Odyssey
From Paragraph to Essay (book alone)
4th Edition
Published on 22. April 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-321-29081-6 (ISBN)
Description
Odyssey focuses on helping students build paragraph and essay writing skills while treating the writing process as a voyage of self-discovery, confidence building, and competence building.
As with most traditional paragraph to essay writing books, Odyssey begins with a thorough overview of the writing process, introduces the various patterns of development, then demonstrates each pattern of development with various essay samples. Parts IV -VI focus on improving grammar and paragraph development. The book concludes with an anthology of readings that take students on a "reading odyssey," where selections cross genres and professions.
All exercises have been reorganized and streamlined in the fourth edition. Students will find newly titled "Comprehension and Practice" exercises that begin with a focus on fundamental concepts and then move into invention and the writing of short pieces. Students can then proceed to "Challenge" exercises that call for critical thinking, drafting, and revision. Interspersed throughout these questions sets are " Collaboration" exercises, which are ideal for pairs and/or groups of students. Grammar, mechanics, and punctuation chapters conclude with "Chapter Quick Check" and "Summary Editing" exercises that test students understanding of all the grammar and sentence skills they have learned.
As with most traditional paragraph to essay writing books, Odyssey begins with a thorough overview of the writing process, introduces the various patterns of development, then demonstrates each pattern of development with various essay samples. Parts IV -VI focus on improving grammar and paragraph development. The book concludes with an anthology of readings that take students on a "reading odyssey," where selections cross genres and professions.
All exercises have been reorganized and streamlined in the fourth edition. Students will find newly titled "Comprehension and Practice" exercises that begin with a focus on fundamental concepts and then move into invention and the writing of short pieces. Students can then proceed to "Challenge" exercises that call for critical thinking, drafting, and revision. Interspersed throughout these questions sets are " Collaboration" exercises, which are ideal for pairs and/or groups of students. Grammar, mechanics, and punctuation chapters conclude with "Chapter Quick Check" and "Summary Editing" exercises that test students understanding of all the grammar and sentence skills they have learned.
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4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
1361 gr
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978-0-321-29081-6 (9780321290816)
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Content
I. STARTING OUT.
1. Ensuring Success in Writing.
Overview: Understanding the Importance of Good Writing.
Recognizing the Dynamics of Writing.
Understanding the Basic Components of Writing.
Focusing on the Reader.
Understanding the Purpose Behind Your Writing.
Recap: Ensuring Success in Writing.
2. Generating Ideas Through Prewriting.
Overview: Seeing Prewriting as a Way to Explore Ideas.
Understanding Prewriting.
Freewriting.
Brainstorming.
Clustering.
Branching.
Idea Mapping.
Maintaining a Journal.
3. Composing: Creating a Draft.
Overview: Understanding Composing.
Recognizing the Structure of a Paragraph.
Focusing a Topic.
Writing a Clear, Specific Topic Sentence.
Providing the Best Support for the Topic Sentence.
Deciding on the Most Effective Arrangement.
Making Your Material Reader-Centered.
Using a Reader Evaluation Checklist.
Developing a Complete Draft.
4. Refining and Polishing Your Draft.
Overview: Understanding the Revising Stage.
Reassessing: Reseeing Your Work.
Redrafting.
Editing.
II. USING THE PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT.
5. Narration.
Overview: Telling Your Story.
Writing a Clear Topic Sentence That Establishes a Context.
Relying on Chronological Order.
Choosing the Most Effective Point of View.
6. Description.
Overview: Creating a Picture in Words.
Previewing the Focus of Description Through the Topic Sentence.
Using Sensory Details.
Relying on Objective and Subjective Description.
Using Spatial Order.
7. Example.
Overview: Learning to Illustrate Your Point.
Providing a Topic Sentence That States the Point You Will Illustrate.
Providing Specific Examples.
Ensuring That Your Examples Are Relevant.
8. Process.
Overview: Explaining "How to" or "How It Happens."
Including a Topic Sentence That Clearly States the Process.
Using the Imperative Mood: You.
Dividing the Process into Simple, Logical Steps.
Relying on Linear Order.
9. Definition.
Overview: Making Meaning Crystal Clear.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Highlights the Term to Be Defined.
