AuthorPharr, Donald
TitleWriting today : context and options for the real world / Donald Pharr, Santi V. Buscemi
Imprint Boston : McGraw-Hill, ; 2005
Descript xxxii, 790, [I-20], : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

The essay: determining purpose, audience, and approach -- Shaping your essay: prewriting, focusing, organizing, and drafting -- Developing strong paragraphs: exploring your options -- Reshaping your essay: global revision -- Refining your essay: editing and proofreading -- Description -- Narration -- Exemplification -- Process analysis -- Causal analysis -- Definition -- Classification -- Comparison and contrast -- Argument -- The blended essay -- Essay examinations -- Business formats -- Quoting text -- Writing about literature -- The research process -- The research paper -- Parts of speech -- Sentence parts and sentence types -- Major sentence errors -- Problems with verbs -- Problems with pronouns -- Problems with modifiers -- Punctuating sentences with commas -- Punctuating sentences with other punctuation marks -- Mechanics -- Diction, usage, and spelling -- A glossary of usage


SUBJECT

  1. English language -- Rhetoric
  2. Report writing
  3. English language -- Grammar -- Problems
  4. exercises
  5. etc.

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Arts Library1601 CATALOGING
Arts LibraryPE1408 P536W 2005 CHECK SHELVES