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By McGraw Hill
ISBN10: 1259113833
ISBN13: 9781259113833
Copyright: 2015

In one affordable platform, Connect Composition Essentials provides students, instructors, and program administrators with a comprehensive and flexible resource designed to help students meet outcomes in first-year composition courses. This all-digital product includes four years of access to McGraw-Hill’s Power of Process tool for critical reading and writing, a collection of 88 readings, an online handbook, and LearnSmart Achieve.

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Part 1. Reading, Writing, Arguing

1. READING CRITICALLY

2. PREWRITING

3. OUTLINING AND DRAFTING AN ESSAY

4. DEVELOPING PARAGRAPHS FOR THE BODY, INTRODUCTION, AND CONCLUSION OF AN ESSAY

5. REVISING, EDITING, AND PROOFREADING

6. DEVELOPING ARGUMENTS

Part 2. The Research Process

7. CREATING A RESEARCH STRATEGY

8. FINDING SOURCES

9. EVALUATING SOURCES

10. TAKING NOTES AND AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

11. WRITING WITH SOURCES

Part 3. Documenting Sources

12. WRITING WITH SOURCES USING MLA FORMAT

13. WRITING WITH SOURCES USING APA FORMAT

14. WRITING WITH SOURCES USING CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE, CSE, AND OTHER FORMATS

Part 4. Writing in College and the Workplace

15. WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

16. COMMUNICATING IN CLASS: ESSAY EXAMINATIONS AND ORAL PRESENTATIONS

17. COMMUNICATING IN BUSINESS

Part 5. Sentence Style

18. LEARNING ABOUT SENTENCES, CLAUSES, AND PHRASES

19. AVOIDING FRAGMENTS, FUSED SENTENCES, AND COMMA SPLICES

20. COMBINING SENTENCES THROUGH COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION

21. MAINTAINING PARALLELISM

22. AVOIDING DANGLING AND MISPLACES MODIFIERS

23. CORRECTING MIXED CONSTRUCTIONS AND FAULTY SHIFTS

24. CREATING INTEREST BY VARYING SENTENCE PATTERNS

25. WRITING IN A CLEAR AND EMPHATIC STYLE

Part 6. Word Choice

26. USING A DICTIONARY AND A THESAURUS

27. USING EXACT LANGUAGE

28. MAINTAINING APPROPRIATE TONE, STYLE, AND WORD CHOICE

29. MAKING YOUR WRITING CONCISE

Part 7. Grammar

30. LEARNING PARTS OF SPEECH

31. LEARNING PRONOUN TYPES, CASES, AND REFERENCES

32. MAINTAINING SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

33. LEARNING PRONOUN TYPES, CASES, AND REFERENCE

34. MAINTAINING PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT

35. USING ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS CORRECTLY

Part 8. Punctuation, Spelling, and Mechanics

36. MASTERING END PUNCTUATION

37. MASTERING THE COMMA

38. MASTERING THE SEMICOLON

39. MASTERING THE COLON

40. MASTERING THE APOSTROPHE

41. MASTERING QUOTATION MARKS

42. MASTERING OTHER MARKS OF PUNCTUATION

43. IMPROVING YOUR SPELLING

44. USING THE HYPHEN

45. MASTERING THE RULES OF CAPITALIZATION

46. LEARNING TO ABBREVIATE WORDS, PHRASES, AND TITLES

47. USING NUMBERS AND ITALICS CORRECTLY

Part 9. A Guide for ESL Writers

48. MASTERING ARTICLES AND PLURALS OF NOUNS

49. MASTERING SENTENCE STRUCTURE

50. MASTERING VERBS AND SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

51. USING ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, AND PARTICIPLES CORRECTLY

52. USING WORDS CORRECTLY