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Structuring paragraphs : a guide to effective writing

A. Franklin Parks, James A. Levernier, Ida Masters Hollowell

St. Martin's Press, c1991

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes index

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Description

Guiding students through the whole range and use of paragraphs, this book looks at the planning, organization, writing and revising of paragraphs. It features a new chapter on argument and a new concise guide to editing sentences.

Table of Contents

  • The general-to-specific paragraph
  • how to begin writing paragraphs
  • paragraph unity and structure
  • methods of development - example, cause and effect, and process analysis
  • three other methods of development - definition, comparison and contrast, and classfication
  • achieving coherence
  • from paragraph to essay
  • revising paragraphs and essays
  • from explanation to argumentation
  • a concise guide to editing sentences.

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