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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.
