Finding what you need | |
Academic writing | |
Checklist | |
Features of academic writing | |
The writing situation | |
The process of writing | |
Designing documents | |
Effective sentences | |
Checklist | |
Emphasis | |
Conciseness | |
Parallelism | |
Variety and details | |
Appropriate words | |
Exact words | |
Grammatical sentences | |
ChecklistVerbs | |
Forms | |
Tenses | |
Mood | |
Voice | |
Subject-verb agreementPronouns | |
Forms | |
Pronoun-antecedent agreement | |
Pronoun referenceModifiers | |
Adjectives and adverbs | |
Misplaced and dangling modifiers Sentence faults | |
Fragments | |
Comma splices and fused sentences | |
Punctuation | |
Checklist | |
The comma | |
The semicolon | |
The colon | |
The apostrophe | |
Quotation marks | |
End punctuation | |
Other marks | |
Spelling and mechanics | |
Checklist | |
Spelling and the hyphen | |
Capital letters | |
Underlining or italics | |
Abbreviations | |
Numbers | |
Research and documentation | |
Checklist | |
Research strategy | |
Finding sources | |
Evaluating and synthesizing sources | |
Integrating sources into your text | |
Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources | |
MLA documentation and format | |
APA documentation and format | |
Chicago documentation and format | |
CSE documentation | |
Glossary of usage | |
Glossary of terms | |
Index | |
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