WRITING

A) Part I: Getting Started

Chap 1: Finding Your Voice

- Why Write?

- Voice: .What is voice?

. Developing Voice

Part II: The Writing Process

Introduction

Chap 2: First Steps

Chap 3: Writing a Paragraph

Chap 4: Writing an Essay

Part III: The Structure of the Paragraph

Chap 5: The Paragraph

Part IV: The Structure of the Essay

Chap 6: The Essay

Part V: Rhetorical Patterns

Introduction

Chap7: Description

Chap 8: Narration

Chap 9: Illustration or Example

Chap 10: Process Analysis

Chap 11: Cause and Effect

Chap 12: Comparison and Contrast

Chap 13: Summary

Chap 14: Persuasion

Part VI: Capitalization

B) WORDINESS

C) PARALLELISM

- Introduction

- Items in series

- Pairs

- Comparisons

- Phrases and Clauses

- Parallel words

D) MODIFIERS

- Introduction

- Misplaced modifiers

- Limiting modifiers

- Squinting modifiers

- Split infinitives

- Dangling modifiers

E) PUNCTUATION

Exercises: (“Write about what you know” Daily routine, writing about your workplace, about your friend, about your family, about your favorite (singer, food, drink, Story writing), essays

Resources:

- Writer's Resources: From Paragraph to Essay by Julie Robitaille and Robert Connelly

- Writer’s Craft

- Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009 DVD by Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009