College Writing Skills with Readings: 2026 Release ISE

<p>Part 1 - Essay Writing</p><p>1. An Introduction to Writing</p><p>2. The Writing Process</p><p>3. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing4</p><p>. The Third Step in Essay Writing</p><p>5. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing</p><p>6. Four Bases for Revising Essays</p><p>7. Developing an Essay</p><p>Part 2 - Patterns of Essay Development</p><p>8. Description</p><p>9. Narration</p><p>10. Exemplification</p><p>11. Process</p><p>12. Cause and/or Effect</p><p>13. Comparison and/or Contrast</p><p>14. Definition</p><p>15. Division-Classification</p><p>16. Argument</p><p>Part 3 - Researching, Writing and Documenting</p><p>17. Information Literacy</p><p>18. Summarizing and Paraphrasing</p><p>19. Writing a Source-Based Essay</p><p>20. Writing a Research Essay</p><p>Part 4 - Handbook of Sentence Skills</p><p>Section I - Grammar</p><p>21. Subject and Verbs</p><p>22. Fragments</p><p>23. Run-Ons</p><p>24. Regular and Irregular Verbs</p><p>25. Subject-Verb Agreement</p><p>26. More about Verbs</p><p>27. Pronoun Agreement and Reference</p><p>28. Pronoun Types</p><p>29. Adjectives and Adverbs</p><p>30. Misplaced Modifiers</p><p>31. Dangling Modifiers</p><p>Section II – Mechanics and Punctuation</p><p>32. Capital Letters</p><p>33. Numbers and Abbreviations</p><p>34. Apostrophe</p><p>35. Quotation Marks</p><p>36. Comma</p><p>Section III – Word Use</p><p>37. Commonly Confused Words</p><p>38. Effective Word Choice</p><p>Section IV – Tests</p><p>39. Editing Tests</p><p>Part 5 – Readings for Writers</p><p>Introduction to the Readings</p><p>Building Self-Awareness</p><p>Education and Learning</p><p>Challenging Societal Values</p><p>Index</p><p>Instructor's Guide</p>