The Empowered Writer
An Essential Guide to Writing, Reading and Research
4th Edition
Published on 26. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-19-016571-0 (ISBN)
Description
A core text designed for the university and college markets, The Empowered Writer gives students a detailed yet widely applicable and accessible guide for developing skills in writing and research, including personal and business communication. This 4-in-1 text covers rhetoric, research, and grammar, and provides integrated readings with annotations. Extensive pedagogy includes individual and collaborative exercises, in-text examples to illustrate key ideas, critical-thinking questions at the end of each reading, margin notes to define core concepts and provide targeted learning support, and sample student essays.
In this revised edition, 7 of the 18 essays are new (5 new professional essays; 2 new student essays) and are on topics relevant to students in Canada, including the experiences of immigrant students, poverty, environmental protection, and the legacy of residential schools. The text has also been updated to include more exercises and examples, with a particular focus on students whose first language is not English.
In this revised edition, 7 of the 18 essays are new (5 new professional essays; 2 new student essays) and are on topics relevant to students in Canada, including the experiences of immigrant students, poverty, environmental protection, and the legacy of residential schools. The text has also been updated to include more exercises and examples, with a particular focus on students whose first language is not English.
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
6 figures, 22 tables, 17 photos
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-016571-0 (9780190165710)
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Persons
Kathleen M. Moran is a professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Conestoga College. She has taught and created a wide range of courses including technical writing, composition, business communication, and student success. Kathleen has also taught composition at Humber College and Brock University. She has authored ancillary material for Oxford, Pearson, and Nelson and is the Canadian adapter on Searles, Workplace Communication (2012) with Pearson Canada.
Eric Henderson is an active author with Oxford University Press Canada, where his other books include Writing by Choice, 3e (2015), The Active Reader, 4e (2018), and Becoming an Active Reader, 3e (2020). He has also published articles in leading journals such as Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Victoria where his teaching interests include composition, rhetoric, and style.
Eric Henderson is an active author with Oxford University Press Canada, where his other books include Writing by Choice, 3e (2015), The Active Reader, 4e (2018), and Becoming an Active Reader, 3e (2020). He has also published articles in leading journals such as Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Victoria where his teaching interests include composition, rhetoric, and style.
Content
- Readings
- From the Publisher
- Preface
- Part One: Writing and Reading
- Chapter 1: Basic Skills Development
- An Integrated Approach
- - Writing and Thinking
- Exercise 1.1
- - Writing and Reading
- Reading Strategies
- - Exercise 1.2
- Critical Thinking
- - What Is Critical Thinking?
- - Applying Critical Thinking
- - Exercise 1.3
- - Reading and Critical Thinking
- - Exercise 1.4
- - Exercise 1.5
- - Responding Critically and Analytically through Questions
- - Exercise 1.6
- - Exercise 1.7
- Sample Professional Essay: Bear Cub: Rogue Wildlife is Par for the Course on Canada's Northernmost Green by Eva Holland
- - Exercise 1.8
- Word Meanings
- - Exercise 1.9
- - Improving Vocabulary
- - Exercise 1.10
- - Exercise 1.11
- Sample Professional Essay: 4 Types of Procrastination and How to Beat Them by Brian Dordevic
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 2: The Writing Situation
- Writing Purpose
- - Exercise 2.1
- A Is For Audience
- - Audience-Based Writing
- - Exercise 2.2
- - Exercise 2.3
- - Audience Factors
- - Exercise 2.4
- Sample Professional Essay: Listen to Your Gut: Rewards and Challenges of Intuitive Eating by Lisa Petty
- - Writing for the Workplace
- - Exercise 2.5
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 3: Paragraph Essentials
- Introducing the Paragraph
- - Topic Sentence
- - Exercise 3.1
- - Concluding Sentence
- - Paragraph Wrap as Conclusion
- - Connecting Paragraphs by Using Transitions
- - Paragraph Unity
- - Exercise 3.2
- - Paragraph Coherence
- - Exercise 3.3
- - Exercise 3.4
- - Exercise 3.5
- - Paragraph Purpose
- - Narration: How Can it Be Told?
- - Personal: Why Should It Affect Me?/How Does It Affect Me?
