The student writer : editor and critic / Barbara Fine Clouse
Imprint
Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2004
Edition
6th ed
Descript
xxxii, 576 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Strategies for reading and writing: The connection between reading and writing ; Getting strated ; Organizing and drafting ; Revising for content and organization ; Revising for effective expression -- Patterns of development: Description ; Narration ; Exemplification ; Process analysis ; Comparison-contrast ; Cause-and-effect analysis ; Definition ; Classification and division -- Using the patterns of development: Argumentation ; Writing with sources ; Assembling a writing portfolio ; Writing about literature -- A guide to frequently occurring errors: Word choice ; Sentence fragments ; Run-on sentences and comma splices ; Verbs ; Pronouns ; Modifiers ; Punctuation ; Mechanics