Understanding the Pattern of an Effective Definition.
Recognizing the Full Effect of the Term Defined.
10. Comparison and Contrast.
Overview: Expressing Similarities and Differences.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Specifies Both Subjects and Indicates the Focus.
Establishing Your Bases for Comparison.
Arranging Your Ideas Effectively.
11. Cause and Effect.
Overview: Explaining Reasons and Consequences.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Focuses on Cause or Effect.
Distinguishing Between Direct and Related Causes and Effects.
Avoiding Oversimplification of Causes and Effects.
12. Division and Classification.
Overview: Analyzing the Whole in Terms of the Parts.
Specifying Scope and Emphasis Through a Topic Sentence.
Establishing a Logical Method of Analysis.
Maintaining a Consistent Presentation.
Using Distinct and Complete Groupings.
13. Argument.
Overview: Understanding Persuasion.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Expresses a Clear Stance on the Issue.
Developing Sufficient Support Through Sound Reasons.
Using a Reasonable, Convincing Tone.
Using Sound Logic.
Arranging Your Support in Emphatic Order.
III. MOVING ON TO THE ESSAY.
14. Developing an Essay.
Overview: Comparing the Paragraph and the Essay.
Understanding the Structure of an Essay.
Understanding the Role of the Thesis.
Examining an Effective Essay.
Examining the Process of Writing an Essay.
Looking Again at the Final Draft.
15. Examining Types of Essays.
Overview: Understanding the Use of Modes in Essays.
The Relationship Between Your Purpose and the Modes.
Using Narration to Develop an Essay.
Using Description to Develop an Essay.
Using Example to Develop an Essay.
Using Process to Develop an Essay.
Using Definition to Develop an Essay.
Using Comparison and Contrast to Develop an Essay.
Using Cause and Effect to Develop an Essay.
Using Division and Classification to Develop an Essay.
Writing an Argument Essay.
16. Adjusting Your Process: Timed Writing and Summaries.
Overview: Laying the Foundation for Answering Essay Questions
Approaching an Essay Question.
Examining an Answer to a Practice Question.
IV. DEVELOPING SENTENCE SENSE.
17. The Sentence.
Overview: Understanding Sentence Basics.
Understanding Verbs.
Recognizing Subjects.
18. Fragments.
Overview: Recognizing and Writing Complete Sentences.
Correcting Fragments with Missing Subjects or Verbs.
Correcting Phrase Fragments.
Correcting Subordinate Clause Fragments.
Correcting Appositive Fragments.
19. Subordination and Coordination.
Overview: Combining Clauses for Sentence Complexity.
Using Subordination.
Using Coordination.
20. Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences.
Overview: Understanding Sentence-Combining Errors.
Identifying Common Splices and Run-On Sentences.
Correcting Common Splices and Run-Ons by Using Coordinating Conjunctions.
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-Ons by Using Subordinating Conjunctions.
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-Ons by Using Semicolons.
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-Ons by Using Periods.
V. UNDERSTANDING SUBJECTS AND VERBS.
21. Subject-Verb Agreement.
Overview: Understanding Subject-Verb Agreement.
Avoiding Agreement Errors When the Subject Follows the Verb.
Avoiding Agreement Errors When Words Come Between the Subject and Verb.
Avoiding Agreement Errors with Indefinite Pronouns.
Avoiding Agreement Errors from Other Causes.
22. Basic Tenses for Regular Verbs.
Overview: Understanding Tense.
Using the Simple Present, Simple Future, and Simple Past Tenses.
Using the Perfect Tenses.
23. Irregular Verbs and Frequently Confused Verbs.
Overview: Understanding Irregular Verbs and Other Verb Problems.
Identifying Irregular Verbs.
Working with Forms of "to Be".
Choosing between "Can" and "Could" and between "Will" and "Would."
24. Passive Voice, Additional Tenses, and Maintaining Consistency in Tense.
Overview: Understanding Additional Elements of Verb Use.
Forming the Passive and Active Voice.
Using the Progressive and Perfect Progressive Tenses.
Maintaining Consistency in Tense.
VI. KEEPING YOUR WRITING CORRECT.
25. Nouns and Pronouns.
Overview: Understanding Words That Name.
