The Longman Concise Companion
ISBN: 9780205673667 | 020567366X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 2/6/2009
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The Longman Concise Companionencourages you to consider how audiences, purposes, and writing conventions differ among academic, public, and workplace communities. You are then offered concrete strategies for adapting your writing to meet varying rhetorical situations. Rather than present grammar as a set of jargon-filled rules,The Longman Concise Companionhelps you learn to call upon your own experience as a reader to help you understand how grammar can communicate meaning clearly or hinder understanding. Will answer any questions a writer has ... MORE
| Writing and Reading | |
| Communities of Writers and Readers | |
| Academic, Public, and Work Communities | |
| Electronic Communities | |
| Generating and Organizing Ideas | |
| Generating Ideas | |
| Organizing Ideas and Information | |
| Purpose, Thesis, and Audience | |
| Identifying Your Focus and Purpose | |
| Creating a Thesis | |
| Understanding Your Readers | |
| Drafting | |
| Moving from Planning to Drafting | |
| Drafting Collaboratively | |
| Revising, Editing, and ProofReading | |
| Making Major Revisions | |
| Making Minor Revisions | |
| Revising Collaboratively | |
| Writing Correctly | |
| Editing | |
| ProofReading | |
| Reading Critically | |
| Reading for Understanding | |
| Reading Analytically and Critically | |
| Using Journals to Turn Reading into Writing | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Recognizing Unfocused Paragraphs | |
| Revising for Paragraph Focus | |
| Recognizing Incoherent Paragraphs | |
| Revising for Paragraph Coherence | |
| Recognizing Poorly Developed Paragraphs | |
| Revising for Paragraph Development | |
| Using Special-Purpose Paragraphs | |
| Reasoning and Presenting | |
| Making Language Choices | |
| Choosing a Style | |
| Recognizing Home and Community Language Varieties | |
| Meeting Language Expectations | |
| Reasoning Critically | |
| Recognizing Critical Reasoning | |
| Building a Chain of Reasoning | |
| Representing Your Reasoning | |
| Writing in Online Communities | |
| Online Expectations | |
| Email Conventions | |
| Online Communities | |
| Writing for the World Wide Web | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism and Behaving Ethically Online | |
| Designing Documents | |
| Goals of Document Design | |
| Planning Design | |
| Laying Out Your Document | |
| Using Type | |
| Using Visuals | |
| Sample Documents | |
| Writing for Specific Audiences | |
| Persuasive Arguments | |
| Recognizing Occasions for Argument | |
| Developing Your Stance | |
| Developing Reasons and Evidence | |
| Acknowledging Other Perspectives | |
| Arguing Logically | |
| Writing a Position Paper | |
| Academic Writing Across the Curriculum | |
| Goals of academic writing | |
| Analyzing academic audiences | |
| General academic writing tasks | |
| Types general academic writing | |
| Short documented paper | |
| Lab report | |
| Essay exam | |
| Annotated bibliography | |
| Literature review | |
| Writing in the arts and humanities | |
| Original or researched interpretation | |
| Writing in the social and natural sciences | |
| Research report | |
| Reading and Writing About Literature | |
| Reading Literary Texts | |
| Writing About Literary Texts | |
| Sample Literary Analysis | |
| Public Writing | |
| Goals of Public Writing | |
| Analyzing Public Audiences | |
| Types of Public Writing | |
| Public Flyer | |
| Letter to the Editor | |
| Speaking in Public Settings | |
| Workplace Writing | |
| Goals of Workplace Writing | |
| Analyzing Workplace Audiences | |
| Understanding Workplace Writing Tasks | |
| Types of Workplace Writing | |
| Business Letter | |
| Memo | |
| Résumé and Application Letter | |
| Speaking in the Workplace | |
| Researching and Writing | |
| Getting Started: Researching and Writing | |
| Beginning Your Research | |
| Types of Research Writing | |
| Developing a Research Question | |
| Developing a Preliminary Thesis | |
| Creating a Research File and a Timeline | |
| Reading and Note Taking | |
| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing | |
| Library Resources and Research Databases | |
| Developing a Search Strategy and Working Bibliography | |
| Searching Library Resources and Databases | |
| General Resources | |
| Books and Online Catalogs | |
| Periodicals, Print or Electronic Indexes, and Government Documents | |
| Online Databases | |
| Evaluating Library Sources | |
| Web and Internet Resources | |
| Developing a Web and Internet Search Strategy | |
| Search Engines | |
| Web Sites and Internet Resources | |
| Evaluating Web and Internet Sources | |
| Fieldwork | |
| Interviewing | |
| Surveying, Polling, or Using Questionnaires | |
| Conducting an Ethnographic Study | |
| Obtaining Consent and Approval for Research on Human Subjects | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Recognizing Plagiarism | |
| The Problem of Intention | |
| Recognizing When to Document Sources | |
| Working with Common Knowledge | |
| Citing Sources Responsibly | |
| Citing Sources in Context | |
| Integrating Sources | |
| Choosing Purposes for Your Sources | |
| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing | |
| Writing, Revising, and Presenting Your Research | |
| Reviewing Your Research Questions | |
| Reviewing Your Purpose | |
| Building from a Thesis to a Draft | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Presenting Your Research | |
| Documenting Sources | |
| Five Serious Documentation Problems | |
| Wrong Kind of Citation Entry | |
| Missing Citation Information | |
