Guide for Using this Handbook | |
Writing and Reading | |
Writing and Reading in Communities | |
Understanding your writing situation | |
Moving from reading to writing | |
Focusing on writing processes | |
Developing a Thesis | |
Creating a thesis statement | |
Designing an appropriate thesis | |
Providing Support and Reasoning Clearly | |
Reasoning Critically | |
Providing Support | |
Evaluating support | |
Paragraphing for Readers | |
Focusing paragraphs | |
Making paragraphs coherent | |
Developing paragraphs | |
Matching Style and Strategy to a Community of Readers | |
Recognizing a community's style | |
Adjusting to a community's style | |
Recognizing a community's expectations | |
Designing Documents for Readers | |
Planning your document | |
Laying out your document | |
Using type features | |
Using visuals | |
Sample documents | |
Constructing an Argument | |
Identifying an issue | |
Developing an argumentative thesis | |
Developing reasons and supporting evidence | |
Presenting counterarguments | |
Reasoning logically | |
Conducting Research | |
Planning and Conducting Research | |
Recognizing research communities | |
Recognizing research topics | |
Identifying keywords | |
Developing research questions | |
Developing search strategies | |
Selecting resources for a working bibliography | |
Keeping track of your sources and notes | |
Pulling your research materials together | |
Finding Library and Database Resources | |
Finding library sources | |
Using library resources | |
Finding research databases | |
Using research databases | |
Finding Web and Internet Resources | |
Developing an online search strategy | |
Finding Web and Internet resources | |
Searching efficiently | |
Using Web resources | |
Reading and Evaluating Sources | |
Summarizing and paraphrasing | |
Synthesizing and questioning | |
Evaluating sources critically | |
Evaluating online sources critically | |
Turning inquiry into writing | |
Integrating and Crediting Sources | |
Documenting sources for your community | |
Using quotations.Integrating sources into your text | |
Avoiding plagiarism | |
Deciding what to document | |
Documenting Sources | |
MLA Style | |
MLA in-text (parenthetical) citations | |
MLA list of works cited | |
MLA sample pages | |
APA Style | |
APA in-text (parenthetical) citations | |
APA reference list | |
APA sample pages | |
CMS Style | |
CMS notes | |
CMS bibliography | |
CSE Style | |
CSE in-text citations | |
CSE reference list | |
Variations in scientific and technical style | |
Writing Correctly | |
Fragments | |
Recognizing sentence fragments | |
Editing sentence fragments | |
Using partial sentences | |
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
Recognizing comma splices | |
Recognizing fused sentences | |
Editing comma splices and fused sentences | |
Pronoun Reference | |
Recognizing unclear pronoun reference | |
Editing pronoun reference | |
Agreement | |
Recognizing agreement | |
Editing subject-verb agreement | |
Editing pronoun-antecedent agreement | |
Correct Forms | |
Recognizing and editing verb forms | |
Editing for clear tense sequence | |
Recognizing pronoun forms | |
Editing pronoun forms | |
Recognizing adjectives and adverbs | |
Editing adjectives and adverbs | |
Recognizing and editing comparisons | |
Writing Clearly | |
Clear Sentences | |
Recognizing unclear sentences | |
Editing | |
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