College Writing Skills

✍ Scribed by John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Edition: 7
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The seventh edition of John Langan's College Writing Skills focuses on the essay using Langan's renowned clear writing style, as well as his wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. For this new edition, John Langan has added a variety of fresh elements to his proven approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Tittle
Contents
PART ONE Fifteen Basic Skills
Preview
1 Parts of Speech
2 Subjects and Verbs
3 Irregular Verbs
4 Subject-Verb Agreement
5 Sentence Types
6 Fragments I
7 Fragments II
8 Run-Ons and Comma Splices I
9 Run-Ons and Comma Splices II
10 The Comma
11 The Apostrophe
12 Quotation Marks
13 Homonyms
14 Capital Letters
15 Parallelism
PART TWO Extending the Skills
Preview
16 Preparing a Paper
17 Punctuation Marks
18 Pronoun Forms
19 Pronoun Problems
20 Adjectives and Adverbs
21 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
22 Word Choice
23 Numbers and Abbreviations
24 More about Subjects and Verbs
25 More about Subject-Verb Agreement
26 More about Verbs
27 Even More about Verbs
28 More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices
29 More about Commas
30 More about Apostrophes
31 More about Quotation Marks
32 More about Homonyms
33 More about Capital Letters
PART THREE Proofreading
Preview
34 Basics about Proofreading
35 Ten Proofreading Tests
PART FOUR Related Matters
Preview
36 Spelling Improvement
37 Dictionary Use
Index

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