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Brief Penguin Handbook,The: MLA Update
ISBN: 9780205743407 | 0205743404
Edition: 3rdFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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This edition includes the most current MLA citation, documentation, and style guidelines.Now updated with expanded documentation, research, and writing across the curriculum coverage, The Brief Penguin Handbook continues to revolutionize the way handbooks present information.The design and approach of The Brief Penguin Handbook started with ideas and suggestions from real students, and thus it is uniquely successful when it comes to giving students the information they need in a format they will actually use. With unique visual guides and model... MORE
| Planning, Drafting, And Revising | |
| Think as a Writer | |
| Think about the process of communication | |
| Think about how to persuade others | |
| Think about your audience | |
| Think about your credibility | |
| Think about your purpose | |
| Plan and Draft | |
| Think about the expectations of college readers | |
| Establish your goals | ... MORE |
| Explore your topic | |
| Write a working thesis | |
| Plan a strategy | |
| Compose a draft | |
| Write as a member of a team | |
| Compose Paragraphs | |
| Focus your paragraphs | |
| Organize your paragraphs | |
| Make your paragraphs coherent | |
| Consider paragraph length | |
| Link across paragraphs | |
| Write effective beginning and ending paragraphs | |
| Rewrite, Edit, and Proofread | |
| Switch from writer to reader | |
| Learn strategies for rewriting | |
| Respond to other writers' drafts | |
| Edit for particular goals | |
| Proofread carefully | |
| Learn to edit the writing of others | |
| Writing For Different Purposes | |
| Read and View with a Critical Eye | |
| Become a critical reader | |
| Read actively | |
| Recognize verbal fallacies | |
| Become a critical viewer | |
| Recognize visual fallacies | |
| Write to Analyze | |
| Understand the goal of a rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze the context and the text | |
| Organize and write a rhetorical analysis | |
| Sample rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze images and other visual texts | |
| Write to Reflect | |
| Find a reflective topic | |
| Identify a focus | |
| Organize and write a reflection | |
| Sample reflective essay | |
| Write to Inform | |
| Find an informative topic | |
| Narrow your topic and write a thesis | |
| Organize and write an informative essay | |
| Sample informative essay | |
| Write Arguments | |
| Position arguments and proposal arguments | |
| Find an arguable topic | |
| Make an arguable claim | |
| Organize and write a position argument | |
| Sample position argument | |
| Organize and write a proposal argument | |
| Sample proposal arguments | |
| Writing In The Disciplines | |
| Learn to Write in Academic Disciplines | |
| Become an academic writer | |
| What counts as evidence in the disciplines? | |
| Write in Specific Genres | |
| 11a | |
| Write an observation | |
| Write a case study | |
| Write a lab report in the sciences | |
| Write a letter of application | |
| Write a résumé | |
| Write about Literature | |
| Become a critical reader of literature | |
| Develop an interpretation | |
| Write a literary analysis | |
| Sample literary analysis | |
| Designing And Presenting | |
| Communicate with Words, Images, and Graphics | |
| Write in multimedia | |
| Think about verbal and visual relationships | |
| Know where images and graphics work best | |
| Know where words work best | |
| Design for Print and the Screen | |
| Start with your readers | |
| Design pages | |
| Choose type | |
| Compose images | |
| Edit images | |
| Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
| Design a Web site | |
| Design Presentations | |
| Plan a presentation | |
| Design visuals for a presentation | |
| Deliver an effective presentation | |
| Researching | |
| Plan Your Research | |
| Analyze the research task | |
| Find a topic | |
| Determine what kind of research you need | |
| Draft a working thesis | |
| Start a working bibliography | |
| Find and Evaluate Sources in Databases | |
| Know the strengths of database sources | |
| Find information in databases | |
| Construct effective database searches | |
| Evaluate database sources | |
| Locate elements of a citation in database sources | |
| Find and Evaluate Sources on the Web | |
| Know the strengths and weaknesses of Web sources | |
| Find reliable Web sources | |
| Construct effective Web searches | |
| Find visual sources online | |
| Evaluate Web sources | |
| Locate elements of a citation in Web sources | |
| Find and Evaluate Print Sources | |
| Know the strengths of print sources | |
| Find books | |
| Find journal articles | |
| Evaluate print sources | |
| Locate elements of a citation in print sources | |
| Plan Field Research | |
| Know what you can obtain from field research | |
| Conduct interviews | |
| Administer surveys | |
| Make observations | |
| Incorporate Sources and Avoid Plagiarism | |
| Understand the purposes of sources | |
| Incorporate sources | |
| Avoid plagiarism | |
| Quote sources without plagiarizing | |
| Summarize and paraphrase sources without plagiarizing | |
| Write and Revise the Research Project | |
| Revisit your research | |
| Plan your organization | |
| Write a draft | |
| Select and introduce quotations | |
| Review your draft | |
| Revise, revise, revise | |
| Documenting | |
| Five Steps for Documenting Sources | |
| Which documentation style do I use? | |
| What kind of source am I using? | |
| When do I cite sources? | |
| How do I cite a source in my paper? | |
