Preface 

Part 1  Writing

Checklist 

1  Academic Writing 

2  Writing Arguments 

3  Writing in the Disciplines 

4  Designing Documents 

Part 2  Effective Sentences

Checklist 

5  Emphasis 

6  Conciseness 

7  Parallelism 

8  Variety and Detail 

9  Appropriate Words 

10 Exact Words 

Part 3  Grammatical Sentences

Checklist 

Verbs

11 Forms

12 Tenses

13 Mood 

14 Voice 

15 Subject-Verb Agreement 

Pronouns

16 Forms 

17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 

18 Pronoun Reference 

Modifiers

19 Adjectives and Adverbs 

20 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 

Sentence Faults

21 Fragments 

22 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 

Part 4  Punctuation

Checklist

23 The Comma 

24 The Semicolon 

25 The Colon 

26 The Apostrophe 

27 Quotation Marks 

28 End Punctuation 

29 Other Marks 

Part 5  Spelling and Mechanics

Checklist 

30 Spelling and the Hyphen 

31 Capital Letters 

32 Italics or Underlining

33 Abbreviations 

34 Numbers 

Part 6  Research and Documentation

Checklist

35 Research Strategy 

36 Finding Sources 

37 Evaluating and Synthesizing Sources 

38 Integrating Sources into Your Text 

39 Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources 

40 MLA Documentation and Format 

41 APA Documentation and Format 

42 Chicago Documentation and Format 

43 CSE Documentation 

Glossary of Usage 

Glossary of Terms 

Index 

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