Chapter One Prewriting Strategies
Section I Writing and Prewriting
1. The importance of writing
2. The differences between writing and speaking
3. The process of writing
Section II Prewriting Techniques
Introduction
Unit 1 Brainstorming
Unit 2 Freewriting
Unit 3 Questioning
Unit 4 Mapping
Unit 5 Preparing an outline
Unit 6 Cubing
Unit 7 Journal Writing

Chapter Two Writing the First Draft
Section I Paragraph and Essay Structure
Unit 8 The Structure of a Paragraph
Unit 9 The Structure of an Essay
Section II Types of Development Patterns
Unit 10 List
Unit 11 Process
Unit 12 Definition
Unit 13 Classification
Unit 14 Cause and Effect
Unit 15 Comparison and Contrast
Unit 16 Argumentation
Unit 17 Narration
Unit 18 Description

Chapter Three Revising and Editing
Introduction
Section I Revising
Section II Editing
Unit 19 Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns
Unit 20 Collective Nouns
Unit 21 Proper Nouns
Unit 22 Vocatives
Unit 23 Pronouns
Unit 24 Prepositional Phrases
Unit 25 Word Order
Unit 26 Parallelism
Unit 27 Subject, Object and Predicative
Unit 28 Grammatical Subject and Logical Subject
Unit 29 Appositive and Attributive
Unit 30 Punctuation
Unit 31 Frequently Used Wrong Words or Phrases
Unit 32 Brevity
Unit 33 Complete Sentences
Unit 34 Variety of Diction
Unit 35 Classification
Unit 36 Comparison and Contrast
Keys to Exercises
References