"Our objective with WRITE 1: Sentences and Paragraphs and its companion WRITE 2: Paragraphs and Essays is to help you function, and even flourish, in college or university, and in the workplace. Now more than ever, you need effective communication skills in order to take your place in our information-driven world. There really is no alternative. Writing, speaking, collaborating, thinking critically—these are the survival skills for the 21st century. We have kept this crucial directive clearly in mind during the development of WRITE 1 and WRITE 2." (Book Preface)

CONTENTS:

Preface

Overview of Write 1

Research-Based Approach

Developmental Design

Additional Special Features

ESL Support

Part 1: Writing and Reading for Success

Chapter 1: Writing and Learning
Writing to Learn Writing to Share Learning
Considering the Range of Writing
Reviewing Writing and Learning

Chapter 2: Reading and Learning
Reading to Learn
Using Reading Strategies
Reading Graphics
Reviewing Reading and Learning

Chapter 3: Making the Writing-Reading Connection
Analyzing the Assignment
Using the Traits
Using Graphic Organizers
Reviewing the Writing-Reading Connection

Part 2: The Writing Process and the Traits of Writing

Chapter 4: Using the Writing Process and the Traits Understanding the Writing Process and the Traits
Understanding the Writing Process
The Steps in the Process

Understanding the Traits of Effective Writing
Connecting the Process and the Traits

Bonus Online Chapter

Overview: Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays

Chapter 5: Prewriting
Analyzing the Assignment
Selecting a Topic
Gathering Details
Finding a Focus
Choosing a Pattern of Organization
Organizing Your Information
Reviewing Prewriting
Avoiding Plagiarism – Citing Your Sources

Chapter 6: Drafting Following a Drafting Plan Forming a Meaningful Whole
Developing Your Ideas
Using Levels of Detail
Reviewing Drafting

Bonus Online Chapter: Peer Reviewing

Chapter 7: Revising
Understanding Revising
Recognizing Strong Writing
Understanding the Basic Tactics
Reviewing with Peers
Reviewing Revision

Chapter 8: Editing Understanding Word Choice
Writing Fluent Sentences
Checking for Correctness
Editing Academic Writing
Reviewing Editing

Bonus Online Chapter: Publishing and Portfolios

Part 3: Developing Paragraphs and Essays

Chapter 9: Description, Illustration, and Definition
Analyzing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Analyzing an illustration Paragraph
Writing an Illustration Paragraph
Analyzing a Definition Paragraph
Writing a Definition Paragraph
Reviewing Description, Illustration, and Definition

Chapter 10: Narrative Paragraph
Reviewing a Narrative Paragraph
Prewriting : Planning
Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Writing
Editing : Punctuating Dialogue
Reviewing Narrative Writing

Chapter 11: Classification Paragraph
Analyzing a Classification Paragraph
Prewriting : Planning a Classification Paragraph
Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Writing
Editing : Subject-Verb Agreement

Reviewing Classification Writing

Chapter 12: Process Paragraph
Reviewing a Process Paragraph
Prewriting : Planning
Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Writing
Editing : Sentence Errors

Reviewing Process Writing

Chapter 13: Comparison-Contrast Paragraph
Reviewing a Comparison Paragraph

Prewriting : Planning
Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Writing
Editing : Comma Use

Reviewing Comparison Writing

Chapter 14: Cause-Effect Paragraph
Reviewing a Paragraph
Prewriting : Planning
Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Writing
Editing : Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Reviewing Cause-Effect Writing

Chapter 15: Argument Paragraph
Reviewing a Paragraph
Prewriting : Planning Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Writing
Editing : Mechanics
Reviewing Argument Writing

Bonus Online Chapter: Summarizing Source Material

Chapter 16: Writing Essays Reviewing an Academic Essay
Prewriting : Planning
Writing : Creating a First Draft
Revising : Improving the Essay
Editing : Modifiers
Preparing Your Final Copy
Review Essay Writing

Part 4: Sentence Workshops

Chapter 17: Sentence Basics Subjects, Predicates, and Verbs
Special Types of Subjects
Special Predicates
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositional Phrases
Clauses
Real-World Application

