Real Stories: The All-Inclusive Textbook for Developmental Writing and Reading.

Real Stories: The All-Inclusive Textbook for Developmental Writing and Reading.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Main Author: Ortner, Toni, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016.
Subjects:
English language > Composition and exercises.
English language > Rhetoric.
English language > Usage.
College readers.
Exposition (Rhetoric)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • The Process of Writing
  • Introduction
  • The Paragraph
  • The Basic Parts of a Paragraph
  • Working With the Topic Sentence
  • Why a Clear and Specific Topic is Necessary
  • The Body of the Paragraph
  • The Concluding Sentence
  • Prewriting Techniques
  • Clustering
  • Fast-writing
  • Listing
  • Which Prewriting Technique Should You Use?
  • Writing Paragraphs
  • The Descriptive Paragraph
  • The Narrative Paragraph
  • The Illustrative Paragraph
  • The Definition Paragraph
  • The Process Paragraph
  • The Essay.
  • The Form of an Essay
  • Preparing to Write an Essay
  • Using an Outline to Plan Your Essay
  • Writing Essays
  • The Descriptive Essay
  • The Narrative Essay
  • The Illustrative Essay
  • The Definition Essay
  • The Process Essay
  • The Essay of Comparison and Contrast
  • The Revision Section
  • What to Understand About Proofreading
  • Methods of Proofreading
  • Checklist-Editing for Content
  • Checklist-Proofreading for Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
  • Checklist-For Use With Another Student
  • The Benefits of Working With a Writing Partner
  • Why You Should Write the Truth.
  • Time-Savers for Grammar and Punctuation
  • Introduction
  • Nouns
  • Common and Proper Nouns
  • Forming the Plurals of Nouns
  • Forming the Possessives of Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Action Verbs
  • Linking Verbs
  • Verb Tenses
  • The Simple Tenses
  • The Present Tense
  • The Past Tense
  • Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense
  • The Future Tense
  • The Perfect Tenses
  • What is the Past Participle?
  • The Present Perfect Tense
  • The Past Perfect Tense
  • The Future Perfect Tense
  • The Past Participle of Irregular Verbs
  • Three Confusing Verb Pairs
  • rise and raise
  • lie and lay
  • sit and set.
  • The Sentence
  • The Simple Sentence
  • The Compound Sentence
  • The Complex Sentence
  • Identifying and Correcting Sentence Errors
  • Sentence Fragments
  • Run-On Sentences
  • Comma Splices
  • Punctuation and Capitalization
  • The Apostrophe
  • The Comma
  • Direct Quotations
  • What to Capitalize
  • Answers to Exercises
  • The Reader
  • Students' Papers, Discussion Questions, Writing Assignments
  • Introduction
  • Special People
  • Someone Who Deeply Affected Me
  • Uncle Everything
  • Billy Woodbury
  • A Special Man
  • My Sister
  • Grandparents
  • My Father is My Best Friend
  • What Love Is.
  • My Father
  • My Life: A Comparison and Contrast
  • Secrets
  • Cherished Objects
  • The Baseball
  • My Favorite Object
  • The Scarf
  • The Crib
  • My Special Book
  • My Porcelain Doll
  • My Camino Cross
  • My Computer
  • Early Memories
  • My First Childhood Memory
  • The Earliest Memory I Have
  • My Most Embarrassing Moment
  • Memories of a Courtyard
  • Owning a Home
  • The Night of the Blizzard
  • Fears
  • The Most Frightening Experience in My Life
  • The Night I'll Never Forget
  • The Most Terrible Experience of My Life
  • Almost Blind
  • The Me Nobody Knows
  • My Most Frightening Moment.

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