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Academic Writer's Handbook, MLA Update Edition

by: Rosen, Leonard J.

Academic Writer's Handbook, MLA Update Edition

by: Rosen, Leonard J.

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9780205745210
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0205745210
Edition: 2nd
Format: Spiral Bound
Copyright: 01/01/2009
Publisher: Longman
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With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum,The Academic Writerrs"s Handbookcontains all the features of a traditional handbook combined with the tools you need in order to read, write, and conduct research in the disciplines. It contains up-to-the-minute coverage of documentation styles and reflects the 2008MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishingupdates.

The Writing Process
What Is Academic Writing?
What is the proper subject of academic writing?
Characteristics of academic writing
The Academic Writer's Handbook
Preparing to Write in an Academic Setting
Understanding your assignment
Generating ideas and information
Selecting, organizing, expanding information
Writing a Working Thesis and a First Draft
Writing a working thesis
Writing a first draft
Sample student paper: first draft
Revising the Paper
Global revision: bringing your main ideas into focus
Section-level revision: developing your main idea
Sentence-level revision
Responding to editorial advice from peers and instructors
Sample student paper: final draft "keep the laptops, change the teaching"
Paragraphs: Building Blocks of Academic Writing
Unity: giving each paragraph a controlling idea and sticking to it
Coherence: moving from sentence to sentence with a plan
Developing the content of paragraphs
Writing and revising introductions and conclusions
Document Design
Text and document design
Images and document design
The importance of document design
Working With Individual Sources
Understanding and Evaluating Print Sources
Understanding print sources
Evaluating print sources
Example evaluation
Reading sources carefully
Understanding and Evaluating Web Sites and Images
Understanding web sites
Evaluating web sites
Understanding images
Evaluating images
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources
Referring to sources
Summarizing and paraphrasing sources
Quoting sources
Altering quotations
Weaving summaries, paraphrases, and quotations into your paragraphs
Avoiding Plagiarism
Citing sources
Causes of plagiarism
Rules for avoiding plagiarism
Determining common knowledge
Plagiarism and the internet
Collaborating and plagiarism
Research: Locating And Synthesizing Multiple Sources
The Research Process
Defining the task: topic, purpose, and audience
Identifying your research question
Generating a plan for research
Devising a working thesis and writing a draft
Record-keeping: creating a working bibliography
Locating Electronic and Print Sources
Reviewing sources for preliminary research and reading
Focusing your research
Locating sources on the web
Additional web sites for researchers
Bringing your research to an end
Synthesizing Sources
Understanding your purpose for synthesizing sources
Creating an index to your sources
Building the paper by working with your index
Demonstration synthesis: building a source-based paper
Mla Documentation
Using the MLA System of Documentation
Quick index-MLA documentation basics
In-text citations in MLA format
Entries in the MLA works cited list
Apa, Cms, Cse Documentation
Using the APA, CMS, and CSE Systems of Documentation
Quick index-APA documentation basics
In-text citations in the APA style format
Entries in the APA references list
CMS system of documentation
First and subsequent references in CMS notes
CMS note style
CSE system of documentation
In-text citations in the CSE format
Entries in the CSE references list
Writing In The Disciplines
Writing in the Humanities
Areas of interest
Writing in the humanities
Writing in the Social Sciences
Areas of interest
Writing in the social sciences
Writing in the Sciences
Areas of interest
Writing in the sciences
Applying Principles of Academic Writing to Business Settings
The fundamentals of business communication
Writing e-mails and instant messages
Writing letters of inquiry, complaint, and application
Writing resumes (paper and web-based)
Making oral presentations
Library Of Academic Writing
Summary
Summary defined
Preparing for summary
Writing the summary
Example summary in the humanities: the grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (as written by student Josh Harris)
Example summary in the social sciences: nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (as written by student Anna Chin)
Explanation
Explanation defined
Planning and writing the paper
A note on audience
Example explanation in the social sciences: the 'idea' of money by Aaron Cooper
Example explanation in the sciences: North American elk by Michael Maya
Argument
Academic argument defined
Making a claim
Establishing yourself as trustworthy
Supporting your claim with logical reasons
Supporting your claim with emotional reasons
Avoiding fallacies of evidence and logic
Responding to counterarguments
Writing your argument
Example argument in the sciences: comparison of two strains of wine-producing yeasts by Clarence S. Ivie III
Example argument in the humanities: the role of in Kate Chopin's "a shameful affair"
Analysis
Analysis defined
Planning and writing the paper
Measures of a successful analysis
Example analysis in the social sciences: the coming Apart of a dorm society by Edward Peselman
Example analysis in the sciences: earthworms as indicators of toxicity by Jennifer Smith
Critique
Critique defined
Critiques as part of a larger paper
Planning and writing a paper-length critique
Example critique in the humanities: continue teaching heart of darkness by Eleanor Russell
Example critique in the social sciences: television and attention disorders by Paulo Ludivici
Writing Essay Exams
Essay exam writing defined
