Unit 1 An Introduction to Writing

Section A Introduction

Section B Pretest

Unit 2 Wording Skills

Section A Levels of Words

Section B Meaning of Words

Section C General and Specific Words

Section D Concrete and Abstract Words

Section E Idioms

Unit 3 The Sentence

Section A Definition of Sentence

Section B Classification of Sentence

Section C How to Write an Efiective Sentence

Unit 4 Punctuation

Section A Period,Question Mark,and Exclamation Mark

Section B Comma

Section C Colon and Semicolon

Section D Apostrophe

Section E Hyphen and Dash

Section F Quotation Marks

Section G Other Punctuation Marks

Section H Capitalization,Abbreviations,and Italics

Unit 5 The Paragraph

Section A Criteria for Effective Paragraphs

Section B Ways of Developing Paragraphs

Unit 6 Figures of Speech

Section A Simile

Section B Metaphor

Section C Personification

Section D Euphemism

Section E Hyperbole

Section F Metonymy

Section G Synecdoche

Section H Irony

Section I Oxymoron

Unit 7 The Whole Composition

Section A Basic Steps of Writing a Composition

Section B Structure of a Composition

Section C Types of Composition

Unit 8 The Summary

Section A Types of Summary

Section B Some Techniques for Writing a Summary

Unit 9 Formal Style and Informal Style

Section A Wording Differences

Section B Grammatical Differences

Key to Exercises

References