Exploring writing : paragraphs and essays / John Langan.

PART ONE Writing: Skills and Process -- 1. An Introduction to Writing -- 2. The Writing Process -- PART TWO Basic Principles of Effective Writing -- 3. The First and Second Steps in Writing -- 4. The Third and Fourth Steps in Writing -- 5. Four Bases for Revising Writing -- PART THREE Paragraph Development -- 6. Exemplification -- 7. Narration -- 8. Description -- 9. Process -- 10. Cause and Effect -- 11. Comparison or Contrast -- 12. Definition -- 13. Division-Classification -- 14. Argument -- PART FOUR Essay Development -- 15. Introduction to Essay Development -- 16. Writing the Essay -- 17. Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles

18. Patterns of Essay Development -- 19. Special College Skills -- 20. Writing a Research Paper -- PART FIVE Handbook of Sentence Skills -- SECTION I Grammar -- 21. Subjects and Verbs -- 22. Sentence Sense -- 23. Fragments -- 24. Run-Ons -- 25. Regular and Irregular Verbs -- 26. Subject-Verb Agreement -- 27. Additional Information about Verbs -- 28. Pronoun Agreement and Reference -- 29. Pronoun Types -- 30. Adjectives and Adverbs -- 31. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers -- SECTION II Mechanics -- 32. Manuscript Form -- 33. Capital Letters -- 34. Numbers and Abbreviations -- SECTION III Punctuation

35. Apostrophe -- 36. Quotation Marks -- 37. Comma -- 38. Other Punctuation Marks -- SECTION IV Word Use -- 39. Spelling Improvement -- 40. Commonly Confused Words -- 41. Effective Word Choice -- 42. Editing Tests -- 43.ESL Pointers -- PART SIX Readings for Writers -- INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS -- LOOKING INWARD -- OBSERVING OTHERS -- CONFRONTING PROBLEMS.