With carefully crafted instruction, engaging student models, and plentiful practice exercises, this best-selling text continues to provide the most effective paragraph-essay level writing instruction available. EVERGREEN is structured around Susan Fawcett's proven MAP (model-analysis-practice) format--a careful, guiding pedagogy featuring minimal inductive instruction followed by varied practice designed to improve students' confidence and learning outcomes. Known for its superior essay coverage, EVERGREEN demonstrates each of the nine rhetorical patterns with two student sample essays (one in the third person, and one in the first person), and a graphic organizer. New to the Tenth Anniversary Edition is coverage of personal error tracking, including a new chapter, pull-out chart, and integrated exercises for each grammar and spelling chapter to help students identify, track and correct their own errors. The new edition also features an even stronger emphasis on critical thinking, with more exercises on critical thinking and viewing, and many more Teaching Tips designed to prompt critical thinking. Five new readings include selections by Jhumpa Lahiri, Malcolm Gladwell, and Ellen Goodman.
Table of Contents
UNIT 1: GETTING STARTED. 1. Exploring the Writing Process. The Writing
Process. Subject, Audience, and Purpose. 2. Prewriting to Generate
Ideas. Freewriting. Brainstorming. Clustering. Asking Questions. Keeping
a Journal. Unit 1 Writers' Workshop: Using One or Two of Your Five
Senses, Describe a Place. UNIT 2: DISCOVERING THE PARAGRAPH. 3. The
Process of Writing Paragraphs. Defining and Looking at the Paragraph.
Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence. Generating Ideas for
the Body. Selecting and Dropping Ideas. Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an
Outline. Writing and Revising the Paragraph. 4. Achieving Coherence.
Coherence Through Order. Coherence Through Related Sentences. Unit 2
Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures of Living in Two Worlds. UNIT
3:. DEVELOPING THE PARAGRAPHS. 5. Illustration. Teamwork: Critical
Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing an Illustration
Paragraph. Suggested Topic Sentences for Illustration Paragraphs. 6.
Narration. Teamwork: Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The
Process of Writing a Narrative Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Narrative
Paragraphs. 7. Description. Teamwork: Critical Viewing and Writing.
Checklist: The Process of Writing a Descriptive Paragraph. Suggested
Topics for Descriptive Paragraphs. 8. Process. Teamwork: Critical
Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Process
Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Process Paragraphs. 9. Definition.
Single-Sentence Definitions. The Definition Paragraph. Teamwork:
Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a
Definition Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Definition Paragraphs. 10.
Comparison and Contrast. The Contrast and the Comparison Paragraphs.
Teamwork: Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of
Writing a Comparison or Contrast Paragraph. Suggested Topics for
Contrast or Comparison Paragraphs. The Comparison and Contrast
Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs. 11.
Classification. Teamwork: Critical Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The
Process of Writing a Classification Paragraph. Suggested Topics for
Classification Paragraphs. 12. Cause and Effect. Teamwork: Critical
Thinking and Writing. Checklist: The Process of Writing a Cause and
Effect Paragraph. Suggested Topics for Cause and Effect Paragraphs. 13.
Persuasion. Teamwork: Critical Viewing and Writing. Checklist: The
Process of Writing a Persuasive Paragraph. Suggested Topics for
Persuasive Paragraphs. Unit 3 Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College
Writers. UNIT 4: WRITING THE ESSAY. 14. The Process of Writing an Essay.
Looking at the Essay. Writing the Thesis Statement. Generating Ideas
for the Body. Organizing Ideas into an Outline. Ordering and Linking
Paragraphs in the Essay. Writing and Revising Essays. Checklist: The
Process of Writing an Essay. Suggested Topics for Essays. 15. The
Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title. The Introduction. The
Conclusion. The Title. 16. Types of Essays I. The Illustration Essay.
Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing: Illustration. Planning and
Writing the Illustration Essay. The Narrative Essay. Student Essays.
Critical Viewing and Writing: Narrative. Planning and Writing the
Narrative Essay. The Descriptive Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing
and Writing: Description. Planning and Writing the Descriptive Essay.
The Process Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing:
Process. Planning and Writing the Process Essay. The Definition Essay.
Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing: Definition. Planning and
Writing the Definition Essay. 17. Types of Essays II. The Comparison and
the Contrast Essay. Student Essays. Critical Viewing and Writing:
Comparison Contrast. Planning and Writing the Comparison and the
Contrast Essay. The Classification Essay. Student Essays. Critical
Viewing and Writing: Classification. Planning and Writing the
Classification Essay. The Cause and Effect Essay. Student Essays.
Critical Viewing and Writing: Cause and Effect. Planning and Writing the
Cause and Effect Essay. The Persuasive Essay. Student Essays. Critical
Viewing and Writing: Persuasion. Planning and Writing the Persuasive
Essay. 18. Summarizing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism. Avoiding
Plagiarism. Writing a Summary. Checklist: The Process of Writing a
Summary. Using Direct and Indirect Quotation (Paraphrase). 19.
Strengthening an Essay with Research. Improving an Essay with Research.
Finding and Evaluating Outside Sources: Library and Internet. Adding
Sources to Your Essay and Documenting Them Correctly. 20. Writing Under
Pressure: The Essay Examination. Budgeting Your Time. Reading and
Understanding the Essay Question. Choosing the Correct Paragraph or
Essay Pattern. Writing the Topic Sentence or the Thesis Statement.
Checklist: The Process of Answering an Essay Question. Unit 4 Writers'
Workshop: Analyze a Social Problem. UNIT 5: IMPROVING YOUR WRITING. 21.
