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Sentence skills: Parts of speech: Overview -- Recognizing subjects and verbs -- Solving verb problems -- Subject-verb agreement -- Coordination and subordination -- Correcting fragments -- Correcting run-ons -- Parallel structure -- pronouns -- Modifiers: Misplaced and dangling -- Punctuation -- Capitalization -- Unit I review: Using all you have learned -- Reading-writing connection: Understanding what you read -- Paraphrasing and summarizing -- Quoting -- Answering the question -- Writing process: Four stages of writing for a paragraph or an essay -- Paragraph -- Essay -- Style -- Revising and editing -- Research paper -- Documentation. -- Writing strategies for the paragraph and essay: Argumentation -- Cause and effect -- Comparison and/or contrast -- Process -- Definition -- Classification -- Narration -- Major readings: A grain of cold / John Artibello -- Banning junk food / Leah McLaren -- How to get happily married / Julia McKinnell -- Matter of postal codes / Ken MacQueen -- In the library / Gary Lipschutz -- Excuses, excuses / Adrian Lee -- I lost my talk / Rita Joe -- Tough approach that might work / James C. Morton -- Grammar and your salary / Peter Harris -- Beyond cannabis/ Akwasi Owusu-Bempah -- Economic cost of depression / Gary Lamphier -- Other family /Himani Bannerji -- Cyber misogyny / Brett Throop -- Not just Hollywood / Leah McLaren -- What's missing?/ Gary Lipschutz -- Face to face / Brian Bethune -- Monster / Chelsea Vowel -- Appendices: Distinguishing between words often confused -- Answer key to practices -- Solving spelling problems -- Irregular verbs.