Writing A Manual for the Digital Age, Comprehensive, 2009 MLA Update Edition

by Blakesley, David; Hoogeveen, Jeffrey L.

• ISBN13: 9781428290297
• ISBN10: 142829029X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-22
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

One of the best ways to excel in your writing course is by using WRITING: A MANUAL FOR THE DIGITAL AGE. Whatever your writing assignment-personal essay, persuasive essay, critical review, photographic essay, technology autobiography, blog, website, or more than twenty other different kinds of writing projects-WRITING: A MANUAL FOR THE DIGITAL AGE gives you the answers and help you need to succeed. And best of all, this information is right at your fingertips thanks to the handbook's easy-to-access format, which you'll find as visually interesting and easy to navigate as your favorite website! Whether you need grammar help, or information on drafting and shaping content, developing paragraphs, researching online, citing sources, using visuals, writing on the Web, and so much more, this is the handbook that will get you there! This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Seventh Edition.

Table of Contents

Managing Your Writing

Writing and Rhetoric in Context

Planning Your Writing Projects

Invention and Inquiry

Drafting and Shaping Content

Developing Paragraphs

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

Reading And Writing Critically

Understanding Academic Genres

Reading Critically

Reading Literature Critically

Reading Images Critically

Writing Arguments

Writing for Business and the Workplace

Writing on the Spot: Essay Examinations

Conducting Research

Conceptualizing the Research Project

Online Research

Library and Field Research

Using Information Effectively

Research and Plagiarism in the Digital Age

Citing Sources

Citing Sources in MLA Style

Citing Sources in APA Style

Citing Sources in CMS Style

Citing Sources in CSE Style

Using CGOS Citations for Online Sources

Designing And Presenting Information

Using Visuals to Inform and Persuade

Desktop Publishing and Graphic Design for Writers

Designing Interactive Oral Presentations

Writing In Digital Spaces

Reading and Writing Email Purposefully

Networking with Others on the Web

Writing and Rhetoric on the Web

Designing Simple Web Pages

Designing Complex Websites

Multimedia Composing

Making Choices About Style

Sentences in Context

Parallelism

Coordination and Subordination

Concise Sentences

Variety and Emphasis

Effective Word Use

Language and Diverse Audiences

Understanding And Revising Sentences

Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure

Fragments

Run-Ons and Comma Splices

Pronouns

Verbs

Subject-Verb Agreement

Adjectives, Adverbs, and Modifying Phrases

Punctuating With Purpose

End Punctuation: Defining Sentence Types and Boundaries

Commas: Defining Boundaries within Sentences

Semicolons: Expressing Equal Relationships among Closely Related Ideas

Colons: Introducing Explanations and Quotations

Apostrophes: Showing Possession and Forming Contractions

Quotation Marks: Attributing Words to People and Conveying Tone

Other Punctuation Marks

Understanding Mechanics

Abbreviations

Numbers

Italics

Capitalization

Spelling and Hyphens

Grammar For Multilingual Writers

ESL Writing for Academic Purposes

Nouns and Articles

Verbs and Verbals

English Sentence Structure

Glossaries

Glossary of Technology and Web Terms

Glossary of Grammatical Terms

Glossary of Usage

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