The Roadrunner’s Guide to English

by Jenny Crisp

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This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.

Description from LibreTexts.

Publisher
Dalton University
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Reading and Writing Process
  7. 1.1: Reading and Writing as Processes
  8. 1.2: Planning to Read or Write
  9. 1.3: Drafting
  10. 1.5: Proofreading
  11. 1.6: Publishing
  12. 1.7: Unstated Main Idea
  13. 1.4: Editing and Revising
  14. 2: Essay Structure
  15. 2.1: Introduction
  16. 2.2: Thesis/Topic/Main Idea
  17. 2.3: Paragraphs
  18. 2.4: Examples/Supporting Ideas
  19. 2.5: Modes of Organization
  20. 3: Grammar and Vocabulary
  21. 3.1: Introduction
  22. 3.2: Sentence Formation (Type 1 Errors)
  23. 3.3: Mechanics (Type 2 Errors)
  24. 3.4: Proper Word Usage (Type 3 Errors)
  25. 3.5: Vocabulary, Context Clues, and Acquiring a Word
  26. 3.6: Practice Games
  27. 4: Style, Tone, and Inference
  28. 5: Writing in Class
  29. 6: English Language Learners
  30. 7: Practice Exercises
  31. 7.1: Comma
  32. 7.2: Comma Splice
  33. 7.3: Fact and Opinion
  34. 7.4: Fragment
  35. 7.5: Fused Sentence
  36. 7.6: Identifying Dependent and Independent Clauses
  37. 7.7: Logical Fallacy
  38. 7.8: Patterns
  39. 7.9: Proofreading
  40. 7.10: Pronoun
  41. 7.11: Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement
  42. 7.12: Subject Identification
  43. 7.13: Subject-Verb Agreement
  44. 7.14: Supporting Details
  45. 8: Readings
  46. Back Matter
  47. Index
  48. Glossary
  49. Detailed Licensing