College Writing Skills with Readings MLA 2016 Update

Connect Writing coupled with College Writing Skills with Readings provides the foundation for your grammar study and tools to support the writing process, so you can find the inspiration need to be successful in college, career and life. Students are guided through personalized learning activities and critical reading/writing strategies to so they come more aware of writing with a purpose.

Table of Contents:
Preface xxiiPart 1: Essay Writing 1 Chapter 1 An Introduction to Writing 2Point and Support 3Structure of the Traditional Essay 6Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay 11Writing as a Skill 11Writing as a Process of Discovery 12Writing as a Way to Communicate with Others 13Keeping a Journal 14Tips on Using a Computer 15Review Activities 17Using This Text 20 Chapter 2 The Writing Process 22Prewriting 23Writing a First Draft 31Revising 33Editing 35Review Activities 38 Chapter 3 The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing 50Step 1: Begin with a Point, or Thesis 51Step 2: Support the Thesis with Specific Evidence 60Practice in Advancing and Supporting a Thesis 67 Chapter 4 The Third Step in Essay Writing 83Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence 84Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles 94Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence 102 Chapter 5 The Fourth Step in Essay Writing 110 Revising Sentences 111Editing Sentences 130Practice in Revising Sentences 133 Chapter 6 Four Bases for Revising Essays 144Base 1: Unity 145Base 2: Support 148Base 3: Coherence 152Base 4: Sentence Skills 155Practice in Using the Four Bases 159 Part 2: Patterns of Essay Development 173Chapter 7 Introduction to Essay Development 174Important Considerations in Essay Development 175Patterns of Essay Development 180 Chapter 8 Description 182READING: Lou's Place by Beth Johnson 192 Chapter 9 Narration 203READING: The Yellow Ribbon by Pete Hamill 214 Chapter 10 Exemplification 222READING: Dad by Andrew H. Malcolm 233 Chapter 11 Process 242READING: How to Do Well on a Job Interview by Glenda Davis 251 Chapter 12 Cause and/or Effect 260READING: Taming the Anger Monster by Anne Davidson 269 Chapter 13 Comparison and/or Contrast 281READING: Born to Be Different? by Camille Lewis 293 Chapter 14 Definition 304READING: Television Addiction by Marie Winn 313 Chapter 15 Division-Classification 325READING: Wait Divisions by Tom Bodett 334 Chapter 16 Argument 343READING: Ban the Things. Ban Them All. by Molly Ivins 356 Part 3: Special Skills 365Chapter 17 Taking Essay Exams 366Chapter 18 Writing a Summary 375Chapter 19 Writing a Report 387Chapter 20 Writing a Résumé and Cover Letter 392Chapter 21 Using the Library and the Internet 399Using the Library 400Using the Internet 407Practice in Using the Library and the Internet 411Chapter 22 Writing a Research Paper 413Model Paper 427 Part 4: Handbook of Sentence Skills 439SECTION 1: Grammar 440Chapter 23 Subjects and Verbs 441Chapter 24 Fragments 447Chapter 25 Run-Ons 460Chapter 26 Regular and Irregular Verbs 473Chapter 27 Subject-Verb Agreement 484Words between Subject and Verb 485Verb before Subject 485Compound Subjects 486Indefinite Pronouns 487Chapter 28 Additional Information about Verbs 490Verb Tense 490Helping Verbs 491Verbals 492Chapter 29 Pronoun Agreement and Reference 494Pronoun Agreement 495Pronoun Reference 497Chapter 30 Pronoun Types 500Subject and Object Pronouns 500Possessive Pronouns 504Chapter 31 Adjectives and Adverbs 507Adjectives 507Adverbs 509Chapter 32 Misplaced Modifiers 513Chapter 33 Dangling Modifiers 517 SECTION 2: Mechanics 522Chapter 34 Manuscript Form 523Chapter 35 Capital Letters 526Main Uses of Capital Letters 526Other Uses of Capital Letters 529Unnecessary Use of Capitals 532Chapter 36 Numbers and Abbreviations 534Numbers 535Abbreviations 536 SECTION 3: Punctuation 538Chapter 37 Apostrophe 539Apostrophe in Contractions 540Apostrophe to Show Ownership or Possession 541Chapter 38 Quotation Marks 546Chapter 39 Comma 554Six Main Uses of the Comma 554Chapter 40 Other Punctuation Marks 564Colon (:) 564Semicolon (;) 565Dash (-) 565Parentheses () 566Hyphen (-) 567 SECTION 4: Word Use 569Chapter 41 Spelling Improvement 570Chapter 42 Commonly Confused Words 575Homonyms 575Other Words Frequently Confused 580Chapter 43 Effective Word Choice 585Chapter 44 Editing Tests 592Chapter 45 ESL Pointers 605Articles with Count and Noncount Nouns 606Subjects and Verbs 610Adjectives 615Prepositions Used for Time and Place 617Correction Symbols 620 Part 5: Readings for Writers 621Introduction to the Readings 622Looking Inward 627from Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson 627Three Passions, Bertrand Russell 632Shame, Dick Gregory 636I Became Her Target, Roger Wilkins 643Stepping into the Light, Tanya Savory 650A Hanging, George Orwell 658What Your Closet Reveals About You, Amy Tan 667 Observing Others 674The Professor Is a Dropout, Beth Johnson 674The Certainty of Fear, Audra Kendall 684What’s Wrong with Schools? Teacher Plays Student,Learns to Lie and Cheat, Casey Banas 691Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising,Ann McClintock 697 Confronting Problems 707 Chief Seattle's Speech of 1854, Chief Seattle 707Single-Sex Schools: An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come,Diane Urbina 715Here’s to Your Health, Joan Dunayer 722Mayor of Rust, Sue Halpern 728How to Make It in College, Now That You’re Here,Brian O’Keeney 739College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?, David Daniels 748Is Sex All That Matters?, Joyee Garity 755Reading Comprehension Chart 763Credits C-1Index I-1 Instructor’s Guide IG-1Suggested Approaches and Techniques IG-2A Model Syllabus IG-14Suggested Answers to the Discussion Questions in Parts IG-20

About the Author :
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.