9780131100695

This time-honored, comprehensive program for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics of interest and participatory exercises that require readers to get fully involved by creating, changing, rewriting, or correcting. Using an integrated "whole language" approach and continual reinforcement of skills,this book caters to users¿ intelligence and interests. KEY TOPICSIt features instructional material on all nine modes of discoursedescription, narration, exemplification, process, comparison and contrast, definition, cause and effect, classification, and argumentation.For the development of writing skills and the creation of effective writing.

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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.

(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
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This eighth edition ofSteps in Compositioncontinues to reflect our conviction that writing is a lively, engaging activity that helps students to fulfill their personal and professional goals. Our approach to teaching writing is both practical and pedagogically sound. To encourage student success, we use a number of essential elements: Engaging visuals elicit responses as each chapter begins. Contemporary, thought-provoking reading selections on the same theme as the visuals stimulate critical thinking and promote effective reading skills. Comprehensive discussions of rhetoric, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary building, and spelling provide jargon-free explanations and clear examples. Frequent Try It Out mini-exercises throughout the instructional material help students to reinforce their learning as they go along. Exercises are sequenced from basic practice to participatory applications, a research-based progression that transfers well to actual writing. Informative, entertaining exercise content includes news items with universal themes and fascinating facts to keep student interest high. Numerous charts help students use the text as an out-of-class reference tool. Extensive lists of topics for writing both paragraphs and essays stimulate student writing on a variety of contemporary issues.To ensure thatSteps in Compositionremains both current and comprehensive, this eighth edition has been expanded to include thirteen chapters and several new features: Chapters 12 and 13 contain detailed information on all nine major patterns of essay development: description, narration, exemplification, process, comparison/contrast, classification, cause/effect, definition, and argumentation. Each rhetorical mode is illustrated with three model essays and is supported by guided writing exercises that give students the opportunity to reinforce learning. Five of the thirteen essays are new and are accompanied by new Reading Survey questions and vocabulary materials. The new design enhances the text's usefulness as a reference tool. The pages in all grammar and rhetoric sections are bordered in blue, to help students find these important materials in a chapter. In addition, a boldface heading now introduces each grammar rule or rhetorical concept, making it easier for students to retrieve information on a page.We retain the features added to our previous revisions and continue to use the same chapter organization and instructional framework, one that offers an integration of writing instruction with reading, vocabulary building, and spelling. All thirteen chapters feature:SPRINGBOARDS TO THINKING.Photographs, cartoons, graphs, advertisements, and an artwork--accompanied by stimulating questions-- get students' thinking started on a contemporary issue that forms each chapter's theme. In this edition, themes range from road rage to race relations, from gender issues to troubled families.ESSAY.Lively discussions of thought-provoking topics focus on each chapter's theme. Several new essays are included together with some of our favorites from the previous edition. Among the authors represented in this eighth edition are Dave Barry, Ellen Goodman, Alice Walker, Martin Gottfried, Anna Quindlen, and Wally Lamb.READING SURVEY.Questions center on main ideas, major details, inferences, and opinions. This sequence is designed to move students toward critical reading skills by leading them from literal meaning to inferential reasoning to evaluative thinking.VOCABULARY BUILDING.Words from each chapter's essay are clustered around each chapter's theme. In this eighth edition, students learn and practice, for example, the vocabulary of self-image, of today's adolescent subculture, of a violent society. Simple, functional definitions are given within a con

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Steps in Composition

Steps in Composition

0131100696

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