Part 1: Building Your Reading and Writing Skills

1.      College Reading and Writing

2.      Strategies for Reading

3.      The Reading-Writing Connection: Summary and Response

4.      The Writer’s Situation: Purpose, Audience and Context

5.      Writing Strategies and Appeals

6.      Getting Started

7.      Drafting Your Paper

8.      Revising Your Writing

Part 2: Putting Your Ideas into Practice: Writing Assignments

9.      Writing to Share Experiences: Using Description and Narration

10.  Writing to Inform: Using Examples and Process Explanation

11.  Writing to Analyze: Using Division and Classification

12.  Writing to Explain Why: Using Cause and Effect

13.  Writing to Evaluate: Using Comparing and Contrasting

14.  Writing to Persuade: Using a Multi-Modal Approach

Part 3: Special Writing Situations

15.  Conducting Effective Research

16.  Documenting Your Sources

17.  Reports and Essay Exams

18.  Email, Job Application Letters, and Resumes

Part 4: Handbook

19.  Nouns

20.  Verbs

21.  Pronouns

22.  Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections

23.  Definite and Indefinite Articles

24.  Sentence Elements

25.  Types of Sentences

26.  Sentence Agreement

27.  Improving Your Sentences

28.  End Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points

29.  Commas

30.  Other Punctuation Marks

31.  Abbreviations and Numbers

32.  Spelling

33.  Word Choice

34.  English Idioms

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