Revising for Consistency and Parallelism. Consistent Tense. Consistent
Number and Person. Parallelism. 22. Revising for Sentence Variety. Mix
Long and Short Sentences. Use a Question, a Command, or an Exclamation.
Vary the Beginnings of Sentences. Vary Methods of Joining Ideas. Avoid
Misplaced and Confusing Modifiers. Review and Practice. 23. Revising for
Language Awareness. Exact Language: Avoiding Vagueness. Concise
Language: Avoiding Wordiness. Fresh Language: Avoiding Triteness.
Figurative Language: Similes and Metaphors. 24. Putting Your Revision
Skills to Work. Unit 5 Writers' Workshop: Examine Something That Isn't
What It Appears to Be. UNIT 6: REVIEWING THE BASICS. 25. Proofreading to
Correct Your Personal Error Patterns. Identifying and Tracking Your
Personal Error Patterns. Create a Personal Error Patterns Chart.
Proofreading Strategies. 26. The Simple Sentence. Defining and Spotting
Subjects. Spotting Prepositional Phrases. Defining and Spotting Verbs.
Proofreading Strategy. 27. Coordination and Subordination. Coordination.
Subordination. Semicolons. Conjunctive Adverbs. Teamwork: Critical
Thinking and Writing. Review. Proofreading Strategy. 28. Avoiding
Sentence Errors. Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices. Proofreading
Strategy. Avoiding Fragments. Proofreading Strategy. 29. Present Tense
(Agreement). Defining Subject-Verb Agreement. Three Troublesome Verbs in
the Present Tense: To Be, To Have, To Do. Special Singular
Constructions. Separation of Subject and Verb. Sentences Beginning with
There and Here. Agreement in Questions. Agreement in Relative Clauses.
Proofreading Strategy. 30. Past Tense. Regular Verbs in the Past Tense.
Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense. A Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense:
To Be. Troublesome Pairs in the Past Tense: Can/Could, Will/Would.
Proofreading Strategy. 31. The Past Participle. Past Participles of
Regular Verbs. Past Participles of Irregular Verbs. Using the Present
Perfect Tense. Using the Past Perfect Tense. Using the Passive Voice (To
Be and the Past Participle). Using the Past Participle as an Adjective.
Proofreading Strategy. 32. Nouns. Defining Singular and Plural. Signal
Words: Singular and Plural. Signal Words with _of_. Proofreading
Strategy. Teamwork: Critical Thinking and Writing. 33. Pronouns.
Defining Pronouns and Antecedents. Making Pronouns and Antecedents
Agree. Referring to Antecedents Clearly. Special Problems of Case. Using
Pronouns with -self and -selves. Proofreading Strategy. 34.
Prepositions. Working with Prepositional Phrases. Prepositions in Common
Expressions. Proofreading Strategy. 35. Adjectives and Adverbs.
Defining and Using Adjectives and Adverbs. The Comparative and the
Superlative. A Troublesome Pair: Good/Well. Proofreading Strategy. 36.
The Apostrophe. The Apostrophe for Contractions. The Apostrophe for
Ownership. Special Uses of the Apostrophe. Proofreading Strategy. 37.
The Comma. Commas for Items in a Series. Commas with Introductory
Phrases, Transitional Expressions, and Parentheticals. Commas for
Appositives. Commas with Nonrestrictive and Restrictive Clauses. Commas
for Dates and Addresses. Minor Uses of the Comma. Proofreading Strategy.
38. Mechanics. Capitalization. Proofreading Strategy. Titles. Direct
Quotations. Proofreading Strategy. Minor Marks of Punctuation. 39.
Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work. Proofreading Strategy. Unit 6
Writers' Workshop: Adopt a New Point of View. UNIT 7: STRENGTHENING YOUR
SPELLING. 40. Spelling. Suggestions for Improving Your Spelling.
Computer Spell Checkers. Spotting Vowels and Consonants. Doubling the
Final Consonant (in Words of One Syllable). Doubling the Final Consonant
(in Words of More Than One Syllable). Dropping or Keeping the Final E.
Changing or Keeping the Final Y. Adding -S or -ES. Choosing IE or EI.
Spelling Lists. Proofreading Strategy. 41. Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes.
Proofreading Strategy. Unit 7 Writers' Workshop: Discuss a Time When You
Felt Blessed. UNIT 8: READING SELECTIONS. Reading Strategies for
Writers. What Your Supermarket Knows About You, Martin Lindstrom.
Multitasking or Mass ADD? Ellen Goodman. Only Daughter, Sandra Cisneros.
A Brother's Murder, Brent Staples. My Two Lives, Jhumpa Lahiri. Driving
While Stupid, Dave Barry. When Greed Gives Way to Giving, Ana
Veciana-Suarez. 10,000 Hours, Malcolm Gladwell. The Flip Side of
Internet Fame, Jessica Bennett. How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early
Roots of Empathy, Maia Szalavitz. Good Grammar Gets the Girl, Elissa
Englund. On the Rez, Ian Frazier. Four Types of Courage, Karen
Castellucci Cox. Book War, Wang Ping. A Risk-Free Life, Leonard Pitts,
Jr. Dear Dads: Save Your Sons, Christopher N. Bacorn. Why the M Word
Matters to Me, Andrew Sullivan. The Case for Torture, Michael Levin.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self, Alice Walker. Quotation Bank.
Appendix: Some Guidelines for Students of English as a Second Language.
Acknowledgements. Index. Rhetorical Index.