Academic writing | |
Features of academic writing | p. 3 |
The writing situation | p. 7 |
The writing process | p. 10 |
Designing documents | p. 13 |
Effective sentences | |
Emphasis | p. 23 |
Conciseness | p. 27 |
Parallelism | p. 29 |
Variety and details | p. 31 |
Appropriate words | p. 33 |
Exact words | p. 39 |
Grammatical sentences | |
Verbs | |
Forms | p. 43 |
Tenses | p. 48 |
Mood | p. 50 |
Voice | p. 57 |
Subject-verb agreement | p. 51 |
Pronouns | |
Forms | p. 55 |
Pronoun-antecedent agreement | p. 58 |
Pronoun reference | p. 60 |
Modifiers | |
Adjectives and adverbs | p. 62 |
Misplaced and dangling modifiers | p. 67 |
Sentence Faults | |
Fragments | p. 69 |
Comma splices and fused sentences | p. 71 |
Punctuation | |
The comma | p. 77 |
The semicolon | p. 81 |
The colon | p. 83 |
The apostrophe | p. 84 |
Quotation marks | p. 86 |
End punctuation | p. 89 |
Other marks | p. 90 |
Spelling and mechanics | |
Spelling and the hyphen | p. 97 |
Capital letters | p. 97 |
Underlining or italics | p. 102 |
Abbreviations | p. 104 |
Numbers | p. 106 |
Research and documentation | |
Research strategy | p. 109 |
Finding sources | p. 114 |
Evaluating and synthesizing sources | p. 125 |
Integrating sources into your text | p. 133 |
Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources | p. 141 |
MLA documentation and format | p. 152 |
APA documentation and format | p. 176 |
Chicago documentation and format | p. 192 |
CSE documentation | p. 205 |
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