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