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