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The Longman Writer's Companion
by Anson, Christopher M.; Schwegler, Robert A.; Muth, Marcia F.ISBN13:
9780801331572
ISBN10:
0801331579
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
10/1/1999
Publisher(s):
Pearson College Div
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Summary
A comprehensive reference to grammar, writing, research, and documentation, The Longman Writer's Companion offers a unique emphasis on how to write for different audiences academic, workplace, and public.& No matter what you are trying to write an essay for college, a business proposal for your boss, an email memo, or a letter - The Longman Writer's Companion will give you the help you need & Helps readers write better. & grammar, writing process, research process, how to document sources. & Anyone who wants to write better.
Table of Contents
| Writing for Readers | |
| Writers, Readers, and Communities | |
| Academic, Public, and Work Communities | |
| Analyzing Electronic Communities | |
| Myths and Realities about Writing | |
| Discovering and Planning | |
| Discovering Topics | |
| Generating Ideas | |
| Organizing Information | |
| Planning in Digital Environments | |
| Purpose, Thesis, and Audience | |
| Identifying Your Focus and Purpose | |
| Creating a Thesis | |
| Understanding Your Readers | |
| Drafting | |
| Moving from Planning to Drafting | |
| Drafting Collaboratively | |
| Drafting in Digital Environments | |
| Revising, Editing, and ProofReading | |
| Making Major Revisions | |
| Making Minor Revisions | |
| Revising Collaboratively | |
| Revising in Digital Environments | |
| Editing | |
| Editing Collaboratively | |
| ProofReading | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Unfocused Paragraphs | |
| Revising for Focus | |
| Incoherent Paragraphs | |
| Revising for Coherence | |
| Poorly Developed Paragraphs | |
| Revising for Development | |
| Using Special-Purpose Paragraphs | |
| Clear and Emphatic Sentences | |
| Unclear Sentences | |
| Revising for Clear Sentences | |
| Revising for Variety and Emphasis | |
| Critical Reading, Thinking, and Argument | |
| Reasoning Critically | |
| Recognizing Critical Reasoning | |
| Building a Chain of Reasoning | |
| Representing Your Reasoning | |
| Reading Critically | |
| Reading to Understand | |
| Reading to Respond and Evaluate | |
| Using Journals to Turn Reading into Writing | |
| Arguing Persuasively | |
| Recognizing an Issue | |
| Developing Your Stance | |
| Creating an Argumentative Thesis | |
| Developing Reasons and Evidence | |
| Acknowledging Other Perspectives | |
| Arguing Logically | |
| Writing a Position Paper | |
| Creating a Visual Argument | |
| Presenting an Issue | |
| Providing Evidence | |
| Presenting Your Work | |
| Designing Documents | |
| Goals of Document Design | |
| Format Choice | |
| Layout | |
| Type Choice | |
| Visuals | |
| Sample Documents | |
| Writing in Online Communities | |
| Online Expectations | |
| E-mail Conventions | |
| Online Communities | |
| Web Pages | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism and Behaving Ethically Online | |
| Speaking Effectively | |
| Oral Presentations | |
| Preparing an Oral Presentation | |
| Managing Speech Anxiety | |
| Fielding Questions | |
| Writing for Specific Communities | |
| Academic Writing: General Education | |
| Goals of General Academic Writing | |
| General Academic Audiences | |
| General Academic Writing Tasks | |
| Types of General Academic Writing | |
| Summary | |
| Annotated Bibliography | |
| Literature Review | |
| Essay Exam | |
| Short Documented Paper | |
| Review | |
| Position Paper | |
| Oral Presentation | |
| Academic Writing: Humanities and Literature | |
| Goals of Writing in the Humanities | |
| Audiences in the Humanities | |
| Writing Tasks in the Humanities | |
| Types of Writing in the Humanities | |
| Ways of Reading Literary Texts | |
| Literary Text Analysis | |
| Visual Text Analysis | |
| Academic Writing: Social and Natural Sciences | |
| Goals of Writing in the Social and Natural Sciences | |
| Audiences in the Social and Natural Sciences | |
| Writing Tasks in the Social and Natural Sciences | |
| Types of Writing in the Social and Natural Sciences | |
| Abstract | |
| Informative Report | |
| Lab Report | |
| Research Report | |
| Public Writing | |
| Goals of Public Writing | |
| Public Audiences | |
| Public Writing Tasks | |
| Types of Public Writing | |
| Public Flyer | |
| Letter to the Editor | |
| Oral Presentation | |
| Workplace Writing | |
| Goals of Workplace Writing | |
| Workplace Audiences | |
| Workplace Writing Tasks | |
| Types of Workplace Writing | |
| Business Letter | |
| Memo | |
| Résumé and Application Letter | |
| Oral Presentation | |
| Researching and Writing | |
| Getting Started: Researching and Writing | |
| Beginning Your Research | |
| Types of Research Writing | |
| Developing a Research Question | |
| Developing a Preliminary Thesis | |
| Creating a Research File and a Timeline | |
| Reading and Notetaking | |
| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing | |
| Library Resources and Research Databases | |
| Developing a Search Strategy and Working Bibliography | |
| Searching Library Resources and Databases | |
| General Resources | |
| Books and Online Catalogs | |
| Periodicals, Print or Electronic Indexes, and Government Documents | |
| Online Databases | |
| Evaluating Library Sources | |
| Web and Internet Resources | |
| Developing a Web and Internet Search Strategy | |
| Search Engines | |
| Web Sites and Internet Resources | |
| Evaluating Web and Internet Sources | |
| Fieldwork | |
| Interviewing | |
| Surveying, Polling, or Using Questionnaires | |
| Conducting an Ethnographic Study | |
| Obtaining Consent and Approval for Research on Human Subjects | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism and Integrating Sources | |
