Grassroots with readings: the writer's workbook

Writing forceful paragraphs: Exploring the writing process; Prewriting to generate ideas; Developing effective paragraphs; Improving your paragraphs; Moving from paragraph to essay

Writing complete sentences: Subjects and verbs; Avoiding sentence fragments

Using verbs effectively: Present tense; Past tense; Past participle in action; Progressive tenses; Fixed-form helping verbs & verb problems

Joining ideas together: Coordination; Subordination; Avoiding run-ons & comma splices; Semicolons; Conjunctive adverbs; Relative pronouns; -ING modifiers

Choosing the right noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb or preposition: Nouns; Pronouns; Adjectives & adverbs; Prepositions

Revising for consistency & parallelism: Consistent tense; Consistent person; Parallelisms

Mastering mechanics: Capitalization; Commas; Apostrophes; Direct and indirect quotations

Improving your spelling: Spelling; Look-alikes/sound-alikes

Reading selections & quotation bank.