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A Writer's Reference

by Hacker, Diana; Sommers, Nancy

ISBN13: 9781319057442
ISBN10: 1319057446
eBook ISBN(s): 9781319122843
Additional ISBN(s): 9781319169404
Edition: 9th
Format: Spiral Bound
Copyright: 2017-09-15
Publisher: VHPS
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Summary

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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