The Tools of Writing.

Argumento de The Tools of Writing.

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 andapposition; ensuring agreement between pronouns and antecedents.

UNIT: 2 [ page 34 ]

DISCOURSE LEVEL: Pre-sentence

WRITING TOOLS: The verb; verb tenses; adverbials; linking verbs; objects andcomplements.

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 inphrases.

SKILLS: Recognising and using phrases and clauses; using gerunds and infinitivephrases as nouns; avoiding dangling participles.

UNIT: 4 [ page 50 ]

DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence

WRITING TOOLS: The independent clause; the dependent clause; noun clauses; relativeclauses; adverbial clauses.

SKILLS: Recognising and using independent and dependent clauses; usingsubordination; punctuating subordinate clauses.

UNIT: 5 [ page 62 ]

DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence

WRITING TOOLS: Coordinating conjunctions; compound parts of sentences; compoundsentences.

SKILLS: Coordinating words, phrases, and sentences; checking for parallel structure;punctuating sentence elements; avoiding faulty parallel structures; identifying andcorrecting sentence fragments.

UNIT: 6 [ page 72 ]

DISCOURSE LEVEL: Sentence

WRITING TOOLS: Noun with modifiers; verb with modifiers; verb with verb; noun withnoun.

SKILLS: Improving sentence length and variety; identifying need 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; identifyingand 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 decreasingimportance.

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 andcontrast; 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 faultyreasoning; peer editing.