About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgments
PART ONE Diction
Words
The Exact Word
The Dictionary
PART TWO Paragraph
Introduction
Ways of Developing Paragraphs
Paragraph Structure
PART THREE The Essay
Writing an Essay as a Process
Communication Triangle
Essay Structure—Essay Organizational Flow Chart
Developing the Essay’s Thesis Directly According to the Flow Chart
Developing the Essay’s Thesis Indirectly
Invention Activities
Writing or Composing Activities
Revising Activities
PART FOUR Writing Strategies
Narration
Exposition
Argumentation
Works Cited
Xiao
Wang
Dr. Xiao Aurora Wang holds a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from Ball State University, IN, and an MA in ESL from St. Cloud State University. For the past twenty-three years, Dr. Wang has taught Composition courses at all levels such as Composition I, Composition II, Technical Writing, and ESL Composition at St. Cloud State, Ball State, Nova Southeastern University, Arizona State Universities, and Broward College, FL. She is the winner of the 2021 AFC Honorary Life Membership Award as well as Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who in America in 2021.