Making Singular Nouns Plural.
Working with Collective Nouns and Cue Words.
Understanding Pronoun Case.
Using Personal Pronouns Correctly.
Using Indefinite Pronouns.
26. Adjectives, Adverbs, and Other Modifiers.
Overview: Understanding the Roles of Adjectives and Adverbs.
Understanding Adjectives and Adverbs.
Creating Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs.
Working with Confusing Pairs of Adjectives and Adverbs.
Avoiding Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers.
Avoiding Double Negatives.
27. Ensuring Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
Overview: Choosing the Correct Pronoun.
Maintaining Agreement in Number.
Maintaining Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns.
Maintaining Agreement with Demonstrative and Reflexive or Intensive Pronouns.
Keeping the Relationship Between Pronoun and Antecedent Clear.
Maintaining Agreement with "That," "Who," and "Which" Clauses.
Avoiding Problems with Gender in Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
28. Maintaining Parallelism.
Overview: Balancing Ideas in Your Writing.
Maintaining Parallelism with Words in a Series.
Maintaining Parallelism with Phrases.
Maintaining Parallelism When Using Correlative Conjunctions.
29. Spelling.
Overview: Understanding the Importance of Correct Spelling.
Basic Rules for Forming Plurals.
Basic Rules for Prefixes and Suffixes.
The Basic Rule for "ie" or "ei."
Basic Rules for "-sede," "-ceed," and "-cede," and Other Endings That Sound Alike.
Dealing with Commonly Confused Words.
Learning the Most Commonly Misspelled Words.
30. Commas.
Overview: Understanding Comma Usage.
Using a Comma Between Clauses Connected by Conjunctions.
Using Commas to Separate Items in a Series.
Using a Comma to Set off Introductory Material.
Using Commas to Set off Elements That Interrupt Sentence Flow.
Using Commas to Set off Direct Quotations.
Recognizing Other Situations in Which Commas Are Needed.
31. Other Punctuation and Capitalization.
Overview: Using Punctuation and Capitalization to Clarify Meaning.
Using Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points.
Using Quotation Marks.
Using Apostrophes.
Using Other Marks of Punctuation.
Understanding Capitalization.
VII. CONNECTING: RESPONDING TO READING.
5:00 A. M.: Writing as Ritual, Judith Ortiz Cofer.
Fish Cheeks, Amy Tan.
Intimacy and Independence, Deborah Tannen.
Nightwatch, Paul Fletcher.
Hit and Run, Susan Messer.
Words, Good or Bad, Can Echo through a Lifetime, Bob Greene.
Remote Control - How to Raise a Media Skeptic, Susan Douglas.
My Paradise, NaihsinWeng.
Pride, Stephanie Jezak.
Exposed Toes, Diane Riva.
Childhood - Then and Now, Jane Patenaude.
Fear Not, Greg Andree.
Two Peas in a Pod, Erica Nardi.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Josh Trepanier.
Homeschooling, Lori Ann Moyer.
Appendix A: Tips for ESL Writers.
Appendix B: Exploring the Dictionary.
Rhetorical Index.
Index.
1. Ensuring Success in Writing.
Overview: Understanding the Importance of Good Writing.
Recognizing the Dynamics of Writing.
Understanding the Basic Components of Writing.
Focusing on the Reader.
Understanding the Purpose Behind Your Writing.
Recap: Ensuring Success in Writing.
2. Generating Ideas Through Prewriting.
Overview: Seeing Prewriting as a Way to Explore Ideas.
Understanding Prewriting.
Freewriting.
Brainstorming.
Clustering.
Branching.
Idea Mapping.
Maintaining a Journal.
3. Composing: Creating a Draft.
Overview: Understanding Composing.
Recognizing the Structure of a Paragraph.
Focusing a Topic.
Writing a Clear, Specific Topic Sentence.
Providing the Best Support for the Topic Sentence.
Deciding on the Most Effective Arrangement.
Making Your Material Reader-Centered.
Using a Reader Evaluation Checklist.
Developing a Complete Draft.
4. Refining and Polishing Your Draft.
Overview: Understanding the Revising Stage.