- Sample Professional Essay: Everything You Need to Know about Imposter Syndrome by Sydney Loney
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 4 Paragraph and Essay Development
- Developing Your Essay
- - Exercise 4.1
- Development Patterns
- - Chronology: When Did It Occur?
- - Process: How Does It Work?
- - Classification/Division: What Kinds Are There?
- - Cause-Effect: What Is the Cause? What Is the Result?
- - Question-Answer: What Is the Answer?
- - Problem-Solution: How Can It Be (Re)Solved?
- - Cost-Benefit: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages?
- - Comparison and Contrast: How Is It Like and/or Unlike Something Else?
- - Exercise 4.2
- Stages in Essay Writing
- - Pre-Writing
- - Exercise 4.3
- - Exercise 4.4
- - Research
- - Organization
- - Exercise 4.5
- - Composing: Writing Drafts
- - Revising the Final Draft
- The Critical Response
- Sample Professional Essay: Why Do We Still Put Young People in Solitary Confinement? By Cathy Gulli
- Sample Student Essay: Response to "Why Do We Still Put Young People in Solitary Confinement" by Julianny Vahlis
- Sample Professional Essay: If Corporations Have Legal Rights, Why Not Rivers? By David Suzuki and Rachel Plotkin
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 5: Summarizing Other Writers' Work
- What Is a Summary?
- - How to Write a Summary
- - Exercise 5.1
- - Exercise 5.2
- - The Extended Summary
- Sample Professional Essay: The 15 Minimum Wage Movement Rises Up by Janet Nicol
- Other Ways to Summarize
- - Paraphrase
- - Exercise 5.3
- - Abstract
- - Exercise 5.4
- - Annotated Bibliography
- - Exercise 5.5
- Summarizing at the Workplace
- - Exercise 5.6
- Sample Professional Essay: Almost a Million Canadian Kids in Poverty Is an Acute Emergency by Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones
- Chapter Review Questions
- Part Two: Essays
- Chapter 6: The Expository Essay
- How to Write Various Expository Essays
- - The Process Essay
- Sample Student Essay: How to Improve Memory by Leman Koca
- - The Comparison and Contrast Essay
- Sample Student Essay: Tail of Opposites: Meow, Meow, or Woof, Woof? By Barclay Katt
- - The In-Class (or Examination) Essay
- - Exercise 6.1
- - Exercise 6.2
- Sample Professional Essay: One Giant Paw Print Stirs an Age-Old Debate: How Big Can a Wolf Be? By Michael Fraiman
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 7: Introductions, Thesis Statements, and Conclusions
- The Expository Essay Template
- - Exercise 7.1
- The Essay's Introduction
- - How to Create Reader Interest in the Introduction
- - Exercise 7.2
- - Other Functions of the Introduction
- - Features of the Introduction
- - Exercise 7.3
- - Exercise 7.4
- - Exercise 7.5
- - Exercise 7.6
- - Exercise 7.7
- -The Essay's Conclusion
- - Functions of the Conclusion
- - Two Kinds of Conclusion
- - Exercise 7.8
- - Exercise 7.9
- - Exercise 7.10
- Sample Professional Essay: Alouette Anniversary by Hillary Windsor
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 8: Claims, Evidence, and the Analytical Model
- Kinds of Claims: Fact, Value, and Policy
- - Claim of Fact
- - Claim of Value
- - Claim of Policy
- - Exercise 8.1
- Evidence
- - Organization of Evidence
- - Kinds of Evidence
- Credibility
- - Exercise 8.2
- Sample Box: Harnessing the Power of Nature to Fight Climate Change by Brian Banks
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 9: The Argumentative Essay
- Expository versus Argumentative Writing
- Emotional versus Logical Arguments
- - Exercise 9.1
- - Exercise 9.2
- Tempest in a Teapot
- - Argument, Opinion, and Facts
- - Exercise 9.3
- - Exercise 9.4
- - Faulty Reasoning
- - Exercise 9.5
- - Exercise 9.6
- Strategies for Creating Your Argument
- - Arguable Claims
- - Specific, Interesting, and Manageable Claims
- Rebutting the Opposing View
- - Topic-Based Rebuttal
- - Audience-Based Rebuttal
- - Purpose-Based Rebuttal
- Sample Professional Essay: Not Immune: What a Teenager Who Got Vaccinated Against His Parent's Will Can Teach Us About Anti-Vaxxers by Suraj Patel
- Organizing an Outline for Argument
- - Exercise 9.7
- Sample Student essay: Discrimination against Aboriginals in Canada: Bill C-45 by Jane Freiburger
- Oral Presentations
- - Creating a Presentation
- - Delivering a Presentation
- - Important Points to Consider when Making an Oral Presentation
- Chapter Review Questions
- Part 3: Research
- Chapter 10: Conducting Research
- Developing Research Skills
- - Research: Finding and Exploring
- - Synthesis I: Integrating
- - Organization: Arranging
- - Synthesis II: Composing
- -Researching Your Topic
- - Who Are These Experts - and Where Can You Find Them?
