Exploring Writing: Sentences and Paragraphs

✍ Scribed by John Langan

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 672
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exploring Writing: Sentences and Paragraphs serves as a guidebook for every step of the writing process. Emphasizing both process and practice, with a focus on revision, the new second edition helps to apply and advance writing skills using John Langan’s proven techniques. Mastering essential sentence skills, learning to write effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays, and becoming a critical reader are turning points for every writer, and they will prepare the students for writing situations in college and beyond.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Contents
Part 1 Writing: Skills and Process
1 An Introduction to Writing
2 The Writing Process
Part 2 Writing Effective Paragraphs
3 Four Steps for Writing, Four Bases for Revising
4 Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development
5 Moving from Paragraph to Essay
Part 3 Sentence Skills
Section I Sentences
6 Subjects and Verbs
7 Fragments
8 Run-Ons
9 Sentence Variety I
Section II Verbs, Pronouns, and Agreement
10 Standard English Verbs
11 Irregular Verbs
12 Subject-Verb Agreement
13 Consistent Verb Tense
14 Additional Information about Verbs
15 Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Point of View
16 Pronoun Types
Section III Modifiers and Parallelism
17 Adjectives and Adverbs
18 Misplaced Modifiers
19 Dangling Modifiers
20 Faulty Parallelism
21 Sentence Variety II
Section IV Punctuation and Mechanics
22 Paper Format
23 Capital Letters
24 Numbers and Abbreviations
25 End Marks
26 Apostrophes
27 Quotation Marks
28 Commas
29 Other Punctuation Marks
Section V Word Use
30 Dictionary Use
31 Spelling Improvement
32 Omitted Words and Letters
33 Commonly Confused Words
34 Effective Word Choice
Part 4 Readings for Writers
Introduction to the Readings
Goals and Values
Education and Self-Improvement
Human Groups and Society
Appendix A-E
Credits
Index