Part One Diction
1.1 Appropriateness
Levels of Words
Style
General Guidelines
1.2 Exactness
Denotation and Connotation
Synonymous Words and Expressions
General and Specific Words
Abstract and Concrete Words
Idioms
Figures of Speech
1.3 Dictionaries
The Use of a Dictionary
Some Good Dictionaries
Part Two Teh Sentence
2.1 Elements of a Sentence
Subject and Predicate
Modifiers
Coordination and Subordination
2.2 Types of Sentences
Declarative,Interrogative,Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences
Simple,Compornd,Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences
2.3 Effective Sentences
Unity
Coherence
Conciseness
Emphasis
Variety
2.4 Errors and Skills
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Sentence Fragments
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun Reference
Shifts
Faulty Parallel Constructions
Mixed and Incomplete Constructions
Modifiers
Part Three The Paragraph
Part Four The Essay
Part Five Practical Writing
Part Six The Research Paper
Part Seven Punctuation and Mechanics
Key to the Exercises
Appendixes
Glossary
Bibliography