Features Clear, concise instruction in a friendly, conversational tone invites students to read the book and ensures that they will understand it. Detailed writing strategies for each rhetorical mode in Chapter 3 show students how to best handle the writing assignments. Sample outlines for the modes in Chapter 3 show students how to organize material. Boxed checklists for revising, editing, and documentation help students organize their ideas and information and refine their papers. Collaborative activities and exercises encourage students to work together and learn from one another.
Exercises provide writing practice and help students overcome common errors.
To This Edition New Chapter 11, Reviewing the Basics of Grammar , explains how the parts of speech function, as well as phrases and clauses. A sample working outline in Chapter 8 shows, visually, how sample notecards are used in putting together an outline for a research paper. An expanded discussion of thesis statements in Chapter 1 offers additional advice for thesis placement and how to use it to unify a paper. Updated discussion on using and documenting electronic sources is found at the end of Chapter 10. A complete sample outline for the research paper is found at the end of Chapter 9.