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