TY - BOOK AU - Kanar,Carol C. TI - The confident writer SN - 9780618958467 AV - PE1408 .K36 2009 U1 - 808.0427 PY - 2009///] CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Grammar KW - College readers KW - Report writing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Writing Process: Becoming the confident writer ; Using prewriting strategies ; Improving your paragraph skills ; Stating your thesis ; Supporting your thesis ; Revising and editing your essays ; Researching for writing -- Patterns as Options: Narrating and describing ; Explaining a process ; Choosing classification of division ; Comparing and contrasting ; Explaining causes and effects ; Using definition ; Arguing persuasively -- More Choices: A Collection of Readings -- The Selective Writer: A Brief Handbook: Basic choices: the parts of speech ; Sentence effectiveness choices ; Punctuation choices ; Choices for trouble spots ; Word choice ; ESL concerns and choices ER -