Resources for Writers, with Readings (with MyWritingLab), 2/E
ISBN-10: 032145667X
ISBN-13: 9780321456670
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Package; 960 pp
Published: 07/31/2006
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Description
Resources for Writers combines skill instruction, a wealth of exercises, and a lab manual, making it a complete resource for students and instructors.
The combination of resources ensures a thorough and highly effective learning experience for students and supports instructors with ready-made writing assignments and activities. Resources for Writers uses writing process and a modes approach to teach paragraph development. The completely modular chapters feature sample writings on cultural literacy themes, exercises, and step-by-step writing prompts. The grammar section also contains exercises designed to assist students in mastering skills. The text's Lab Manual consists of workbook activities for each text chapter that are supplemented by additional, correlated activities in the Online Lab Manual.
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Table of Contents
I. GETTING STARTED
1. Your Strengths as a Writer
2. The 4C’s: The Bases of Good Writing
3. Writing for a Reader and a Reason
II. THE WRITING PROCESS
4. Prewriting: Coming Up With Ideas.
5. Drafting: Writing a Rough Draft.
6. Revising: Making Changes in Your Draft.
7. Editing: Checking for Correctness.
8. Putting the Writing Process Steps Together.
III. THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD WRITING
9. Writing an Effective Topic Sentence.
10. Using Specific Details for Support and Illustration.
11. Organizing and Linking Ideas.
12. Sensitive Writing
13. Choosing the Best Words.
14. Improving Your Spelling.
15. Expanding Your Vocabulary.
16. Using the Dictionary.
IV. STRATEGIES FOR PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT.
17. Providing Illustrations and Examples.
18. Narrating an Event or Story.
19. Describing a Scene, Person, or Object.
20. Classifying and Dividing.
21. Explaining a Process.
22. Comparing and Contrasting.
23. Explaining Cause and Effect.
24. Defining Terms.
25. Arguing a Position.
V. WRITING ESSAYS.
26. Essay and the Thesis Statement
27. Prewriting for and Drafting Your Essay.
28. Revising and Editing Your Essay.
VI. WRITING FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES.
29. Essay Exams.
30. Writing Summaries.
31. Writing to Get a Job.
32. Proper Format
VII. WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES.
33. Prepositional Phrases.
34. Subjects and Verbs.
35. Clauses.
36. Run-On Sentences.
37. Fragments.
38. Regular Verbs.
39. Irregular Verbs.
40. Subject-Verb Agreement.
41. Verb Tense and Tense Consistency.
42. Pronoun Types
43. Pronoun Agreement
44. Adjectives and Adverbs
45. Misplaced Modifiers.
46. Dangling Modifiers.
47. Errors in Parallelism.
48. Commas.
VIII. PUNCUATION AND MECHANICS
49. Apostrophes.
50. Quotation Marks.
51. Other Punctuation Marks
52. Capitalization.
53. Numbers and Abbreviations
54. Words That Look and Sound Alike.
55. Sentence Combining For Variety.
56. Tips for Second Language Writers.
IX. Readings for Informed Writing
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