Grassroots w/ Readings: The Writer's Workbook (w/ MLA9E Updates)

Want to learn the skills that colleges value and employers want? You can, with GRASSROOTS, 12th Edition and its digital learning tools. Author Susan Fawcett has successfully guided over three million students to become better writers, helping them in turn earn better grades in their courses across the curriculum. This book's clear instruction, relevant examples, engaging practices, eye-catching visuals and samples of first-rate student writing will help you, too. You'll find tips to make you a better reader and intriguing professional readings as well as practices and visual images on subjects that students asked for, like robotics, career opportunities and traits of successful people.

List of contents

Each chapter in Units 2–8 also includes Chapter Highlights, Proofreading Strategy, Writing and Proofreading Assignments, Chapter Review and Exploring Online.
Preface.
Unit 1: WRITING EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPHS.
1. Exploring the Writing Process.
The Reading and Writing Connection. The Writing Process. Subject, Audience, and Purpose. Guidelines for Submitting Written Work.
2. Prewriting to Generate Ideas.
Freewriting. Brainstorming. Clustering. Keeping a Journal.
3. Developing Effective Paragraphs.
Defining the Paragraph and the Topic Sentence. Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence. Generating Ideas for the Body of the Paragraph. Selecting and Dropping Ideas. Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline. Writing and Revising the Paragraph. Proofreading and Writing the Final Draft.
4. Improving Your Paragraphs.
More Work on Arranging Ideas: Coherence. More Work on Revising: Exact and Concise Language. Turning Assignments into Paragraphs.
5. Illustration, Narration, and Description.
Illustration. Narration. Description.
6. Process, Comparison and Contrast, and Classification.
Process. Comparison and Contrast. Classification.
7. Definition, Cause and Effect, and Persuasion.
Definition. Cause and Effect. Persuasion.
8. Moving from Paragraph to Essay.
Defining the Essay and the Thesis Statement. The Process of Writing an Essay.
9. Proofreading to Correct Your Personal Errors.
Identifying and Tracking Your Personal Error Patterns. Proofreading Strategies.
Unit 1 Writing Assignments.
Unit 1 Review.
Unit 1 Writers' Workshop: Discuss Your Name.
Unit 2: WRITING COMPLETE SENTENCES.
10. Subjects and Verbs.
Defining and Spotting Subjects. Spotting Singular and Plural Subjects. Spotting Prepositional Phrases. Defining and Spotting Action Verbs. Defining and Spotting Linking Verbs. Spotting Verbs of More Than One Word.
11. Avoiding Sentence Fragments.
Writing Sentences with Subjects and Verbs. Writing Sentences with Complete Verbs. Completing the Thought.
Unit 2 Writing Assignments.
Unit 2 Review.
Unit 2 Writers' Workshop: Discuss an Event That Influenced You.
Unit 3: USING VERBS EFFECTIVELY.
12. Present Tense (Agreement).
Defining Agreement. Verbs in the Present Tense: TO BE, TO HAVE, and TO DO (+ NOT).
Changing Subjects to Pronouns. Practice in Agreement. Special Problems in Agreement.
13. Past Tense.
Regular Verbs in the Past Tense. Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense. Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: TO BE. Review.
14. The Past Participle in Action.
Past Participles of Regular Verbs. Past Participles of Irregular Verbs. Using the Present Perfect Tense. Using the Past Perfect Tense. Using the Passive Voice. Using Past Participles as Adjectives.
15. Progressive Tenses (TO BE + -ING Verb Form).
Defining and Writing the Present Progressive Tense. Defining and Writing the Past Progressive Tense. Using the Progressive Tenses. Avoiding Incomplete Progressives.
16. Fixed-Form Helping Verbs and Verb Problems.
Defining and Spotting the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs. Using the Fixed-Form Helping Verbs. Using CAN and COULD. Using WILL and WOULD. Writing Infinitives. Revising Double Negatives.
Unit 3 Writing Assignments.
Unit 3 Review.
Unit 3 Writers' Workshop: Tell a Family Story.
Unit 4: JOINING IDEAS TOGETHER.
17. Coordination.
18. Subordination.
Defining and Using Subordinating Conjunctions. Punctuating Subordinating Conjunctions.
19. Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices.
20. Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs.
Defining and Using Semicolons. Defining and Using Conjunctive Adverbs. Punctuating Conjunctive Adverbs.
21. Relative Pronouns.
Defining and Using Relative Pronouns. Punctuating Ideas Introduced by WHO, WHICH, or THAT.
22. -ING Modifiers.
Using-ING Modifiers. Avoiding Confusing Modifiers.
Unit 4 Writing Assignments.
Unit 4 Review.
Unit 4 Writers' Workshop: Describe a Detour off the Main Highway.
Unit 5: CHOOSING THE RIGHT NOUN, PRONOUN, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, OR PREPOSITION.
23. Nouns.
Defining Singular and Plural. Signal Words: Singular and Plur

About the author

Susan Fawcett is the author of two market-leading college composition textbooks: EVERGREEN: A GUIDE TO WRITING (11th Edition) and GRASSROOTS: THE WRITER'S WORKBOOK (12th Edition). Both texts have won the peer-juried McGuffey Award for sustained excellence, presented by the Text & Academic Authors Association. With degrees in English literature from Ohio University and Columbia University, New York, Ms. Fawcett’s honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Birkbeck College, University of London and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She found her calling as a professor of English and Director of the Writing Lab at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, where, dismayed that existing textbooks didn’t help her students learn, she began creating her own worksheets that soon became GRASSROOTS. Ms. Fawcett gave up her tenure to write fulltime -- textbooks, poetry and articles on education and health. She has led faculty workshops throughout the United States and in South Africa.

Summary

Want to learn the skills that colleges value and employers want? You can, with GRASSROOTS, 12th Edition and its digital learning tools. Author Susan Fawcett has successfully guided over three million students to become better writers, helping them in turn earn better grades in their courses across the curriculum. This book's clear instruction, relevant examples, engaging practices, eye-catching visuals and samples of first-rate student writing will help you, too. You'll find tips to make you a better reader and intriguing professional readings as well as practices and visual images on subjects that students asked for, like robotics, career opportunities and traits of successful people.

Product details

• Authors: Fawcett, Susan Fawcett, Susan (Bronx Community College) Fawcett, Fawcett Susan
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781337614313
• ISBN: 978-1-337-61431-3
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 25 mm x 274 mm
• Weight: 1179 g
• Series: Mindtap Course List
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Education, Writing and editing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General