INTRODUCTION [ page 13 ] UNIT: 1 [ page 27 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Pre-sentence WRITING TOOLS: The subject; proper, common, and abstract nouns; pronouns; adjectives; apposition. SKILLS: Identifying subjects and nouns; modifying subjects with adjectives and apposition; ensuring agreement between pronouns and antecedents. UNIT: 2 [ page 34 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Pre-sentence WRITING TOOLS: The verb; verb tenses; adverbials; linking verbs; objects and complements. SKILLS: Identifying the verb; ensuring verb agreement; ensuring verb consistency; modifying verbs with adverbials; conveying action from subject to object; recognizing and using noun and adjective complements. UNIT: 3 [ page 40 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Pre-sentence WRITING TOOLS: The phrase; nouns in phrases; adjectives in phrases; adverbs in phrases. SKILLS: Recognising and using phrases and clauses; using gerunds and infinitive phrases as nouns; avoiding dangling participles. UNIT: 4 [ page 50 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence WRITING TOOLS: The independent clause; the dependent clause; noun clauses; relative clauses; adverbial clauses. SKILLS: Recognising and using independent and dependent clauses; using subordination; punctuating subordinate clauses. UNIT: 5 [ page 62 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence WRITING TOOLS: Coordinating conjunctions; compound parts of sentences; compound sentences. SKILLS: Coordinating words, phrases, and sentences; checking for parallel structure; punctuating sentence elements; avoiding faulty parallel structures; identifying and correcting sentence fragments. UNIT: 6 [ page 72 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence WRITING TOOLS: Noun with modifiers; verb with modifiers; verb with verb; noun with noun. SKILLS: Improving sentence length and variety; identifying eed for further detail; combining sentences effectively. UNIT: 7 [ page 84 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence WRITING TOOLS: The semi-colon; the colon; the comma; quotation marks. SKILLS: Employing punctuation correctly in phrases, clauses, and sentences; identifying and correcting run-on sentences. UNIT: 8 [ page 98 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Paragraph WRITING TOOLS: The topic sentence; topic vs. topic sentence. SKILLS: Analysing the paragraph; establishing paragraph unity; writing topic sentences; limiting topic sentences; editing irrelevance from paragraphs; paragraph coherence. UNIT: 9 [ page 111 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Paragraph WRITING TOOLS: Examples; details; facts and statistics. SKILLS: Supporting topic sentences; enumeration; increasing and decreasing importance. UNIT: 10 [ page 127 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Paragraph WRITING TOOLS: Cause and effect; comparing and contrasting. SKILLS: Developing specific types of paragraph; arranging details in comparison and contrast; writing introductions and conclusions; sentence variety. UNIT: 11 [ page 152 ] DISCOURSE LEVEL: Composition WRITING TOOLS: Guidelines for revising and correcting. SKILLS: Revising sentence length; proofreading for surface mistakes; revising for faulty reasoning; peer editing.
Aquest lloc web emmagatzema dades com galetes per habilitar la funcionalitat necessària de el lloc, inclosos anàlisi i personalització. Podeu canviar la seva configuració en qualsevol moment o acceptar els paràmetres per defecte.
Les galetes necessàries ajuden a fer una pàgina web utilitzable activant funcions bàsiques com la navegació a la pàgina i l'accés a àrees segures de la pàgina web. La pàgina web no pot funcionar adequadament sense aquestes galetes.
Personalització
Les galetes de personalització permeten a la pàgina web recordar informació que canvia la forma en què la pàgina es comporta o l'aspecte que té, com el seu idioma preferit o la regió en la qual vostè es troba.
Anàlisi
Les galetes estadístiques ajuden als propietaris de pàgines web a comprendre com interactuen els visitants amb les pàgines web reunint i proporcionant informació de forma anònima.
Marketing
Les galetes de màrqueting s'utilitzen per rastrejar als visitants en les pàgines web. La intenció és mostrar anuncis rellevants i atractius per a l'usuari individual, i per tant, més valuosos per als editors i tercers anunciants.