About the Author
Susan Fawcett is a former professor of English and director of the writing lab at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She is the author of two leading writing textbooks, EVERGREEN and GRASSROOTS. In 2000, EVERGREEN won the McGuffey Prize for sustained excellence in a language and literature text, awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association. Ms. Fawcett?s poetry and nonfiction articles on education, health, and the environment have appeared in such magazines as _The Nation_, _Poetry_, _Ms._, _Woman?s Day_, and _Ploughshares_. Her formal education took place at Ohio University, the University of London, and Columbia University, with the support of Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. Through presentations in the U.S. and South Africa, she has worked to improve college writing instruction, and recently, to promote textbook authorship of minority faculty.
Table of Contents
UNIT I: GETTING STARTED. 1. Exploring the Writing Process. The Writing Process: Practice 1, Practice 2. Subject, Audience, and Purpose: Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. 2. Prewriting to Generate Ideas. Freewriting: Practice 1, Practice 2. Brainstorming: Practice 3. Clustering: Practice 4. Asking Questions: Practice 5, Practice 6. Keeping a Journal: Practice 7, Practice 8. UNIT I Writers' Workshop: Using One or Two of Your Five Senses, Describe a Place . UNIT II: DISCOVERING THE PARAGRAPH. 3. The Process of Writing Paragraphs. Defining and Looking at the Paragraph: Practice 1, Practice 2. Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence: Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5, Practice 6. Generating Ideas for the Body: Practice 7. Selecting and Dropping Ideas: Practice 8. Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline: Practice 9. Writing and Revising the Paragraph: Practice 10, Practice 11, Practice 12, Practice 13, Practice 14. 4. Achieving Coherence. Coherence Through Order: Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3. Coherence Through Related Sentences: Practice 4, Practice 5, Practice 6, Practice 7, Practice 8, Practice 9, Practice 10. UNIT II Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures of Living in Two Worlds. UNIT III: DEVELOPING THE PARAGRAPH. 5. Illustration. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. 6. Narration. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. 7. Description. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. 8. Process. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4. 9. Definition. Single-Sentence Definitions: Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4. The Definition Paragraph: Practice 5, Practice 6, Practice 7, Practice 8. 10. Comparison and Contrast. The Contrast Paragraph and the Comparison Paragraph: Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5, Practice 6. The Comparison and Contrast Paragraph: Practice 7. 11. Classification. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5, Practice 6. 12. Cause and Effect. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. 13. Persuasion. Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5, Practice 6. Writing Assignment. UNIT III Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers. UNIT IV: WRITING THE ESSAY. 14. The Process of Writing an Essay. Looking at the Essay: Practice 1. Writing the Thesis Statement: Practice 2, Practice 3. Generating Ideas for the Body: Practice 4. Organizing Ideas into an Outline: Practice 5, Practice 6, Practice 7. Ordering and Linking Paragraphs in the Essay: Practice 8, Practice 9, Practice 10. Writing and Revising Essays: Practice 11, Practice 12. 15. The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title. The Introduction: Writing Assignment. The Conclusion: Writing Assignment. The Title: Writing Assignment. 16. Types of Essays I. The Illustration Essay: Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4. The Narrative Essay: Practice 5, Practice 6, Practice 7, Practice 8. The Descriptive Essay: Practice 9, Practice 10, Practice 11, Practice 12. The Process Essay: Practice 13, Practice 14, Practice 15, Practice 16. The Definition Essay: Practice 17, Practice 18, Practice 19, Practice 20. 17. Types of Essays II. The Comparison and the Contrast Essay: Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4. The Classification Essay: Practice 5, Practice 6, Practice 7, Practice 8. The Cause and Effect Essay: Practice 9, Practice 10, Practice 11, Practice 12. The Persuasive Essay: Practice 13, Practice 14, Practice 15, Practice 16. 18. Summarizing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism. Avoiding Plagiarism: Practice 1. Writing a Summary: Practice 2, Practice 3. Using Direct and Indirect Quotation: Practice 4, Practice 5. 19. Strengthening an Essay with Research. Improving an Essay with Research: Practice 1. Finding and Evaluating Outside Sources: Library and Internet: Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. Adding Sources to Your Essay and Documenting Them Correctly: Practice 6, Practice 7. 20. Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination. Budgeting Your Time: Practice 1. Reading and Understanding the Essay Question: Practice 2. Choosing the Correct Paragraph or Essay Pattern: Practice 3. Writing the Topic Sentence or the Thesis Statement: Practice 4. UNIT IV Writers' Workshop: Analyze a Social Problem. UNIT V: IMPROVING YOUR WRITING. 21. Revising for Consistency and Parallelism. Consistent Tense: Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5. Consistent Number and Person: Practice 6, Practice 7, Practice 8, Practice 9. Parallelism: Practice 10, Practice 11, Practice 12, Practice 13. 22. Revising for Sentence Variety. Mix Long and Short Sentences: Practice 1. Use a Question, a Command, or an Exclamation. Vary the Beginnings of Sentences: Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4, Practice 5, Practice 6, Practice 7. Vary Methods of Joining Ideas: Practice 8, Practice 9, Practice 10, Practice 11, Practice 12, Practice 13, Practice 14, Practice 15, Practice 16, Practice 17, Practice 18, Practice 19, Practice 20. Avoid Misplaced and Confusing Modifiers: Practice 21. Review and Practice: Practice 22. 23. Revising for Language Awareness. Exact