Writer's World, The: Essays, 2009 MLA Update Edition
ISBN: 9780205735587 | 0205735584
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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Whether students come to the writing course course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or non-native speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer's World can help them become stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers.
Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals,The Writerrs"s Worldcan help students with varyi... MORE
Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals,The Writerrs"s Worldcan help students with varyi... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Exploring | |
| Visualizing the Paragraph and the Essay | |
| Key Steps in Exploring | |
| Topic | |
| Audience | |
| Purpose | |
| Exploring Strategies | |
| Journal and Portfolio Writing | |
| Developing the Main Idea | |
| Key Steps in Developing the Main Idea | ... MORE |
| Writing a Thesis Statement | |
| Developing the Supporting Ideas | |
| Developing the Essay Plan | |
| Key Steps in Developing the Essay Plan | |
| Organizing Supporting Ideas | |
| Developing an Essay Plan | |
| Developing the First Draft | |
| Key Steps in Developing the First Draft | |
| Writing an Introduction | |
| Writing Complete Body Paragraphs | |
| Writing a Conclusion | |
| Choosing an Essay Title | |
| Writing the First Draft | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Key Steps in Revising and Editing | |
| Revising For Unity | |
| Revising for Adequate Support | |
| Revising for Coherence | |
| Revising for Style | |
| Editing for Errors | |
| Writing the Final Draft | |
| Essay Patterns | |
| Illustration | |
| What is Illustration? | |
| The Illustration Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit an Illustration Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Little Brother is Watching" | |
| Narration | |
| What is Narration? | |
| The Narrative Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Narrative Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Out of Sight" | |
| Description | |
| What is Description? | |
| The Descriptive Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Descriptive Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Living Among the Bees" vLucie L. Snodgrass | |
| Process | |
| What is a Process? | |
| The Process Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Process Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Do You Have What It Takes to Be Happy?" | |
| What is Definition? | |
| The Definition Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Definition Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "On Genius" | |
| Classification | |
| What is Classification? | |
| The Classification Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Classification Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Types of Correctional Officers" | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| What is Comparison and Contrast? | |
| The Comparison and Contrast Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Comparison and Contrast Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "The Dating World" | |
| Cause and Effect | |
| What is Cause and Effect? | |
| The Cause and Effect Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit a Cause and Effect Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Friendless in North America" | |
| Argument | |
| What is Argument? | |
| The Argument Essay | |
| Explore Topics | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| The Supporting Ideas | |
| The Essay Plan | |
| The First Draft | |
| Revise and Edit an Argument Essay | |
| A Professional Essay: "Keep Your Roses" | |
| More College and Workplace Writing | |
| Paraphrasing and Summarizing | |
| Integrating Borrowed Information | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Summarizing | |
| The Research Essay | |
| Planning a Research Paper | |
| Gathering Information | |
| Evaluating Sources | |
| Taking Notes | |
| Organizing Your First Draft | |
| Incorporating Visuals | |
| Citing Sources | |
| Using MLA Style | |
| Sample Research Essay | |
| Using APA Style | |
| The Résumé and Letter Application | |
| Preparing a Résumé | |
| Writing a Letter of Application | |
| Responding to Film and Literature | |
