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Real Essays Essentials

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Gain confidence as a reader, writer, and thinker as Real Essays Essentials builds your academic writing skills to lead to improved success in college and beyond with the support necessary to enable you to develop better paragraphs and essays.

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Contents

Table of Contents

A Note for Students
Preface

PART ONE: College Thinking, Reading, and Writing
1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Making Connections 
2. Getting Ready to Write: Audience, Purpose, Form, and Process 
3. Organizing Your Main Point and Support: Giving Ideas Structure 
4. Drafting and Revising: Putting Your Ideas Together

PART TWO: Writing Different Kinds of Essays 
5. Narration: Writing That tells Stories 
6. Illustration: Writing That Shows Examples
7. Description: Writing That Creates Pictures with Words 
8. Process Analysis: Writing That Explains How Things Happen 
9. Classification: Writing That Sorts Things into Groups 
10. Definition: Writing That Tells What Something Means  
11. Comparison and Contrast: Writing That Shows Similarities and Differences
12. Cause and Effect: Writing That Explains Reasons or Results 
13. Argument: Writing That Persuades 

PART THREE: Doing Research 
14. Research Essays: Using Outside Sources 

PART FOUR: Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics  
15. Basic Grammar: An Overview  
16. The Four Most Serious Errors  
17. Other Grammar and Style Concerns  
18. Punctuation and Capitalization  

Index 
Useful Editing and Proofreading Marks

Authors

Susan Anker

Susan Anker (BA, MEd, Boston University) brings a unique perspective to the teaching of the developmental writing course. She taught English and developmental writing before entering college publishing, where she worked for eighteen years: as a sales representative and English/ESL editor at Macmillan Publishing Company; as developmental English/ESL editor, executive editor, and editor in chief at St. Martin’s Press; and as vice president and editor in chief for humanities at Houghton Mifflin Company. In each of these positions, she worked with developmental writing instructors and students, maintaining her early interest in the field.  Since the publication of the first edition of Real Writing in 1998, Anker has traveled extensively to campuses across the country, continuing her conversations with instructors and students and giving workshops and presentations. She believes that the writing course is, for many students, their first, best opportunity to learn the skills they will need to succeed in college and achieve their goals.


Miriam Moore

Miriam Moore (BA, Baylor University; MA, PhD, University of South Carolina) discovered her passion for teaching over 20 years ago when, as a graduate student, she worked with ESL writers in a sheltered section of first-year composition.  Since then, she has taught in a state university, an intensive English program, an industry-sponsored ESL program, and two community colleges.  Whether teaching developmental writing, literacy, ESL grammar, reading, or first-year composition, her focus is the same:  to introduce students to academic culture and provide instruction that will help them succeed in their academic programs.  She is currently professor of English and ESL at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Virginia, where she is developing an expanded ESL program and leading the College’s implementation of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) redesign of development English.  In 2011-2012, she served on the team which developed the integrated curriculum for the VCCS redesign, and she has presented strategies for teaching developmental and ESL courses at local, state, regional, and national conferences.


Get Miriam Moore’s advice for planning, drafting, and revising essays—even when you aren’t online!

Gain confidence as a reader, writer, and thinker as Real Essays Essentials builds your academic writing skills to lead to improved success in college and beyond with the support necessary to enable you to develop better paragraphs and essays.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

A Note for Students
Preface

PART ONE: College Thinking, Reading, and Writing
1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Making Connections 
2. Getting Ready to Write: Audience, Purpose, Form, and Process 
3. Organizing Your Main Point and Support: Giving Ideas Structure 
4. Drafting and Revising: Putting Your Ideas Together

PART TWO: Writing Different Kinds of Essays 
5. Narration: Writing That tells Stories 
6. Illustration: Writing That Shows Examples
7. Description: Writing That Creates Pictures with Words 
8. Process Analysis: Writing That Explains How Things Happen 
9. Classification: Writing That Sorts Things into Groups 
10. Definition: Writing That Tells What Something Means  
11. Comparison and Contrast: Writing That Shows Similarities and Differences
12. Cause and Effect: Writing That Explains Reasons or Results 
13. Argument: Writing That Persuades 

PART THREE: Doing Research 
14. Research Essays: Using Outside Sources 

PART FOUR: Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics  
15. Basic Grammar: An Overview  
16. The Four Most Serious Errors  
17. Other Grammar and Style Concerns  
18. Punctuation and Capitalization  

Index 
Useful Editing and Proofreading Marks

Susan Anker

Susan Anker (BA, MEd, Boston University) brings a unique perspective to the teaching of the developmental writing course. She taught English and developmental writing before entering college publishing, where she worked for eighteen years: as a sales representative and English/ESL editor at Macmillan Publishing Company; as developmental English/ESL editor, executive editor, and editor in chief at St. Martin’s Press; and as vice president and editor in chief for humanities at Houghton Mifflin Company. In each of these positions, she worked with developmental writing instructors and students, maintaining her early interest in the field.  Since the publication of the first edition of Real Writing in 1998, Anker has traveled extensively to campuses across the country, continuing her conversations with instructors and students and giving workshops and presentations. She believes that the writing course is, for many students, their first, best opportunity to learn the skills they will need to succeed in college and achieve their goals.


Miriam Moore

Miriam Moore (BA, Baylor University; MA, PhD, University of South Carolina) discovered her passion for teaching over 20 years ago when, as a graduate student, she worked with ESL writers in a sheltered section of first-year composition.  Since then, she has taught in a state university, an intensive English program, an industry-sponsored ESL program, and two community colleges.  Whether teaching developmental writing, literacy, ESL grammar, reading, or first-year composition, her focus is the same:  to introduce students to academic culture and provide instruction that will help them succeed in their academic programs.  She is currently professor of English and ESL at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Virginia, where she is developing an expanded ESL program and leading the College’s implementation of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) redesign of development English.  In 2011-2012, she served on the team which developed the integrated curriculum for the VCCS redesign, and she has presented strategies for teaching developmental and ESL courses at local, state, regional, and national conferences.


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