding in Your Food?
Joan Salge Blake, excerpt from Nutrition and You
Doriliz DeLeon, “Start at the Store: 7 Ways to Prevent Foodborne Illness”
Business: Dress Codes at Work
Lydia E. Anderson and Sandra B. Bolt, excerpt from Professionalism
Lawyers.com, “Wrongful Termination: Can You Be Fired Because of Your Tattoos?”
Dulce Gonzales Narcisse, “Tattoo Discrimination at the Workplace”
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “EEOC Laws for Dress Code”
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