- - Exploring Your Topic
- - Note-Taking
- - Organizing Research Notes
- - Cross-Referencing
- - Some Useful Research Strategies
- - Using Contradictory Evidence
- Sources of Research Material
- - Primary and Secondary Sources
- - Start with Secondary Sources
- - Internet Searches
- - Notes on Library Research
- - Alternative Sources
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 11: Using Your Research
- Outlines for Research Essays
- - Organization: Arranging
- Sample Student Essay: Outline for "The Cost of Buying Happiness: Why Less is More"
- Exercise 11.1
- Plagiarism
- Integrating Secondary Sources
- - Summary, Paraphrase, Direct Quotation, Mixed Quotation Format
- - Exercise 11.2
- - Signal Phrases, Ellipses, and Brackets
- Documentation: In-Text Citations
- Sample Student Essay: The Cost of Buying Happiness: Why Less is More by Sandy Crashley
- Sample Student Essay: Computer Ergonomics by Mike Butler
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 12: APA and MLA Documentation Styles
- Choosing Your Citation Style
- APA
- - APA In-Text Citations
- - APA In-Text Citations by Format
- - APA References
- Sample Student Essay: Polar Bears: Bright Outlook or Grim Future by Adam Cook
- - References
- MLA
- - MLA In-Text Citations
- - MLA In-Text Citations by Format
- - MLA Works Cited
- - MLA Notes
- - Exercise 12.1
- Sample Student Essay: The Historical Influences on Québec's Traditional Desserts by Melissa Donnelly
- Chapter Review Questions
- Part 4: Grammar
- Chapter 13: Sentence Essentials
- Grammatical Groundwork
- Parts of Speech
- - Nouns
- - Exercise 13.1
- - Exercise 13.2
- - Pronouns
- - Exercise 13.3
- - Verbs
- - Exercise 13.4
- - Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs
- - Joiners: Prepositions and Conjunctions
- - Exercise 13.5
- - Exercise 13.6
- Sentences
- - Exercise 13.7
- - Exercise 13.8
- - Exercise 13.9
- Sentence Patterns
- - Exercise 13.10
- - Exercise 13.11
- - Exercise 13.12
- - Exercise 13.13
- Sentence Errors
- - Sentence Fragments
- - Exercise 13.14
- - Exercise 13.15
- - Exercise 13.16
- - Exercise 13.17
- - Exercise 13.18
- - Run-On Sentence
- - Comma Splice
- - Exercise 13.19
- Exercise 13.20
- - Exercise 13.21
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 14: Punctuation
- Do Commas Matter?
