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Evergreen : with readings : a guide to writing / Susan Fawcett, Alvin Sandberg.
LIBRA PE1413 .F38 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fawcett, Susan
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Report writing.
- College readers.
- English language--Grammar.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- Genre:
- exercise books.
- Problems and exercises.
- Physical Description:
- xlvii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- 6th ed., Instructor's annotated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2000.
- Contents:
- Exploring the writing process
- Prewriting to generate ideas
- The process of writing paragraphs
- Achieving coherence
- Illustration
- Narration
- Description
- Process
- Definition
- Comparison and contrast
- Classification
- Cause and effect
- Persuasion
- The process of writing essay
- Types of essays
- The introduction, the conclusion, and the title
- Writing under pressure : the essay examination
- Special college skills : summary and quotation
- Revising for consistency and parallelism
- Revising for sentence variety
- Revising for language awareness
- Putting your revision skills to work
- The simple sentence
- Coordination and subordination
- Avoiding sentence errors
- Pretense tense (agreement)
- Past tense
- The past participle
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Prepositions
- Adjectives and adverbs
- The apostrophe
- The comma
- Mechanics
- Putting your proofreading skills to work
- Spelling
- Look-alikes/sound-alikes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0395958482
- 9780395958483
- OCLC:
- 44634721
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