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This detailed guide encourages writers to recognize and use the grammatical and stylistic choices available to them and to understand the rhetorical effects those choices can have on their readers.
Note: Each chapter begins with a Chapter Preview and ends with Key Terms, Rhetorical Reminders, and Punctuation Reminders
Preface.
Introduction.
I. UNDERSTANDING SENTENCES.
1. The Structure of Sentences.
The Two-Part Sentence.
Questions and Commands.
The Expanded Verb.
Sentence Patterns.
The Optional Slot.
The Passive Voice.
"Clause" and "Sentence".
Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns.
2. The Basic Sentences in Prose
Topic Sentences.
Special Effects.
The Short Paragraph.
A Sentence Survey.
3. Coordination
Coordination Within the Sentence.
Compound Sentences.
The Compound Sentence: Punctuation Review.
Parallel Structure.
II. CONNECTING WITH THE READER
4. Cohesion
Reader Expectation.
Repetition.
The Known-New Contract.
Metadiscourse.
Parallelism.
Levels of Generality.
5. Sentence Rhythm.
Intonation: The Peaks and Valleys.
End Focus.
Controlling Rhythm.
Rhythm and the Comma.
Power Words.
6. The Writer's Voice.
Tone.
Diction.
Metaphor.
Metadiscourse.
Point of View.
III. MAKING CHOICES
7. Choosing Verbs.
Our Versatile Verbs.
The Abstract Subject.
Showing, Not Telling.
The Overuse of Be.
8. Choosing Adverbials.
The Opening Adverbial.
The Prepositional Phrase.
The Subordinate Clause.
Infinitive (Verb) Phrases.
Movability and Closure.
The Qualifiers.
9. Choosing Adjectivals.
Determiners.
Adjectives and Nouns.
Prepositional Phrases.
Participial Phrases.
Relative Clauses.
Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses
The Broad-Reference Clause.
Other Nominals.
Appositives
Punctuation Revisited.
10. Choosing Stylistic Variations.
The Coordinate Series.
Repetition.
Word-Order Variation.
Ellipsis.
Antithesis.
The Deliberate Fragment.
IV. A WAY WITH WORDS.
11. Word Classes.
Lexical Rules.
Parts of Speech.
The Form Classes.
12. Pronouns.
Personal Pronouns.
Personal Pronoun Errors.
Reflexive Pronouns.
Reciprocal Pronouns.
Demonstrative Pronouns.
Indefinite Pronouns.
V. PUNCTUATION.
13. Punctuation: Its Purposes, Its Hierarchy, and Its Rhetorical Effects.
The Purposes of Punctuation Marks.
The Hierarchy of Punctuation.
The Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation.
Glossary of Punctuation.
Glossary of Terms.
Bibliography.
Answers to the Exercises.
Index.