Sublists, in writing process, 271 Subordinating conjunctions
in adjective clauses, 294
in adverb clauses, 212, 213, 214, 292-294 in dependent clauses, 163
list of, 163
in noun clauses, 295 punctuation with, 29
as transition signals, 27, 29, 87, 101, 117,119,120,147,297-299
Subordinators. See Subordinating conjunctions
Subtitles, colons before, 286 Surrunarizing, 127, 136-137
review of, 141
writing good spmmary, 137 Supporting detaiis, 39-54
examples, 12-13
facts versus opinions, 39-40 outside sources, 41-48, 54 paraphrasing and, 135 quotations, 42-48
direct quotations, 42-46, 54 indirect quotations, 43-44, 47-48,
54, 198 statistics, 51, 54
Supporting sentences, 3, 11-13 examples in, 12-13
review of, 16
Tag commas, 281 Tenses
sequence of, 48, 198 special, in that clauses, 198
That clauses, 195-197,207 adjective, 232, 235
sentences beginning with it versus, 196-197
special verb tenses in, 198
Thesis statements, 59-60, 63, 65-68 for argumentative essay, 147-148 pitfalls of, 67-68
for process essay, 84 subtopics in, 65-66
Time clauses adjective, 244-245
adverb, 210,211-212,228, 292 Time of day, colons in, 287
Titles
short work, quotation marks around, 289 subtitles, colons before, 286
Tone, of writing, 265
Topic selection, in writing process, 265-266
Topic sentences, 4-10 controlling idea in, 3,4,9 defined, 3
position of, 5-6 recognizing, 4-5 review of, 16 topic in, 3,4,9 two parts of, 3, 9 writing, 10,271
Transition signals, 25-32, 57, 297-299. See also Structure vocabulary
for argumentative essay, 147-148 for cause and effect, 101-1 02 charts of, for general use, 27, 68,
291-299
for chronological order, 86-87
for comparison and contrast, 117, 119, 120,294
for logical division of ideas, 68-69 overuse, avoiding, 32
between paragraphs, 69 punctuation with, 26, 283 review of, 36
types of
conjunctive adverbs, 26-28 coordinators, 27, 28, 68, 101, 102,
117,119,120,291,297-299 other types, 27, 29, 68, 87, 101, 102,
117,119,120,297-299 subordinators, 27, 29, 87, 101, 117,
119, 120, 147,297-299 transition words and phrases, 26-28
uses of, 297-299
Transitions between paragraphs, 69
Unity, 18-19,57 defined, 18 review of, 36
Verbs
agreement, in adjective clauses, 231 reporting verbs, 43-44, 47-48, 198 sequence of tenses, 48, 198
as transition signals, 29
Which clauses, 232, 235
Words, unusual, quotation marks around, 288
Works cited, list of, 42, 308-309 Writing process. See Process of writing Writing style
participial phrases and, 257 sentence types and, 175