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From paragraph to essay, this process-based developmental writing text emphasizes good writing as a craft that students hone through practice. The book offers detailed instructions, explanations, examples, student models and activities. It guides students through the writing process to produce college work. This approach is intended to help students experience the writing process even as they achieve practical, assignment-related goals. Every assignment chapter offers two or three student samples with extensive, focused apparatus, in addition to an annotated student sample in four drafts. The text is divided between paragraph and essay, with enough assignments in each unit to allow an instructor to teach mostly paragraph, mostly essay, or balance the two.

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• Unit I Getting Our Feet Wet
• 1 Practicing the Writing Process
• 2 Making the Most of Reading
• Unit II Working with the Paragraph
• 3 Introducing the Paragraph
• 4 Revising Paragraphs
• 5 Picturing A Place
• 6 Telling Your Own Story
• 7 Illustrating through Examples
• 8 Creating and Explaining Groups
• 9 Recognizing Causes, Explaining Effects
• 10 Explaining Activities: Doing Them, Understanding Them
• 11 Explaining Similarities and Differences
• Unit III Working with the Essay
• 12 Introducing the Essay
• 13 Revising Essays
• 14 Expanding Paragraphs into Essays
• 15 Defining Terms, Clarifying Ideas
• Combining Patterns of Development
• 16 Writing Persuasively
• Combining Patterns of Development
• 17 Taking Essay Exams
• Combining Patterns of Development
• Unit IV Polishing Style
• 18 Creating Sentence Variety
• 19 Choosing the Most Effective Word
• Unit V Practicing Sentence Sense
• 20 Working with Sentence Parts
• 21 Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism
• 22 Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments
• 23 Verbs: Form and Agreement
• 24 Pronouns: Reference, Agreement, and Form
• 25 Adjectives and Adverbs: Words that Describe
• 26 Commas, Other Punctuation, and Mechanics
• 27 Spelling and Sound-Alike Words
• 28 ESL Concerns
• Unit VI Additional Readings
• "The Great Tide Pool,"excerpt from
• "The Dare,"by Roger Hoffman "Rambos of the Road,"
• "The Ways of Meeting Oppression,"
• "The Ten Most Memorable Bores"
• "Two by Two, We'll Fill the Planet"
• "Black Men and Public Spaces"
• "How to Write a Letter,"
• Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts,"
• "A Nice Place to Visit"
• "Opposing Principles Help Balance Society"
• "What Is a Dad?"
• "Abortion, Right and Wrong,"
• "What Is Biodiversity and Why Should We Care about It?"
• Appendix 1 Working with Your Computer
• Appendix 2 Improvement Chart