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Real Writing with Readings
Eighth EditionSusan Anker; Miriam Moore
©2019ISBN:9781319130497
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Practical advice and examples show you how to become a successful writer
The need to write, and to write well, is not something that is going to end when you walk out the door on your last day of your last college writing class. Writing is a skill that you will continue to use in college, throughout your career, and in your everyday life. Real Writing with Readings will help you develop the skills you need to succeed:
- Critical thinking strategies help you read actively, notice the writer’s strategies, consider how those strategies could be applied in your own writing, and apply the skills you learn to the writing you do in other courses or in your life outside of college.
- The Four Basics help you recognize and stay focused on the most important elements of your writing: Main Idea, Primary Support, Secondary Support, and Organization.
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Learn MoreTable of Contents
Thematic Table of Contents
Preface
Real Support for Instructors and Students
A Note to Students from the Authors
Part 1: How to Write Paragraphs and Essays
1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Making Connections
2. Writing Basics: Audience, Purpose, and Process
3. Finding Your Topic and Writing Your Topic Sentence and Thesis Statement: Making a Point
4. Supporting Your Point: Finding Details, Examples, and Facts
5. Drafting and Revising: The Writing Process
Part 2: Writing Different Kinds of Paragraphs and Essays
6. Narration: Writing That Tells Important Stories
7. Illustration: Writing That Gives Examples
8. Description: Writing That Creates Pictures in Words
9. Process Analysis: Writing That Explains How Things Happen
10. Classification: Writing That Sorts Things into Groups
11. Definition: Writing That Tells What Something Means
12. Comparison and Contrast: Writing That Shows Similarities and Differences
13. Cause and Effect: Writing That Explains Reasons or Results
14. Argument: Writing That Persuades
Part 3: The Four Most Serious Errors
15. The Basic Sentence: An Overview
16. Fragments: Incomplete Sentences
17. Run-Ons: Two Sentences Joined Incorrectly
18. Problems with Subject-Verb Agreement: When Subjects and Verbs Don’t Match
19. Verb Tense: Using Verbs to Express Different Times
Part 4: Other Grammar Concerns
20. Pronouns: Using Substitutes for Nouns
21. Adjectives and Adverbs: Using Descriptive Words
22. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers: Avoiding Confusing Descriptions
23. Coordination and Subordination: Joining Sentences with Related Ideas
24. Parallelism: Balancing Ideas
25. Sentence Variety: Putting Rhythm in Your Writing
26. Formal English and ESL Concerns: Grammar Trouble Spots for Multilingual Students
Part 5: Word Use
27. Word Choice: Using the Right Words
28. Commonly Confused Words: Avoiding Mistakes with Soundalike Words
29. Spelling: Using the Right Letters
Part 6: Punctuation and Capitalization
30. Commas ( , )
31. Apostrophes ( ’ )
32. Quotation Marks ( " " )
33. Other Punctuation ( ; : ( ) -- - )
34. Capitalization: Using Capital Letters
EDITING REVIEW TESTS 1–10
Appendix A: Research and MLA
Appendix B: Interpreting a Prompt
Index I-1
Real Take-Away Points
Editing and Proofreading Marks
For Easy Reference: Selected Lists and Charts