The Practical Writer (with InfoTrac)

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Edition: 8th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-08
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

THE PRACTICAL WRITER provides both developmental and first-year composition students with a step-by-step approach to writing, from the one-paragraph essay to the five-paragraph essay to the research paper.

Table of Contents

Section One A Model for Writing
1(2)
Part 1 The One-Paragraph Essay (Stage I)
3(52)
Overview of the One-Paragraph Essay (Stage I)
5(9)
Support: Examples, Statistics, Statements by Authorities
14(14)
Topic Sentence
28(8)
Unity
36(4)
Coherence
40(9)
Tips on the Writing Process
49(6)
Part 2 The One-Paragraph Essay (Stage II)
55(20)
Overview of the One-Paragraph Essay (Stage II)
57(7)
Support: Subtopic Sentences
64(11)
Checklist for the One-Paragraph Essay
73(2)
Part 3 The Five-Paragraph Essay
75(52)
Overview of the Five-Paragraph Essay
77(14)
Alternative Techniques of Layout
91(8)
Thesis Statement with Blueprint
99(8)
Central Paragraphs
107(9)
Introduction
116(4)
Conclusion
120(7)
Checklist for the Five-Paragraph Essay
125(2)
Section Two Beyond the Model Essay
127(2)
Part 4 More Patterns of Development
129(38)
Comparison and Contrast
131(10)
Cause and Effect
141(11)
Classification
152(9)
Process
161(6)
Part 5 The Research Paper
167(144)
Overview of the Research Paper
169(38)
Finding Support
207(21)
Taking and Organizing Notes
228(13)
Organizing Your Thoughts and Support
241(14)
Using Borrowed Material in Your Paper
255(12)
Parenthetical Documentation
267(9)
Works Cited
276(35)
Section Three Improving Your Punctuation and Expression
311(2)
Part 6 Punctuation
313(54)
Definitions
315(9)
Sentence Fragment
324(5)
Comma Splice and Fused Sentence
329(5)
Comma
334(10)
Semicolon
344(4)
Colon
348(4)
Dash
352(3)
Apostrophe
355(4)
Quotation Marks
359(8)
Part 7 Expression
367(67)
Subordination
369(6)
Sentence Variety
375(8)
Parallelism
383(11)
Misused Modifiers
394(7)
Subject-Verb Agreement
401(9)
Pronoun Agreement
410(8)
Passive Voice
418(8)
Word Choice
426(8)
Appendixes
434(12)
A Theme Format
434(2)
B Commonly Confused Words
436(6)
C Glossary of Grammatical Terms
442(4)
Index 446

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