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LONGMAN HANDBOOK WRITERS&RDRS&MCL2.0WEB PKG, 4/e
by ANSONEdition:
4th
ISBN13:
9780205518883
ISBN10:
0205518885
Format:
Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date:
1/1/2007
Publisher(s):
PEARSON
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This is the 4th edition with a publication date of 1/1/2007.
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Summary
A dynamic, easy-to-use handbook,The Longman Handbook for Readers and Writersallows writers to quickly and easily reference the information they need to improve their personal, business, and academic writing. Writing process, business writing, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, electronic research, documentation/citation style guides, avoiding plagiarism, ESL. Any student or professional interested in improving their writing.
Table of Contents
| Writing, Reading, and Thinking: Joining Communities | |
| Writers, Readers, and Communities | |
| Recognizing academic, work, and public communities | |
| The composing process: Realities and myths | |
| Entering electronic communities | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Reading for understanding | |
| Reading for response and evaluation | |
| Reading into writing: Using journals | |
| Planning Strategies | |
| Generating ideas and information | |
| Structuring ideas and information | |
| Creating patterns of generalization and support | |
| Planning in electronic environments | |
| Planning: Paper in progress | |
| Defining Your Purpose and Thesis | |
| Analyzing your purpose | |
| Using rhetorical purposes to guide your writing | |
| Defining a main idea or thesis | |
| Using different kinds of thesis statements | |
| Considering Your Audience | |
| Defining your audience | |
| Characterizing your readers | |
| Adapting your content, structure, and style | |
| Addressing communities of readers | |
| Critical Reasoning | |
| What is critical reasoning? | |
| Building a chain of reasoning | |
| Reasoning persuasively | |
| Critical reasoning in academic, public, and work contexts | |
| Drafting and Revising: Shaping Your Writing For Your Community | |
| Drafting | |
| Moving from planning to drafting | |
| Using drafting strategies | |
| Drafting collaboratively | |
| Drafting: Paper in progress | |
| Revising | |
| Making major revisions | |
| Making minor revisions | |
| Revising collaboratively | |
| Revising: Paper in progress | |
| Paragraphs: Focusing, Linking, and Developing Recognizing paragraph focus | |
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