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- ISBN-10 : 0495802468
- ISBN-13 : 978-0495802464
- Author: Pam Mathis
BLUEPRINTS FOR WRITING: BUILDING ESSAYS demystifies the writing process by guiding you through each step of the essay plan, or blueprint. This text empowers you to write essays from the start, providing numerous practice exercises, activities, and prompts to help you along the way. BLUEPRINTS FOR WRITING focuses on the writing process in various modes of development, offering abundant student writing samples throughout, including more than thirty student essays. Part III includes four chapters on critical reading, providing close reading strategies and six professional readings, which are supplemented by more than twenty additional readings in an appendix. The text also includes comprehensive coverage of the most common grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style issues that you will encounter. Coverage of incorporating research and practical writing are also included, complete with student samples that illustrate how writing is relevant to your academic, personal, and professional life.
Table of contents:
- Part I: The Writing Process
- Ch 1: An Overview of the Writing Process
- Ch 2: The Thesis and Simple Blueprint
- Ch 3: The Topic Sentence
- Ch 4: Supporting Your Points
- Ch 5: Coherence
- Ch 6: Unity
- Ch 7: The Introduction: The Icing on the Cake
- Ch 8: The Conclusion: Wrapping it up
- Part II: The Modes of Writing
- Ch 10: Narration
- Ch 11: Description
- Ch 12: Illustration
- Ch 13: Process
- Ch 14: Definition
- Ch 15: Comparison/Contrast
- Ch 16: Cause/Effect
- Ch 17: Classification
- Ch 18: Persuasion
- Part III: Critical Reading and Dealing with Writing Prompts
- Ch 19: Reading Critically and Responding to a Writing Prompt
- Ch 20: Planning and Writing Your Response to a Reading
- Ch 21: Drawing from Two Sources
- Ch 22: Writing about a Complex Reading
- Part IV: The Parts of Speech
- Ch 23: Nouns and Pronouns
- Ch 24: Verbs
- Ch 25: Adjectives and Adverbs
- Ch 26: Prepositions
- Ch 27: Verbals and Verbal Phrases
- Ch 28: Clauses
- Part V: Common Grammatical and Usage Errors
- Ch 29: Subject–Verb Agreement
- Ch 30: Sentence Fragments
- Ch 31: Run-On Sentences
- Ch 32: Pronoun Case, Agreement and Reference
- Ch 33: Parallelism
- Part VI: Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling Issues
- Ch 34: Commas
- Ch 35: Semicolons and Colons
- Ch 36: Apostrophes
- Ch 37: Quotation Marks
- Ch 38: Capitalization
- Ch 39: Elimination Second Person and Awkward Use of the Pronoun One
- Ch 40: Easily Confused Words
- Part VII: Style Issues
- Ch 41: Types of Sentences
- Ch 42: Varying Sentence Structure by Combining Sentences
- Ch 43: Using Appropriate Language
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