Evergreen: A Guide to Writing With Readings (7th edition)
Evergreen with Readings has helped nearly two million students become competent writers, prepared to meet the challenges of today's academic and professional environments.
This new Seventh Edition provides students with a solid foundation for
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writing clear and well-organized paragraphs and essays,
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and strengthening their grammar and proofreading skills.
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emphasizes critical-thinking skills,
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offers online links and computer-savvy assignments,
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and introduces students to the process of improving their writing with print or online sources.
This book does not only contain loads of information on how to write correctly, but it is also full of different exercises that will help you to practice and improve your writing skills.
Contents (in brief):
Unit 1: Getting Started
1 Exploring the Writing Process
2 Prewriting to Generate Ideas
Unit 2: Discovering the Paragraph
3 The Process of Writing Paragraphs
4 Achieving Coherence
Unit 3: Developing the Paragraph
5 Illustration
6 Narration
7 Description
8 Process
9 Definition
10 Comparison and Contrast
11 Classification
12 Cause and Effect
13 Persuasion
Unit 4: Writing the Essay
14 The Process of Writing an Essay
15 Types of Essays
16 The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title
17 Special College Skills: Summary and Quotation
18 Strengthening an Essay with Research
19 Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination
Unit 5: Improving Your Writing
20 Revising for Consistency and Parallelism
21 Revising for Sentence Variety
22 Revising for Language Awareness
23 Putting Your Revision Skills to Work
Unit 6: Reviewing the Basics
24 The Simple Sentence
25 Coordination and Subordination
26 Avoiding Sentence Errors
27 Present Tense (Agreement)
28 Past Tense
29 The Past Participle
30 Nouns
31 Pronouns
32 Prepositions
33 Adjectives and Adverbs
34 The Apostrophe
35 The Comma
36 Mechanics
37 Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work
Unit 7: Strengthening Your Spelling
38 Spelling
39 Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes
Unit 8: Reading Selections
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