The Writer's Brief Handbook
ISBN: 9780321479365 | 032147936X
Edition: 7thFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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A compact, easy-to-use guide, The Writers Brief Handbook offers clear definitions, helpful explanations, and up-to-the-minute research and reference tools altogether the best concise yet comprehensive reference available for todays student writers. The Writers Brief Handbook reflects the authors 35-year collaboration in teaching and writing about writing. Using clear, non-technical language, The Writers Brief Handbook has gained a reputation for being student-friendly, and the easy-to-use multiple access system provides four different ways for ... MORE
| The Writing Process | |
| Writing with a Computer | |
| Planning | |
| Analyzing the writing task | |
| Choosing a subject | |
| Focusing on a topic | |
| Generating ideas and collecting information | |
| Determining your purpose for writing | |
| Establishing a thesis statement | |
| Analyzing your audience | |
| Making an outline | |
| Choosing a good title | |
| Writing the body of your composition | |
| Writing the beginning and ending | |
| Revising the largest elements first | |
| Revising your sentences and diction | |
| Conducting peer conferences | |
| Editing for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics | |
| Preparing the final copy | |
| Proofreading the final copy | |
| Student Sample: Annotated Student Essay | |
| Designing a document | |
| Understanding the principals of design | |
| Understanding the elements of design | |
| Using visuals | |
| Formatting academic manuscrip? | |
| Writing in College and Beyond | |
| Academic writing | |
| Study skills | |
| Time management | |
| Note-taking in class | |
| Reading effectively | |
| Essay examinations | |
| Critical thinking and active reading | |
| Writing arguments | |
| Understanding the elements of argument | |
| Making appropriate appeals | |
| Considering your audience | |
| Refuting the oppositions argument | |
| Student Sample: An Annotated Argument Essay | |
| Online writing | |
| E-communications | |
| Composing online | |
| Oral presentations | |
| Outlining | |
| Preparing and practicing | |
| Using visuals | |
| Public writing | |
| Business letters | |
| Resumes | |
| Memos | |
| Letters to the editor | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Unity | |
| Writing a topic sentence | |
| Relating all sentences to the controlling idea | |
| Development | |
| Developing paragraphs fully | |
| Using the strategy implied in your topic sentence to develop your paragraph | |
| Coherence | |
| Arranging sentences in the most effective order | |
| Using transitional words and phrases | |
| Repeating key words and phrases | |
| Using parallel structure | |
| Using transitions to link paragraphs | |
| Beginnings and ending? | |
| Clarity and Sentence Style | |
| Parallelism | |
| Use parallel constructions with coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so) | |
| Use parallel constructions with correlative conjunctions (either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also, both/and, whether/or) | |
| Use parallel constructions in comparisons with than or as | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
| Place modifiers where they will be most effective | |
| Connect a dangling modifier to the main part of the sentence | |
| Shifts | |
| Use pronouns that are consistent in person and number | |
| Maintain the same verb tense | |
| Maintain the same mood | |
| Keep subject and voice consistent | |
| Avoid unnecessary shifts from direct to indirect quotation | |
| Keep tone and style consistent | |
| Maintain the same point of view | |
| Unified and Logical Sentences | |
| Use only relevant details | |
| Avoid mixed or illogical constructions | |
| Subordination and Coordination | |
| Use subordination to group short, choppy sentences into larger units of thought | |
| Do not subordinate excessively | |
| Use coordination to put ideas of equal importance in grammatical structures of equal weight | |
| Emphasis | |
| Achieve emphasis by placing the mos | |
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