| Responding to Film and Literature | |
| Structuring Your Written Response | |
| Becoming a Successful Student | |
| Preparing for Exams | |
| Writing Essay Exams | |
| The Editing Handbook | |
| Effective Sentences | |
| Section Theme | |
| Conflict | |
| Identify Subjects and Verbs | |
| Identifying Subjects | |
| Identifying Verbs | |
| Sentence Combining | |
| Understanding Key Words | |
| Making Compound Sentences | |
| Making Complex Sentences | |
| Sentence Variety | |
| What is Sentence Variety? | |
| Varying the Opening Words | |
| Combine Sentences with an Appositive | |
| Combining Sentences with Relative Clauses | |
| Writing Embedded Questions | |
| Common Sentence Errors | |
| Section Theme | |
| Urban Development | |
| Fragments | |
| What Are Fragments? | |
| Phrase Fragments | |
| Fragments with -ing and to | |
| Explanatory Fragments | |
| Dependent-Clause Fragments | |
| Run-Ons | |
| What Are Run-Ons? | |
| Correcting Run-Ons | |
| Faulty Parallel Structure | |
| What is Parallel Structure? | |
| Correcting Faulty Parallel Structure | |
| Mistakes With Modifiers | |
| Misplaced Modifiers | |
| Dangling Modifiers | |
| Section 3 | |
| Section Theme | |
| International Trade | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Basic Subject -Verb Agreement Rules | |
| More Than One Subject | |
| Special Subject Forms | |
| Verb Before the Subject | |
| Interrupting Words and Phrases | |
| Verb Tenses | |
| What is Verb Tense? | |
| Past and Present Tenses | |
| Past Participles | |
| Present Perfect Tense | |
| Past Perfect Tense | |
| Passive Voice | |
| Progressive Forms | |
| Problems with Verbs | |
| Verb Consistency | |
| Avoiding Double Negatives | |
| Non-Standard Forms - | |
| Gonna, Gotta, Wanna | |
| Problems in Conditional Forms | |
| Non-Standard Forms - Would of, Could of, Should of Recognizing Gerunds and Inifinitives | |
| More Parts of Speech | |
| Section Theme | |
| Forces Of Nature | |
| Nouns, Determiners, and Prepositions | |
| Count Nouns and Non-Count Nouns | |
| Determiners | |
| Prepositions | |
| Pronouns | |
| Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | |
| Vague Pronouns | |
| Pronoun Shifts | |
| Pronoun Case | |
| Relative Pronouns | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Comparative and Superlative Forms | |
| Section 5 | |
| Section Theme | |
| Plants And Insects | |
| Exact Language | |
| Use Specific and Detailed Vocabulary | |
| Avoiding Wordiness and Redundancy | |
| Avoiding Clichés | |
| Using Standard English | |
| Spelling and Commonly Confused Words | |
| Spelling Rules | |
| 120 Commonly Misspelled Words | |
| Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Words | |
| Punctuation and Mechanics | |
| Section Theme | |
| Human Development | |
| Commas | |
| What is a Comma? | |
| Commas in a Series | |
| Commas after Introductory Words or Phrases | |
| Commas around Interrupting Words and Phrases | |
| Commas in Compound Sentences | |
| Commas in Complex Sentences | |
| Apostrophes | |
| What is an Apostrophe? | |
| Apostrophes in Contractions | |
| Apostrophes to Show Ownership | |
| Apostrophes in Expressions of Time | |
| Quotation Marks, Capitalization, and Titles | |
| Quotation marks | |
| Using Quotations in Research Essays | |
| Capitalization | |
| Titles | |
| Numbers and Additional Punctuation | |
| Numbers | |
| Additional Punctuation | |
| Editing | |
| Editing Practice | |
| Reading Strategies and Selections | |
| From Reading to Writing | |
| Reading Strategies | |
| Reading Selections | |
| Conflict | |
| "The CSI Effect" | |
| "Types of Rioters" | |
| "Naming Good Path Elk" | |
| Urban Development | |
| "My African Childhood" | |
| "Living Environments" | |
| International Trade | |
| "I, Telemarketer" | |
| "The Rich Resonance of Small Talk" | |
| "Google's China Web" | |
| Forces Of Nature | |
| "Weird Weather" | |
| "The Rules of Survival" | |
| "Into Thin Air" | |
| "Monsoon Time" | |
| Plants And Insects | |
| Songs of Insects" | |
| Nature Returns to the Cities" | |
| Human Development | |
| "Raunch Culture" | |
| "Twixters" | |
| "The Untranslatable Word 'Macho;" | |
| "Medicating Ourselves" | |
| The Basic Parts of a Sentence | |
| Irregular Verb List | |
| Verb Tenses | |
| Combining Ideas in Sentences | |
| Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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