Opening Doors: Guide to First-year English

Margaret Earley Whitt, Bryan Walpert, Janet Black

Pearson Custom Pub., 2002 - English language - 307 pages

Contents

• Withdrawal from Courses: 52
• Reading and Writing About Literature: 92
• Politics and Personality: 117
• Notes on Contributors: 123
• Fragments: 131
• Comma Splices: 132
• Fused Sentences: 133
• Misplaced Modifiers: 137
• Split Constructions SubjectPredicate Infinitives VerbComplements Verbs: 138
• SubjectVerb Agreement: 143
• PronounAntecedent Agreement: 145
• Parallelism: 147
• Pronoun Case: 149
• Shifts Time Voice Number Person Mood: 152
• Dangling Modifiers: 155
• Incomplete Construction: 156
• Pronoun Reference: 159
• Commas: 161
• SemiColons: 166
• Dashes: 170
• Brackets: 171
• Parentheses: 173
• Apostrophes: 175
• Hyphens: 177
• Ellipses: 178
• Quotation Marks: 179
• Italics: 182
• Abbreviations: 184
• Capital Letters: 185
• Numbers one to 10: 187
• Doors to the Future The Laptop in: 223
• Stepping Up to the Task Practice Sheets for Usage Skills: 229

Bibliographic information

• Title: Opening Doors: Guide to First-year English
• Authors: Margaret Earley Whitt, Bryan Walpert, Janet Black
• Contributor: University of Denver
• Edition: 13
• Publisher: Pearson Custom Pub., 2002
• ISBN: 0536637474, 9780536637475
• Length: 307 pages