| Wrong Citation Details | |
| Misplaced In-text Citations | |
| Incorrect In-text Citation Format | |
| MLA Documentation Style | |
| MLA In-Text (Parenthetical) Citations | |
| MLA List of Works Cited | |
| Sample MLA Paper | |
| APA Documentation Style | |
| APA In-text Citations | |
| APA Reference List | |
| CMS Documentation Style | |
| Using CMS Endnotes or Footnotes | |
| Creating CMS Endnotes or Footnotes | |
| Creating a CMS Bibliography | |
| CSE Documentation Style | |
| CSE In-text Citations | |
| CSE Reference List | |
| Editing Grammar | |
| Ten Serious Errors | |
| Fragment | |
| Fused Sentence | |
| Unclear Pronoun Reference | |
| Lack of Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Dangling Modifier | |
| Shift | |
| Misused or Missing Apostrophe | |
| Unnecessary Commas | |
| Missing or Misused Quotation Marks | |
| Double Negative | |
| Words Working in Sentences | |
| Nouns and Articles | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Prepositions | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Interjections | |
| Sentence Parts and Patterns | |
| Subjects and Predicates | |
| Phrases | |
| Subordinate Clauses | |
| Different Types of Sentences | |
| Using Verbs | |
| Simple Present and Past Tense Verbs | |
| Editing Present Tense Verbs | |
| Editing Past Tense Verbs | |
| Complex Tenses and Helping Verbs | |
| Editing Progressive and Perfect Tenses | |
| Editing Troublesome Verbs (lie, lay, sit, set) | |
| Clear Tense Sequence | |
| Subjunctive Mood | |
| Active and Passive Voice | |
| Using Pronouns | |
| Pronoun Forms | |
| Editing Common Pronoun Forms | |
| Making Sentence Parts Agree | |
| Agreement | |
| Creating Simple Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Creating Complex Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Creating Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
| Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| What Adjectives and Adverbs Do | |
| Editing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Editing Sentence Problems | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Editing Sentence Fragments | |
| Using Partial Sentences | |
| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Comma Splices | |
| Fused Sentences | |
| Editing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Creating Pronoun Reference | |
| Unclear Pronoun Reference | |
| Editing for Clear Pronoun Reference | |
| Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
| Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
| Editing Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
| Making Shifts Consistent | |
| Shifts in Person and Number | |
| Shifts in Tense and Mood | |
| Shifts in Active or Passive Voice | |
| Shifts Between Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
| Mixed and Incomplete Sentences | |
| Mixed Sentences | |
| Editing Mixed Sentences | |
| Incomplete Sentences | |
| Parallelism | |
| Faulty Parallelism | |
| Editing for Parallelism | |
| Coordination and Subordination | |
| Creating Coordination | |
| Creating Subordination | |
| Editing Coordination and Subordination | |
| Clear and Emphatic Sentences | |
| Unclear Sentences | |
| Editing for Clear Sentences | |
| Editing Word Choice | |
| Being Concise | |
| Common Types of Wordiness | |
| Editing for Conciseness | |
| Choosing Appropriate Words | |
| Recognizing the Demands of Context and Purpose | |
| Editing for Precise Diction | |
| Using Respectful Language | |
| Editing Gender Stereotypes | |
| Editing Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Stereotypes | |
| Building Your Language Resources | |
| Recognizing Your Language Resources as a Writer | |
| Turning to the Dictionary and the Thesaurus | |
| Editing Punctuation | |
| Commas | |
| Joining Sentences | |
| Setting Off Sentence Elements | |
| Setting Off Nonessential Modifiers | |
| Separating Items in a Series | |
| Separating Adjectives in a Sequence | |
| Dates, Numbers, Addresses, Place Names, People's Titles, and Letters | |
| Commas with Quotations | |
| Commas to Make Your Meaning Clear | |
| Eliminating Commas that Do Not Belong | |
| Semicolons and Colons | |
| Semicolons | |
| Colons | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Apostrophes that Mark Possession | |
| Apostrophes that Mark Contractions and Omissions | |
| Marking Quotations | |
| Using Quotation Marks | |
| Titles of Short Works | |
| Highlighting Words, Special Terms, and Tone of Voice | |
| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
| Periods | |
| Question Marks | |
| Exclamation Points | |
| Other Punctuation Marks | |
| Parentheses | |
| Brackets | |
| Dashes | |
| Ellipses | |
| Slashes | |
| Symbols in Electronic Addresses | |
| Combining Punctuation Marks | |
| ProofReading for Mechanics and Spelling | |
| Capitalizing | |
| Capitalizing to Begin Sentences | |
| Capitalizing Proper Names and Titles | |
| Italicizing (Underlining) | |
| Italics (Underlining) in Titles | |
| Italics for Specific Terms | |
| Underlining for Emphasis | |
| Hyphenating | |
| Hyphenating to Join Words | |
| Hyphenating to Divide Words | |
| Using Numbers | |
| Spelling Out Numbers | |
| Using Numerals | |
| Abbreviating | |
| Familiar Abbreviations | |
| ProofReading for Appropriate Abbreviations | |
| Spelling | |
| Starting with Your Spell Checker | |
| Watching for Common Patterns of Misspelling | |
| ProofReading for Commonly Misspelled Words | |
| Glossary of Usage | |
| Answers to Selected Exercises | |
| Index | |
| Credits | |
| Guide to ESL Advice | |
| Symbols for Revising and Editing | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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