College Writing Skills 8th Edition by John Langan ISBN 0073371653 9780073371658

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ISBN 10: 0073371653

ISBN 13: 9780073371658 

Author: John Langan 

College Writing Skills offers students a practical guide to becoming better writers. From mastering the traditional five-paragraph essay and its variations to learning about the finer points of grammar and punctuation, College Writing Skills empowers students to take control of their writing and put it to work for them. Now, with the new online writing program Connect Writing and the soon-to-come Connect Langan, an online interactive version of College Writing Skills, this new eighth edition brings writing closer to students and helps to take them where they need to go. Whether online or in class, College Writing Skills offers students the tools to succeed.

Table of contents:

PART 1: Basic Principles of Effective Writing
1 An Introduction to Writing
2 The Writing Process
3 The First and Second Steps in Writing
4 The Third Step in Writing
5 The Fourth Step in Writing
6 Four Bases for Revising Writing

PART 2: Paragraph Development
7 Introduction to Paragraph Development
8 Exemplification
9 Process
10 Cause and Effect
11 Comparison or Contrast
12 Definition
13 Division-Classification
14 Description
15 Narration
16 Argument
17 Additional Paragraph Assignments

PART 3: Essay Development
18 Writing the Essay

PART 4: Research Skills
19 Using the Library and the Internet
20 Writing a Research Paper

PART 5: Handbook of Sentence Skills
21 Subjects and Verbs
22 Sentence Sense
23 Fragments
24 Run-Ons
25 Standard English Verbs
26 Irregular Verbs
27 Subject-Verb Agreement
28 Pronoun Agreement and Reference
29 Pronoun Types
30 Adjectives and Adverbs
31 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
32 Paper Format
33 Capital Letters
34 Numbers and Abbreviations
35 Apostrophes
36 Quotation Marks
37 Commas
38 Other Punctuation Marks
39 Using the Dictionary
40 Improving Spelling
41 Vocabulary Development
42 Commonly Confused Words
43 Effective Word Choice
44 ESL Pointers

PART 6: Practice
45 Combined Mastery Tests
46 Editing Tests
Sentence-Skills Achievement Test

PART 7: Readings for Writers
Introduction to the Readings
GOALS AND VALUES
EDUCATION AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT
HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETY
APPENDIX
CREDITS
INDEX

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