Step 1: Looking at the Whole
Chapter 1: Discovering the Writing Process
Step 2: Creating Effective Sentences
Chapter 2: Finding Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences
Chapter 3: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
Chapter 4: Correcting the Fragment in Simple Sentences
Chapter 5:Combining Sentences Using the Three Methods of Coordination
Chapter 6: Combining Sentences Using Subordination.
Chapter 7: Correcting the Run-On
Chapter 8: Making Sentence Parts Work Together
Chapter 9: Practising More with Verbs
Chapter 10: Using Correct Capitalization and Punctuation
Chapter 11: Review: Using All You Have Learned
Step 3: Understanding the Power of Words
Chapter 12: Choosing Words that Work
Chapter 13: Paying Attention to Look-Alikes and Sound-Alikes
Step 4: Creating Effective Paragraphs
Chapter 14: Working with Paragraphs: Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas.
Chapter 15: Working with Paragraphs: Supporting Details.
Chapter 16: Developing Paragraphs: Illustration
Chapter 17: Developing Paragraphs: Description
Chapter 18: Developing Paragraphs: Narration
Chapter 19: Developing Paragraphs: Process
Chapter 20: Deveoping Paragraphs: Comparison or Contrast.
Chapter 21: Developing Paragraphs: Cause and Effect
Chapter 22: Developing Paragraphs: Definition and Classification
Appendices
A: Irregular Verbs
B: Parts of Speech
C: Answer Key to Selected Exercises
Readings
My Life as a High Schook Dropout, Robert Fulford
There Goes the Neighbourbood, Jim Shahin
Virtual Death Machine, Ken MacQueen
Parking on the Past, Shelley Divnich Haggert
Urban Legends, Jack Mabley
Thin Edge of the Wedge (Island), Lesley Choyce
Summer Reading, Michael Dorris
My Favourite Place, David Adams Richards
The Art of Play, Flynn A. Leyshon
Neat People vs. Sloppy People, Suzanne Britt Jordan
Paranoia Shopping, Karen von Hahn
Woes of a Part Time Parent, Nick Chiles
Paying Attention to Snow, Margaret Visser
Index
