Includes index.

"Fit to Print is designed to be a brief, engaging text that covers all the basics of writing an essay in a scholarly environment. Going into its eighth edition, this text continues its tradition of teaching students how to organize and write an essay with attention to overcoming specific difficulties of grammar and style. Joanne Buckley believes there is not just a single framework for writing an essay; by taking a narrative approach, she recognizes the complexity of writing a paper, but does so in a way that is easy for students to understand and apply to their own writing." (Publisher's Website)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface

Introduction: Defining the Essay

Part One: Developing the Essay

Chapter 1: Devising a Thesis
Discovering a Topic
Starting to Write
Timed Writing
Start with a Stimulus
Dialogue
Reading Journals
Mapping Ideas
Writing as an Activity
Shopping for a Thesis Statement

Chapter 2: Setting Tone: Audience Analysis

Chapter 3: Choosing Words: Avoiding Jargon, Slang, and Stereotypes

Part Two: Designing the Essay

Chapter 4: Designing an Outline
Make a Table of Contents
Tailor the Outline

Chapter 5: Shaping the Essay
The Conventional Shape of the Essay
The First Draft
Taking Notes and Assembling Evidence
Maintaining Unity in the Essay

Chapter 6: Choosing a Pattern of Development
Definition/Description
Example
Classification
Process
Comparison/Contrast
Cause and Effect
Narration
Tips on Choosing the Right Pattern

Part Three: Putting the Essay Together

Chapter 7: Finding Research Materials for the Essay
Finding and Using Library Resources
Keeping Track of Sources
Evaluating Web Resources

Chapter 8: Paraphrasing Sources and Integrating Quotations
Borrow Only What You Need
Begging, Borrowing, and Stealing
The Fit, Function, and Form of Quotations

Chapter 9: The Research Essay
The Role of the Research Paper
Sample Research Paper - APA Style

Part Four: Drafting the Essay

Chapter 10: Making an Introduction
Ice-Breaking: Tactics for Opening the Essay
Strike Up a Conversation
Write with Control
Write with Conviction
Be Conversant with Your Subject
Communicate with your Reader

Chapter 11: Drawing a Conclusion
Retrace Your Line of Thought
Refocus Your Argument
Encourage Response
Make Your Words Resound
Drawing to a Close: Tactics for Ending the Essay

Chapter 12: Writing Paragraphs
The Topic Sentence
The Support
Developing Support for Your Paragraphs
Unity
Pinning the Pieces Together - Transitions
Checking the Overall Pattern of Your Paragraphs

Chapter 13: Perfecting the Essay
Tips on Revising
Sample Student Revision Process

Chapter 14: Mending the Essay
Deciphering Comments
Learning from Experience

Part Five: Keeping Your Head: Kinds of Essay Writing

Chapter 15: Finding Your Voice: Modes of Essay Writing
The Expository Essay
The Argumentative Essay

Chapter 16: Collaborative Writing
Group Work

Chapter 17: The Essay Examination
The Role of the Essay Examination

Chapter 18: The Précis and Summary
The Role of the Précis

Chapter 19: The Informal Essay
The Role of the Informal Essay

Chapter 20: The Literary Essay
Sample Literary Essay - MLA Style

Chapter 21: The Book Review
The Role of the Book Review

Part Six: Documenting and Delivering Your Paper

Chapter 22: Planning Your Paper’s Layout
The Layout of a Paper in MLA Style
The Layout of a Paper in APA Style
The Layout of a Paper in University of Chicago Style

Chapter 23: Documenting—MLA, APA, and University of Chicago Guidelines
Gathering Publication Information from a Book
Sample Bibliographical Entries in MLA Style
Citing Sources in MLA Style
Sample Bibliographic Entries in APA Style
Citing Sources in APA Style
Sample Bibliographic Entries in University of Chicago Style
Citing Sources in University of Chicago Style

Part Seven: Fit, Form, and Function

Chapter 24: The Sentence Simplified
The Sentence Simplified
Parts of Speech
Parts of the Sentence

Chapter 25: Common Sentence Problems
Sentence Structure: Fragments, Run-Ons, Comma Splices
Modifiers
Pronoun Reference and Agreement
Pronoun Problems in Essay Writing
Subject and Verb Agreement
End Punctuation
The Colon
The Semicolon
The Comma
The Dash
Parentheses
The Apostrophe

Chapter 26: Elements of Style: Structuring the Sentences
Sentence Variation
Parallelism
Active and Passive Voice

Chapter 27: Reducing Wordiness
A Perfect Fit
Wordiness Analysed

Chapter 28: Some Writing and Grammar Advice for ELL Writers
Review of Tenses

Appendix A Glossary of Usage

Appendix B Answer Key

Appendix C Glossary of Grammatical Terms

Index