- - Rule Category 1: Items in a Series
- - Rule Category 2: Independent Clauses
- - Rule Category 3: Parenthetical Information
- - Rule Category 4: Conventional and "Comma Sense" Uses
- - Exercise 14.1
- - Exercise 14.2
- - When Commas Are Not Required
- - Exercise 14.3
- Other Forms of Punctuation
- - Semicolons
- - Exercise 14.4
- - Colons
- - Dashes and Parentheses
- - Exercise 14.5
- - Exercise 14.6
- Apostrophes
- - Apostrophes for Possession in Nouns
- - Contractions
- - Exercise 14.7
- - Exercise 14.8
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 15: Agreement, Pronoun, and Sentence Structure Errors
- Agreement
- - Subject-Verb Agreement
- - Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement
- Pronouns at Work
- - Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- - Exercise 15.1
- - Exercise 15.2
- - Exercise 15.3
- Other Problems with Pronouns
- - Pronoun Reference
- - Exercise 15.4
- - Exercise 15.5
- - Exercise 15.6
- - Exercise 15.7
- - Pronoun Case
- - Exercise 15.8
- - Pronoun Consistency
- - Exercise 15.9
- -Sentence Construction Errors
- - Misplaced Modifiers
- - Dangling Modifiers
- - Exercise 15.10
- - Exercise 15.11
- - The Parallelism Principle
- - Exercise 15.12
- - Exercise 15.13
- - Passive Constructions: The Lazy Subject
- - Exercise 15.14
- - Exercise 15.15
- - Exercise 15.16
- - Exercise 15.17
- - Exercise 15.18
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 16: Achieving Clarity and Depth in Your Writing
- Effective Style: Clarity
- Exercise 16.1
- Exercise 16.2
- - Cutting for Conciseness
- - Doubling Up: The Noah's Ark Syndrome
- - Exercise 16.3
- - Phony Phrases
- - The Small but Not-So-Beautiful
- - Unintensives
- - Writing Directly
- - Numbing Nouns
- - Exercise 16.4
- - Exercise 16.5
- - Exercise 16.6
- - Working toward Precision: Wise Word Choices
- - Exercise 16.7
- - Exercise 16.8
- - Exercise 16.9
- - Exercise 16.10
- - Exercise 16.11
- Common Words That Confuse
- - Exercise 16.12
- Providing Depth: Variety and Emphasis
- - Sentence Variety
- - Exercise 16.13
- - Exercise 16.14
- - Creating Emphasis
- Proofreading: Perfections Is Possible
- - Proofreading Methods
- - Guidelines for Proofreading
- - Common Errors
- Essay Presentation
- Chapter Review Questions
- Appendix A: Verb Tenses
- - Present Tenses
- - Past Tenses
- - Future Tenses
- - Exercise A.1
- Appendix B: A Checklist for EAL Writers
- Adjectives
- - Adjectives as Participles
- - Adjectives and Present versus Past Participles
- - Comparatives and Superlatives
- - Few versus a Few
- - Much versus Many
- - Plurals as Adjectival Phrases Concerning Distance, Money, and Time
- - Relative (Adjectival) Clauses
- - Agreement with Relative Clauses
- Adverbs
- - Adverbs with Adjectives
- - Comparative and Superlative of Adverbs
- Articles - A, An, and The
- - The Indefinite Article
- - The Definite Article
- Nouns
- - Every + Noun
- - Gerunds
- - Kind(s) of/Type(s) of + Noun
- - Uncountable and Countable Nouns
- - Prepositions
- Verbs
- - Verbs as Modal Auxiliaries
- - Verbs and Nouns
- - Verbs and Prepositions
- - Verbs and Their Subjects (Subject-Verb Agreement)
- Appendix C: Peer Edit Forms
- - Formal Outline
- - Argumentative Essay: First Draft
- - Research Essay: First Draft
- Appendix D: Partial Exercise Answer Key: Chapters 13-15
- Glossary
- Index
- From the Publisher
- Preface
- Part One: Writing and Reading
- Chapter 1: Basic Skills Development
- An Integrated Approach
- - Writing and Thinking
- Exercise 1.1
- - Writing and Reading
- Reading Strategies
- - Exercise 1.2
- Critical Thinking
- - What Is Critical Thinking?
