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Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
About the author | |
Credit list | |
Writing an Essay | |
Thinking About Purposes and Audiences | |
Planning and Shaping | |
Drafting and Revising | |
Writing Paragraphs | |
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing | |
Writing Argument | |
Understanding Grammar and Writing Correct Sentences | |
Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures | |
Verbs | |
Case of Nouns and Pronouns | |
Pronoun Reference | |
Agreement | |
Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Sentence Fragments | |
Comma Splices and Run-Together Sentences | |
Awkward Sentences | |
Writing Effectively | |
Conciseness | |
Coordination and Subordination | |
Parallelism | |
Variety and Emphasis | |
Understanding the Meaning of Words | |
Understanding the Effect of Words | |
Spelling and Hyphenation | |
Using Punctuation and Mechanics | |
Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
Commas | |
Semicolons | |
Colons | |
Apostrophes | |
Quotation Marks | |
Other Punctuation Marks | |
Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers | |
Writing Research | |
Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
Research Writing as a Process | |
Successful Online Research (new chapter to the 3/c/e)** | |
MLA, APA, CM, CBE, and COS Documentation Styles | |
Case Study: A Student Writing an MLA Research Paper | |
Case Study: A Student Writing an APA Research Paper | |
Writing Across the Curriculum | |
Comparing the Different Disciplines | |
Writing About Literature | |
Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences | |
Business Writing | |
Writing Under Pressure | |
Writing When English Is a Second Language | |
ESL Singulars and Plurals | |
ESL Articles | |
ESL Word Order | |
ESL Prepositions | |
ESL Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | |
ESL Modal Auxilliary Verbs | |
usage glossary | |
Terms glossary | |
Index | |
charts in tinted boxes | |
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