College writing skills, media edition /
College writing skills
John Langan.
- 5th ed., Media ed.
- Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2003
- x, 582 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) + + 1 user's guide (18 p. ; 24 cm.)
1 CD-ROM : Student CD-ROM to accompany College writing skills and College writing skills with Readings, 5th ed. [by] John Langan. ISBN 0072423544 1 user's guide : John Langan's college writing skills : the media edition : user's guide. 5th ed., [by] John Langan. ISBN 007281893X part of 0072836504 Includes index.
To the Instructor. - Pt. One : Eassay Writing. 1. An Introduction to Writing. 2. The Writing Process. 3. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing. 4. The Third Step in Essay Writing. 5. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing. 6. Four Bases for Revising Essays. - Pt. Two : Patterns of Essay Development. 7. Introduction to Essay Development. 8. Description. 9. Narration. 10. Examples. 11. Process. 12. Cause and Effect. 13. Comparison and Contrast. 14. Definition. 15. Division and Classification. 16. Argumentation. - Pt. Three : Special Skills. 17. Taking Essay Exams. 18. Writing a Summary. 19. Writing a Report. 20. Writing a Resume and Job Application Letter. 21. Using the Library and the Internet. 22. Writing a Research Paper. - Pt. Four : Handbook of Sentence Skills. Grammar. 23. Subjects and Verbs. 24. Fragments. 25. Run-Ons. 26. Regular and Irregular Verbs. 27. Subject-Verb Agreement. 28. Additional Infomation about Verbs. 29. Pronoun Agreement and Reference. 30. Pronoun Types. 31. Adjectives and Adverbs. 32. Misplaced Modifiers. 33. Dangling Modifiers. Mechanics. 34. Manuscript Form. 35. Capital Letters. 36. Numbers and Abbreviations. Punctuation. 37. Apostrophe. 38. Quotation Marks. 39. Comma. 40. Other Punctuation Marks. Word Use. 41. Spelling Improvement. 42. Commonly Confused Words. 43. Effective Word Choice. 44. Editing Tests. 45. ESL Pointers.
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English language--Grammar. English language--Rhetoric. Report writing.