- - Applying Critical Thinking
- - Exercise 1.3
- - Reading and Critical Thinking
- - Exercise 1.4
- - Exercise 1.5
- - Responding Critically and Analytically through Questions
- - Exercise 1.6
- - Exercise 1.7
- Sample Professional Essay: Bear Cub: Rogue Wildlife is Par for the Course on Canada's Northernmost Green by Eva Holland
- - Exercise 1.8
- Word Meanings
- - Exercise 1.9
- - Improving Vocabulary
- - Exercise 1.10
- - Exercise 1.11
- Sample Professional Essay: 4 Types of Procrastination and How to Beat Them by Brian Dordevic
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 2: The Writing Situation
- Writing Purpose
- - Exercise 2.1
- A Is For Audience
- - Audience-Based Writing
- - Exercise 2.2
- - Exercise 2.3
- - Audience Factors
- - Exercise 2.4
- Sample Professional Essay: Listen to Your Gut: Rewards and Challenges of Intuitive Eating by Lisa Petty
- - Writing for the Workplace
- - Exercise 2.5
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 3: Paragraph Essentials
- Introducing the Paragraph
- - Topic Sentence
- - Exercise 3.1
- - Concluding Sentence
- - Paragraph Wrap as Conclusion
- - Connecting Paragraphs by Using Transitions
- - Paragraph Unity
- - Exercise 3.2
- - Paragraph Coherence
- - Exercise 3.3
- - Exercise 3.4
- - Exercise 3.5
- - Paragraph Purpose
- - Narration: How Can it Be Told?
- - Personal: Why Should It Affect Me?/How Does It Affect Me?
- Sample Professional Essay: Everything You Need to Know about Imposter Syndrome by Sydney Loney
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 4 Paragraph and Essay Development
- Developing Your Essay
- - Exercise 4.1
- Development Patterns
- - Chronology: When Did It Occur?
- - Process: How Does It Work?
- - Classification/Division: What Kinds Are There?
- - Cause-Effect: What Is the Cause? What Is the Result?
- - Question-Answer: What Is the Answer?
- - Problem-Solution: How Can It Be (Re)Solved?
- - Cost-Benefit: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages?
- - Comparison and Contrast: How Is It Like and/or Unlike Something Else?
- - Exercise 4.2
- Stages in Essay Writing
- - Pre-Writing
- - Exercise 4.3
- - Exercise 4.4
- - Research
- - Organization
- - Exercise 4.5
- - Composing: Writing Drafts
- - Revising the Final Draft
- The Critical Response
- Sample Professional Essay: Why Do We Still Put Young People in Solitary Confinement? By Cathy Gulli
- Sample Student Essay: Response to "Why Do We Still Put Young People in Solitary Confinement" by Julianny Vahlis
- Sample Professional Essay: If Corporations Have Legal Rights, Why Not Rivers? By David Suzuki and Rachel Plotkin
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 5: Summarizing Other Writers' Work
- What Is a Summary?
- - How to Write a Summary
- - Exercise 5.1
- - Exercise 5.2
- - The Extended Summary
- Sample Professional Essay: The 15 Minimum Wage Movement Rises Up by Janet Nicol
- Other Ways to Summarize
- - Paraphrase
- - Exercise 5.3
- - Abstract
- - Exercise 5.4
- - Annotated Bibliography
- - Exercise 5.5
- Summarizing at the Workplace
- - Exercise 5.6
- Sample Professional Essay: Almost a Million Canadian Kids in Poverty Is an Acute Emergency by Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones
- Chapter Review Questions
- Part Two: Essays
- Chapter 6: The Expository Essay
- How to Write Various Expository Essays
- - The Process Essay
- Sample Student Essay: How to Improve Memory by Leman Koca
- - The Comparison and Contrast Essay
- Sample Student Essay: Tail of Opposites: Meow, Meow, or Woof, Woof? By Barclay Katt
- - The In-Class (or Examination) Essay
- - Exercise 6.1
- - Exercise 6.2
- Sample Professional Essay: One Giant Paw Print Stirs an Age-Old Debate: How Big Can a Wolf Be? By Michael Fraiman
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 7: Introductions, Thesis Statements, and Conclusions
- The Expository Essay Template
- - Exercise 7.1
- The Essay's Introduction
- - How to Create Reader Interest in the Introduction
- - Exercise 7.2
- - Other Functions of the Introduction
- - Features of the Introduction
- - Exercise 7.3
- - Exercise 7.4
- - Exercise 7.5
- - Exercise 7.6
- - Exercise 7.7
- -The Essay's Conclusion
