Theme: Addiction
Assignment: Autobiographical or Biographical Essay
Prewriting: Freewriting
Organizing: Creating a Narrative
Revising: Describing Character
Using Past Unreal Conditionals
Editing: Choosing Word Forms
Theme: Aging
Assignment: Opinion Essay
Prewriting: Critical Listing
Organizing: Reviewing the Basic Features of an Essay
Revising: Analyzing Introductions and Thesis Sentences
Using Noun Clauses
Editing: Correcting Run-on Sentences
Theme: Personality
Assignment: Descriptive Essay
Prewriting: Making aFlowchart
Organizing: Supporting Main Ideas
Revising: Cohesion Between Paragraphs
Using Identifying and Nonidentifying Adjective Clauses
Editing: Subject-Verb Agreement
Theme: Our Environment——Water
Assiment: Cause-and-Effect Essay
Prewriting: Making a Flowchart
Organizing: Focusing on Cause or Effect
Revising: Writing Unified Essays
Using Discourse Connectors to Express Cause and Effect
Editing: Identifying Sentence Structure
Theme: Cross-cultural Insights
Assignment: Comparison and Contrast Essay
Prewriting: Creating a Venn Diagram
Organizing: Analyzing Methods of Organization
Revising: Writing Thesis Statements
Comparing and Contrasting Ideas with Adverb Clauses
Editing: Varying Sentence Types
Theme: Business
Assignment: Descriptive Essay
Prewriting: Clustering
Organizing: Sequencing Main Ideas
Revising: Writing Effective Conclusions
Using Infinitives and Gerunds
Editing: Using Transition Words
Theme: The Military
Assignment: Persuasive Essay
Prewriting: Focused Freewriting
Organizing: Using Persuasive Reasons to Support Your Point of View
Revising: Supporting Your Reasons with Examples
Incorporating Direct and Indirect Speech
Editing: Punctuating Direct Quotes
Theme: The Arts
Assignment: Narrative Essay
Prewriting: Questioning Yourself
Organizing: Starting Narratives
Revising: Using Descriptive Language
Using the Passive Voice
Editing: Using Parallel Structure
Theme: First Amendment Issues
Assignment: Argumentative Essay
Prewriting: Choosing a Technique
Organizing: Including Counterarguments and Refutations
Revising: Writing Persuasive Introductions
Using Tenses Correctly
Editing: Proofreading
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