Reassessing: Reseeing Your Work.
Redrafting.
Editing.
II. USING THE PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT.
5. Narration.
Overview: Telling Your Story.
Writing a Clear Topic Sentence That Establishes a Context.
Relying on Chronological Order.
Choosing the Most Effective Point of View.
6. Description.
Overview: Creating a Picture in Words.
Previewing the Focus of Description Through the Topic Sentence.
Using Sensory Details.
Relying on Objective and Subjective Description.
Using Spatial Order.
7. Example.
Overview: Learning to Illustrate Your Point.
Providing a Topic Sentence That States the Point You Will Illustrate.
Providing Specific Examples.
Ensuring That Your Examples Are Relevant.
8. Process.
Overview: Explaining "How to" or "How It Happens."
Including a Topic Sentence That Clearly States the Process.
Using the Imperative Mood: You.
Dividing the Process into Simple, Logical Steps.
Relying on Linear Order.
9. Definition.
Overview: Making Meaning Crystal Clear.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Highlights the Term to Be Defined.
Understanding the Pattern of an Effective Definition.
Recognizing the Full Effect of the Term Defined.
10. Comparison and Contrast.
Overview: Expressing Similarities and Differences.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Specifies Both Subjects and Indicates the Focus.
Establishing Your Bases for Comparison.
Arranging Your Ideas Effectively.
11. Cause and Effect.
Overview: Explaining Reasons and Consequences.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Focuses on Cause or Effect.
Distinguishing Between Direct and Related Causes and Effects.
Avoiding Oversimplification of Causes and Effects.
12. Division and Classification.
Overview: Analyzing the Whole in Terms of the Parts.
Specifying Scope and Emphasis Through a Topic Sentence.
Establishing a Logical Method of Analysis.
Maintaining a Consistent Presentation.
Using Distinct and Complete Groupings.
13. Argument.
Overview: Understanding Persuasion.
Providing a Topic Sentence That Expresses a Clear Stance on the Issue.
Developing Sufficient Support Through Sound Reasons.
Using a Reasonable, Convincing Tone.
Using Sound Logic.
Arranging Your Support in Emphatic Order.
III. MOVING ON TO THE ESSAY.
14. Developing an Essay.
Overview: Comparing the Paragraph and the Essay.
Understanding the Structure of an Essay.
Understanding the Role of the Thesis.
Examining an Effective Essay.
Examining the Process of Writing an Essay.
Looking Again at the Final Draft.
15. Examining Types of Essays.
Overview: Understanding the Use of Modes in Essays.
The Relationship Between Your Purpose and the Modes.
Using Narration to Develop an Essay.
Using Description to Develop an Essay.
Using Example to Develop an Essay.
Using Process to Develop an Essay.
Using Definition to Develop an Essay.
Using Comparison and Contrast to Develop an Essay.
Using Cause and Effect to Develop an Essay.
Using Division and Classification to Develop an Essay.
Writing an Argument Essay.
16. Adjusting Your Process: Timed Writing and Summaries.
Overview: Laying the Foundation for Answering Essay Questions
Approaching an Essay Question.
Examining an Answer to a Practice Question.
IV. DEVELOPING SENTENCE SENSE.
17. The Sentence.
Overview: Understanding Sentence Basics.
Understanding Verbs.
Recognizing Subjects.
18. Fragments.
Overview: Recognizing and Writing Complete Sentences.
Correcting Fragments with Missing Subjects or Verbs.
Correcting Phrase Fragments.
Correcting Subordinate Clause Fragments.
Correcting Appositive Fragments.
19. Subordination and Coordination.
Overview: Combining Clauses for Sentence Complexity.
Using Subordination.
Using Coordination.
20. Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences.
Overview: Understanding Sentence-Combining Errors.
Identifying Common Splices and Run-On Sentences.
Correcting Common Splices and Run-Ons by Using Coordinating Conjunctions.
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-Ons by Using Subordinating Conjunctions.
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-Ons by Using Semicolons.
Correcting Comma Splices and Run-Ons by Using Periods.
V. UNDERSTANDING SUBJECTS AND VERBS.
21. Subject-Verb Agreement.
Overview: Understanding Subject-Verb Agreement.