- - Functions of the Conclusion
- - Two Kinds of Conclusion
- - Exercise 7.8
- - Exercise 7.9
- - Exercise 7.10
- Sample Professional Essay: Alouette Anniversary by Hillary Windsor
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 8: Claims, Evidence, and the Analytical Model
- Kinds of Claims: Fact, Value, and Policy
- - Claim of Fact
- - Claim of Value
- - Claim of Policy
- - Exercise 8.1
- Evidence
- - Organization of Evidence
- - Kinds of Evidence
- Credibility
- - Exercise 8.2
- Sample Box: Harnessing the Power of Nature to Fight Climate Change by Brian Banks
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 9: The Argumentative Essay
- Expository versus Argumentative Writing
- Emotional versus Logical Arguments
- - Exercise 9.1
- - Exercise 9.2
- Tempest in a Teapot
- - Argument, Opinion, and Facts
- - Exercise 9.3
- - Exercise 9.4
- - Faulty Reasoning
- - Exercise 9.5
- - Exercise 9.6
- Strategies for Creating Your Argument
- - Arguable Claims
- - Specific, Interesting, and Manageable Claims
- Rebutting the Opposing View
- - Topic-Based Rebuttal
- - Audience-Based Rebuttal
- - Purpose-Based Rebuttal
- Sample Professional Essay: Not Immune: What a Teenager Who Got Vaccinated Against His Parent's Will Can Teach Us About Anti-Vaxxers by Suraj Patel
- Organizing an Outline for Argument
- - Exercise 9.7
- Sample Student essay: Discrimination against Aboriginals in Canada: Bill C-45 by Jane Freiburger
- Oral Presentations
- - Creating a Presentation
- - Delivering a Presentation
- - Important Points to Consider when Making an Oral Presentation
- Chapter Review Questions
- Part 3: Research
- Chapter 10: Conducting Research
- Developing Research Skills
- - Research: Finding and Exploring
- - Synthesis I: Integrating
- - Organization: Arranging
- - Synthesis II: Composing
- -Researching Your Topic
- - Who Are These Experts - and Where Can You Find Them?
- - Exploring Your Topic
- - Note-Taking
- - Organizing Research Notes
- - Cross-Referencing
- - Some Useful Research Strategies
- - Using Contradictory Evidence
- Sources of Research Material
- - Primary and Secondary Sources
- - Start with Secondary Sources
- - Internet Searches
- - Notes on Library Research
- - Alternative Sources
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 11: Using Your Research
- Outlines for Research Essays
- - Organization: Arranging
- Sample Student Essay: Outline for "The Cost of Buying Happiness: Why Less is More"
- Exercise 11.1
- Plagiarism
- Integrating Secondary Sources
- - Summary, Paraphrase, Direct Quotation, Mixed Quotation Format
- - Exercise 11.2
- - Signal Phrases, Ellipses, and Brackets
- Documentation: In-Text Citations
- Sample Student Essay: The Cost of Buying Happiness: Why Less is More by Sandy Crashley
- Sample Student Essay: Computer Ergonomics by Mike Butler
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 12: APA and MLA Documentation Styles
- Choosing Your Citation Style
- APA
- - APA In-Text Citations
- - APA In-Text Citations by Format
- - APA References
- Sample Student Essay: Polar Bears: Bright Outlook or Grim Future by Adam Cook
- - References
- MLA
- - MLA In-Text Citations
- - MLA In-Text Citations by Format
- - MLA Works Cited
- - MLA Notes
- - Exercise 12.1
- Sample Student Essay: The Historical Influences on Québec's Traditional Desserts by Melissa Donnelly
- Chapter Review Questions
- Part 4: Grammar
- Chapter 13: Sentence Essentials
- Grammatical Groundwork
- Parts of Speech
- - Nouns
- - Exercise 13.1
- - Exercise 13.2
- - Pronouns
- - Exercise 13.3
- - Verbs
- - Exercise 13.4
- - Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs
- - Joiners: Prepositions and Conjunctions
- - Exercise 13.5
- - Exercise 13.6
- Sentences
- - Exercise 13.7
- - Exercise 13.8
- - Exercise 13.9
- Sentence Patterns
- - Exercise 13.10
- - Exercise 13.11
- - Exercise 13.12
- - Exercise 13.13
- Sentence Errors
- - Sentence Fragments
- - Exercise 13.14
- - Exercise 13.15
- - Exercise 13.16
- - Exercise 13.17
- - Exercise 13.18
- - Run-On Sentence
- - Comma Splice
- - Exercise 13.19
- Exercise 13.20
- - Exercise 13.21
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 14: Punctuation
- Do Commas Matter?