| The Problem of Intention | |
| Recognizing When to Document Sources | |
| Working with Common Knowledge | |
| Citing Sources Responsibly | |
| Citing Sources in Context | |
| Integrating Sources for a Specific Purpose | |
| Quoting Sources | |
| Integrating Information and Ideas | |
| Working with Common Knowledge | |
| Writing, Revising, and Presenting Your Research | |
| Reviewing Your Research Questions | |
| Reviewing Your Purpose | |
| Building from a Thesis to a Draft | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Presenting Your Research | |
| Documenting Sources: MLA Style | |
| MLA Documentation Style | |
| MLA In-Text (Parenthetical) Citations | |
| MLA List of Works Cited | |
| Sample MLA Paper | |
| Documenting Sources: APA Style | |
| APA Documentation Style | |
| APA In-Text Citations | |
| APA Reference List | |
| Sample APA Paper | |
| Documenting Sources: CMS and CSE Style | |
| CMS Documentation Style | |
| Using CMS Endnotes or Footnotes | |
| Creating CMS Endnotes or Footnotes | |
| Creating a CMS Bibliography | |
| Sample CMS Paper | |
| CSE Documentation Style | |
| CSE In-Text Citations | |
| CSE Reference List | |
| Sample CSE Paper | |
| Grammar | |
| Words Working in Sentences | |
| Nouns and Articles | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Prepositions | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Interjections | |
| Sentence Parts and Patterns | |
| Subjects and Predicates | |
| Phrases | |
| Subordinate Clauses | |
| Different Types of Sentences | |
| Using Verbs | |
| Simple Present and Past Tense Verbs | |
| Editing Present Tense Verbs | |
| Editing Past Tense Verbs | |
| Complex Tenses and Helping Verbs | |
| Editing Progressive and Perfect Tenses | |
| Editing Troublesome Verbs (lie, lay, sit, set) | |
| Clear Tense Sequence | |
| Subjunctive Mood | |
| Active and Passive Voice | |
| Using Pronouns | |
| Pronoun Forms | |
| Editing Common Pronoun Forms | |
| Making Sentence Parts Agree | |
| Agreement | |
| Creating Simple Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Creating Complex Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Creating Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
| Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| What Adjectives and Adverbs Do | |
| Editing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Sentence Problems | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Editing Sentence Fragments | |
| Using Partial Sentences | |
| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Comma Splices | |
| Fused Sentences | |
| Editing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Creating Pronoun Reference | |
| Unclear Pronoun Reference | |
| Editing for Clear Pronoun Reference | |
| Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
| Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
| Editing Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers | |
| Making Shifts Consistent | |
| Shifts in Person and Number | |
| Shifts in Tense and Mood | |
| Shifts in Active or Passive Voice | |
| Shifts Between Direct and Indirect Quotations | |
| Mixed and Incomplete Sentences | |
| Mixed Sentences | |
| Editing Mixed Sentences | |
| Incomplete Sentences | |
| Parallelism | |
| Faulty Parallelism | |
| Editing for Parallelism | |
| Coordination and Subordination | |
| Creating Coordination | |
| Creating Subordination | |
| Editing Coordination and Subordination | |
| Words and Style | |
| Being Concise | |
| Common Types of Wordiness | |
| Editing for Conciseness | |
| Choosing Appropriate Words | |
| Demands of Context and Purpose | |
| Editing for Precise Diction | |
| Using Respectful Language | |
| Home and Community Language Varieties | |
| Gender Stereotypes | |
| Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Stereotypes | |
| Style, Vocabulary, and Dictionaries | |
| Style and Community | |
| Language Expectations | |
| Language Resources for Writers | |
| The Dictionary and the Thesaurus | |
| Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling | |
| Commas | |
| Joining Sentences | |
| Setting Off Sentence Elements | |
| Setting Off Nonessential Modifiers | |
| Separating Items in a Series | |
| Separating Adjectives in a Sequence | |
| Dates, Numbers, Addresses, Place Names, People's Titles, and Letters | |
| Commas with Quotations | |
| Commas to Make Your Meaning Clear | |
| Eliminating Commas that Do Not Belong | |
| Semicolons and Colons | |
| Semicolons | |
| Colons | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Apostrophes that Mark Possession | |
| Apostrophes that Mark Contractions and Omissions | |
| Marking Quotations | |
| Using Quotation Marks | |
| Titles of Short Works | |
| Highlighting Words, Special Terms, and Tone of Voice | |
| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
| Periods | |
| Question Marks | |
| Exclamation Points | |
| Other Punctuation Marks | |
| Parentheses | |
| Brackets | |
| Dashes | |
| Ellipses | |
| Slashes | |
| Symbols in Electronic Addresses | |
| Combining Punctuation Marks | |
| Capitalizing | |
| Capitalizing to Begin Sentences | |
| Capitalizing Proper Names and Titles | |
| Italicizing (Underlining) | |
| Italics (Underlining) in Titles | |
| Italics for Specific Terms | |
| Underlining for Emphasis | |
| Hyphenating | |
| Hyphenating to Join Words | |
| Hyphenating to Divide Words | |
| Using Numbers | |
| Spelling Out Numbers | |
| Using Numerals | |
| Abbreviating | |
| Familiar Abbreviations | |
| ProofReading for Appropriate Abbreviations | |
| Spelling | |
| Starting with Your Spell Checker | |
| Watching for Common Patterns of Misspelling | |
| ProofReading for Commonly Misspelled Words | |
| Assessing Writing | |
| Assessing Your Own Writing | |
| Assessing Your Peers' Writing | |
| How People Assess your Writing | |
| Assessing Writing for Portfolios | |
| Glossary of Usage | |
| Index | |
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