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- Price:
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The Bare Essentials Plus
- Includes 2009 MLA update card , 3rd Edition
- ISBN-10: 0176407006 ISBN-13: 9780176407001
- 532 Pages
- © 2007 Published
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Unit 1: Words
Quick Quiz
Chapter 1: Choosing the Right Words
Chapter 2: Hazardous Homonyms
Chapter 3: The Apostrophe
Chapter 4: Capital Letters
Rapid Review
Unit 2: Sentences
Quick Quiz
Chapter 5: Cracking the Sentence Code
Chapter 6: Solving Sentence-Fragment Problems
Chapter 7: Solving Run-On Sentence Problems
Chapter 8: Solving Modifier Problems
Chapter 9: The Parallelism Principle
Chapter 10: Refining by Combining
Rapid Review
Unit 3: Grammar
Quick Quiz
Chapter 11: Choosing the Correct Verb Form
Chapter 12: Mastering Subject-Vern Agreement
Chapter 13: Keeping the Tenses Consistent
Chapter 14: Choosing the Correct Pronoun Form
Chapter 15: Mastering Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Chapter 16: Maintaining Person Agreement
Rapid Review
Unit 4: Punctuation
Quick Quiz
Chapter 17: The Comma
Chapter 18: The Semicolon
Chapter 19: The Colon
Chapter 20: Quotation Marks
Chapter 21: Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, and Punctuation Review
Rapid Review
Unit 5: Paragraph and Essays
Chapter 22: Finding Something to Write About
Chapter 23: The Thesis Statement
Chapter 24: The Outline
Chapter 25: Paragraphs
Chapter 26: Revising Your Paper
Unit 6: For ESL Leaners: A Review of the Basics
Quick Quiz
Chapter 27: Choosing the Correct Verb Tense
Chapter 28: More about Verbs
Chapter 29: Solving Plural Problems
Chapter 30: Using Articles Accurately
Chapter 31: Practicing with Prepositions
Rapid Review
Unit 7: Readings
Brian Green, Career Consciousness
Sun-Kyung Yi, An Immigrant''s Split Personality
Eva Tihanyi, Resolving Conflict in the Workplace
Shandi Mitchell, Baba and Me
Germaine Greer, Ottawa vs. New York
Sarah Norton, Metamorphosis
Jeffery Moussaieff Masson, Dear Dad
Nell Waldman, The Second-Language Struggle
Aliki Tryphonopoulos, A City for Students
Deenu Parmar, Labouring the Wal-Mart Way
Appendix A: Spelling Matters
Appendix B: A Review of the Basics
Appendix C: List of Grammatical Terms
Appendix D: Answers to Exercises