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The Bedford Handbook

ISBN: 9780312256326 | 0312256329

Edition: 6th
Format: Trade Book
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 11/7/2001

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Table of Contents

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Part I. The Writing Process

(100)

Generating ideas; sketching a plan

(28)

Roughing out an initial draft

(11)

Making global revisions; revising sentences

(31)

Student Essay

Building paragraphs

(29)

Part II. Document Design

101

(34)

Principals of document design

102

(10)

Academic and business formats

112

(13)

Mla Essay Format; Business Letter; Resume; Memo

Electronic documents

125

(10)

Sample E-Mail; Sample Web Page

Part III. Clear Sentences

135

(68)

Active verbs

136

(6)

Parallelism

142

(7)

Needed words

149

(6)

Mixed constructions

155

(6)

Misplaced and dangling modifiers

161

(11)

Shifts

172

(8)

Emphasis

180

(17)

Variety

197

(6)

Part IV. Word Choice

203

(36)

Wordy sentences

204

(7)

Appropriate language

211

(16)

Exact words

227

(12)

Part V. Grammatical Sentences

239

(106)

Sentence fragments

240

(11)

Run-on sentences

251

(12)

Subject-verb agreement (is or are, etc.)

263

(15)

Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural)

278

(8)

Pronoun reference (clarity)

286

(6)

Pronoun case (I or me, etc.)

292

(11)

who or whom

303

(6)

Adjectives and adverbs (good or well, etc.)

309

(9)

Standard English verb forms

318

(17)

Verb tense and mood

335

(10)

Part VI. ESL Trouble Spots

345

(36)

Special problems with verbs

346

(14)

The articles a, an, and the

360

(8)

Other trouble spots

368

(13)

Part VII. Punctuation

381

(62)

The comma

382

(18)

Unnecessary commas

400

(8)

The semicolon

408

(6)

The colon

414

(4)

The apostrophe

418

(5)

Quotation marks

423

(9)

End punctuation

432

(4)

Other punctuation marks: the dash, parentheses, brackets, the ellipsis mark, the slash

436

(7)

Part VIII. Mechanics

443

(34)

Abbreviations

444

(4)

Numbers

448

(3)

Italics (underlining)

451

(5)

Spelling

456

(10)

The hyphen

466

(5)

Capital letters

471

(6)

Part IX. Critical Thinking

477

(42)

Writing about texts

478

(14)

Constructing reasonable arguments

492

(14)

Evaluating arguments

506

(13)

Part X. Researched Writing

519

(50)

Conducting research

521

(25)

Evaluating sources

546

(11)

Managing information; avoiding plagiarism

557

(6)

Choosing a documentation style

563

(6)

Writing MLA papers

569

(109)

Supporting a thesis

569

(6)

Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism

575

(5)

Integrating sources

580

(11)

MLA documentation style

591

(41)

MLA manuscript format; sample MLA paper

632

(14)

Writing about literature; sample student papers

646

(32)

Writing APA papers

678

(49)

APA papers

678

(49)

Writing Chicago papers

727

(38)

Chicago papers

727

(38)

Part XI. Grammar Basics

765

(50)

Parts of speech

766

(18)

Sentence patterns

784

(12)

Subordinate word groups

796

(14)

Sentence types

810

(5)

Glossary of Usage

815

(18)

Answers to Tutorials and Lettered Exercise

833

Index

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