Part One A General Introduction to English Writing
I. Writing in Our World
II. Types of Writing
1. Narration
2. Description
3. Exposition
III. Writing Well
1. Writing for Your Readers
2. Good Writing
Part Two From Sentence to Paragraph
I. Sentence Structure
1. Elements of a Sentence
2. Kinds of Sentences
3. Clause Connectors
4. Coordination and Subordination
5. Parallelism
II. Paragraph Structure
1. The Basic Paragraph
2. Four Elements of the Paragraph
3. Mechanics in Writing a Paragraph
III. Basic Paragraph-Building Skills
1. Taking Four Pre-Writing Steps
2. Making Our Topic Sentence a Helpful Guide
3. Loading Our Topic Sentence with a Strong Controlling Idea
4. Writing a Helpful Outline in Advance
5. Gaining Unity
6. Gaining Coherence from Logical Order
7. G aining Coherence from Transitions
8. Gaining Better Unity and Coherence from Punctuation
IV. Sentence Problems
1. Sentence Fragments
Fragments Without Verbs
Fragments Without Subjects
Fragments Without Subjects and/or Verbs
Fragments of Dependent Clauses
2. Choppy Sentences
3. Run-Together Sentences
4. Stringy Sentences
5. Confusing Shifts
Confusing Shifts in Person
Confusing Shifts in Tense
confusing Shifts in Subject and Voice
confusing Shifts in Mood or Speech
confusing Shifts in Number
Mixed Sentence construction
6. Incomplete Constructions
Careless Omissions
Incomplete Comparisons
7. Ambiguous Pronoun Reference
A Pronoun with Two or More Possible Antecedents
A Pronoun Without Clearly Expressed Antecedent
The Pronouns It, They, and You with Indefinite Antecedents
The Pronouns This, That and Which Referring to General Ideas
A Pronoun Too Far Away from Its Antecedent
8. Dangling Modifiers
Dangling Participial Modifiers
Dangling Gerunds in Prepositional Phrases
Dangling Infinitive Modifiers
Dangling Abbreviated Clauses
9. Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced Prepositional Phrases
Misplaced Adjective Clauses
Misplaced Adverbial Modifiers
10. Wordiness
Needless Repetition
Needless Expansion
Awkward Cliches
Overwritten Style
Part There From Paragraph to Theme
I. Introduction
II. Three Kinds of Paragraphs
1. The Introductory Paragraph
2. The Body Paragraph
3. The Concluding Paragraph
III. Basic Theme-Building Skills
1. Getting the Theme Well-Unified with an Effective Thesis Statement
2. Getting the Theme Coherent with Transitions Between Paragraphs
3. Developing the Theme Under the Guidance of a Well-Organized Outline
Process Theme in Time Order
Descriptive Theme in Order of Importance
Theme of Classification in Order of Importance
Theme of Comparison and Contrast in Order of Importance
Theme of Cause and Effect in Order of Importance
Theme of Exemplification in Time Order, or Order of Importance
IV. Sample Themes Observed
Part Four Summary and Book Report
I. Summary Writing
II. Book Report Writing
Correction Symbols
Partial Answers to Exercises
Bibliography
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