Chapter One Prewriting Strategies
Section I
Writing and Prewriting
1. The importance of writing
2. The differences
between writing and speaking
3. The process of writing
Section II
Prewriting Techniques
Introduction
Unit 1 Brainstorming
Unit 2
Freewriting
Unit 3 Questioning
Unit 4 Mapping
Unit 5 Preparing an
outline
Unit 6 Cubing
Unit 7 Journal Writing
Chapter Two Writing the First Draft
Section
I Paragraph and Essay Structure
Unit 8 The Structure of a Paragraph
Unit
9 The Structure of an Essay
Section II Types of Development
Patterns
Unit 10 List
Unit 11 Process
Unit 12 Definition
Unit 13
Classification
Unit 14 Cause and Effect
Unit 15 Comparison and
Contrast
Unit 16 Argumentation
Unit 17 Narration
Unit 18
Description
Chapter Three Revising and
Editing
Introduction
Section I Revising
Section II Editing
Unit
19 Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns
Unit 20 Collective Nouns
Unit
21 Proper Nouns
Unit 22 Vocatives
Unit 23 Pronouns
Unit 24
Prepositional Phrases
Unit 25 Word Order
Unit 26 Parallelism
Unit 27
Subject, Object and Predicative
Unit 28 Grammatical Subject and Logical
Subject
Unit 29 Appositive and Attributive
Unit 30 Punctuation
Unit
31 Frequently Used Wrong Words or Phrases
Unit 32 Brevity
Unit 33
Complete Sentences
Unit 34 Variety of Diction
Unit 35
Classification
Unit 36 Comparison and Contrast
Keys to
Exercises
References