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Skills Setdevelopmental composition text aimed primarily at English courses for college students who need to improve their skill levels to the point where they can handle first year college English.
Contents
Unit 1Addressing audience and purposeThe Principles of good writingWriting personally and impersonallyUsing appropriate styleUnderstanding the use of youUnderstanding the writing processUnit 2: Vocabulary SkillsRecognizing parts of speechUsing dictionariesMastering spellingRecognizing roots and affixesRecognizing collocationUnderstanding connotationUsing synonyms and antonymsUnderstanding idiomsUsing jargonRecognizing colloquialisms and slangStudying vocabularyUnit 3: Sentence Writing SkillsUnderstanding basic sentence structureUnderstanding verb formsUsing active and passiveShowing singular and pluralShowing possessionUsing prepositional phrasesUsing co-ordinate conjunctionsWriting noun clausesWriting adjective clausesWriting adverb clausesUsing participles and gerundsBuilding sentences with prepositional phrasesReducing clauses to phrasesCombining sentencesRecognizing fragments and run-on sentencesUsing punctuation and capitalizationUnit 4: Paragraph Writing SkillsIndependent paragraphsWriting topic sentencesMaking pointsSupporting pointsWriting concluding sentencesAchieving UnityUsing Transition signalsAchieving coherenceSample paragraphsUnit 5: Essay Writing SkillsUnderstanding essay structurePlanning an essayWriting an outlineWriting a thesis statementWriting an introductionWriting body paragraphsWriting a conclusionPracticing essay writingSample essaysUnit 6: Rhetorical SkillsIllustratingNarratingDescribingDefining and classifyingShowing cause and effectReviewingDescribing processMaking comparisonsPersuadingUnit 7: Editing and ProofreadingVocabulary errorsCorrect grammar errorsCorrecting punctuation and capitalizationEditing to improve styleUnit 8: Reading SkillsDistinguishing fiction and non-fictionIdentifying the main ideaDistinguishing writers' opinionsRecognizing writers' techniquesDealing with unfamiliar wordsResearching and referencingAvoiding plagiarismParaphrasingQuoting and using reported speechWriting a summaryAnswering reading comprehension questionsBuilding reading skillsReading SelectionNon Fiction ReadingsSherri Beattie: "All grown up and still in tow"Jo Pavlov: "Survive squalor and learn to tidy"Karen von Hahn: "Helpless"Mickey Vallee: "Podless and happy to be that way"Christopher Hutsul: "Disconnecting hard to do, cellphone generation finds"Margaret Wente: "Free to drive"Letters to the editor: "Was court right to back suits against big tobacco?":Linda McQuaig: "Pro: Ruling rightly blames adults for teen addictions"Rondi Anderson: "Con: Do we really want private decisions regulated?"Jim Coyle: "No point fearing attacks we can't stop"Sidney Katz: "The strange forces behind the Richard hockey riots"Lorne Tepperman: "Appearance: Its social meaning"Fiction ReadingsGarry Engkent: "Why my mother can't speak English"Saki (H.H. Munro): "The open window"Urs Frei: "Soap and water"L.M. Montgomery: "A tempest in the school teapot"Sara McDonald: "The squatter"AppendicesFollowing format guidelinesWriting e-mailMaking oral presentationsAnswer Key
