The Bedford Handbook

by Diana Hacker

• ISBN13: 9780312256326
• ISBN10: 0312256329
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-11-07
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Table of Contents

Part I. The Writing Process	1	(100)
Generating ideas; sketching a plan	2	(28)
Roughing out an initial draft	30	(11)
Making global revisions; revising sentences	41	(31)
Student Essay
Building paragraphs	72	(29)
Part II. Document Design	101	(34)
Principals of document design	102	(10)
Academic and business formats	112	(13)
Mla Essay Format; Business Letter; Resume; Memo
Electronic documents	125	(10)
Sample E-Mail; Sample Web Page
Part III. Clear Sentences	135	(68)
Active verbs	136	(6)
Parallelism	142	(7)
Needed words	149	(6)
Mixed constructions	155	(6)
Misplaced and dangling modifiers	161	(11)
Shifts	172	(8)
Emphasis	180	(17)
Variety	197	(6)
Part IV. Word Choice	203	(36)
Wordy sentences	204	(7)
Appropriate language	211	(16)
Exact words	227	(12)
Part V. Grammatical Sentences	239	(106)
Sentence fragments	240	(11)
Run-on sentences	251	(12)
Subject-verb agreement (is or are, etc.)	263	(15)
Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural)	278	(8)
Pronoun reference (clarity)	286	(6)
Pronoun case (I or me, etc.)	292	(11)
who or whom	303	(6)
Adjectives and adverbs (good or well, etc.)	309	(9)
Standard English verb forms	318	(17)
Verb tense and mood	335	(10)
Part VI. ESL Trouble Spots	345	(36)
Special problems with verbs	346	(14)
The articles a, an, and the	360	(8)
Other trouble spots	368	(13)
Part VII. Punctuation	381	(62)
The comma	382	(18)
Unnecessary commas	400	(8)
The semicolon	408	(6)
The colon	414	(4)
The apostrophe	418	(5)
Quotation marks	423	(9)
End punctuation	432	(4)
Other punctuation marks: the dash, parentheses, brackets, the ellipsis mark, the slash	436	(7)
Part VIII. Mechanics	443	(34)
Abbreviations	444	(4)
Numbers	448	(3)
Italics (underlining)	451	(5)
Spelling	456	(10)
The hyphen	466	(5)
Capital letters	471	(6)
Part IX. Critical Thinking	477	(42)
Writing about texts	478	(14)
Constructing reasonable arguments	492	(14)
Evaluating arguments	506	(13)
Part X. Researched Writing	519	(50)
Conducting research	521	(25)
Evaluating sources	546	(11)
Managing information; avoiding plagiarism	557	(6)
Choosing a documentation style	563	(6)
Writing MLA papers	569	(109)
Supporting a thesis	569	(6)
Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism	575	(5)
Integrating sources	580	(11)
MLA documentation style	591	(41)
MLA manuscript format; sample MLA paper	632	(14)
Writing about literature; sample student papers	646	(32)
Writing APA papers	678	(49)
APA papers	678	(49)
Writing Chicago papers	727	(38)
Chicago papers	727	(38)
Part XI. Grammar Basics	765	(50)
Parts of speech	766	(18)
Sentence patterns	784	(12)
Subordinate word groups	796	(14)
Sentence types	810	(5)
Glossary of Usage	815	(18)
Answers to Tutorials and Lettered Exercise	833
Index	1