Brannan, Bob. <br/><br/>
A writer's workshop: crafting paragraphs, building essays. / 
Bob Brannan. 
 - 3rd ed. 
 - Boston:  McGraw-Hill Higher Education,  2009. 
 - xx, 687 p.:  ill. (some col.) ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Getting our feet wet: Practicing the writing process -- Making the most of reading -- Crafting paragraphs: Writing paragraphs -- Revising paragraphs -- Picturing a place(description) -- Telling your own story(narration) -- Illustrating through examples -- Creating and explaining groups(classification) -- Recognizing causes, explaining effects -- Explaining activities: doing or understanding them(process analysis) -- Exploring similarities and differences(Comparison or contrast) -- Building essays: Introducing the essay -- Expanding paragraphs into essays -- Revising essays -- Defining essays -- Defining terms, clarifying ideas -- Writing persuasively(argument) -- Taking essay exams -- Writing a research essay -- Polishing style: Creating sentence variety -- Choosing the most effective word -- Practicing sentence sense: Working with sentence parts -- Coordination, subordination and parallelism -- Run-ons, comma splices and sentence fragments -- Verbs: form and agreement -- Pronouns: reference, agreement and form -- Adjectives and adverbs: words that describe -- Commas, other punctuation marks and mechanics Spelling and sound-alike words -- Learning from professional readings --<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780073385686 (Student Edition : acidfree paper) 0073385689 (acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008034959 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Paragraphs--Problems, exercises, etc.<br/>English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.<br/>English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.<br/>Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1439.B69  
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808/.042