Student Writing Handbook Fifth+Edition
STEP 3: Using the Yo-Yo Approach If the organization plan you developed during the writing process is not working well for your ...
WRITING SENTENCES You’ve written sentences since you were in elementary school, so why take the space here to talk about writing ...
14 / Basics of Good Writing Words modifying the subject: the, mouse Phrases modifying the verb: off the desk Compound A compound ...
Writing / 15 Don’t write: He was tall and handsome. Instead write: The tall, handsome man caught her eye. Use active voice more ...
16 / Basics of Good Writing • If you use mostly compound-complex sentences, your message seems complicated and difficult to u ...
Writing / 17 STEP 6: Placing Important Words Any public speaker, advertiser, or coach will tell you that the last word spoken is ...
18 / Basics of Good Writing • transitions that bridge the details to each other and to the topic sentence [see transitions in ...
Writing / 19 For instance, consider the following examples, and notice from which part of the topic sentence the accompanying su ...
20 / Basics of Good Writing about the water skier in the preceding step are arranged chronologically, the order in which the ski ...
Writing / 21 SAMPLE INDEPENDENT PARAGRAPH The following paragraph, written as an independent composition, serves as a sample for ...
22 / Basics of Good Writing WRITING A MULTI-PARAGRAPH PAPER Multi-paragraph papers, often called themes or papers, use any metho ...
Writing / 23 Shorter or longer themes include many of the same characteristics, but they follow somewhat different patterns. Lis ...
24 / Basics of Good Writing became involved with them? Why you build them? Their aerodynamics? How to paint them? Fly them? Narr ...
Writing / 25 Develop the list from Step 1 into a thesis sentence. Then compare with the following examples: Example 1. A model-g ...
26 / Basics of Good Writing Spatial order presents topics as they appear in space: left to right, top to bottom, front to back. ...
Writing / 27 STEP 4: Writing the Topic Sentences With the thesis sentence in place, you can easily write a topic sentence for ea ...
28 / Basics of Good Writing STEP 6: Drafting the First Attempt—The Introduction Some writers prefer to begin writing with the in ...
Writing / 29 • Use a quotation, adage, or proverb: It’s not what you know but who you know. The reader wonders whether the wr ...
30 / Basics of Good Writing SAMPLE MULTI-PARAGRAPH PAPER The following five-paragraph theme includes the traditional introductor ...
Writing / 31 Ohio River. In winter, the bald eagles soar among the thousands of geese and ducks, surely a testimony to the value ...
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