The Wadsworth Handbook

by Kirszner,Laurie G.

• ISBN13: 9781428291935
• ISBN10: 1428291938
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Written by renowned author team Kirszner and Mandell, THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Ninth Edition, offers the most accessible and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, critical thinking, argumentation, writing in the disciplines, common sentence errors, grammar and style, punctuation and mechanics, visual rhetoric, and writing in a digital environment of ANY handbook available today.

Table of Contents

Writing Essays

Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone

Reading Texts

Reading Visuals

Planning an Essay

Using a Thesis to Shape Your Material

Drafting and Revising

Writing Paragraphs

Thinking Critically And Writing Arguments

Thinking Critically

Using Logic

Writing Argumentative Essays

Using Visuals as Evidence

Doing Research

Writing a Research Paper

Finding and Evaluating Library Sources

Finding and Evaluating Web Sources

Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources

Synthesizing Sources

Avoiding Plagiarism

Documenting Sources: MLA Style

MLA Documentation Style

Documenting Sources: APA And Other Styles

APA Documentation Style

Chicago Documentation Style

CSE and Other Documentation Styles

Writing In The Disciplines

Writing in the Humanities

Writing a Literary Analysis

Writing a Literary Argument

Writing in the Social Sciences

Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences

Creating Documents In A Digital Age

Writing in a Digital Environment

Designing Effective Documents

Designing a Web Site

Developing Strategies For Academic Success

Creating a Writing Portfolio

Writing Essay Exams

Writing for the Public and the Community

Writing for the Workplace

Making Oral Presentations

Sentence Style

Building Simple Sentences

Building Compound and Complex Sentences

Writing Varied Sentences

Writing Emphatic Sentences

Writing Concise Sentences

Solving Common Sentence Problems

Revising Sentence Fragments

Revising Run-ons

Revising Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Revising Faulty Parallelism

Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences

Using Words Effectively

Choosing Words

Improving Spelling

Understanding Grammar

Using Parts of Speech

Using Nouns and Pronouns

Using Verbs

Revising Agreement Errors

Using Adjectives and Adverbs

Understanding Punctuation And Mechanics

Using End Punctuation

Using Commas

Using Semicolons

Using Apostrophes

Using Quotation Marks

Using Other Punctuation Marks

Knowing When to Capitalize

Using Italics

Using Hyphens

Using Abbreviations

Using Numbers

Bilingual And ESL Writers

Adjusting to the US Classroom

Grammar and Style for ESL Writers

Glossary of Usage

Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms

Credits

Index

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