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9781319057442

A Writer's Reference

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  • ISBN13:

    9781319057442

  • ISBN10:

    1319057446

  • Edition: 9th
  • Format: Spiral Bound
  • Copyright: 2017-09-15
  • Publisher: VHPS
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Get the answers to all your common writing questions, no matter the course, as Writer's Reference gives you the tools you need to becoming a stronger writer.


Table of Contents

Writing well
C COMPOSING AND REVISING


C1 Planning


C2 Drafting


C3 Reviewing, revising, and editing


C4 Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing


C5 Writing paragraphs



A ACADEMIC READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING


A1 Reading and writing critically


A2 Reading and writing about multimodal texts


A3 Reading arguments


A4 Writing arguments


A5 Speaking confidently


A6 Writing in the disciplines



S SENTENCE STYLE


S1 Parallelism


S2 Needed words


S3 Problems with modifiers


S4 Shifts


S5 Mixed constructions


S6 Sentence emphasis


S7 Sentence variety



WORD CHOICE


W1 Glossary of usage


W2 Wordy sentences


W3 Active verbs


W4 Appropriate language


W5 Exact language



Writing correctly
GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES


G1 Subject-verb agreement


G2 Verb forms, tenses, and moods


G3 Pronouns


G4 Adjectives and adverbs


G5 Sentence fragments


G6 Run-on sentences



MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICS


M1 Verbs


M2 Articles


M3 Sentence structure


M4 Using adjectives


M5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions


M6 Paraphrasing sources effectively



PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS


P1 The comma


P2 Unnecessary commas


P3 The semicolon and the colon


P4 The apostrophe


P5 Quotation marks


P6 Other punctuation marks


P7 Spelling and hyphenation


P8 Capitalization


P9 Abbreviations and numbers


P10 Italics



BASIC GRAMMAR


B1 Parts of speech


B2 Sentence patterns


B3 Subordinate word groups


B4 Sentence types



Writing with sources
R RESEARCHING


R1 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources


R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly


R3 Evaluating sources



MLA Papers


MLA-1 Supporting a thesis


MLA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism


MLA-3 Integrating sources


MLA-4 Documenting sources


MLA-5 Manuscript format; sample paper



APA and CMS Papers


(Coverage parallels MLA’s)


APA-1


APA-2


APA-3


APA-4


APA-5


CMS -1


CMS -2


CMS -3


CMS -4


CMS -5



INDEX

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