- - Rule Category 1: Items in a Series
- - Rule Category 2: Independent Clauses
- - Rule Category 3: Parenthetical Information
- - Rule Category 4: Conventional and "Comma Sense" Uses
- - Exercise 14.1
- - Exercise 14.2
- - When Commas Are Not Required
- - Exercise 14.3
- Other Forms of Punctuation
- - Semicolons
- - Exercise 14.4
- - Colons
- - Dashes and Parentheses
- - Exercise 14.5
- - Exercise 14.6
- Apostrophes
- - Apostrophes for Possession in Nouns
- - Contractions
- - Exercise 14.7
- - Exercise 14.8
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 15: Agreement, Pronoun, and Sentence Structure Errors
- Agreement
- - Subject-Verb Agreement
- - Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement
- Pronouns at Work
- - Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- - Exercise 15.1
- - Exercise 15.2
- - Exercise 15.3
- Other Problems with Pronouns
- - Pronoun Reference
- - Exercise 15.4
- - Exercise 15.5
- - Exercise 15.6
- - Exercise 15.7
- - Pronoun Case
- - Exercise 15.8
- - Pronoun Consistency
- - Exercise 15.9
- -Sentence Construction Errors
- - Misplaced Modifiers
- - Dangling Modifiers
- - Exercise 15.10
- - Exercise 15.11
- - The Parallelism Principle
- - Exercise 15.12
- - Exercise 15.13
- - Passive Constructions: The Lazy Subject
- - Exercise 15.14
- - Exercise 15.15
- - Exercise 15.16
- - Exercise 15.17
- - Exercise 15.18
- Chapter Review Questions
- Chapter 16: Achieving Clarity and Depth in Your Writing
- Effective Style: Clarity
- Exercise 16.1
- Exercise 16.2
- - Cutting for Conciseness
- - Doubling Up: The Noah's Ark Syndrome
- - Exercise 16.3
- - Phony Phrases
- - The Small but Not-So-Beautiful
- - Unintensives
- - Writing Directly
- - Numbing Nouns
- - Exercise 16.4
- - Exercise 16.5
- - Exercise 16.6
- - Working toward Precision: Wise Word Choices
- - Exercise 16.7
- - Exercise 16.8
- - Exercise 16.9
- - Exercise 16.10
- - Exercise 16.11
- Common Words That Confuse
- - Exercise 16.12
- Providing Depth: Variety and Emphasis
- - Sentence Variety
- - Exercise 16.13
- - Exercise 16.14
- - Creating Emphasis
- Proofreading: Perfections Is Possible
- - Proofreading Methods
- - Guidelines for Proofreading
- - Common Errors
- Essay Presentation
- Chapter Review Questions
- Appendix A: Verb Tenses
- - Present Tenses
- - Past Tenses
- - Future Tenses
- - Exercise A.1
- Appendix B: A Checklist for EAL Writers
- Adjectives
- - Adjectives as Participles
- - Adjectives and Present versus Past Participles
- - Comparatives and Superlatives
- - Few versus a Few
- - Much versus Many
- - Plurals as Adjectival Phrases Concerning Distance, Money, and Time
- - Relative (Adjectival) Clauses
- - Agreement with Relative Clauses
- Adverbs
- - Adverbs with Adjectives
- - Comparative and Superlative of Adverbs
- Articles - A, An, and The
- - The Indefinite Article
- - The Definite Article
- Nouns
- - Every + Noun
- - Gerunds
- - Kind(s) of/Type(s) of + Noun
- - Uncountable and Countable Nouns
- - Prepositions
- Verbs
- - Verbs as Modal Auxiliaries
- - Verbs and Nouns
- - Verbs and Prepositions
- - Verbs and Their Subjects (Subject-Verb Agreement)
- Appendix C: Peer Edit Forms
- - Formal Outline
- - Argumentative Essay: First Draft
- - Research Essay: First Draft
- Appendix D: Partial Exercise Answer Key: Chapters 13-15
- Glossary
- Index