Writer's Palette: Developing Paragraphs and Essays Book

Part 1: UNDERSTANDING THE WRITING PROCESS. 1 Planning' thinking before Writing. 2. Prewriting-Generating Ideas. 3. Writing-Composing and Organizing. 4. Revising-Overhauling the Whole Composition. 5. Editing, Formatting, and Proofreading. Part 2: BUILDING SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND ESSAYS. 6. Building Sentences. 7. Building Paragraphs and Essays. 8. Developing Different Kinds of Paragraphs and Essays. Part 3: UNDERSTANDING SENTENCES. 9. Understanding Subjects and Verbs. 10. Identifying and Correcting Sentence Fragments. 11. Identifying and Correcting Run- Together Sentences. 12. Learning More about Pronouns. 13. Learning More about Verbs. 14. Making Words Agree. 15. Using Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs. Part 4: IMPROVING SENTENCES. 16. Putting Modifiers Where They Belong. 17. Using Parallelism. 18. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences. 19. Writing Effective Sentences. 20. Writing Varied Sentences. Part 5: USING THE RIGHT WORDS. 21. Understanding Commonly Confused Words. 22. Improving Spelling. 23. Choosing Appropriate Language. Part 6: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS. 24. Using Commas. 25. Using Semicolons. 26. Using End Punctuation. 27. Using Apostrophes. 28. Using Quotation Marks. 29. Using Other Punctuation. 30. Using Capitals. 31. Using Abbreviations. 32. Using Italics. 33. Using Numbers. Part 7: READING, THINKING, AND WRITING CRITICALLY. 34. Reading Critically. 35. Thinking Critically. 36. Writing Critically. 37. Reading Selections. Language and Writing. Kurt Vonnegut, How to Write with Style. Stephanie Ericsson,The Ways We Lie. Elizabeth Austin, A Small Plea to Delete a Ubiquitous Expletive Everyday World. Leon Botstein, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood. Russell Baker, The Plot Against People. Clive Wynne, Do Animals Think? A Sense of Beauty. Dave Barry, The Ugly Truth about Beauty. Grace Suh, The Eye of the Beholder. John Leo, The "Modern Primitives". History and Culture. Bennie M. Currie, The N-word and How to Use It. Luis J. Rodriguez, Stop the Lies. Av Westin, You've Got to Be Carefully Taught. Susan Brady Konig, They've Got to Be Carefully Taught. Chief Seattle, from This Sacred Soil. Media and Behavior. Ellen Willis, Bring in the Noise. Marilyn Duff, Meanwhile on MTV, They're Shooting Up Classrooms. Men and Women. Matt Ridley, Why Should Males Exist? Deborah Tannen, Listening to Men, Then and Now.