The student writer editor and critic - Clouse, Barbara Fine (New York McGraw-Hill, 1988)
Table of Contents: Preface -- Part I. The Writer's Process and the Essay's Structure: 1. Shaping Topics and Discovering Ideas -- 2. Structuring the Essay -- 3. From Ideas to Essay -- 4. Revising for Sentence Effectiveness -- Part II. Methods of Development: 5. Description -- 6. Narration -- 7. Illustration -- 8. Process Analysis -- 9. Comparison and Contrast -- 10. Cause-and-Effect Analysis -- 11. Definition -- 12. Persuasion -- 13. Using Research to Develop Essays -- Part III. A Brief Guide to Frequently Occurring Errors: 14. Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences -- 15. Agreement Problems -- 16. Shifts in Tense and Person -- 17. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers -- 18. Parallelism -- 19. Capitalization and Punctuation -- Appendix I. Solving Writing Problems. Appendix II. A Student Essay in Progress. Acknowledgments. Index.
Includes index.
Keywords: English language -- Rhetoric; Editing