Essay checklist -- Readings listed by rhetorical mode -- The Writing Process -- Exploring -- Developing the main idea -- Developing the essay plan -- Developing the first draft -- Revising and editing -- Essay Patterns -- Illustration -- Narration -- Description -- Process -- Definition -- Classification -- Comparison and contrast -- Cause and effect -- Argument -- More College and Workplace Writing -- Paraphrasing and summarizing -- The research essay -- The resume and letter of application -- Responding to film and literature -- Becoming a successful student -- The Editing Handbook -- Identifying subjects and verbs -- Sentence combining -- Sentence variety -- Fragments -- Run-ons -- Faulty parallel structure -- Mistakes with modifiers -- Subject-verb agreement -- Verb tenses -- Problems with verbs -- Nouns, determiners, and prepositions -- Pronouns -- Adjectives and verbs -- Exact language -- Spelling and commonly confused words -- Commas -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks, capitalization, and titles -- Numbers and additional punctuation -- Editing practice -- Reading Strategies and Selections -- From reading to writing -- Reading strategies -- Reading selections topics: conflict, urban development, international trade, forces of nature, plants and insects, human development -- The basic parts of a sentence -- Irregular verb list -- Verb tenses -- Combining ideas in sentences -- Spelling, grammar, and vocabulary logs -- Editing checklist -- Revising and editing symbols.