Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers
ISBN: 9780131993846 | 0131993844
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007
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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| About the author | |
| Credit list | |
| Writing an Essay | |
| Thinking About Purposes and Audiences | |
| Planning and Shaping | |
| Drafting and Revising | |
| Writing Paragraphs | |
| Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing | |
| Writing Argument | |
| Understanding Grammar... MORE | |
| Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures | |
| Verbs | |
| Case of Nouns and Pronouns | |
| Pronoun Reference | |
| Agreement | |
| Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Comma Splices and Run-Together Sentences | |
| Awkward Sentences | |
| Writing Effectively | |
| Conciseness | |
| Coordination and Subordination | |
| Parallelism | |
| Variety and Emphasis | |
| Understanding the Meaning of Words | |
| Understanding the Effect of Words | |
| Spelling and Hyphenation | |
| Using Punctuation and Mechanics | |
| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
| Commas | |
| Semicolons | |
| Colons | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Other Punctuation Marks | |
| Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers | |
| Writing Research | |
| Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Research Writing as a Process | |
| Successful Online Research (new chapter to the 3/c/e)** | |
| MLA, APA, CM, CBE, and COS Documentation Styles | |
| Case Study: A Student Writing an MLA Research Paper | |
| Case Study: A Student Writing an APA Research Paper | |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | |
| Comparing the Different Disciplines | |
| Writing About Literature | |
| Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences | |
| Business Writing | |
| Writing Under Pressure | |
| Writing When English Is a Second Language | |
| ESL Singulars and Plurals | |
| ESL Articles | |
| ESL Word Order | |
| ESL Prepositions | |
| ESL Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | |
| ESL Modal Auxilliary Verbs | |
| usage glossary | |
| Terms glossary | |
| Index | |
| charts in tinted boxes | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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