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BLUEPRINTS FOR WRITING: BUILDING ESSAYS demystifies the writing process by guiding you through each step of the essay plan, or blueprint. This text empowers you to write essays from the start, providing numerous practice exercises, activities, and prompts to help you along the way. BLUEPRINTS FOR WRITING focuses on the writing process in various modes of development, offering abundant student writing samples throughout, including more than thirty student essays. Part III includes four chapters on critical reading, providing close reading strategies and six professional readings, which are supplemented by more than twenty additional readings in an appendix. The text also includes comprehensive coverage of the most common grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style issues that you will encounter. Coverage of incorporating research and practical writing are also included, complete with student samples that illustrate how writing is relevant to your academic, personal, and professional life.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Writing Process

Chapter 1. An Overview of the Writing Process.

Chapter 2. The Thesis and Blueprint.

Chapter 3. The Topic Sentence.

Chapter 4. Supporting Your Points.

Chapter 5. Coherence.

Chapter 6. Unity.

Chapter 7. The Introduction: The Icing on the Cake.

Chapter 8. The Conclusion: Wrapping It Up.

Chapter 9. Proofreading and Editing.

Part II: The Modes of Writing

Chapter 10. Narration.

Chapter 11. Description.

Chapter 12. Illustration.

Chapter 13. Process.

Chapter 14. Definition.

Chapter 15. Comparison/Contrast.

Chapter 16. Cause/Effect.

Chapter 17. Classification.

Chapter 18. Persuasion.

Part III: Critical Reading and Dealing with Writing Prompts

Chapter 19. Reading Critically and Responding to a Writing Prompt.

Chapter 20. Planning and Writing Your Response to a Professional Essay.

Chapter 21. Drawing from Two Sources.

Chapter 22. Writing about a Complex Reading.

Part IV: The Parts of Speech

Chapter 23. Nouns and Pronouns.

Chapter 24. Verbs.

Chapter 25. Adjectives and Adverbs.

Chapter 26. Prepositions.

Chapter 27. Verbals and Verbal Phrases.

Chapter 28. Clauses.

Part V: Common Grammatical and Usage Errors

Chapter 29. Subject/Verb Agreement.

Chapter 30. Fragments.

Chapter 31. Run-On Sentences.

Chapter 32. Pronoun Case, Agreement, and Reference.

Chapter 33. Parallelism.

Part VI: Punctuation and Spelling Issues

Chapter 34. Commas.

Chapter 35. Semicolons and Colons.

Chapter 36. Apostrophes.

Chapter 37. Quotation Marks.

Chapter 38. Capitalization.

Chapter 39. Eliminating Second Person and the Awkward Use of the Pronoun _One._

Chapter 40. Easily Confused Words.

Part VII: Style Issues

Chapter 41. Types of Sentences.

Chapter 42. Varying Your Sentence Structure by Combining Sentences.

Chapter 43. Using Appropriate Language. Appendices.

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ISBN-13: 978-0495802464