I. The Process of Writing 1. Assessing the Writing Situation 2. Discovering and Shaping Ideas 3. Drafting, Revising, and Editing 4. Writing and Revising Paragraphs 5. Presenting Writing II. Reading and Writing In and Out of College 6.

Writing in Academic Situations 7. Critical Reading and Writing 8. Reading Arguments Critically 9. Writing an Argument 10. Taking Essay Exams 11. Public Writing III. Grammatical Sentences 12. Understanding Sentence Grammar 13.

Case of Nouns and Pronouns 14. Verbs 15. Agreement 16. Adjectives and Adverbs IV. Clear Sentences 17. Sentence Fragments 18. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 19. Pronoun Reference 20.

Shifts 21. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences V. Effective Sentences 23. Emphasizing Ideas 24. Using Coordination and Subordination 25. Using Parallelism 26. Achieving Variety VI.

Punctuation 27. End Punctuation 28. The Comma 29. The Semicolon 30. The Apostrophe 31. Quotation Marks 32. Other Punctuation Marks VII. Mechanics 33.

Capitals 34. Italics or Underlining 35. Abbreviations 36. Numbers VIII. Effective Words 37. Using Appropriate Language 38. Using Exact Language 39. Writing Concisely 40.

Spelling and the Hyphen IX. Research Writing 41. Planning a Research Project 42. Finding Sources 43. Working with Sources 44. Avoiding Plagiarism 45. Writing the Paper 46. Using MLA Documentation and Format 47.

Two Research Papers in MLA Format X. Writing in the Academic Disciplines 48. Reading and Writing about Literature 49. Writing in Other Humanities 50. Writing in the Social Sciences 51. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences.