Table of Contents
1. Reading and Writing as Critical Thinking
2. Reading Critically
3. Writing Critically
4. Revising and Editing
5. Describing
6. Narrating
7. Illustrating
8. Analyzing a Process
9. Comparing and Contrasting
10. Dividing and Classifying
11. Defining
12. Analyzing Causes and Effects
13. Arguing
14. How to Read an Essay
15. How to Write an Essay
16. Writing Workshop
UNIT 1: THE BASICS
17. Parts of Speech
18. Phrases and Clauses
UNIT 2: SENTENCES
19. Subjects and Verbs
20. Fragments
21. Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
UNIT 3: VERBS
22. Regular and Irregular Verbs
23. Verb Tense
24. Subject–Verb Agreement
25. More on Verbs
UNIT 4: PRONOUNS
26. Pronoun Problems
27. Pronoun Reference and Point of View
28. Pronoun Agreement
UNIT 5: MODIFIERS
29. Adjectives
30. Adverbs
31. Modifier Errors
UNIT 6: PUNCTUATION
32. End Punctuation
33. Commas
34. Apostrophes
35. Quotation Marks
36. Other Punctuation Marks
UNIT 7: MECHANICS
37. Capitalization
38. Abbreviations and Numbers
UNIT 8: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
39. Varying Sentence Structure
40. Parallelism
41. Combining Sentences
UNIT 9: CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD
42. Standard and Nonstandard English
43. Easily Confused Words
44. Spelling
Appendixes