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1. Reading and Writing in College
2. Taking It to the Next Level: Active Reading
3. Purpose, Audience, Tone, and Content
4. Narration
5. Description
6. Definition
7. Cause and Effect
8. Comparison and Contrast
9. Process Analysis
10. Persuasion
11. Outlining
12. Apply Prewriting Models
13. Drafting
14. Revising and Editing
15. Effective Means for Writing a Paragraph
16. Organizing Your Writing
17. Developing a Strong, Clear Thesis Statement
18. Writing Body Paragraphs
19. Writing Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
20. The Purpose of Research Writing
21. Critical Thinking and Research Applications
22. Steps in Developing a Research Proposal
23. Strategies for Gathering Reliable Information
24. Managing Your Research Project
25. Sentence Writing
26. Subject-Verb Agreement
27. Verb Tense
28. Capitalization
29. Pronouns
30. Adjectives and Adverbs
31. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
32. Writing Basics: End-of-Chapter Exercises
33. Commas
34. Semicolons
35. Colons
36. Quotes
37. Apostrophes
38. Parentheses
39. Dashes
40. Hyphens
41. Punctuation: End-of-Chapter Exercises
42. Commonly Confused Words
43. Spelling
44. Word Choice
45. Prefixes and Suffixes
46. Synonyms and Antonyms
47. Using Context Clues
48. Working with Words: End-of-Chapter Exercises
49. Word Order
50. Negative Statements
51. Count and Noncount Nouns and Articles
52. Pronouns
53. Verb Tenses
54. Modal Auxiliaries
55. Prepositions
56. Slang and Idioms
57. Help for English Language Learners: End-of-Chapter Exercises
58. Sentence Variety
59. Coordination and Subordination
60. Parallelism
61. Refining Your Writing: End-of-Chapter Exercises
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