Avoiding Agreement Errors When the Subject Follows the Verb.
Avoiding Agreement Errors When Words Come Between the Subject and Verb.
Avoiding Agreement Errors with Indefinite Pronouns.
Avoiding Agreement Errors from Other Causes.
22. Basic Tenses for Regular Verbs.
Overview: Understanding Tense.
Using the Simple Present, Simple Future, and Simple Past Tenses.
Using the Perfect Tenses.
23. Irregular Verbs and Frequently Confused Verbs.
Overview: Understanding Irregular Verbs and Other Verb Problems.
Identifying Irregular Verbs.
Working with Forms of "to Be".
Choosing between "Can" and "Could" and between "Will" and "Would."
24. Passive Voice, Additional Tenses, and Maintaining Consistency in Tense.
Overview: Understanding Additional Elements of Verb Use.
Forming the Passive and Active Voice.
Using the Progressive and Perfect Progressive Tenses.
Maintaining Consistency in Tense.
VI. KEEPING YOUR WRITING CORRECT.
25. Nouns and Pronouns.
Overview: Understanding Words That Name.
Making Singular Nouns Plural.
Working with Collective Nouns and Cue Words.
Understanding Pronoun Case.
Using Personal Pronouns Correctly.
Using Indefinite Pronouns.
26. Adjectives, Adverbs, and Other Modifiers.
Overview: Understanding the Roles of Adjectives and Adverbs.
Understanding Adjectives and Adverbs.
Creating Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs.
Working with Confusing Pairs of Adjectives and Adverbs.
Avoiding Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers.
Avoiding Double Negatives.
27. Ensuring Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
Overview: Choosing the Correct Pronoun.
Maintaining Agreement in Number.
Maintaining Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns.
Maintaining Agreement with Demonstrative and Reflexive or Intensive Pronouns.
Keeping the Relationship Between Pronoun and Antecedent Clear.
Maintaining Agreement with "That," "Who," and "Which" Clauses.
Avoiding Problems with Gender in Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
28. Maintaining Parallelism.
Overview: Balancing Ideas in Your Writing.
Maintaining Parallelism with Words in a Series.
Maintaining Parallelism with Phrases.
Maintaining Parallelism When Using Correlative Conjunctions.
29. Spelling.
Overview: Understanding the Importance of Correct Spelling.
Basic Rules for Forming Plurals.
Basic Rules for Prefixes and Suffixes.
The Basic Rule for "ie" or "ei."
Basic Rules for "-sede," "-ceed," and "-cede," and Other Endings That Sound Alike.
Dealing with Commonly Confused Words.
Learning the Most Commonly Misspelled Words.
30. Commas.
Overview: Understanding Comma Usage.
Using a Comma Between Clauses Connected by Conjunctions.
Using Commas to Separate Items in a Series.
Using a Comma to Set off Introductory Material.
Using Commas to Set off Elements That Interrupt Sentence Flow.
Using Commas to Set off Direct Quotations.
Recognizing Other Situations in Which Commas Are Needed.
31. Other Punctuation and Capitalization.
Overview: Using Punctuation and Capitalization to Clarify Meaning.
Using Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points.
Using Quotation Marks.
Using Apostrophes.
Using Other Marks of Punctuation.
Understanding Capitalization.
VII. CONNECTING: RESPONDING TO READING.
5:00 A. M.: Writing as Ritual, Judith Ortiz Cofer.
Fish Cheeks, Amy Tan.
Intimacy and Independence, Deborah Tannen.
Nightwatch, Paul Fletcher.
Hit and Run, Susan Messer.
Words, Good or Bad, Can Echo through a Lifetime, Bob Greene.
Remote Control - How to Raise a Media Skeptic, Susan Douglas.
My Paradise, NaihsinWeng.
Pride, Stephanie Jezak.
Exposed Toes, Diane Riva.
Childhood - Then and Now, Jane Patenaude.
Fear Not, Greg Andree.
Two Peas in a Pod, Erica Nardi.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Josh Trepanier.
Homeschooling, Lori Ann Moyer.
Appendix A: Tips for ESL Writers.
Appendix B: Exploring the Dictionary.
Rhetorical Index.
Index.