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What are your students' goals? - good grades - better jobs - self-confidence - scholarships - bigger paychecks - effective communication skills Use Writing: Step by Step to help your students learn the writing skills needed to achieve their goals! Writing: Step by Step encourages your students to: - Focus on the act of writing - Learn the entire writing process - Read and analyze student-authored examples of all stages in the writing process - Develop skills using current trends, such as computer-based writing - Explore both traditional and nontraditional elements of writing - Focus on finding precisely the right words for essays - Use up-to-date research techniques for essay writing - Experience how other students have used brainstorming and invention strategies to create their own subjects and topics

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments To the Student To the Teacher Section 1 - Getting Ready to Write  Chapter 1 - The Process of Writing Part One: Pre-Writing Part Two: Writing Part Three: Post-Writing Chapter 2 - Close Doesn't Count  Section 2 - The Word  Chapter 3 - Diction Part One: Idiom Part Two: Cliche Part Three: Euphemism Part Four: Redundancy Part Five: Wordiness (Verbosity) Part Six: Denotation and Connotation Part Seven: Levels of Diction Part Eight: General Words and Specific Words; Concrete Words and Abstract Words Part Nine: Usage Section 3 - The Paragraph  Chapter 4 - The Paragraph Methods of Paragraph Organization Methods of Paragraph Development Section 4 - The Essay  Chapter 5 - The Thesis Statement, the Outline and the Title Part One: The Thesis Statement Part Two: The Outline Part Three: The Title Chapter 6 - Special Paragraphs Part One: Introductory Paragraphs Part Two: Concluding Paragraphs Part Three: Transitional Paragraphs Chapter 7 - The Description Paper Effective Description The Description of an Object Paper The Description of a Place Paper The Description of a Person Paper The Description of an Event Paper Chapter 8 - The Narrative Paper  Chapter 9 - The Process Paper  Chapter 10 - The Example Paper  Chapter 11 - The Comparison-Contrast Paper  Chapter 12 - The Classification Paper  Chapter 13 - The Definition Paper  Chapter 14 - The Cause-Effect Paper  Chapter 15 - The Persuasion Paper  Section 5 - Research Documentation  Chapter 16 - The Research Paper Conducting Research: A Few Basics Documenting Research: A Few Basics Conclusion Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787299651
  • Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0787299650
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 476
  • Width: 216 mm


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