College Writing Skills with Readings: 2026 Release ISE
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Part 1 - Essay Writing
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Writing Process
3. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing4
. The Third Step in Essay Writing
5. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing
6. Four Bases for Revising Essays
7. Developing an Essay
Part 2 - Patterns of Essay Development
8. Description
9. Narration
10. Exemplification
11. Process
12. Cause and/or Effect
13. Comparison and/or Contrast
14. Definition
15. Division-Classification
16. Argument
Part 3 - Researching, Writing and Documenting
17. Information Literacy
18. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
19. Writing a Source-Based Essay
20. Writing a Research Essay
Part 4 - Handbook of Sentence Skills
Section I - Grammar
21. Subject and Verbs
22. Fragments
23. Run-Ons
24. Regular and Irregular Verbs
25. Subject-Verb Agreement
26. More about Verbs
27. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
28. Pronoun Types
29. Adjectives and Adverbs
30. Misplaced Modifiers
31. Dangling Modifiers
Section II – Mechanics and Punctuation
32. Capital Letters
33. Numbers and Abbreviations
34. Apostrophe
35. Quotation Marks
36. Comma
Section III – Word Use
37. Commonly Confused Words
38. Effective Word Choice
Section IV – Tests
39. Editing Tests
Part 5 – Readings for Writers
Introduction to the Readings
Building Self-Awareness
Education and Learning
Challenging Societal Values
Index
Instructor's Guide
College Writing Skills with Readings emphasizes writing skills as well as process. The text identifies a set of four fundamental skills that are critical to effective writing:
Unity: Discover a clearly stated point, or topic sentence, and make sure that all other information in the paragraph or essay supports that point.
Support: Buttress the points with specific evidence, and plenty of it.
Coherence: Organize and connect supporting evidence so that paragraphs and essays transition smoothly from one piece of supporting information to the next.
Sentence Skills: Revise and edit so that sentences are error-free for clearer and more effective communication. These four bases are essential to all effective writing, whether it be a narrative paragraph for a personal journal, a cover letter for a job application, or an essay for an academic assignment.
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