College writing skills with readings
By: John Langan, Sharon Winstanley
Contributors: Winstanley, Sharon
Edition: 4th Canadian ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780070877337
Subjects: English language; Rhetoric; Grammar; College readers; Anglais (Langue); Rhétorique; Grammaire; Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement supérieur)
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Essay writing; title: ch. 1. An introduction to writing; title: ch. 2. The writing process; title: ch. 3. The first and second steps in essay writing; title: ch. 4. The third step in essay writing; title: ch. 5. The fourth step in essay writing; title: ch. 6. Four bases for revising essays; title: pt. 2. Patterns of essay development; title: ch. 7. Introduction to essay development; title: ch. 8. Narration; title: ch. 9. Description; title: ch. 10. Examples; title: ch. 11. Process; title: ch. 12. Cause and effect; title: ch. 13. Comparison and contrast; title: ch. 14. Definition; title: ch. 15. Division and classification; title: ch. 16. Argumentation; title: pt. 3. Special skills; title: ch. 17. Learning skills and essay exams; title: ch. 18. Writing a summary; title: ch. 19. Writing a review; title: ch. 20. Research skills; title: ch. 21. Writing a research paper; title: pt. 4. Handbook of sentence skills; title: Grammar; title: ch. 22. Subjects and verbs; title: ch. 23. Fragments; title: ch. 24. Run-ons; title: ch. 25. Regular and irregular verbs; title: ch. 26. Subject-verb agreement; title: ch. 27. Additional information about verbs; title: ch. 28. Pronoun agreement and reference; title: ch. 29. Pronoun types; title: ch. 30. Adjectives and adverbs; title: ch. 31. Misplaced modifiers; title: ch. 32. Dangling modifiers; title: Mechanics; title: ch. 33. Manuscript form; title: ch. 34. Capital letters; title: ch. 35. Numbers and abbreviations; title: Punctuation; title: ch. 36. Apostrophe; title: ch. 37. Quotation marks; title: ch. 38. Comma; title: ch. 39. Other punctuation marks; title: Word use; title: ch. 40. Commonly confused words; title: ch. 41. Effective word choice; title: ch. 42. ESL pointers; title: ch. 43. Editing tests; title: pt. 5. Readings for writing; title: ch. 44. Introduction to the readings; title: Looking inward; title: Shame / Dick Gregory; title: Smash thy neighbor / John McMurtry; title: My body is my own business / Naheed Mustafa; title: Three passions / Bertrand Russell; title: Wait divisions / Tom Bodett; title: How to do well on a job interview / Glenda Davis; title: Observing others; title: He was a boxer when I was small / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias; title: Where the world began / Margaret Laurence; title: Why are students turned off? / Casey Banas; title: Sometimes the words don't come / Jeannie Marshall; title: The monster / Deems Taylor; title: The greatest story never told / Bob McKeown; title: Davy Crockett, Ookpiks and mink / Jeanne Beker; title: Considering concepts; title: Here's to your health / Joan Dunayer; title: Coffee / Alan Durning; title: How to make it in college, now that you're here / Brian O'Keeney; title: In praise of the F word / Mary Sherry; title: The pain of animals / David Suzuki; title: Detecting lies / Eric Schlosser; title: Choose your battles / Andrew Clark; title: Sex, lies, and conversation / Deborah Tannen.