Unit I: Getting Our Feet Wet Chapter 1 Practicing the Writing Process Chapter 2 Making the Most of Reading
Unit II: Working with the Paragraph Chapter 3 Introducing the Paragraph Chapter 4 Revising Paragraphs Chapter 5 Picturing Places Chapter 6 Telling Your Own Story Chapter 7 Illustrating through Examples Chapter 8 Creating and Explaining Groups Chapter 9 Explaining Causes and Effects Chapter 10 Explaining Activities: Doing Them, Understanding Them Chapter 11 Explaining Similarities and Differences Unit III: Working with the Essay Chapter 12 Introducing the Essay Chapter 13 Revising Essays Chapter 14 Expanding Paragraphs into Essays: Illustration, Classification,
Cause and Effect, Process Analysis, Comparison and Contrast Chapter 15 Defining Ideas-Combining Patterns of Development Chapter 16 Writing Persuasively-Combining Patterns of Development Chapter 17 Taking Essay Exams-Combining Patterns of Development Unit IV: Polishing Style Chapter 18 Creating Sentence Variety Chapter 19 Choosing the Most Effective Word Unit V: Practicing Sentence Sense Chapter 20 Working with Sentence Parts Chapter 21 Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism Chaper 22 Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments Chapter 23 Verbs: Form and Agreement Chapter 24 Pronouns: Reference and Agreement Chapter 25 Adjectives and Adverbs: Words that Describe Chapter 26 Commas and Other Punctuation Chapter 27 Spelling and Sound-Alike Words Chapter 28 ESL Concerns Unit VI: Additional Readings Description "The Great Tide Pool," excerpt from Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck Narration "The Dare," by Roger Hoffman Illustration "Rambos of the Road," by Martin Gottfried Classification "The Ways of Meeting Oppression," by Martin Luther King, Jr. "The Ten Most Memorable Bores" by Margot Miflin Cause and Effect "Two by Two, We'll Fill the Planet" by Benjamin Zuckerman "Black Men and Public Spaces" by Brent Staples Process Analysis "How to Write a Letter," by Garrison Keillor Comparison and Contrast "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts," by Bruce Catton "A Nice Place to Visit" by Russell Baker Definition "Opposing Principles Help Balance Society" "What Is a Dad?" by Bob Brannan Persuasion "Abortion, Right and Wrong," by Rachel Richardson Smith "What Is Biodiversity and Why Should We Care about It? by Donella Meadows Appendix 1: Working with Your Computer Appendix 2: Improvement Chart Appendix 3: Outline of a Writer's Grammar
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