The dolphin writer, book one
Subtitle: building sentences and composing paragraphs
Edition: Instructor's annotated ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780618379156; 9780618379125
Subjects: English language; Composition and exercises; Textbooks; Rhetoric; Composition (Language arts)
Other titles: Building sentences and composing paragraphs
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Improving writing and thinking; title: Chapter 2. Parts of speech; title: Chapter 3. The basic sentence; title: Chapter 4. Verbs; title: Chapter 5. Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs; title: Chapter 6. Subject-verb agreement; title: Chapter 7. Pronouns and pronoun agreement; title: Chapter 8. The compound sentence; title: Chapter 9. The complex sentence; title: Chapter 10. Parallelism; title: Chapter 11. Combining sentences; title: Chapter 12. Punctuation; title: Chapter 13. Capitalization; title: Chapter 14. Spelling; title: Chapter 15. Prewriting; title: Chapter 16. Organizing and outlining; title: Chapter 17. Writing a paragraph; title: Chapter 18. Revising; title: Chapter 19. Proofreading, editing, and preparing a final draft; title: Chapter 20. Time order: narration and process; title: Chapter 21. Space order: description; title: Chapter 22. giving examples: illustration; title: Chapter 23. Comparison and contrast; title: Chapter 24. Order of importance: argument.