A Brannan, Bob. creator text bibliography mau Boston McGraw-Hill Higher Education 2009 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xx, 687 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. 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 -- Bob Brannan. Includes bibliographical references and index. English language Paragraphs Problems, exercises, etc English language Rhetoric Problems, exercises, etc English language Grammar Problems, exercises, etc Report writing Problems, exercises, etc PE1439.B69 808/.042 9780073385686 (Student Edition : acidfree paper) 0073385689 (acidfree paper) 2008034959 DLC 080806 20220725104834.0 15401358