The Dolphin Writer Book 1: Building Sentences and Composing Paragraphs (Paperback)

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Part1. Reading, Writing, And Thinking
Chapter1. Improving Writing and Thinking

Part2. Sentence Skills
Chapter2. Parts of Speech
Chapter3. The Basic Sentence
Chapter4. Verbs
Chapter5. Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter6. Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter7. Pronouns and Pronoun Agreement
Chapter8. The Compound Sentences
Chapter9. The Complex Sentence
Chapter10. Parallelism
Chapter11. Combining Sentences
Chapter12. Punctuation
Chapter13. Capitalization
Chapter14. Spelling

Part3. The Writing Process
Chapter15. Prewriting
Chapter16. Organizing and Outlining
Chapter17. Writing a Paragraph
Chapter18. Revising
Chapter19. Proofreading, Edting, and Preparing a Final Draft

Part4. Common Strategies For Organizing paragraphs
Chapter20. Time Order: Narration and Process
Chapter21. Space Order: Description
Chapter22. Giving Examples: Illustration
Chapter23. Comparison and Contrast
Chapter24. Order of Importance: Argument

Part5. Reading Selections
Each selection is followed by questions on Vocabulary, Checking
Comprehension, Mode and Skill Check, and Questions for Discussion and Writing.

Additional Practice for Multilingual Writers
Index
Rhetorical Index