Includes index.

Reading and writing as critical -- Reading critically -- Writing critically -- Revising and editing -- Describing -- Narrating -- Illustrating -- Analyzing a process -- Comparing and contrasting -- Dividing and classifying -- Defining -- Analyzing causes and effects -- Arguing -- How to read an essay -- How to write an essay -- Writing workshop -- Parts of speech -- Phrases and clauses -- Subjects and verbs -- Fragments -- Fused sentences and comma splices -- Regular and irregular verbs -- Verb tense -- Subject/verb agreement -- More on verbs -- Pronoun problems -- Pronoun reference and point of view -- Pronoun agreement -- Adjectives -- Adverbs -- Modifier errors -- Commas -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Other punctuation marks -- Capitalization -- Abbreviations and numbers -- Varying sentence structure -- Parallelism -- Combining sentences -- Standard and nonstandard English -- Easily confused words -- Spelling.

"Reading and Writing Paragraphs teaches the basic skills essential good academic writing and illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process"-- Provided by publisher.