Introduction for Students
To learn any skill -- whether basketball， tennis， chess， CPR， com-
puter programming， or the electric guitar -- takes practice. En-
glish composition is no exception: In a composition class， you will
learn to write by writing， and you will learn to revise by revising.
Developmental Exercises to Accompany Rules for Writers will
sharpen your revision skills by giving you a great deal of con-
trolled， yet realistic， practice. Let s say， for example， that you want
to learn to identify and revise sentence fragments. Your first step
is to read section 19 in Rules for Writers， Fourth Edition， and to
study the flow chart on page 169. Then， keeping Rules for Writers
open to section 19， work on Exercise 19-1 in Developmental Exer-
cises to Accompany Rules for Writers. Exercise 19-1， which we call
a \"guided practice，\" gives codes in the margin (such as 19a or
19c) next to all fragments. In addition to telling you where to look
for fragments， the codes refer to specific rules in the text， so ffyou
have trouble identifying or fixing a particular fragment， you can
consult Rules for Writers for help. When you have finished the
exercise， you should check your answers. Answers to the first ex-
ercise in each set appear in the back of this book， beginning on
page 185.
Once you have done the guided practice exercise， attempt
the other exercises in the set; continue to refer to Rules for Writ-
ers when you run into trouble. You ll find that the rest of the exer-
crees in a set vary in style and level of difficulty. In the set on
fragments， for example， one exercise asks you to identify the cor-
rect sentence in a pair of word groups; another， presented in para-
graph form， asks you to identify fragments and to think about
possible revision strategies; and the final three exercises give you
practice in both identifying and revising fragments. Throughout
the entire set， the subject you ll be reading about is the Beatles.
Other exercise sets resemble the one on fragments. In those sets
you will encounter a number of famous persons you are likely to
read about in other college classes: men and women such as Karl
Marx. Ha~Tiet Beecher Stowe Frederick Douglass， Albert Einstein
P~e~up， amd Amelia Earhart.
Wanda Van Goor and Diana Hacker
Prince George s Community College
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