Part 1 Introduciton 1.1 Effective Writing 1.2 Demands of the Course 1.3 Autobiography Part 2 Reaching Your Audience 2.1 Reaching Your Audience 2.2 Style,Voice,and Tone 2.3 Style,Through Vocabulary and Diction 2.4 Inappropriate Word Usage Part 3 Polishing Senterces 3.1 Sentence Fragments 3.2 Sentence Patterns 3.3 Precise Vocabulary for Complete Ideas 3.4 Symbols That Stand for Errors in an Essay Part 4 Polishing Paragraphs 4.1 Paragraph Structure 4.2 Topic Sentence 4.3 Patterns for Presenting Information 4.4 Developing Levels of Specjficity 4.5 Paragraph Size Part 5 Main Idea and Pattern of Organization Part 6 Gathering Information and Ideas:Memory,Reading and Observation Part 7 Gather Information and Ideas:Interviewing Part 8 Elemaents of Writing Essays Part 9 Comparison-and-contrast Part 10 Argument Part 11 Inductive Reasoning Part 12 Deductive Reasoning Part 13 Writing a Research Paper Part 14 Procedures in Graduate Study Part 15 How to Write an Abstract Part 16 Quoting and Documentiong Part 17 Composing a Poem Appendices Glossary Bibliography