First steps in academic writing /
1st steps in academic writing
Ann Hogue.
- Second edition.
- x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Longman academic writing series .
- Longman academic writing series. .
Level 2.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing People -- What Is Academic Writing? -- Chapter Preview -- Prewriting Activity: Asking Questions and Taking Notes -- Organization -- What Is a Paragraph? -- Model: What Is a Paragraph? Mrs. Robinson -- Paragraph Form -- Model: Handwritten Assignment My Classmate -- Model: Computer-Written Assignment My Classmate -- Grammar and Capitalization -- What Is a Sentence? -- Command Sentences -- Subjects, Verbs, and Objects -- Capitalization: Six Rules -- Journal Writing -- Model: Journal Entry -- Sentence Structure -- Simple Sentences -- Connecting Words: and, or -- Sentence Combining -- Writing -- Review Questions -- The Writing Process -- Step 1: Prewrite to get ideas - freewriting -- Step 2: Write the first draft -- Step 3: Edit the first draft -- Step 4: Write the final copy -- Writing Assignment -- Listing-Order Paragraphs -- Chapter Preview -- Prewriting Activity: Clustering -- Clustering -- Model: Clustering 1 -- Model: Clustering2 -- Organization -- Listing-Order Paragraphs -- Model: Listing-Order Paragraph Flight Attendants -- The Three Parts of a Paragraph -- The Topic Sentence -- Listing-Order Transition Signals -- Paragraph Unity -- The Concluding Sentence -- Outlining -- Model: Simple Outline Flight Attendants -- Sentence Structure -- Compound Sentences -- Coordinating Conjunctions: and, but, or, so -- Two Sentence Errors: Run-ons and Comma Splices -- Writing -- Review Questions -- Writing Assignment -- Giving Instructions -- Chapter Preview -- Prewriting Activity: Listing -- Organization -- Model: "How To" Paragraph How to Have a Successful Garage Sale -- Topic and Concluding Sentence for "How To" Paragraphs -- Time-Order Signals -- Listing and Outlining -- Model: Listing -- Model: Edited List -- Model: Simple Outline -- Sentence Structure -- Independent and Dependent Clauses -- Adverb Subordinators -- Complex Sentences -- Sentence Errors: Fragments -- Summary: Three Types of Sentences -- Capitalization and Punctuation -- Capitalization: Four More Rules -- Commas: Four Rules -- Writing -- Review Questions -- Writing Assignment -- Describing a Place -- Chapter Preview -- Prewriting Activity: Listing Descriptive Detail -- Organization -- Description -- Space Order -- Model: Space Order The Shared Refrigerator -- Topic and Concluding Sentences for Descriptive Paragraphs -- Specific Details -- Planning a Space-Order Paragraph -- Grammar -- Adjectives -- Order of Adjectives -- Sentence Structure -- Prepositions -- Prepositional Phrases -- Model: Prepositional Phrases of Place in a Description My Desk -- Using Prepositional Phrases to Vary Sentence Openings -- Writing -- Review Questions -- Writing Assignment -- Stating Reasons and Using Examples -- Chapter Preview -- Prewriting Activity: Reasons and Examples -- Organization -- Model: Reasons and Examples Costa Rica -- Outlines with Details -- Model: Detailed Outline Costa Rica -- Reasons and Examples -- Transition Signals with Reasons -- Conclusion Signals with Reasons -- Transition Signals with Examples -- Sentence Structure -- More About Complex Sentences -- Reason and Condition Subordinators -- Capitalization and Punctuation -- Capitalization: Two More Rules -- Commas: Four More Rules -- Writing -- Review Questions -- Writing Assignment -- Expressing Your Opinion -- Chapter Preview -- Prewriting Activity: Getting Ideas from Reading -- Organization -- Opinion Paragraphs -- Facts and Opinions -- Model: Opinion Paragraph Video Games and Violence -- Transition Signals for Opinions -- Sentence Structure -- Model: Adjective Clauses School Uniforms -- Adjective Clauses with who, which, and that -- Punctuating Adjective Clauses -- Complex Sentence with Adjective Clauses -- More About Fragments -- Punctuation -- Quotation Marks -- Writing -- Review Questions -- Writing Assignment -- Journal Writing -- Correction Symbols -- Grammar Words and Kinds of Sentences -- Conjunctions -- Transition Signals -- Business Letters -- Reader's Response and Writer's Self-Check Worksheets. Chapter 1. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Chapter 2. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Chapter 3. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Chapter 4. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Chapter 5. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Chapter 6. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C. Appendix D. Appendix E. Appendix F. Appendix G.