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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Ensuring Success in Writing
Chapter 2: Generating Ideas Through Prewriting
Chapter 3: Composing: Creating a Draft
Chapter 4: Refining and Polishing Your Draft
Chapter 5: Narration
Chapter 6: Description
Chapter 7: Example
Chapter 8: Process
Chapter 9: Definition
Chapter 10: Comparison and Contrast
Chapter 11: Cause and Effect
Chapter 12: Division and Classification
Chapter 13: Argument
Chapter 14: Developing an Essay
Chapter 15: Examining Types of Essays
Chapter 16: Adjusting Your Process: Timed Writing and Summaries
Chapter 17: The Sentence
Chapter 18: Fragments
Chapter 19: Subordination and Coordination
Chapter 20: Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
Chapter 21: Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 22: Basic Tenses for Regular Verbs
Chapter 23: Irregular Verbs and Frequently Confused Verbs
Chapter 24: Passive Voice, Additional Tenses, and Maintaining Consistency in Tense
Chapter 25: Nouns: Working Effectively with Words That Name
Chapter 26: Pronouns: Understanding Case, Clear Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, and Nonsexist Pronoun Usage
Chapter 27: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Other Modifiers: Using Describing and Modifying Words Effectively
Chapter 28: Parallelism: Presenting Related Items in a Similar Form
Chapter 29: Spelling
Chapter 30: Commas
Chapter 31: Other Punctuation and Capitalization
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