Planning and writing the essay
A note on "big ideas"
Example essay in the humanities by Alex Sigorsky
Example essay in the sciences by Michael Theoharides
Web Pages
The unique qualities of web-based documents
Planning the content
Creating the web site's structure
Designing the pages
Building the site
Example website: the Ndebele wallpainting project by students at the Evergreen State College-Tacoma
Editing For Correctness
Constructing Sentences
The five basic sentence patterns
Sentence parts
Phrases
Clauses
Sentence clarification
Correcting Sentence Fragments
Dependent clauses
Phrases
Repeating structures or compound predicates
Correcting Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Common circumstances for fused sentences and comma splices
Five ways of correcting fused sentences and comma splices
Using Verbs
Consistent use of principal verb parts
Irregular verb forms
Auxiliary verbs
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Verb tense
Verb tense sequencing
Active and passive voices
The uses of mood
Correcting Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement
Third-person subject number and verb agreement
Singular or plural third-person subject and verb
Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives and linking verbs
Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
Comparative and superlative relationships
Double comparisons, double superlatives, and double negatives
Past and present participles as adjectives
Correcting Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Modifiers and the words they should modify
Limiting modifiers
Squinting modifiers
Disruptive modifiers
Avoiding dangling modifiers
Using Nouns and Pronouns
Pronouns as subjects
Pronouns as objects
Possessive nouns and pronouns
Pronouns in the objective or subjective case in compound constructions
Pronouns paired with a noun
Appropriate pronoun case (whose, who, whom, whoever, whomever)
Pronoun case and comparison
Correcting Errors in Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Pronouns-antecedent agreement
Clear pronoun reference
Correcting Errors in Consistency
Shifts in person and number
Shifts in tense, mood, and voice
Consistent use of direct or indirect discourse
Clear, grammatical relations between sentence parts
Consistent relations between subjects and predicates
Constructions with missing words
Consistent, complete, and clear comparisons
Correcting Faulty Parallelism
Parallel words, phrases, and clauses with coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet
Parallelism with correlative conjunctions: either/or, neither/nor, both/and, not only/but also
Parallelism in sentences with compared and contrasted elements
Editing For Clarity And Emphasis
Clear, Concise, and Direct Sentences
Wordiness
Strong verbs
Building Emphasis with Coordination and Subordination
Coordinating conjunctions (and/but) and conjunctive adverbs (consequently)
Subordinating conjunctions (while, when, because)
Mixing coordination and subordination for sentence variety
Choosing the Right Word
Dictionary entries
Vocabulary building
The impact of word choices
Setting a tone for your papers
Biased, dehumanizing language
Punctuation
Using End Punctuation
The period
The question mark
The exclamation point
Using Commas
Commas with introductory and concluding expressions
Commas before a coordinating conjunctions
Commas between items in a series
Commas to set off nonsequential elements
Conventions of quoting, naming, and various forms of separation
Misuse or overuse of commas
Using Semicolons
Linking independent clauses
Linking independent clauses with a conjunctive adverb (however, therefore)
Linking independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction (and, but)
Separating items in a series
Quotation marks and semicolons
Using Apostrophes
Possession with nouns and pronouns
Contractions marking the omission of letters and numbers
Plural forms of letters, numbers, and symbols
Using Quotation Marks
Direct quotations
Dialogue and other material
Misuse or overuse of quotation marks
Using Other Marks
The colon
Dashes for emphasis
Parentheses to set off nonessential information
Brackets for editorial clarification
Ellipses to indicate a break in continuity
The slash
Mechanics And Spelling
Using Capitals
The first letter of the first word in every sentence
Words of significance in a title
The first word in every line of poetry, according to conventions
Proper nouns
Using Italics
Words for specific emphasis
Words, letters, and numbers to be defined or identified
Titles of book-length works
The internet
Using Abbreviations
Titles of rank both before and after proper names
Specific dates and numbers
Acronyms, uppercase abbreviations, and corporate abbreviations
Parenthetical and bibliographic references
Misuse of abbreviations
Using Numbers in Writing
Numbers that begin sentences and one- or two-word numbers
Conventional use of numbers
Using Hyphens
Compound words
Word divisions at the end of a line
Making Spelling Decisions
Homonyms and commonly confused words
Basic rules for ie/ei
Rules for using prefixes
Rules for using suffixes
Rules for forming plurals
Esl Reference Guide
Using English Nouns, Pronouns, and Articles
Using different classes of English nouns
Using articles with nouns
Using nouns with prepositions
Using English Verbs
Distinguishing different types of verbs and verb constructions
Changing verb forms
Changing word order with verbs
Using the helping verbs: auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries
Choosing gerunds and infinitives with verbs
Using two- and three-word verbs, or phrasal verbs, with particles
Using Modifiers and Connectors in English Sentences
Using single-word adjectives and nouns as modifiers of nouns
Using adjectival modifiers with linking verbs and prepositions
Positioning adverbial modifiers
Using phrases and clauses to modify nouns and pronouns
Combining phrases and clauses with connecting words
Arranging cumulative modifiers
Glossary of Usage
Index
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