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Becoming a writer is a journey, and Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays will serve as your students&' guidebook every step of the way. Emphasizing both process and practice, with a focus on revision, this text will help students apply and advance their writing skills. Mastering essential sentence skills, learning to write effective paragraphs and essays, and becoming a critical reader are turning points for every writer, and they will prepare the students for writing situations in college and beyond.

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• Preface
• Part 1 Writing: Skills And Process
• 1 An Introduction to Writing Point and Support An Important Difference between WRiting and Talking Point and Support in a Pragraph Knowing Your Purpose and Audience Benefits of Paragraph Writing Writing as a Skill Writing as a Process of Discovery Keeping a Journal Tips on Using a Computer Ways to Use a Computer at Each Stage of the Writing Process Review Activities
• 2 The Writing Process Prewriting Technique
• 1 Freewriting Technique
• 2 Questioning Technique
• 3 Making a List Technique
• 4 Clustering Technique
• 5 Preparing a Scratch Outline Writing a First Draft Writing a First Draft: A Student Model Revising Revising Content Revising Sentences Editing An Illustration of the Revising and Editing Processes Review Activities Taking a Writing Inventory Prewriting Outlining Revising
• Part 2 Basic Principles Of Effective Writing
• 3 The First and Second Steps in Writing
• Step 1 Begin with a Point Identifying Common Errors in Topic Sentences Understanding the Two Parts of a Topic Sentence Selecting a Topic Sentence Writing a Topic Sentence I Writing a Topic Sentence I Writing a Topic Sentence II
• Step 2 Support the Point with Specific Evidence The Point as an "Umbrella" Idea Reinforcing Point and Support The Importance of Specific Details Recognizing Specific Details I Recognizing Specific Details II Providing Supporting Evidence The Importance of Adequate Details Identifying Adequate Supporting Evidence Adding Details to Complete a Paragraph Writing a Simple Paragraph
• 4 The Third Step and Fourth Steps in Writing
• Step 3 Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Common Methods of Organization: Time Order and Emphatic Order Transitions Other Connecting Words
• Step 4 Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences Revising Sentences Editing Sentences
• 5 Four Bases for Revising Writing
• Base 1 Unity Understanding Unity Checking for Unity
• Base 2 Support Understanding Support Checking for Support
• Base 3 Coherence Understanding Coherence Checking for Coherence
• Base 4 Sentence Skills Understanding Sentence Skills Checking for Sentence Skills Evaluating Paragraphs for All Four Bases: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills
• Part 3 Paragraph Development
• 6 Exemplification Providing Examples Paragraphs to Consider Questions Developing an Exemplification Paragraph Development through Prewriting Development through Revising Writing an Exemplification Paragraph
• 7 Process Paragraphs to Consider Questions Developing a Process Paragraph Development through Prewriting Development through Revising Writing a Process Paragraph
• 8 Cause and Effect Paragraphs to Consider Questions Developing a Cause-and-Effect Paragraph Development through Prewriting Development through Revising Writing a Cause-and-Effect Paragraph
• 9 Comparison or Contrast Paragraphs to Consider Methods of Development One Side at a Time Point by Point Add