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| The Composing Process | |
| Planning | |
| A General Subject | |
| Ideas and Planning | |
| A Specific Topic | |
| Your Role, Readers, and Purpose | |
| A Working Thesis Statement | |
| Drafting | |
| Organization | |
| An Outline | |
| A Rough Draft | |
| A Title and Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs | |
| Revising | |
| Setting Aside the Rough Draft | |
| Content Revision | |
| Style Revision | |
| Technical Revision | |
| Peer Editing | |
| The Final Draft | |
| A Sample Paper | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Unified Paragraphs | |
| Coherent Paragraphs | |
| Paragraph Length | |
| Organization and Development | |
| Critical Thinking and Writing | |
| A Topic and Its Development | |
| Purpose, Audience, and Content | |
| Evidence | |
| Logical Fallacies | |
| A Sample Argument Effective Sentences | |
| Parts of Speech | |
| Nouns | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adverbs | |
| Conjunctions | |
| Prepositions | |
| Interjections | |
| Sentences | |
| Parts of Sentences | |
| Kinds of Sentences | |
| Sentence Variety | |
| Sentence Length | |
| Sentence Types | |
| Sentence Beginnings | |
| Coordination and Subordination | |
| Emphasis | |
| Active and Passive Sentences | |
| Concision | |
| Parallelism | |
| With Coordinating Conjunctions | |
| With Correlative Conjunctions | |
| Repetition of Sentence Elements | |
| Pronoun Reference | |
| Unclear Pronoun References | |
| Reflexive Pronouns and Subjects of Sentences | |
| Clear Pronoun Reference | |
| Positioning Modifiers | |
| Clarity and Smoothness | |
| Dangling Modifiers | |
| Squinting Modifiers Diction | |
| Meaning and Tone | |
| Levels of Diction | |
| Denotations and Connotations | |
| Abstract or Concrete Words | |
| Forms of Idioms | |
| Slang and Regionalisms | |
| Euphemisms | |
| Effective Words | |
| Cliches and Triteness | |
| Pretentious Language | |
| Jargon | |
| Figures of Speech | |
| Sexist Language | |
| Neologisms and Archaisms Grammar | |
| Fragments | |
| Without Subjects or Verbs | |
| Subordinate Clauses | |
| Special Use of Fragments | |
| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Forming Two Sentences | |
| Using a Semicolon | |
| Using Coordinating or Subordinating Conjunctions | |
| Conjunctive Verbs | |
| Agreement | |
| Subjects and Verbs | |
| Pronouns and Antecedents | |
| Pronoun Case | |
| Subjective Case | |
| Objective Case | |
| Possessive Case | |
| Appositives and Elliptical Constructions | |
| Who and Whoever and Whom and Whomever | |
| Verb Tenses | |
| Verb Forms | |
| Simple Tenses | |
| Perfect Tenses | |
| Progressive Tenses | |
| Relationships among Actions and Conditions | |
| Mood | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Modifying Nouns and pronouns | |
| Modifying Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs | |
| Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Troublesome Adjective and Adverb Pairs Punctuation | |
| End Punctuation | |
| Periods | |
| Question Marks | |
| Exclamation Points | |
| Commas | |
| Three or More Items in a Series | |
| Compound or Compound-Complex Sentences | |
| Introductory Words, Phrases, and Subordinate Clauses | |
| Nonrestrictive Information | |
| Contrasting Sentence Elements | |
| Expressions That Signal Direct Quotations | |
| Numbers, Dates, Addresses, Place Names, and Titles | |
| Unnecessary Commas | |
| Subjects and Verbs or Verbs and Complements | |
| Two Words, Phrases, or Dependent Clauses | |
| First or Last Item in a Series | |
| Cumulative Modifiers | |
| Restrictive Elements | |
| Indirect Quotation or a Direct Quotation Introduced by That | |
| Such As, Like or Than | |
| Semicolons and Colons | |
| Independent Clauses | |
| Sentence Elements That Contain Commas | |
| Incorrect Use | |
| To Introduce Elements | |
| Numerals | |
| Verbals and Complements or Prepositions and Objects | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Possessive Case | |
| Omission of Letters and Numbers | |
| Not with Possessive Pronouns | |
| Other Marks of Punctuation | |
| Dashes | |
| Hyphens | |
| Parentheses | |
| Brackets | |
| Ellipsis Points Mechanics | |
| Capitals | |
| The First Word in Every Sentence | |
| Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives | |
| Titles and Subtitles | |
| Italics | |
| Titles of Lengthy Published Works | |
| Specific Names of Ships, Trains, Aircraft, and Spacecraft | |
| Unfamiliar Foreign Words and Phrases | |
| Words Used as Words, Letters Used as Letters, and Numbers Used as Numbers, and Symbols Used as Symbols | |
| For Emphasis | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Direct Quotations and Dialogue | |
| Punctuation with Quotation Marks | |
| Titles of Brief Works, Parts of Long Works, and Unpublished Works | |
| Ironic or Other Special Use of a Word | |
| Numbers and Abbreviations | |
| Numbers | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Spelling | |
| General Rules | |
| Dictionaries | |
| Technical Words and British Variants | |
| ESL Writers: Working Beyond Mechanics | |
| Writing in the American Culture | |
| General Issues of Writing | |
| Technical Issues of Writing | |
| Special Concerns Research | |
| Topic, Research, and Note Taking | |
| Subject to Topic | |
| A Working Thesis Statement | |
| The Library | |
| A Preliminary List of Sources | |
| Evaluating Sources | |
| Taking Notes | |
| Plagiarism | |
| Works-Cited Entries | |
| Citation Format | |
| Accuracy and Completeness | |
| Books | |
| Periodicals | |
| Nonprint Sources | |
| Electronic Sources | |
| Organizing, Writing, and Documenting | |
| Organization | |
| A Rough Draft | |
| Incorporating Notes | |
| Parenthetical Notes | |
| Revision | |
| A Final Manuscript | |
| A Sample Research Paper | |
| Appendixes: A | |
| APA Documentation Style | |
| Essay Exams | |
| Business Writing | |
| Writing about Literature Desk Reference | |
| Glossary of Usage | |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms Desk Reference | |
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