College Writing Skills with Readings 11th Edition 9781265226596

College Writing Skills with Readings, 11th edition, emphasizes writing skills as well as process. By identifying a set of 4 fundamental skills critical to effective writing, College Writing Skills with Readings encourages students to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored. These 4 skills, or bases, for effective writing are as follows: 

Unity: Discover a clearly stated point, or topic sentence, and make sure that all other information in the paragraph or essay supports that point. 

Support: Support the points with specific evidence, and plenty of it. 

Coherence: Organize and connect supporting evidence so that paragraphs and essays transition smoothly from one bit of supporting information to the next. 

Sentence skills: Revise and edit so that sentences are error-free for clearer and more effective communication. 

These four bases are essential to all effective writing, whether it be a narrative paragraph for a personal journal, a cover letter for a job application, or an essay for an academic assignment.

Part 1 – Essay Writing
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Writing Process
3. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing
4. The Third Step in Essay Writing
5. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing
6. Four Bases for Revising Essays
7. Developing an Essay

Part 2 – Patterns of Essay Development
8. Description
9. Narration
10. Exemplification
11. Process
12. Cause and/or Effect
13. Comparison and/or Contrast