| How do I cite sources at the end of my paper? | |
| MLA Documentation | |
| In-text citations in MLA style | |
| Books in MLA-style works cited | |
| Journals and magazines | |
| Newspapers | |
| Government documents, pamphlets, dissertations, and letters | |
| Library database publications | |
| Online publications | |
| CD-ROM, software, and unedited online sources | |
| Visual sources | |
| Multimedia sources | |
| Informational notes | |
| Sample research paper with MLA documentation | |
| APA Documentation | |
| In-text citations in APA style | |
| Books and nonperiodical sources in the APA-style references list | |
| Periodical sources | |
| Online sources | |
| Visual, computer, and multimedia sources | |
| Sample paper with APA documentation | |
| CMS Documentation | |
| Books and nonperiodical sources in CMS-style citations | |
| Periodical sources | |
| Online and computer sources | |
| Multimedia sources | |
| Sample pages with CMS documentation | |
| CSE Documentation | |
| In-text citations in CSE style | |
| Books and nonperiodical sources in CSE-style references | |
| Periodical sources | |
| Online sources | |
| Sample pages with CSE documentation | |
| Effective Style And Language | |
| Write with Power | |
| Pay attention to verbs | |
| Stay active | |
| Find agents | |
| Vary your sentences | |
| Give your writing personality | |
| Write Concisely | |
| Eliminate unnecessary words | |
| Reduce wordy phrases | |
| Simplify tangled sentences | |
| Write with Emphasis | |
| Manage emphasis in sentences | |
| Forge links across sentences | |
| Use parallel structure with parallel ideas | |
| Use parallel structure with lists | |
| Use parallel structure in paragraphs | |
| Find the Right Words | |
| Be aware of levels of formality | |
| Be aware of denotation and connotation | |
| Use specific language | |
| Use effective figurative language | |
| Write to Be Inclusive | |
| Be aware of stereotypes | |
| Be inclusive about gender | |
| Be inclusive about race and ethnicity | |
| Be inclusive about other differences | |
| Recognize international varieties of English | |
| UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR | |
| Grammar Basics | |
| Sentence basics | |
| Word classes | |
| Clauses | |
| Phrases | |
| Sentence types | |
| Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices | |
| Fragments | |
| Run-on sentences | |
| Comma splices | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Agreement in the present tense | |
| Singular and plural subjects | |
| Indefinite pronouns as subjects | |
| Collective nouns as subjects | |
| Inverted word order | |
| Amounts, numbers, and pairs | |
| Verbs | |
| Basic verb forms | |
| Irregular verbs | |
| Transitive and intransitive verbs | |
| Shifts in tense | |
| Shifts in mood | |
| Pronouns | |
| Pronoun case | |
| Pronoun agreement | |
| Problems with pronouns and gender | |
| Vague reference | |
| Modifiers | |
| Choose the correct modifier | |
| Place adjectives carefully | |
| Place adverbs carefully | |
| Revise disruptive modifiers | |
| Revise dangling modifiers | |
| Understanding Punctuation And Mechanics | |
| Commas | |
| Commas with introductory elements | |
| Commas with compound clauses | |
| Commas with nonrestrictive modifiers | |
| Commas with items in a series | |
| Commas with coordinate adjectives | |
| Commas with quotations | |
| Commas with dates, numbers, titles, and addresses | |
| Commas to avoid confusion | |
| Unnecessary commas | |
| Semicolons and Colons | |
| Semicolons with closely related main clauses | |
| Semicolons together with commas | |
| Colons in sentences | |
| Colons with lists | |
| Hyphens | |
| Hyphens with compound modifiers | |
| Hyphens with compound nouns | |
| Hyphens that divide words at the ends of lines | |
| Hyphens for clarity | |
| Dashes and Parentheses | |
| Dashes and parentheses versus commas | |
| Dashes and parentheses to set off information | |
| Other punctuation with parentheses | |
| Other punctuation with dashes | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Possessives | |
| Contractions and omitted letters | |
| Plurals of letters, symbols, and words referred to as words | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Direct quotations | |
| Titles of short works | |
| Other uses of quotation marks | |
| Misuses of quotation marks | |
| Other punctuation with quotation marks | |
| Other Punctuation Marks | |
| Periods | |
| Question marks | |
| Exclamation points | |
| Brackets | |
| Ellipses | |
| Slashes | |
| Write with Accurate Spelling | |
| Know the limitations of spelling checkers | |
| Distinguish homonyms | |
| Capitalization and Italics | |
| Capital letters | |
| Italics | |
| Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Numbers | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Acronyms | |
| Numbers | |
| If English Is Not Your First Language | |
| Write in a Second Language | |
| Understand the demands of writing in a second language | |
| Use your native language as a resource | |
| Use dictionaries | |
| Understand English idioms | |
| Nouns, Articles, and Prepositions | |
| Kinds of nouns | |
| Count and noncount nouns | |
| Singular and plural forms | |
| Articles | |
| Prepositions | |
| Verbs | |
| Types of verbs | |
| Be verbs | |
| Modal auxiliary verbs | |
| Verbs and infinitives | |
| Verbs and -ing verbals | |
| Conditional sentences | |
| Participial adjectives | |
| Phrasal verbs | |
| English Sentence Structure | |
| Subjects | |
| English word order | |
| Placement of modifiers | |
| Adjectives with prepositions | |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms and Usage | |
| Index | |
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