Jumpstart! A Workbook for Writers

Overview

JUMPSTART! A Workbook for Writers is designed to build the confidence and competence students need to make the successful transition into college writing. While it primarily focuses on the most frequently occurring sentence-level grammar and structure issues, the text also teaches the whole writing process, including coverage of the paragraph and whole discourse. And because basic writers need to write rather than read about writing, JUMPSTART includes an abundance of exercises and activities.

Table of contents

Part 1: Developing Your Writing Process and Writing Paragraphs and Essays
Chapter 1: Your Writing Process
Chapter 2: Writing a Paragraph
Chapter 3: Writing an Essay
Part 2: Understanding the Sentence
Chapter 4: Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 5: Coordination
Chapter 6: Subordination
Chapter 7: Sentence Fragments
Chapter 8: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices
Part 3: Understanding Verbs
Chapter 9: The Present Tense/Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 10: The Past Tense
Chapter 11: The Perfect Tenses/Active and Passive Voice
Chapter 12: The Progressive Tenses
Chapter 13: Tense Shifts
Part 4: Understanding Pronouns
Chapter 14: Pronouns
Chapter 15: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Chapter 16: Other Pronoun Challenges
Part 5: Understanding Modifiers and Prepositions
Chapter 17: Adjective, Adverbs, and Articles
Chapter 18: Using Participles and Infinitives to Describe
Chapter 19: Prepositions
Part 6: Improving Sentences
Chapter 20: Achieving Parallelism
Chapter 21: Special Sentence Structure Challenges
Chapter 22: Varying Sentence Openers
Part 7: Spelling Correctly
Chapter 23: Spelling
Chapter 24: Frequently Confused Words
Part 8: Capitalizing and Punctuating
Chapter 25: Capitalization and Endmarks
Chapter 26: Commas
Chapter 27: Apostrophes
Chapter 28: Punctuating Direct Quotations
Photo Gallery with Writing Topics
Appendix: The Parts of Speech
Index