Chapter 18: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Simple Sentences
Simple Sentences with Compound Subjects
Simple Sentences with Compound Predicates
Compound Sentences
Complex Sentences
Complex Sentences with Relative Clauses
Parallelism at the Clause Level
Real-World Application

Chapter 19: Sentence Style
Varying Sentence Lengths
New Beginnings I
New Beginnings II
Using Coordination
Using Subordination
Combining by Moving Parts
Combining by Deleting
Sentence Expanding
Sentence Modelling
Real-World Application

Bonus Online Chapter: Sentence Analysis

Chapter 20: Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement
Agreement with Two Subjects
Agreement with I and You
Agreement with Singular Indefinite Pronouns
Agreement with Other Indefinite Pronouns
Pronouns-Antecedent Agreement
Other Pronoun Problems
Real-World Application

Chapter 21: Sentence Fragments Common Fragments
Tricky Fragments
Real-World Application

Chapter 22: Comma Splices, Run-Ons, and Ramblers
Comma Splices
Run-On Sentences
Rambling Sentences
Real-World Application

Chapter 23: Additional Sentence Problems
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Shifts in Sentences
Real-World Application

Bonus Online Chapter: Idiomatic English

Part 5: Word Workshops

Chapter 24: Noun

Classes of Nouns

Singular or Plural

Tricky Plurals
Count and Non-count Nouns
Articles
Other Noun Markers
Real-World Application

Chapter 25: Pronoun
Personal Pronouns
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Other Pronoun Problems
Indefinite Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Other Pronoun Types
Real-World Application

Chapter 26: Verb
Verb Classes
Number and Person of Verb
Voice of the Verb
Present and Future Tense Verbs
Past Tense Verbs
Progressive Tense Verbs
Perfect Tense Verbs
Verbals
Verbals as Objects
Real-World Application

Chapter 27: Adjective and Adverb
Adjective Basics
Adjective Order
Adjective Questions and Adjectivals
Adverb Basics
Placement of Adverbs
Adverb Questions and Adverbials
Real-Word Application

Chapter 28: Conjunction and Preposition Coordinating and Correlative Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
Common Prepositions
By, At, On, and In
Real-World Application

Bonus Online Chapter: Transfer Issues

Part 6: Punctuation and Mechanics Workshops

Chapter 29: Comma In Compound Sentences and after Introductory Clauses
With Introductory Words and Equal Adjectives
Between Items in a Series and Other Uses
With Appositives and Other Word Groups
Real-World Application

Chapter 30: Apostrophe Contractions and Possessives
Real-World Application

Chapter 31: Semicolon, Colon, Hyphen, Dash Semicolons and Colons
Hyphens
Dashes
Real-World Application

Chapter 32: Quotation Marks and Italics
Quotation Marks

Italics
Real-World Application

Chapter 33: Capitalization
Basic Capitalization
Advanced Capitalization
Other Capitalization Rules I
Other Capitalization Rules II
Real-World Application

Bonus Online Chapter: Plurals

Bonus Online Chapter: Numbers

Bonus Online Chapter: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms

Bonus Online Chapter: Spelling

Part 7: Readings

Chapter 34: Narrative Essays
Understanding Narrative Essays “My Body Is My Own Business” by Naheed Mustafa
Writing a Narrative Essay

Chapter 35: Process Essays
Understanding Process Essays
“Metamorphosis” by Sarah Norton

Writing a Process Essay

Chapter 36: Comparison-Contrast Essays
Understanding Comparison Essays
“Why Canada is NOT Northern Ireland and Montreal is NOT Belfast” by Will Ferguson
Writing a Comparison Essay

Chapter 37: Cause-Effect Essays Understanding Cause-Effect Essays
“The Evolution of Evolution” by Helena Cronin
Writing a Cause-Effect Essay

Chapter 38: Argument Essays
Understanding Argument Essays
“Canada, My Canada” by Tomson Highway
Writing an Argument Essay