Preface to the Fifth Edition |
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PART 1 PREPARING TO WRITE |
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Unit 1 The ESL Student and the Native Speaker |
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Differences Between a Native Speaker and an ESL Student |
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A General Note to Both the Native Speaker and ESL Student |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 2 Myths About Writing |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 3 Purpose and Audience |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Computer Writing Assignment |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Action Verbs and Linking Verbs |
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Compound Subjects and Verbs |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 6 Building Sentences |
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Dependent and Independent Clauses |
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Three Basic Sentence Types |
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Statements, Questions, Commands, and Exclamations |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 7 The 20 Most Common Sentence Errors |
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Error 1 Sentence Fragments |
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Error 3 Lack of Subject-Verb Agreement |
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Error 4 Incorrect Verb Forms |
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Error 5 Incorrect Forms of Do, Be, and Have |
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Error 8 Shift in Point of View |
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Error 9 Unclear or Missing Referent |
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Error 10 Lack of Pronoun Agreement and Sexism |
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Error 11 Trouble with Using Adverbs and Adjectives in Comparisons and Superlatives |
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Error 12 Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers |
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Error 13 Omitted Commas, Part I |
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Error 14 Omitted Commas, Part II |
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Error 15 Apostrophe Problems |
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Error 16 Trouble with Quotation Marks |
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Error 17 Incorrect Capitalization, Part I |
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Error 18 Incorrect Capitalization, Part II |
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Error 19 Misspelled Words, Part I |
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Error 20 Misspelled Words, Part II |
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PART 3 WRITING GOOD PARAGRAPHS |
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Unit 8 The Paragraph and the Topic Sentence |
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Talking and the Paragraph |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 10 Sticking to the Point, Proving the Point, and Linking Sentences |
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Prove the Point, Don't Merely Repeat It |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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PART 4 PARAGRAPH STRATEGIES |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 14 Explaining a Process |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 17 Comparing and Contrasting |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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What You Are Trying to Do |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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PART 5 WRITING GOOD ESSAYS |
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Unit 20 Moving from Paragraphs to Essays |
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Moving from Paragraphs to an Essay |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 21 The Thesis Statement |
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Common Faults of Thesis Statements |
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The Good Thesis Statement |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 22 Organizing Your Essay, from Beginning to End |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Unit 23 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading |
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Student Essay in Progress |
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Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
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Unit Collaborative Assignment |
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Santa with a Suntan: A Jamaican Christmas, Anthony C. Winkler |
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The Circuit, Francisco Jiminez |
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A Different Sort of Time, Ian McDonald |
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The Story of His Life, Bart Edelman |
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So Who Makes Up All Those Signs That Tell Us What We Mustn't Do? Bailey White |
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Long Live High School Rebels, Thomas French |
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How I Was Bathed, Michael Ondaatje |
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Bullying Broadly Defined, John Leo |
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"Both" or "Other"? It's Not as Clear as Black and White, Pamela Swanigan |
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Wait Divisions, Tom Bodett |
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The Plot Against People, Russell Baker |
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Comparing and Contrasting |
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Doctor-as-God Is Dead, or Dying, Ellen Goodman |
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They Stole Our Childhood, Lee Goldberg |
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The Little Prince and the Fox, Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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Papa, the Teacher, Leo Buscaglia |
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Cure Me If You Can, Michael Kingsley |
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If I Were a Carpenter, John Balzar |
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Credits |
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Index |
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